The Off Topic Topic

[The Brain]

I took French and Indian. The classroom was a fucking warzone.

[Zanza]

Why should Chinese be taught in high schools over here?

Millions of Chinese speak good English, so you have to be excellent in Chinese for it to have a value. If you just speak it soso, it's useless for conducting business.

So that students can make a lot of money when they graduate.

[Iormlund]

Why should Chinese be taught in high schools over here?

So that students can make a lot of money when they graduate.

I doubt there's that big a market for Chinese speakers in Europe. I've certainly never seen a job opening asking for Chinese. Asking for local language plus English is somewhat common; local plus English and German/French is rare, but it happens.

We conduct business with people from all over the globe. From Korea to the States, Southafrica to Poland. English is good enough in every case.

[Admiral Yi]

I doubt there's that big a market for Chinese speakers in Europe. I've certainly never seen a job opening asking for Chinese. Asking for local language plus English is somewhat common; local plus English and German/French is rare, but it happens.

We conduct business with people from all over the globe. From Korea to the States, Southafrica to Poland. English is good enough in every case.

And if someone wants to work for a multinational in China?  Or start a business buying from or selling to Chinese?

[Josquius]

Chinese is pretty in demand I hear. Sure plenty of Chinese know English but. ... I don't know. I guess people feel better with someone from their culture that speaks a foreign language than a foreigner who speaks their language?  Certainly if you want two chinese speakers I think it would be best to have one of each.
Plus managing to learn Chinese shows you're pretty smart.

But I actually think more schools in the UK should teach Dutch or a Scandinavian language. Learning a language in school.... only a small percentage of people will ever get to a useful level with it. It's more about the process of learning a foreign language. Subsequent languages become much easier when you "get" one.  Much easier to do with something close to English.
Plus it really helps develop a deeper understanding of english.
In the north at least learning Danish would be a great cultural thing. 

[The Larch]

I doubt there's that big a market for Chinese speakers in Europe. I've certainly never seen a job opening asking for Chinese. Asking for local language plus English is somewhat common; local plus English and German/French is rare, but it happens.

We conduct business with people from all over the globe. From Korea to the States, Southafrica to Poland. English is good enough in every case.

And if someone wants to work for a multinational in China?  Or start a business buying from or selling to Chinese?

This is high school, not business school.

[Valmy]

Tyr's hates France and French people. Story at 23 heures

[garbon]

Tyr's hates France and French people. Story at 23 heures

What a northerner. Though my employee form near Manchester laments that she didn't study French.

[Admiral Yi]

This is high school, not business school.

What a strange thing to say.

[Jaron]

Lord have mercy.

Today I was in a two hour meeting and I took 3.5 pages of technical notes I was supposed to submit in our bug/feature system at work. I opened my lap top to get started and my virtual notepad got wiped out. 

[Eddie Teach]

Sorry for hacking your notepad. 

[Liep]

Questionable wrestling in the Ukrainian parliament.



Afterwards a fight breaks out among the entire parliament. I'm sure videos are incoming

[Liep]

Apparently a MP tried to carry the PM out of the building.

[The Larch]

This is high school, not business school.

What a strange thing to say.

Well, you are proposing changing secondary education for the general population to cater for the needs of a few people that will embark in high flying business careers, and I think that's wrong.

[Josquius]

I went cycling in the countryside.  A lot of people saying hello and laughing at me. One girl who looked about 13 thought hello cowboy was a good thing to say. Hmm.....