Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer?
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"I'm working on an undergraduate degree in computer engineering in the US, and I'm a native English-speaking citizen. In fact, English is the only language that I know. Maybe it's not the same at other schools, but for the engineering program at mine, a foreign language is not required. If my plans are to one day be involved in research, is it worth my time to learn a foreign language? If so, which one?"Slashdot[^] ehhe InterestingItalian then Spanish are probably two of the easier European languages to learn as they don't have too many sounds that English does not have and their grammar is relatively easy compared to German or Russian. French is a lot harder for an English speaker mainly because of verb irregularities and it is rare to find an Englishman/Amercian with a half decent French accent. However Mandarin is probably the language to learn with China's growth developing fast. End of my opinionated opinions ;)
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
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Italian then Spanish are probably two of the easier European languages to learn as they don't have too many sounds that English does not have and their grammar is relatively easy compared to German or Russian. French is a lot harder for an English speaker mainly because of verb irregularities and it is rare to find an Englishman/Amercian with a half decent French accent. However Mandarin is probably the language to learn with China's growth developing fast. End of my opinionated opinions ;)
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
GuyThiebaut wrote:
French is a lot harder for an English speaker mainly because of verb irregularities
Well of course it is. After all, English doesn't put up with such things. And while we're on the subject, I've never understood why the French can't grasp the proper pronunciations of tough, cough, hiccough, though, brought, and through. ;)
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
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Ah yes, COBOL students or to give them their Latin designation "Useless Skillius".
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Ah yes, COBOL students or to give them their Latin designation "Useless Skillius".
not really, there's still a reasonably strong demand and they can command more than C#, C++, C, VB or JAVA programmers. Insurance companies and many other companies that are supported by "back office" systems, hefty number crunching / data moevment systems, still rely on COBOL based systems. Theses companies are attempting to move off of these systems but they're reliable and difficult to replace. Mainframe assembler programmers can demand even more and while there are fewer and fewer such systems there are even fewer programmers with that skill set. Autocoder and the predecessor, SPS, are in fact dead languages.
Mike - typical white guy. The USA does have universal healthcare, but you have to pay for it. D'oh. Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.
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Adnan Siddiqi wrote:
If so, which one?"
Hindi. You should learn it, Adnan. Maybe you could get a real job.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
In a Call center? Jokes apart, Hindi is similar to Urdu when speaking because Hindi was derived from Urdu. Hope you learnt something new today.
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GuyThiebaut wrote:
French is a lot harder for an English speaker mainly because of verb irregularities
Well of course it is. After all, English doesn't put up with such things. And while we're on the subject, I've never understood why the French can't grasp the proper pronunciations of tough, cough, hiccough, though, brought, and through. ;)
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
Probably for the same reason why native English speakers can't grasp the pronunciation of 'voiture' for example. That final guttural 'r' is killing you. ;P
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In a Call center? Jokes apart, Hindi is similar to Urdu when speaking because Hindi was derived from Urdu. Hope you learnt something new today.
Adnan Siddiqi wrote:
Hindi was derived from Urdu
Rubbish.
Cheers, Vikram.
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.
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Adnan Siddiqi wrote:
If so, which one?"
Hindi. You should learn it, Adnan. Maybe you could get a real job.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
1. Adnan knows Urdu which is mutually intelligible with Hindi. 2. If your point was that he could find a real job in India, I certainly wouldn't welcome him. 3. He is, as usual, talking out of his arse when he says Hindi is derived from Urdu.
Cheers, Vikram.
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.
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GuyThiebaut wrote:
French is a lot harder for an English speaker mainly because of verb irregularities
Well of course it is. After all, English doesn't put up with such things. And while we're on the subject, I've never understood why the French can't grasp the proper pronunciations of tough, cough, hiccough, though, brought, and through. ;)
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
Try: ship, chip, sheep, cheap on a Spaniard ;)
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
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Is it foreign or obsolete?
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In a Call center? Jokes apart, Hindi is similar to Urdu when speaking because Hindi was derived from Urdu. Hope you learnt something new today.
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Adnan Siddiqi wrote:
Hindi was derived from Urdu
Rubbish.
Cheers, Vikram.
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.
Instead of being a kid, why don't you put forward your point? or you want to say hindi is NOT similar when speaking? no where i said hindi and urdu share same script.
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Adnan Siddiqi wrote:
Hope you learnt something new today.
I try to, every day. So far, nothing from you, except the depths of envy from which your brand of Islam springs.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
then there is something lack in you. I even learn something from a stupid, that's why whenever I got engaged with you I learnt something which I thought would not do myself.
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then there is something lack in you. I even learn something from a stupid, that's why whenever I got engaged with you I learnt something which I thought would not do myself.
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Adnan Siddiqi wrote:
I learnt something which I thought would not do myself.
Now if only you could learn to love bacon, I would have made the world a better place.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
Now if only you could learn to love bacon Islam and quit your plain old ancient religion just because your ancestors followed it, I would have made the world a better place. :rolleyes:
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1. Adnan knows Urdu which is mutually intelligible with Hindi. 2. If your point was that he could find a real job in India, I certainly wouldn't welcome him. 3. He is, as usual, talking out of his arse when he says Hindi is derived from Urdu.
Cheers, Vikram.
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.
Ahominem that's what you can do. you have no knowledge and just trolling and abusing here. WHy don't you have balls to correct me IF i am wrong? why don't you avail opportunity to prove yuorself mature, once?
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Now if only you could learn to love bacon Islam and quit your plain old ancient religion just because your ancestors followed it, I would have made the world a better place. :rolleyes:
Adnan Siddiqi wrote:
Now if only you could learn to love bacon Islam and quit your plain old ancient religion just because your ancestors followed it, I would have made the world a better place.
Unfortunately, your religion is a cheap knock-off of Judiasm. As an ex-Methodist, I find their yodeling and your yodeling equally unappealing. Add in the fact that Jews and Christians have figured out how to use toilet paper and there's no contest.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
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Adnan Siddiqi wrote:
Now if only you could learn to love bacon Islam and quit your plain old ancient religion just because your ancestors followed it, I would have made the world a better place.
Unfortunately, your religion is a cheap knock-off of Judiasm. As an ex-Methodist, I find their yodeling and your yodeling equally unappealing. Add in the fact that Jews and Christians have figured out how to use toilet paper and there's no contest.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
I can't say same about your religion because I would have read more about it than you would have or about other religion. Fortunately I have met some good members of your religion. So in short there's something which lacks in you and only you should be cursed.
Oakman wrote:
how to use toilet paper
If you would have learnt how to use water then you would not have stinked much