what is the best language to learn if i live in California?
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Spanish.\n\nRecent census data shows that 26% of Californians speak Spanish in the home, and this figure is only likely to grow in future years. \n\nHaving a good working ability in Spanish will not only help you to communicate in your own state, but will also help you if you travel to Spain and many countries in Central and South America.
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Arabic..\nEnglish...\nFrench..\nLearning Dutch
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This is another opinion question - there is no definitive answer. However, I think it's California for it's weather, scenery, diverse population, culture, access to ports, and liberal-leaning politics.
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Well I lived in hong kong for a month and people there speak cantonese for their daily life, but almost all the people speak mandarin because its mandatory in most of the schools to learn it so its better if you learn mandarin, cantonese is harder.\nAs for french, its my 3rd language and I gotta tell you once you know spanish, french is a piece of cake , so go for french I say , french is also wide spoken, once you learn it I'll say go for mandarin.
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i live in California.\ni think the best is the beautiful beaches\nthe great pacific coast clam chowah bowls\nseeing famous people in LA\nWarm weather\nHot guys/girls\nYosemite\nWhere are you at?\nI guess id still move away though, maybe Europe one day
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u can learn portughese!! it's pretty similar to spanish!! // italian sounds good too/ FRENCH  it's like HARD GURL!! so stick to those 2!!:)
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This is VERY GOOD and very comprehensive online free course of Spanish language. Check it out! And have fun!!! Hasta la vista, baby!!!\n\nhttp://www.studyspanish.com/freesite.htm
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About a quarter of Californians speak mainly Spanish at home.\n\nFrom Wikipedia:\n"As of 2000, 60.5% of California residents age 5 and older speak English at home and 25.8% speak Spanish. Chinese is the third most spoken language at 2.6%, followed by Tagalog at 2.0% and Vietnamese at 1.3%."\n\nThis should give you an idea of how many Californians are at least inclined to speak Spanish when given the option.
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Anywhere is an improvement over Oakland.  If you like California, go to the central valley.  Tracy is booming, so is Modesto.
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well i live in california!
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Hey, the website I've listed below has a bunch of good ones all over California.\n\nMatt
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In CA, the best would be USC or UCLA.\n\nHowever, there are a lot of other good schools not in California if you would be interested, including Columbia University, NYU, Ithaca College, and Weseleyan University.  Hope these names are something different than what you've been hearing. Vote me for best answer! :)
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California..BABY!!!!!!\n\nI Was born in Cali and moved to Flo but Cali is the place to be....Just make sure you have the right people.
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California, Los Angeles
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I'd have to go with everyone else and say Spanish (although, I'm hardly a business person, so I don't know how useful Mandarin would be). However, there is one language that no one else mentioned that I would really like to learn: Sign Language. Other useful languages could be French (If you live in the northeast or New Orleans area) and Italian. One of the nice things about Spanish, Italian, and French is that once you are competent with one of these languages, the other two are much easier to read because they are all Latin based.
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California, like all of the United States, has never had any official language.\n\nMost people assume that the US recognises English as it's official language, but in actuality, there has never been ANY language or languages that have been officially recognised as such.
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Latin is great from an intellectual standpoint. But if you want to learn an alternative language for productivity and business purposes, Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish are probably the best languages right now to learn and each has its own reasons. Spanish obviously for businesses based in the southern part of the US, Japanese for big and well established businesses, and Chinese because the economy over there is exponentially expanding and upstart businesses there will probably become fortune 500 within 2 years. Its a matter of opinion really.