Hello, I moved to Sydney from Toronto three weeks ago, which allowed me to check a major item off my bucket list! Another goal of mine is to learn a second language. Can anyone recommend a language that would be useful to know in Sydney?

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Mandarin, Korean, Lebanese.

Slavic/Russian if you white and wanna become real estate agent in the eastern suburbs

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I second Korean, especially if you frequent Korean restaurants

Mandarin, Cantonese and Korean are my picks :)

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Depends what you want to achieve or field of work you’re in.

If you can speak Canadian English maybe try actual UK English as the next language, so very different (said as someone born and grew up in UK and has since lived in Toronto, New York and Sydney)

Congrats! And welcome. Would second Mandarin.

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