Wondering what languages people speak other than their native tongue. If so, which language and have you been able to use it professionally? I speak Portuguese as a second language but haven’t been able to use it professionally 😔

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French & Spanish professionally, though they don’t come in handy in the US

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Trying to learn mandarin. I’m not even conversational, so i can’t even imagine the time it’ll take to speak it in a professional setting 😪

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That’s a hard ass one. Hoping you can learn it professionally 🤞🏼

Spanish, French & Farsi

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Latin. Until the Vatican starts contracting consultants, I’ll let you guess how often that gets used on the daily...

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I speak 4 languages in daily life.

English, Arabic, Español and Portuguese. I can read and understand French but not fluent.

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Sorry - Portuguese is a tough one. But several corporate global markets might appreciate your expertise in it. Obviously building rapport with language entirely depends on context.

Yeah trying to find my way in, although with the current president over there it’s probably not worth it at the moment

Spanish! 😊

Damn, I know I wouldn’t be able to hold in trying to speak with them Hahahah

Mandarin. Have been able to use it to intern in China, as well as to refer to projects from our China teams to help inform current project work

Spanish, but only I only use it to joke around with my Hispanic coworkers and handyman who have done work at my house.

Oye ese 👀

Spanish and Korean.

Fully bilingual in Urdu and English.

Somewhat proficient in Spanish, but have some ways to go.

Spanish as my non-primary. I have used it with clients tho

Mostly positive - the face to face ones were surprised since I'm not Hispanic. The ones virtually, most of the times positive but a few times they are speaking way too fast and it becomes a fail 😅

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Trying to learn Arabic with Duolingo

I speak English as a native language, but know bohemian, Spanish, and moderate Korean. Haven’t been able to use any of them professionally but it helps on job applications I guess ? 😂

English as second language 😅

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