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Best language for an International Affairs major to learn?

I am an American college student. I am studying abroad in two different places my sophomore year and am probably going to study abroad in a new place every semester through my senior year. I am also seriously considering a major in International Affairs. I know that I should be fluent in at least one foreign language. I studied Spanish throughout elementary, middle, and high school so I will probably at least continue practicing that (I am definitely not fluent but I could get thrown into a Spanish-speaking society and survive easily). Through the study abroad program at my college I can take language courses in the following countries: Chile, China, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.

Which language would be most worthy of my time? How would you rank these languages?
Should I continue with Spanish exclusively?

Considering the locations where can study, I would suggest learning Chinese and Spanish. If you could learn French as well, that would be great. You will make yourself more marketable for employment if you are competent in more than one foreign language.

China is regarded by many as a “super-power” and Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world. French is a language for international diplomacy and business, but because you listed more countries where the citizens speak Spanish (and have some prior experience in Spanish), I would suggest continuing your studies in that particular language first.

There is no need to waste knowledge that you already have. Spanish is still a major world language (as are Chinese and French).

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Korean Language in Culture And Society (Klear Textbooks in Korean Language) $28.98 Intended as a companion to the popular KLEAR Textbooks in Korean Language series and designed and edited by a leading Korean linguist, this is the first volume of its kind to treat specifically the critical role of language in Korean culture and society. An introductory chapter provides the framework of the volume, defining language, culture, and society and their interrelatedness and presenting an overview of the Korean language vis-à-vis its culture and society from evolutionary and dynamic perspectives.Early on, contributors examine the invention and use of the Korean alphabet, South Korea?s "standard language" vs. North Korea?s "cultured language," and Korean in contact with Chinese and Japanese. Several topics representative of Korean socio-cultural vocabulary (sound symbolic words, proverbs, calendar-related terms, kinship terms, slang expressions) are discussed, followed by a consideration of Korean honorifics and other related issues. Two chapters on ! Korean media, one on advertisements and the other a comparative analysis of television ads in Korea, Japan, and the U.S., follow. Finally, contributors look at salient features of the language, narrative structure, and dialectal variation. All chapters are accompanied by a set of student questions and a useful bibliography. Throughout, technical language is kept to a minimum and sufficient language examples are provided. A beginning level of proficiency in Korean is sufficient to digest the Korean examples with facility, making this volume accessible to a wide range of students.

The New Testament of the Inclusive Language Bible $6.48 This inclusive language version of the New Testament gives due reverence to the word of God and faithfulness to the original meaning. The translation seeks to address men and women as equals. The change in language and gender does not alter God’s message as conveyed in the Bible, but recognizes that a change in our culture and society point up the need for the language of the Bible to reflect that change. Those who translated previous versions had to use the language of their time, which often emerged from a male-dominated society.

Pragmatics (Oxford Introductions to Language Study) $20.48 This is an introduction to pragmatics, the study of how people make sense of each other linguistically. The author explains, and illustrates, basic concepts such as the co-operative principle, deixis, and speech acts, providing a clear, concise foundation for further study.

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Language and Social Relations (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language) $85.98 Language is closely linked to our social relationships and is the medium through which we participate in a variety of social activities. This original study explores the important role of language in various aspects of our social life, such as identity, gender relations, class, kinship, status, and hierarchies. Drawing on data from over thirty different languages and societies, it shows how language is more than simply a form of social action; it is also an effective tool with which we formulate models of social life and conduct. These models – or particular forms of social behaviour – are linked to the classification of ‘types’ of action or actor, and are passed ‘reflexively’ from person to person, and from generation to generation. Providing a novel and unified way of accounting for a variety of social phenomena, this book will be welcomed by all those interested in the interaction between language, culture, and society.

African State And Society In The 1990s $43.48 African State and Society in the 1990s is the first comprehensive English-language book to appear on Cameroon’s political events since 1989. Designed for academic and policy studies readers, it covers developments from the 1960s to the present as background for an analysis of the continuing conflict since 1990 between the regime and political opposition over democratization. Based on extensive research in Cameroon between 1989 and 1995 in the form of interviews, independent press articles, and major political parties’ writings, African State and Society in the 1990s details political confrontations-evolving from bullets to ballots-in the context of a sharply declining economy and a society wrought with ethnic, linguistic, and constitutional tensions. The authors show how the competitive stakes rise as a previously effective political class faces unsubdued challenges to its hegemony over major enterprises. The uncertainty is heightened by the fact that no coherent alliance or potentially successor group has yet emerged from the opposition forces, which now operate across Cameroon’s social landscape. The book’s analysis of the disarray raises hard questions about whether the nation-state can still serve as a model of stability. The national elections in 1997 make the book particularly timely as a specific case study-applicable to Africa at large-that gives insights into the chances for successful resolution of the continent’s volatile political conflicts.

Chickasaw Society and Religion $30.48 Chickasaw Society and Religion brings back into print one of the most important ethnographic sources on Chickasaw Indian society and culture ever produced, making it available to a new generation of students and scholars. The Smithsonian Institution ethnologist John Swanton published his work on the Chickasaws in 1928 as part of the Forty-fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and, like Swanton’s many other works on Southeastern Indians, it has remained one of the primary sources for scholars and students of Chickasaw and Southeastern Indian culture. Swanton combed printed and archival documents in constructing a picture of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Chickasaw life. Swanton’s keen eye for detail and his impressive knowledge of Southeastern Indian cultures make this study the starting point for all Chickasaw scholarship. Swanton broaches topics as diverse as Chickasaw marriage patterns, naming, government, education, gender roles, subsistence, religion, burial customs, and medicine. He also displays an intimate understanding of Chickasaw language throughout the essay that will aid future researchers.

Second Language Acquisition (Oxford Introductions to Language Study) $19.98 In the age of the global village and the world wide web, understanding the way in which people learn languages is of ever increasing importance. This book makes the essentials of this rapidly expanding area of study accessible to readers encountering it for the first time.

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