[Ed_NYC]

"My kids will never learn Spanish. If they want to learn a foreign language, it can be German."

My colleagues and I make a comfortable living thanks to something called emerging markets and knowing Spanish is the key to it. Germany has one of the strongest economies in Europe but instead of learning German I would go for Chinese… Numbers make the world go around.

[henderson field]

German is not only spoken in Germany, but in the finance centers of Switzerland, the auto plants of Northern Italy,Austria, Lichtenstein, Alsance-Lorain and border towns in France. Dutch and Flemish (Belgium) are very close, as are the Scandanavian languages. Of course German is spoken widely in South America too. As for learning Chinese, you may align with them if you wish. Which side are you on, anyway?