{"id":1570,"date":"2012-08-24T18:39:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T18:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2012-08-24T18:39:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T18:39:08","slug":"german-the-best-language-to-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/24\/german-the-best-language-to-study\/","title":{"rendered":"German &#8211; the best language to study?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following last week\u2019s news of a decline in the number of students studying some languages at A-Level, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/9487434\/Graduate-jobs-Best-languages-to-study.html?frame=2314799\">the Telegraph<\/a> have put together a list of their top 10 \u201cbest languages to study\u201d for graduate jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The full list:<br \/>\n1. German<br \/>\n2. French<br \/>\n3. Spanish<br \/>\n4. Mandarin<br \/>\n5. Polish<br \/>\n6. Arabic<br \/>\n7. Cantonese<br \/>\n8. Russian<br \/>\n9. Japanese<br \/>\n10. Portuguese<\/p>\n<p>The list is somewhat surprising, given that students are choosing not to study German, French and Spanish in favour of Japanese and Mandarin. <\/p>\n<p>The survey asked UK firm managers what languages are useful for their business. Given that Germany\u2019s the only country defying the depression in the eurozone, I\u2019m not surprised it tops the list. <\/p>\n<p>What do you think is the \u201cbest\u201d language to study?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following last week\u2019s news of a decline in the number of students studying some languages at A-Level, the Telegraph have put together a list of their top 10 \u201cbest languages to study\u201d for graduate jobs. The full list: 1. German 2. French 3. Spanish 4. Mandarin 5. Polish 6. Arabic 7. Cantonese 8. Russian 9. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,40,154],"tags":[97,1149,4,5,420,25,90,839,1150,252,327],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-language-acquisition","category-research","tag-arabic","tag-cantonese","tag-french","tag-german","tag-japanese","tag-languages","tag-mandarin","tag-polish","tag-portuguese","tag-russian","tag-spanish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}