What are the foreign languages those should learn by a Networking professional?

shrikantpokharkar

Hi friends,
I am a CCNP(R&S) with 8 years of exp. , i wanna learn foreign language which will help me in developing my career in abroad. So could you please let me know which are the countries requires networking professionals. So that i can learn their language and have an added advantage.:)
Thanks & regards,
Shrikant

Essendon

Welcome to the forums!

Which country are you talking about? Honestly, improve your English and you'll be much better off.

Ivanjam

Essendon wrote: »

Honestly, improve your English and you'll be much better off.

Ouch

shrikantpokharkar

Thanks for a sincere reply....... I will definitely improve my english........ but sill i want to know the counties which are looking for good networking professionals

shrikantpokharkar

i am big fan of yours sir by looking at your certification list........and still u want to achieve more......Inspirational

Essendon

Plenty of companies are always looking for talented people but locals generally fulfill the demand, hence there's no need for foreign hires. Dont mean to offend at all mate, just telling you the fact. Two reasons why someone might hire a foreigner:

- You're an absolute gun at something
- They cant find locals that are good enough at that thing

I know that Australia's brought in a number of people from around the world on lucrative contracts to design a country-wide fiber network. Something like this has never been undertaken in the country before, hence the need (temporary though) for foreign hires.

shrikantpokharkar

Thank you sir......

Ivanjam

Hey Ess - if I moved to Australia, would I have to learn Australian? I already know one word: Foster's is Australian for Beer!

Essendon

If you like beer you already know Australian!

Michael2

English. Everybody's got to know English. Maybe German, but English is definitely on top.

Master Of Puppets

For you guys in the English-speaking countries, there may be no need to learn another one. However, for the others English is a must and anything on top of that is a bonus. I'm developing my German right now(thank God for Rammstein )

SecurityThroughObscurity

japanese french german russian

QHalo

Surprised no one has mentioned Spanish. I guess it really depends where you want to work right?

gkca

Kalashnikov

NetworkVeteran

QHalo wrote: »

Surprised no one has mentioned Spanish. I guess it really depends where you want to work right?

I haven't found any locales that pay well for tech skills and pay extra for speaking Spanish--that includes Texas, California, and parts of Central America. The only language I've seen increased pay for is Japanese.

MrAgent

NetworkVeteran wrote: »

I haven't found any locales that pay well for tech skills and pay extra for speaking Spanish--that includes Texas, California, and parts of Central America. The only language I've seen increased pay for is Japanese.

The US Dept of State pays extra I believe if you are in the foreign service and you learn a new language at a certain level.

wes allen

While English is kinda the default tech language, knowing another one or two can't hurt. While local companies usually try to hire local people, many foreign companies either prefer or are required to hire their own citizens. For example many US companies hire US citizens to work in other countries, even though they cost more. If you want to learn something that might be useful, you might look to the BRIC countries. Since my MIL is Brazilian, I am going to try to learn some Brazilian Portuguese, as their economy is pretty strong right now, even if it isn't all the common outside Brazil.

kurosaki00

I know Spanish and it haven't done much really for me here in Indy.
Maybe in other states.

I agree English is the default tech language, I have friends from latin america and spain and they rarely mention IT terms in spanish.
They sometimes just mention them in english but as if it was read in spanish lol
"El Demark" or "Puedes darle ping a el circuit" lol.

I guess if you lived in cali or FL spanish would be more useful.

d4nz1g

I'm brazilian, and I'm planning to move to Ireland or New Zealand.

IrishJobs.ie for jobs in Ireland. Search IrishJobs.ie for jobs in Ireland, Dublin, Cork and Galway.

www.seek.co.nz

Sometimes I check for some positions so I can motivate myself to work on my goals.

About7Narwhal

Essendon wrote: »

If you like beer you already know Australian!

Plus, I heard a dirty rumor that Australians don't actually drink Fosters!!!

Essendon

Your right, Foster's is likely the most unloved beer of all. But the company that makes this beer also concocts other brews that outsell Foster's many times over. I have never actually seen anyone buy a slab (or even a 6-pack) of Foster's!

Ahriakin

@Essendon "If you like beer you already know Australian!"

You mean displaced sunburnt Irish .

cyberguypr

kurosaki00 wrote: »

I know Spanish and it haven't done much really for me here in Indy.
Maybe in other states.

I agree English is the default tech language, I have friends from latin america and spain and they rarely mention IT terms in spanish.
They sometimes just mention them in english but as if it was read in spanish lol
"El Demark" or "Puedes darle ping a el circuit" lol.

I guess if you lived in cali or FL spanish would be more useful.

Been there. Spanish is my native language. If you give me a Windows whatever in Spanish I wouldn't know what anything means right off the bat. It would take me some time to figure it out. Back home every time I touched a Spanish Windows version I felt like grabbing a pen and sticking it in my eye.

I still remember the first time i saw the word "enrutador." It took me a solid 10 minutes to figure out they were talking about a router.

sratakhin

cyberguypr wrote: »

I still remember the first time i saw the word "enrutador." It took me a solid 10 minutes to figure out they were talking about a router.

It's even worse in Russian. They call it "marshrutizator". Try to pronounce it

networker050184

I'm using marshrutizator from now on!

gkca

networker050184 wrote: »

I'm using marshrutizator from now on!

Cool, then add brandmauer aka firewall and kommutator aka switch to your vocabulary :P
PS We had a good saying back home: "The optimist learns English, the pessimist learns Chinese and the realist learns how to operate Kalashnikov" LOL

kurosaki00

sratakhin wrote: »

It's even worse in Russian. They call it "marshrutizator". Try to pronounce it

I dont care, I'm naming my firstborn marshrutizator

jamesleecoleman

It depends on where you want to go. I would suggest a country that is easy for you to get to if you don't have a lot of time for visa stuffs. For example, getting a student visa to Russia by yourself is a pain. Because you have to contact the uni, sort out the arrangements then get the invitation sent to you. From there you have to fill out the visa application, take a blood test showing that you're HIV free, get a passport photo, buy your plane tickets, submit a copy of your itinerary along with some other documents.

All of this stuff gotta go in the package to the visa company, if you decide to use a visa company. I couldn't tell you about tourist or business visa's because I haven't gotten to those yet.

My suggestion to you is to check out indeed.com but for the country you would like to work in. For me it would be ru.indeed.com. Almost everything is in Russian but I might get lucky and catch something in English.

The experience abroad is totally worth it.

Psoasman

sratakhin wrote: »

It's even worse in Russian. They call it "marshrutizator". Try to pronounce it

My wife speaks fluent Russian, I am gonna to have her pronounce it for me.

NetworkVeteran

jamesleecoleman wrote: »

I couldn't tell you about tourist or business visa's because I haven't gotten to those yet.

As with most countries, you can get them in under a week, if you're willing to pay the coin.

Getting to the U.S. can be trickier. It's sometimes taken a month for approval and some can't be approved.

N2IT

I would think learning a language that is used heavily in EMEA would be a decent idea if you wanted to move to that area. I've seen some top notch MIM degrees that really focus on that region. You could also learn Spanish or Portuguese and really make yourself marketable in the LATAM region. I think learning another language is huge. A friend of my went that route instead of certifications or a master degree. He simply hired tutors and used his time and resources to pen pal (on the web) and travel to other countries like Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, and a few others. Not only has he reached the level of business level Spanish he has reached business level Portuguese (reading). He is in really good shape and gets a lot of job offers others just simply are not qualified for.