About the 4 most important languages to learn.

 

1. THE LANGUAGE OF SILENCE
"The silent person is the most powerful person in the room". Also the power of a uniform sits in its silence. 
ALL those things that we are saying, without knowing that we're saying them. All those things that we are revealing about ourselves on social networks (are yours social?) or anywhere else, without realising that we are shooting ourselves in the foot. 
All those things that you need to know before starting to use words. 
This is part of the Rhetoric Kickstarter, that conditio sine qua non of all services and knowledge of words.  

 

2. BODY LANGUAGE

That other language, that can overrule any of our verbal communication. 
This will always be part of the Spanish Language Baths and the Dance Bootcamps. 

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3. Improving your mother tongue / rhetoric. For what good is it, to learn another language, if there too you are not persuasive? Or are not being listened to, or are not more competitive than all other people with the same language combination? Then you mainly move laterally; doing the same job, just in another language or country. 
This is the reason for the Rhetoric Kickstarter. 

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4. An other language. 
Easy to say. But which other language? 
You and me can work it out, also how to go about. 

If you go for professional competitiveness, I would personally go for a language with a favourable ratio between demand and supply. 
That language, that is much more asked for, then any applicant can be found. 
For example, there might be "only" 300 German speakers in your region. That is not "only", that is a massive market; if they cannot find a single lawyer, builder, estate agent, administrator, gardener etc. who speaks their language. 
When it is about serious, costly services, or life or property changing decisions, the heart of people will go to someone speaking their mother tongue, not any intermediary language.  

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If, however, you pick a language that you love, of which you love the music, the culture, the sounds, then definitely go for that one. For the simple reasons that the learning process will be a breeze, and the chances are high that you will become excellent in that language. That, in turn, will make you competitive again. For the whole world talks, but who does do so beautifully, persuasively or with joy? 

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Personally I picked up my 5 languages rather quickly. 
Dutch and English for being inundated with them.
French for having No Other Option, I had to speak it asap. 
Spanish for being happy in it. 
And German sort of came to me, for marinating a life time in classical music. 

 

I found that the combination of No Option plus Happiness are the 2 best pillars for quick language learning. This is what I replicate in the Speed Spanish as well as Spanish Immersion Retreats.  

 

Naturally, there are more languages. 

Many more. 
Already in my own zigzagging career, I had to learn how to speak to Search Engines (10 years), property buyers in Málaga (6 years), - any profession is a university in how to speak to a specific market or tool. It's a given that you, reader, are far better in one languages or many jargons or languages than I am. Man is here to sharpen man, as iron sharpens iron. 

When it comes to communication, you can say that you are "speaking a language"  at any given moment, and that any time that you meet someone else, you are "speaking in public", AND that such a moment is a possibility to learn something about communication from that person, or about yourself.