For modern technologies are used in our daily life. We have excellent
communication technologies. We are able to learn the local languages as the
second or third language (for someone) in the form of online courses or multi-media
technologies.
In my opinion, Chinese should come first because many Chinese
people had immigrated to Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore,
and Thailand. Next to Chinese should be Thai or Japanese. (You should ever heard that even Barack Obama visited Thailand first of visiting others in ASIAN). Japan is not member
of AEC but don’t forget that many Japanese businesses locate in Thailand or
other countries in Asia that has low labor cost. There are some services businesses are
specialist for Japanese. So if you want to negotiate these Japanese businessmen,
you need Japanese skill.
Most of countries in Asia do not use English as second language so learn second (or third) language today for your advantage of career before AEC start in
2015 (see also Introduction
to AEC). I have collected links of online language learning for free in this
blog (You can find them in archives of November
2012)
Language Online Courses
Chinese Free Trial
Korean Free Trial
Italian Free Trial
German Free Trial
French Free Trial
Spanish Free Trial
Portuguese Free Trial
Arabic Free Trial
Don’t rely on Translation of Google! I try using Google to translate some words; I can’t believe that Google cannot translate some simple word (you can see Table of Vocabs in languages in this blog).
