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Originally Posted by pornguy
Only 2 things stop me from Moving to the Barcelona area.
1. Smokers.
2. My son would have to start learning Catalan on top of Spanish and English that he already speaks and has started learning Japanese. ( his idea at age 9 )
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That's nice but why Japanese?
Japanese would have been awesome to teach him about 30 yrs ago and Japan is on a serious decline. Japan has a debt to GDP ratio of almost 200% - aging population and the country is screwed in a post fukushima world.
None of my business but he would be way better off learning Mandarin. We have to face facts, the next generation belongs to the Chinese. Mandarin is already the most spoken language in the world but its importance is going to increase exponentially in coming years. China will overtake the USA in GDP within my lifetime let alone his.