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  1. skisteve skisteve is offline 2008-2009 Thread Killer Champ

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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:00am) in reply to AmSlim22

    Lol at needing work with 5 mill. You'll be too busy banging strange gold diggers
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:00am) in reply to skisteve

    I really don't know how this is even close. Our company outsources our data entry jobs to Manila and one of my counterparts over there knows 4 languages and works for like $400/month, from 10pm to 7 am, with an engineering degree.

    5 mil please
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:02am) in reply to Admiral

    anyone dumb enough to take the languages is by default, dumb enough to choose pig latin as one of his five.
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:03am) in reply to AmSlim22

     
    Originally Posted by AmSlim22 View Post

    i would take the $5million, but i do think people are undervaluing the 5 languages. there are some that would guarantee u a job.
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    why would you want a job when u can have $5M, you dont need a job anymore? if you want something to do go open a business with your $5M

    edit: got beat to it while i was typing
    Edited By: MarkFSU1 Apr 25th, 2012 at 03:04 AM
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:03am) in reply to Hughes4

    I can buy a chick from Russia who speaks 5 languages
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:04am) in reply to skisteve

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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:09am) in reply to LeftyMark

    I would say like 50grand, maybe more like 100. Its a shitton of work to become fluent, and knowing french, spanish, haitian creole, mandarin, and japanese would be siiiick.

    the real question is how would you rank the languages.

    Spanish > French > mandarin > arabic > japanese > portuguese > hindi > german > russian IMO.
    Edited By: Neeek Apr 25th, 2012 at 03:09 AM
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:11am) in reply to Neeek

    youre doing it wrong.
    you could learn spanish or french in a summer.
    chinese, arabic, japanese are way harder to learn and less Americans can do it
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:11am) in reply to MarkFSU1

     
    Originally Posted by MarkFSU1 View Post

    why would you want a job when u can have $5M, you dont need a job anymore? if you want something to do go open a business with your $5M

    edit: got beat to it while i was typing

    i said i would take the 5million....
     
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:15am) in reply to skisteve

    I'd take 450 for a new hard drive cuz no matter how much I cclean this shit of a thread could never be erased.
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:16am) in reply to Niceguy

    Then take the money and learn a few languages. Is this a trick question? I want to learn Austrian.
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:16am) in reply to Willywoo

    I would def take the money. But I'd be a little hesitant since I've already seen how it plays out when you accept space cash from aliens.

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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:17am) in reply to Admiral

     
    Originally Posted by Admiral View Post

    I really don't know how this is even close. Our company outsources our data entry jobs to Manila and one of my counterparts over there knows 4 languages and works for like $400/month, from 10pm to 7 am, with an engineering degree.

    5 mil please

    Most educated Filipinos probably speak at least 3 languages. English, Tagalog, and their local dialect.
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:21am) in reply to Zeppelin

    I talk with them over our office communicator and the phone occasionally and am working on learning Tagalog (it will be like a third grade level, but I can hold a some what functioning conversation). I've become pretty close with a few of them and really hope I get the chance to visit.
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:23am) in reply to Admiral

    If it were $1,000,000 or 5 languages I'd flip a coin. You guys that haven't really travelled outside your country don't know how much money, how far ahead you can get, and what kind of awesome jobs you can get with this kind of knowledge.

    Edit...yes, well educated people from Asian countries do speak at least two languages....the thing you need to remember is that when you're from a country where the 1st language is English you would literally have the world at your finger tips....Russia, China (dialect package?), Japan, India (dialect package?), and the other is a toss up....with the smallest of business knowledge you could/should be able to KILL it out there in the world....
    Edited By: nw25th Apr 25th, 2012 at 03:30 AM
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:24am) in reply to ealltheway

     
    Originally Posted by ealltheway View Post

    Rosetta Stone requires learning a langauge, not alien chip to your brain insta learn type shit.

    And yes, if I knew the 10 most spoken languages in the world, I'd make millions in no time.

    God damn you OT people are brutal. If my thread bores you, GTFO maybe?


    why the fuck are they teaching kids history and biology? 12 years of languages and everyones a millionaire
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:25am) in reply to nw25th

     
    Originally Posted by nw25th View Post

    If it were $1,000,000 or 5 languages I'd flip a coin. You guys that haven't really travelled outside your country don't know how much money, how far ahead you can get, and what kind of awesome jobs you can get with this kind of knowledge.

    Why can't you learn the languages whether you take the money or not?
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:31am) in reply to nw25th

     
    Originally Posted by nw25th View Post

    If it were $1,000,000 or 5 languages I'd flip a coin. You guys that haven't really travelled outside your country don't know how much money, how far ahead you can get, and what kind of awesome jobs you can get with this kind of knowledge.
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:37am) in reply to Hughes4

     
    Originally Posted by Hughes4 View Post

    This question is very age relevant as well....

     
    Originally Posted by Willywoo View Post

    Why can't you learn the languages whether you take the money or not?


    A $1,000,000 isn't exactly retiring money at my age...Becoming fluent at five additional languages in your late 20's would probably be an impossible feat...

    There is an unbelievable amount of money that one can make in the Tourism industry with this knowledge.
    Edited By: nw25th Apr 25th, 2012 at 03:38 AM
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:38am) in reply to nw25th

    5 mirrion is an absurd number.

    I know 3 languages and my "brother" knows 3 I will never understand.

    He is from Saigon. We don't make much money.
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:40am) in reply to ealltheway

     
    Originally Posted by ealltheway View Post


    And yes, if I knew the 10 most spoken languages in the world, I'd make millions in no time.

    and youd have to work for it lol. gimme 5 mil and im set for life anyway by buying a couple franchizes or something that would require like 0 effor.

    snap call 5 mil and say thanks you dumbass aliens...anymore brainbusters?


    edit: to not take money, id say like 250k tops. 250k isn't really shit and 5 languages would def be more valuable. 500k would be close but i prob take money and invest.
    Edited By: quietwinner Apr 25th, 2012 at 03:45 AM
     
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:41am) in reply to quietwinner

    Obv not directed at me Hughes?

    We make money, but to think that you can speak to poor people in 6 different languages doesn't equal 5 million. You get laid more, but you don't get paid.
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:43am) in reply to Mr323

    5 mil is the obvious answer but people saying they'd never have to work for the rest of their lives are insane. If you're in your 20's or 30's 5 mil isn't going to last you till death.
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:43am) in reply to Mr323

     
    Originally Posted by Mr323 View Post

    We make money, but to think that you can speak to poor people in 6 different languages doesn't equal 5 million. You get laid more, but you don't get paid.

    ya but who gets laid more, the guy speakin some languages or the guy with $5 milli?
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:43am) in reply to MarkFSU1

    laid...and AIDS'd.

    nah I wasnt on you lol.
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:44am) in reply to Hughes4

    Coin flip and quality control obv

    to fsu
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:44am) in reply to Mr323

    Didn't read thread but prob taking $2mil over the languages but def taking languages over $1mil.
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    Apr 25th, 2012 (4/25/2012 3:45am) in reply to Niceguy

     
    Originally Posted by Niceguy View Post

    5 mil is the obvious answer but people saying they'd never have to work for the rest of their lives are insane. If you're in your 20's or 30's 5 mil isn't going to last you till death.

    5 mil would no doubt last me til death. Most people don't make 5 mil in their life
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