Rosetta Stone: Foreign Language Skills Key to Improving Career Prospects, survey reveals; 75% of bilingual people claim that having a second language has improved their career prospects; 17% would like to learn Chinese Mandarin in the New Year; 71% would consider online methods of language learning

M2 PRESSWIRE-November 21, 2006-Rosetta Stone: Foreign Language Skills Key to Improving Career Prospects, survey reveals; 75% of bilingual people claim that having a second language has improved their career prospects; 17% would like to learn Chinese Mandarin in the New Year; 71% would consider online methods of language learning (C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

A survey of over 200 bilingual business people conducted by Rosetta Stone at the Language Show on 3-5 November in London revealed that three quarters of respondents had furthered their career prospects by speaking a second language.

The most commonly spoken languages were French (58%), Spanish (47%), German (31%) and Italian (24%). Additionally, 71% claimed that learning a second language had improved their communication skills making travel more...