Chinese tops third-language choice
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Companies in Thailand are seeking workers with knowledge in English and another foreign language - so-called the third language, according to a survey by Manpower Group, a human resource consulting firm.
From a survey of companies in Thailand which the firm assists, of all third languages, Chinese is in highest demand thanks to the skyrocketing number of Chinese tourist arrivals in Thailand.
Japan ranks the second, thanks to the vast scale of Japanese investment in the Kingdom.
Spanish is the third, to support investment inflows from Europe and the United States. It is found that those fluent in Spanish are also fluent in English.
French comes in the fourth place, popular among those in the education industry.
Korean is in the fifth place, due to demand from the tourism industry which is catering services to over 1 million Korean tourists per annum.
