What languages are most used in aviation besides English?
Posted by Augustorr@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 36 comments
I'm studying aircraft maintenance and looking for a new language to learn, what do you recommend? (i already speak Portuguese, English and a little Russian)
oh_snap1013@reddit
In France they speak a lot of French, which is very annoying as no one else has any idea what is going on. Russia/China they speak their own languages as well.
Shepherd12pc@reddit
Learn French or dont come
poemdirection@reddit
$1.4T in imports/exports which is 1/3 of your GDP 👀
I mean if you want us to stop coming and going...
Shepherd12pc@reddit
If France wouldn't exist, you wouldn't be a country.
Yes, take your crappy food, crappy cars, crappy planes out of my country. You dont know what quality means.
poemdirection@reddit
Lol y'all stayed mad bout this comment longer than you did when the Germans rolled in and y'all just keeled over and stated "we are lé German now" 😂
At least in your alternate history I'm still speaking English!
Shepherd12pc@reddit
You don't even know how to speak proper English.
And at least, we have a history 🤭
poemdirection@reddit
Yes, I don't speak the kings English. You're so observant!
And yes, we don't have a history but at least we didn't surrender to the fucking Nazis in our short time as a country.
Shepherd12pc@reddit
In fact, you are even considered a third word country nowadays. Don't talk to me little upset man 😙
CapitanShinyPants@reddit
Y’all do do that little thing with your tongues…
Shepherd12pc@reddit
You guys don't even know how to properly speak your own native language
TremendousVarmint@reddit
The guy from Linguaero raised a very good point : whichever country wants to keep a pool of young people interested in a pilot career, should offer them the opportunity to learn to fly first and learn a foreign language later.
Late-Mathematician55@reddit
Learn how to speak cat. Then you can transmit MEOW on 121.5
JennyBeatty@reddit
Do you envision working in Airbus aircraft going to the factories in Europe? Study French and Spanish. Embraer aircraft factories in Brazil? Study Brazilian Portuguese. Otherwise, another language isn’t really necessary.
Augustorr@reddit (OP)
thank you man
Paniset@reddit
where you from? I speak portuguese too
Augustorr@reddit (OP)
sul do Brasil
Paniset@reddit
sou do interior do rj
Augustorr@reddit (OP)
que foda, eu amo o rio, meu professor de elétrica é daí inclusive. um dia ainda vou ai conhecer o SBRJ e a cidade maravilhosa :)
Paniset@reddit
espero que consiga 👍
Andreuw5@reddit
Officials are English, Spanish, Chinise
NoPhotograph919@reddit
If everyone is following ICAO standard phraseology, they should be speaking English. But oftentimes people will speak in their native language to their home country ATC. Which can be dangerous.
Terrible_Log3966@reddit
Yeah you often hear Dutch being used in ATC comms at Schiphol.
EmotioneelKlootzak@reddit
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
poemdirection@reddit
There are two things in the world I can't stand: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the Dutch.
ryan0157@reddit
And French in Montreal
W33b3l@reddit
Wich means the 2nd language would be whichever non English speaking country has the most pilots. Since they do indeed speak thier native language in home areas some times like said. If we were going to attempt to figure out the answer for the hell of it anyway.
kevinsheppardjr@reddit
China then probably.
mikeindeyang@reddit
Reminds me of the Norwegian Air Sweden flight D84311 which nearly ended in disaster near Paris, coming within 6 feet of the ground on approach to land in May 2022.
French ATC gave an incorrect altimeter setting, being 10hPa too high making the Norwegian flight nearly 300 feet too low. Another Air France flight was given the correct altimeter setting, but the conversation was in French so the Norwegian pilots didn't pick up on the discrepancy.
jaykayenn@reddit
COBOL
Cesalv@reddit
That's outdated... Visual COBOL
CoastRegular@reddit
Excuse me, vut we've since moved on to Visual COBOL.NET, you Luddite.
Old-Car-9962@reddit
I am learning Spanish, German and know a little Te Reo Maori (NZ language) and ofc English
Cesalv@reddit
The standard are english and english cursing, any other is optional.
trighap@reddit
If you are focused on aircraft maintenence as opposed to piloting, might I suggest you focus more upon what nations you would be willing/interested in working at. I highly suspect the maintenence crew are going to almost solely communicate in their individual national language, as opposed to ICAO English. If you have dreams of working for a specific organization such as Airbus, etc., then I would either research that company employment locations, or even contacting their organization and beginning a relationship with them by asking them questions about how to increase your employment value to them for the future.
I-16_Chad@reddit
ICAO (The International Civil Aviation Organisation) lists six languages. Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
ludicrous780@reddit
Spanish