NEW YORK (MainStreet) -- In this newly flat, hot world of ours, businesses can no longer afford to be monoglot affairs. So picking up some basic working Spanish, Arabic or Chinese really does open up opportunities for your shop.
Just like everything else in the digital world, the niche market for quick-and-dirty business language skills is crowded. Now just about any businessperson can pick from a wide range of Web-based, phone-based, heck, even flashcard-based language tools -- each of which can help you land a nice piece of non-English business.
It's expensive and cumbersome when compared with some rivals, but Rosetta Stone is the language-learning leader for a reason.
The only caveat? You absolutely must ignore the ridiculous claim -- that all these tools can't seem to help making, by the way -- that they "solve the problem" of learning a language. They don't. Learning a way to communicate remains the work it always has been. What these tools actually do is offer so many fresh approaches to doing the work of learning a language that one is bound to suit you better than the last time you tried.
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