"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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What languages do you have to know?

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I'm in my first year of University and I'm studying Business and Economics. I'm not sure yet about what job I want to do later, but it will be either financial or marketing-related. I'd like to move and work in the States, possibly L.A. or Miami, because I love those places, but I'd love to travel a lot and move a lot.

Currently, I'm learning English, French and Russian as foreign languages. Which other ones should I have to learn in order to have greater opportunities?
 

"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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Russian is becoming a good business languague. French is popular with ladies. Italian sounds really cool IMO.
 
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Spanish for sure if you wanna go to Miami or Cali. It wont be that hard if you know french. Then you should just learn italian and portuguese as well.
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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From experience, I'd say that it's better to master a few than to be "ok" with many.

Simply having some basic knowledge and minimal communication skills mean sh*t in a business setting, it's only useful when you are a visting tourist.

If you are already learning French and Russian, try to be at least fluent (meaning being able to conversate with native speakers at normal speed) in both of them before thinking about taking another language.

If you really ask me to choose, considering where the US is heading demographically speaking, Spanish would be your best pick.

Chinese is cool (I'm Chinese by the way:whistle: ) and it will be really useful in a business setting. But it's a difficult language for westerners, if you are not ready to put a lot of energy into it for years, then it's better to just forget about it. And the only way to learn decent Chinese is to spend a few years in China, you can't just learn Chinese from a classroom.
 
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oakraiderz2 said:
Spanish for sure if you wanna go to Miami or Cali. It wont be that hard if you know french. Then you should just learn italian and portuguese as well.
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I'm Italian so I obviously know it. How can it and Portuguese be useful, though?

Actually, I'm pretty good in learning languages quick and I can already speak fluently in French (I studied it for 3 years during Junior High and I've now started studying it again in Uni) and a girl complimented me on my Russian (although I began studying it only 2 weeks ago). Beside this, my English is almost perfect and obviously so is my Italian.

What would be my best choice as a 4th language among Arab, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish and German?
 
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Adone said:
I'm Italian so I obviously know it. How can it and Portuguese be useful, though?

Actually, I'm pretty good in learning languages quick and I can already speak fluently in French (I studied it for 3 years during Junior High and I've now started studying it again in Uni) and a girl complimented me on my Russian (although I began studying it only 2 weeks ago). Beside this, my English is almost perfect and obviously so is my Italian.

What would be my best choice as a 4th language among Arab, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish and German?
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I never said it would be useful, it would be easy though. Portuguese is a mixture of spanish and french so it wouldnt be too difficult. Chinese characters are hard. Japanese uses chinese characters and its hard too, i took it for 3 years in high school. I would say spanish and japanese. You speak italian so spanish will be cake. Japanese is cool though, i plan to learn it again later down the road.
 

"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

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I don't know how many languages you'll need beyond those four (!). I'd say Chinese at some point in the future, or Arabic.
 
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I can tell you now though that if you want to learn chinese you had better be committed to it because I have seen many many people fail miserably trying to learn it. Even going over to China to learn it can be difficult unless you are taking classes or studying it simultaneously.
 
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You should probably learn Norwegian.
 
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Just learn this phrase in a number of languages;

"Excuse me, can you tell me where to find girls? I have money?'
 
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