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Which Language Should I Learn?

Arabic 9 7.76%
 
Mandarin 10 8.62%
 
Japanese 28 24.14%
 
spanish 20 17.24%
 
Italian 3 2.59%
 
Greek 7 6.03%
 
German 18 15.52%
 
Turkish 3 2.59%
 
Portugese 10 8.62%
 
Russian 7 6.03%
 
Total:115
HiddenConcept on 25 August 2012

Whats your major and/or where do you live?



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HiddenConcept on 25 August 2012
Boutros said:
I'd go with Russian, Japanese or Mandarin.

Don't bother with French :/


Lmfao is it bad that i tied those countries together and made them unite launching world war 3 in my head? Too much imagination. Also tying Bad Company 2 and other games together.



Mr Khan on 25 August 2012

I'd say Spanish, Mandarin, or Arabic. The rest are basically moribund. (sobs with his Japanese language skills)



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

Kasz216 on 25 August 2012

What is your field of study?



miz1q2w3e on 25 August 2012
happydolphin said:
Arabic is more than just people arguing like the media would like ya to think. Arabic people are very passionate, and have written many a romantic dirge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVkinOfzTdg&feature=related

The lol was mocking or more like you know what I'm talking about? I'd like to challenge to find a language more beautiful than arabic, honestly.

Hear, hear

English and Arabic are the only languages I'm really fluent in and I think both are beautiful. Really, I suspect everyone would say the same about their own language and they'd all be right :)

I used to love to read and study Arabic poetry. The beauty of the words, deliberately chosen, the picture they paint, you can't help but appreciate the artform.

Having said that, I'd recommend chosing something more practical. I'd like to learn Japanese, I'm a fan of japanese games and an anime fan as well. You should choose something that you think you'd find most useful.



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HulkWasRight on 25 August 2012

If you have any interest in the classics then Latin is the way to go.



Troll_Whisperer on 26 August 2012
morenoingrato said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
Simply choose either the most useful one (Spanish or Mandarin) or the one that attracts you the most (perhaps Japanese from a gamer's standpoint).

I'm Spanish, was a Spanish teacher and I'm living in Japan. So my opinion on Spanish and Japanese.

Spanish is easy in many areas. Pronunciation and spelling are beyond simple so it literally takes one afternoon to learn to read and pronounce Spanish fluently. Of course you still won't know what you're reading/saying but this helps A LOT. Grammar is logical, but you'll have to learn many different conjugations for verbs, which sucks for English natives. Still, one of the easier languages out there and very useful.

Japanese. The opposite of Spanish when it comes to writing/reading. Nightmare. You may be 99% fluent in conversation before you are able to read a newspaper properly. The pronunciation is very easy, just like Spanish. The grammar is very simple, but very different to English, so some people struggle. For me it's very easy, but I speak Basque which is (surprisingly) pretty similar grammatically so that may have helped. But, overall, I'd say it's not too hard, very simplified language with few different times (present, past, etc.) and no conjugations.

To be fair, average spanish speakers probably use 10% of all the existing conjugations.

In Spain we use most of them regularly, I'd say.



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happydolphin on 26 August 2012
miz1q2w3e said:

Hear, hear

English and Arabic are the only languages I'm really fluent in and I think both are beautiful. Really, I suspect everyone would say the same about their own language and they'd all be right :)

I used to love to read and study Arabic poetry. The beauty of the words, deliberately chosen, the picture they paint, you can't help but appreciate the artform.

Having said that, I'd recommend chosing something more practical. I'd like to learn Japanese, I'm a fan of japanese games and an anime fan as well. You should choose something that you think you'd find most useful.

I'm fluent in French and English, and I speak italian and spanish, arabic is really just a beautiful language.

Arabic is also practical because it is one of the most spoken languages in the world, and practicality differs from one person to the next, so it's hard to say which is more practical than which when it comes to the great languages of the world.



FrancisNobleman on 26 August 2012
  • Arabic: I would go for this one because it may be the hardest. So having someone teaching you is awesome. Also great troll during boring flights speaking arabic nervously with yourself.
  • British Sign Language: No.
  • French: Girly. Hard to master the accent (don't understimate the ammount of letters you just downright ignore in one word)
  • German:  Hoechsgeschwindigkeitsbegrenzung = maximum speed limit  ............SERIOUSLY???? NO!
  • Greek: Same as arabic, but might be a little bit easier on accent and writing/reading
  • Italian: Great, if you want to impress the ladies. Speaking Italian is classy man. Also it opens up a massive door to learn portuguese or spanish by yourself.
  • Japanese: Japanese chics don't have boobs. Don't know your standards, so...
  • Latin: You would die of boredom trying to find someone with whom you could have a latin conversation with. Overrated as shit.
  • Mandarin Chinese: They speak english in China
  • Portuguese: Go for Italian (ugly and hard to learn accent, unless if you want to learn Brazillian portuguese, that's sweet and flows)
  • Russian: In Soviet Russia, there's nothing to do. 
  • Spanish: Either this or Italian if you want romance languages
  • Turkish: You know how to say Kebab. That's enough.


Cirio on 26 August 2012

Spanish because it is the easiest language to learn out of the ones you've listed and it is also the most widespread so you'll benefit from it the most. Plus, since you're going into the medical field, you'll find yourself working with a lot of Spanish speaking patients.