Want to learn a second language, but want it to be a good one. Any suggestions?
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So I want to learn a second language before my brain stops developing, but I have no idea what to choose. They won't affect my way of life in any major ways were I to learn them, so it'd just be for shits and giggles.
If I learned Russian I could talk with my batshit crazy grandparents on my mother's side and oversea relatives, but that isn't something I have a burning desire to do. On the other hand, yelling angry Russian at people sounds fun as hell, and with my deep gravely voice it'd be that much more satisfying.
Japanese looks the coolest on paper, but I won't get that intimidation factor that I would from Russian. I find lots of Japanese websites that would be cool to read without a translator, but that's about it. Also it looks hard as fuck to learn.
If I learned German, I could talk with my batshit grandparents on my father's side. That would be worse than the Russian grandparents. Also, I already look like a little Hitler youth kid. Swedish and Norwegian are both fucking awesome. French is pretty cool, but fucking everybody knows French.
So FP, what do you think I should learn?
German's a really cool language, that's what I would go with.
And Japanese seems like it would be a pain to learn
I used to learn japanese, it's hard as hell because they have three alphabets and completely different sentence structure.
Deaf language!
If you're American, learn Spanish!
Don't bother with Russian. It's very hard. You will never learn it unless you move to a Russian speaking country. And trust me, you don't want to do that.
Japanese isn't [I]that[/I] hard. Extremely easy grammar. And has tonnes of loan words from English.
German has more challenging grammar, vocabulary, and syntax that you might think. But it's a cool language and has a big albeit concentrated use in Europe.
Don't bother with Norwegian and Swedish unless you really have some thing for those countries. The number of native speakers isn't that high and practically all Norwegians and Swedes speak English anyway. Though the grammar is very easy and with a syntax very similar to English.
French, yeah man. It is aside from Spanish the most useful language in this list I believe. But hard to speak and write I've been told. You might need to spend some extra time with this one.
[QUOTE=Rad McCool;34255565]If you're American, learn Spanish!
Don't bother with Russian. It's very hard. You will never learn it unless you move to a Russian speaking country. And trust me, you don't want to do that.
Japanese isn't [I]that[/I] hard. Extremely easy grammar. And has tonnes of loan words from English.
German has more challenging grammar, vocabulary, and syntax that you might think. But it's a cool language and has a big albeit concentrated use in Europe.
Don't bother with Norwegian and Swedish unless you really have some thing for those countries. The number of native speakers isn't that high and practically all Norwegians and Swedes speak English anyway. Though the grammar is very easy and with a syntax very similar to English.
French, yeah man. It is aside from Spanish the most useful language in this list I believe. But hard to speak and write I've been told. You might need to spend some extra time with this one.[/QUOTE]
Fuck, I guess I'll go with French. I already know a bit anyway; romantic languages are easy peasy.
French is a good way to pick up chicks.
Japanese isn't that hard really. I did it for school and two of the three alphabets are only like 26 characters. You learn them in no time.
Spanish is apparently the easiest language to learn.
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Japanese isn't that hard really. I did it for school and two of the three alphabets are only like 26 characters. You learn them in no time.
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Hell, I got straight D's in Japanese from lack of paying attention at all and I still picked up Hiragana.
[QUOTE=Rad McCool;34255565]If you're American, learn Spanish!
Don't bother with Russian. It's very hard. You will never learn it unless you move to a Russian speaking country. And trust me, you don't want to do that.
Japanese isn't [I]that[/I] hard. Extremely easy grammar. And has tonnes of loan words from English.
German has more challenging grammar, vocabulary, and syntax that you might think. But it's a cool language and has a big albeit concentrated use in Europe.
Don't bother with Norwegian and Swedish unless you really have some thing for those countries. The number of native speakers isn't that high and practically all Norwegians and Swedes speak English anyway. Though the grammar is very easy and with a syntax very similar to English.
French, yeah man. It is aside from Spanish the most useful language in this list I believe. But hard to speak and write I've been told. You might need to spend some extra time with this one.[/QUOTE]
Russian is apparently not hard at all. My older half-brother has been teaching himself Russian really well through lots of audiobook or podcast things. Then again, he has his lesson things playing every minute of every day at his house when he's not off at work.
Anyways I myself am curious of learning Mandarin, but not yet. Maybe next year I might start.
[QUOTE=Antdawg;34256042]Russian is apparently not hard at all. My older half-brother has been teaching himself Russian really well through lots of audiobook or podcast things. Then again, he has his lesson things playing every minute of every day at his house when he's not off at work.[/QUOTE]
I took Russian for two years in high school. Trust me. It's very hard.
Pronunciation = [highlight]Kill Me Now[/highlight]
Vocabulary = [highlight][B]Hell Mode[/B][/highlight]
Hearing exercise = [highlight]Bloodbath[/highlight]
Grammar = [highlight][B][U]Nightmare[/U][/B][/highlight]
But reading and writing is surprisingly easy.
You should totally learn Portuguese so you can know when BRs are telling you your mother sucks dick.
Try latin.
Swedish or Danish
think about which you're likely to use most then learn that one. at school i studied french, latin and russian.
latin was interesting, i've only used russian a little bit and french was by far the most useful - because i've been to france the most. in retrospect, i would have studied italian instead of russian.
if you're not going to end up going to somewhere that speaks the language it's not that useful
Took German for two years, and it was an awesome experience. If I would've paid more attention to grammar rules I could probably speak it fluently by this point. Once you get all the grammar rules down, and sentence structure, it's pretty easy to learn new vocabulary.
Then again, it'd only be useful in places like Switzerland, Austria, and Germany.
learn some german, or russian if you can.
Canto, the superior Chinese
Esperanto, or lojban to avoid misogyny.
They're easy to learn compared to most languages.
theres another thread made a few days ago (here in fast threads), I recommend you go take a look around
[QUOTE=Mr. Smartass;34255401]I used to learn japanese, it's hard as hell because they have three alphabets and completely different sentence structure.[/QUOTE]
All your base now belong to us.
There's always sign language.
Learn Finnish.
Its obviously the least useful language in the world, but its awesome!
[QUOTE=Hakita;34308022]Learn Finnish.
Its obviously the least useful language in the world, but its awesome![/QUOTE]
Mä olen perrrrrrruna!
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;34308071]Mä olen perrrrrrruna![/QUOTE]
Well you certainly seem to have the Finnish knownledge of one.
From being Estonian, I can partly understand Finnish!
Yay!
[QUOTE=Rapist;34309276]From being Estonian, I can partly understand Finnish!
Yay![/QUOTE]
Not only partly.
We only have like 20-30 completely different words, otherwise just slight differences.
Go with German, don't bother with Japanese yet.
I hate French, due to the old dyke French teachers that taught it to me at school.
German is a good language though, I'm taking it. It's quite difficult, however.
If you live in the States, then I'd imagine learning Spanish would be the most useful
If you learn French, or if you learn Spanish, you can learn the other one quite easily. They are fairly similar.
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