If you are learning a language for the hell of it, choose either whatever sounds cool, or could be useful. I personally just like to know a word or two in lots of different languages.
I speak English and Finnish.
So, learn Finnish! I guarantee 99% of people won't understand, and it doesn't even sound like talking to the untrained ear. Plus it's hard as fuck.
For example, leek spin/levan polkka is finnish language. :v:
[QUOTE=phill977;16249696]Learn French or a laungauge based off english, it'll be easier.
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Yeah, i thought that as well.. at first.
In fact, it isn't. DO NOT learn french. I still can't speak one sentence after 5 years of french in school.
Learn the language of the Ewoks then raise a midget bear army and destroy the Galactic empire.
[QUOTE=!LORD M!;16260725]What? I thought most people already knew two languages. Hell, I can even speak 3 languages, like most swedes who took their language class serious.[/QUOTE]
By the look of it he already knows english and has learned spanish and wants to learn a second language, outside of his native tongue.
So yes, 3 languages is what he's talking about.
And no, it shouldn't be difficult in terms of forgetting your other languages, unless you stop using them because then you will naturally forget words as you haven't said them for a long time. (Like how I'm pretty much better and more comfortable with English over Norwegian even though Norwegian is my native tongue)
I learn french and german, but i'm much better at german even though i've been learning german for a shorter time.
My mum's Belgian and I moved there when I was 5 with my parents, I stayed there until I was 9. Those years are important in learning so I guess I picked up French really easily.
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Living in a country for a few years is probably the best way to learn a language.
[QUOTE=Jet-fly;16249788]Learn Chinese. You'll thank me in the future.[/QUOTE]
Chinese isn't a language
[QUOTE=phill977;16249696]Learn French or a laungauge based off english, it'll be easier.[/QUOTE]
The fuck? There are no languages based off of English, and it's based mostly off of Latin.
I know English, Korean, and dem Frenchinese
King of page 2 :v:
I know Russian and Arabic, among others, and I'd recommend both of those, even though they're both very difficult.
If you don't know a language with declension (like German), Russian's use of cases [i]will[/i] confuse the hell out of you. Russian also has an insanely complicated - but thorough - verb system, and it uses affixes like a fucking maniac making its morphology synthetic as fuck. It's very inflectional.
It has a *lot* less irregularities and exceptions than English, though, it just has a fuckload of subrules.
Arabic is, in my opinion, even more difficult. Partly because it's very different from Indo-European languages in general, but mostly because it's just plain and simply hard as fuck.
It's an *extremely* logical language. There are no "words", per se, but most concepts are described by triconsonantal roots which you morph with vowels, affixes and gemination. For instance, the root "k-t-b" كتب, denoting concepts pertaining to "writing" or "written litterature", can be morphed into "kitaab" كِتَابْ, meaning "book"; "kaatib" كَاتب, meaning "writer"; "kataba" كَتَبَ, meaning "to write"; "takaataba" تَكَاتَبَ, meaning "to write to each other"; or even "istaktaba" إسْتَكْتَبَ, meaning "to ask someone to write". There's no fucking limit. You could even construct a single word with the meaning of an entire sentence, if you wish, such as "katabtihulhum" كَتَبْتِهُلْهُمْ, meaning "you (fem. sing.) wrote it (neut.) to them (masc.)". Additionally, apart from a few exceptions, these mutations are general for most roots, meaning that you can logically deduct what a previously unknown stem means if you recognise the root.
As such, Arabic gives a whole new dimension of nuance and language richness. The catch, of course, is that it's insanely difficult.
I'm still recommending these two languages because they're:
1. Awesome.
2. Important.
3. Challenging.
I can't see how Russian is that difficult.
[QUOTE=phill977;16249696]Learn French or a[B] laungauge based off english[/B], it'll be easier.
[B]Or learn latin, would be handy.[/B][/QUOTE]
Both french and english are based on latin. Also latin is as useless as a bike on a frozen lake. If OP really want's a challenge learn Polish. I've spoke it my whole life and i [I]still[/I] can't get certain parts of grammar right.
Learning russian is a challenge even for us russians
[QUOTE=NotMeh;16266575]Learning russian is a challenge even for us russians[/QUOTE]
Tru dat. I mean, i can speak and write in it perfectly well. But it's the MOTHERFUCKING RULES that kill me.
I FUCKING THINK IN ENGLISH IT'S SO MUCH EASIER.
FUCK.
And don't get me started on eesti.
I'd recommend Latin. You might not speak it to anyone, but I took it for 3 years and learning Spanish was easy as hell because of it, and I would expect any other language based off of it would be easy as well.
Try Finnish.
The most difficult language there is.
^_^ Learn Japanese it's soo kawaii. ^_^
I'm heavily influenced by english, when my main language is swedish, I sometimes mix up the grammar as I use both on a daily basis. But that's it. And perhaps that I might express myself easier in only one of the languages etc. at times... Other than that, you got nothing to worry about. Oh and I've heard that Russian is fokken hard. Want an easy and fun language? Try Japanese.
OP, if you have the opportunity to learn Russian, take it. If you feel that you are taking too much upon yourself, cut back. Learning a third language is an excellent way to challenge yourself, but neither you nor I will know whether it will inhibit your ability to speak your second language unless you try. Just test the waters and see how far you can go. And I would advise you set practice times for your Spanish and Russian so one doesn't fall out of use. Reading Spanish literature is always nice.
Get out of here Stalker.
I want to learn at least one language, And i picked Russian. It a lot harder (for me at least) than it is learning a language similar to English.
Go for it bro!
I think all of us bi-linguals here can agree it's badass.
I've always wanted to learn Russian but never really had an effective method.
I'd bloody love to learn Russian, but, I just don't know where to start :(
ITT: People who want to speek russian
Sprechen deutsch, es ist groß
Try to learn the Hungarian language. It's really hard, but a very nice one in my opinion. (Well duh, I'm from Hungary :v:)
For example "Try to learn the Hungarian language." would be : "Próbáld meg megtanulni a magyar nyelvet."
Also my name actually would be Altefnégy, which is how you pronounce AltF4 in Hungarian :v:
Learn German or French.
Or Russian.
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Also, if you learn Mandarin you're a little bitch.
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