Help Me Choose a Language to Learn.

I live in the United States. I am fluent in English. I know nothing of any other language. I would love to know what the most useful language will be in the future. I'm going to be dual-enrolling soon at a local university, and I wanted to take a class which is unavailable to me.

Can you suggest a language? The only classes currently available to me through my high-school are Spanish and Latin.

Spanish if you plan on staying in America
Chinese if you plan on majoring in business
French if you're majoring in film, art, or culinary arts
Italian/Portugese/French if you wanna get laid
Ebonics if you don't wanna get shot

Japanese if you are superior

Lojban if you're strange.

Learn Mandarin. China's going to be big in the future.

Learn sign language if you want to be annoying.

Learn Spanish. You can order shit from McDonald's easier "Podría tomar un mediana patatas fritas y una doble hamburguesa con queso" and you can watch all those Mexican channels on TV.

YOU MUST LERN GERMAN

Where are your family's roots?  Why don't you study the language of your ancestors and find out if you have some distant relatives living halfway around the world.

My mom's side is Cuban, with German from her grandmother's side.
The dude who got my mom preggers was Italian. I don't know anything about his family, and I've never seen him.

That was me, the OP. >.> ^^^

In north america the 3 main language you need to know is
English
French
Spanish (more spanish than french if your near the south border)

if you want to travel to europe you could learn other but with french and english you could work your way out of any situation easily.

OP here.

I live in Florida. >.>

learn latin

im serious about latin its more useful than you think
its like taking every european language for one year - you learn all these root words, you learn about your own langauge and you can sort-of decode others

Learn German because we shall rule the earth someday!

>>11
you dont need french in north america
faggot

>>1
If you want to learn for business reasons, Chinese. 1 billion people in a country that is rapidly becoming first world.

If you want to learn for sexual reasons...duuuuude why haven't you started learning Japanese yet?

Spanish and Japanese will both be pretty simple in grammar, Spanish because it's so similar to English and Japanese because it's, well, it's just easy.

Spanish is becoming rapidly important in the southern U.S (but then again, it's also a required course in high school), and Japanese is nice to know if you're a video game/anime freak.

>>18
I hate how weeaboos such as you think you know everything about the Japanese language and culture because you watch a couple shitty anime shows and take basic language courses.

Mandarin Chinese is the way to go for businesses like production and manufacturing.
[There is more than one Chinese language. Mandarin is the more populous.]

India is also a booming economy. But as India has many, many languages, and English is the most populous language there, you will be OK if you want to move out there for a job in Software Engineering or Customer Service Representation.

Castillian Spanish [There is than one Spanish language. Castillian is the one that got exported around the world.]

And, of course, Japanese if you are weeaboo.

>>18

Japanese is definitely one of the harder languages. Please stop pretending to know about a language if you don't speak it.

Japanese has all those forms depending on politeness... at least as far as I know. I probably shouldn't speak about it at all.

If you want a language similar to English that's useful, I would recommand you Spanish, German, or French. German is very similar to English, and has many cognates. However, I find the prepositions strange. Although I don't think the different cases are hard, you might. French also has a great many cognates with English, more than you would think. Of course not every French word has an English cognate and not every English word has a French cognate, this is true of every language. Many people find French grammar to be strange or difficult, but given enough time and practice it becomes second nature. Spanish is similar to French, but with (in my opinion, at least) simpler grammar and easier pronunciation. However, it doesn't have as many cognates as French and German, but it still has quite a few because of all the latin words English has, and all the words from French that English has that are also found in Spanish.

The thing with all languages you'll learn, is that you'll only be learning one dialect. Quebecois will be unintelligible to you at first, and Mexican men speak... well, like Mexicans. They're a lot harder to understand than many other dialects of Spanish. I've not been learning German for long enough to know of any dialects that are hard to understand if you're learning the dialect that most people learn.

Learn Spanish, Mandarin if you don't mind difficulty for use in future business world, or French/German for European travel.

>>22

You're right, you shouldn't speak about it at all.

Japanese has insanely simple grammar.

But then again, the thousands of Kanji symbols are a pain.

>>16
op of 11 here

open a fucking book and learn that montreal is THE place for film industry nowaday and that here we speak fucking french

faggot

>>26
Montreal lols

>>27
i see that faggot respond quite quickly now

I would recommend 1337. Barring that, French. It's spoken in so many places that it can really help you out anywhere. Also, it's pretty easy to learn. As that one guy said about cognates, you can pretty much nderstand french even w/o learning it. Although masculine vs. feminine words can be a pain of you dont learn it the right way. Same thing with that darn conjugation. And the whole apple red thing.

Thai ftw
either that or if your lazy
LEARN ENGLISH :)

>>30
Knows nothing about anything.

learn japanese
it is fun

Chinese(Mandarin) because its gonna be very important in the future and many people speak it.
Spanish because... many countries in the continent speak it.
French because like Spanish and English, many countries in the world speak it.

I speak only in meme.

>>33
French? Fuck you.

Mexican Spanish and Spanish Spanish are the fucking same. Seriously, my Mexican friend Oscar was over and we were watching a television program from Spain and he said he noticed nothing different in how they speak.

Prevent Mandarin Chinese from "becoming the future" by not learning it.

>>36
tienes relaciones con tu amigo Oscar verdad, dilo estas entre amigos no debes sentirte divido con la sociedad solo porque eres homosexual, solo cuentanos tu experiencia de vida y veras como la entenderemos ya que sol

admin de imejeejis.

>>26
j'ai peur que tu ne sois un connard d'étudiant en cinéma à l'UDM.

>>39
j'ai peur que tu ne connaisse pas ta ville

>>36
 between spanish speekers there's no problem, but not for the people who lear just one spanish dialect (mexican if you want to speak inside the continet and castillian if you travel outside the continet), they have notorius diferences.

You can learn frech freely, even in latin america they prefer to study french, and you can use it as a basis to learn spanish, italian or portuguese (these three are more like).

Chinese, japanese or korean if you are worried about financial   world... 

English, Spanish, and French are the most useful languages in North America.

>>French

No. Only in French Canada, but they speak English too.

>>25
Have you been to Japan? When people start talking in their district's dialect (for example, Osaka-ben, Hiroshima-ben, Mikawa-ben etcetera), they can be *very* difficult to understand.

>>44
別にかまわへん

France isn't just spoken in parts of Canada but in Louisiana (it's a co-official language there) and even Vermont. It's also spoken in French Guiana.

>>46
lol muy bueno el chiste mi amigo ahora dime como la tiene tu novia veradd

>>43
I live not 10 miles from Quebec. Very few people on this side speak french. Very few people in Quebec speak English. Montreal for sure, but l'estrie is extremely french, it can be hard sometimes. I have asked people "do you speak english?" The response is always a confused/forced "eh, no." or "a little, speak slow." Good thing I speak french >)

Latin is great, useful for figuring things out (like what they mean from the old Latin/Greek roots).
Only thing about Latin is.... it's hard!! There are more than the typical Past, Present, and Future tenses in Latin.
Take it only if you'll be at least somewhat dedicated.

Spanish is pretty widely spoken in the world:
Spain, South America, Latin/Central America, North America.... & so forth.
It's pronunciation -- and Latin's!! -- would help you learn many other languages (excluding Germanic and such ones).

I'd ask your guidance counselor and talk to the teachers of both before choosing first, too. :]

PS, I hope you can imitate regional accents well.
Otherwise, learning most any language will feel twice as hard.

Pronunciation is very key.
Even if your grammar is great and you accent is off, it almost would be pointless for native speakers or well-educated ones!
x_x'

Learn at least 2 of the official languages of the United Nations.

English
Français
العربية
Español
Русский
中文

People should look at languages by how many countries they're spoken in, not by how many people speak it.

Seconding that you should learn at least two official UN languages in addition to your native tongue.  I personally suggest Russian as a definite, and the other I can suggest nothing for.

Learn a language that you will actually be able to use. Like if you live near a Vietnamese or Chinese store, learn some Vietnamese or Chinese to speak with them. If you have some Polish neighbors, learn some Polish. Don't learn some fucking language nobody within 100 miles understands like Guaraní.

how about Stongbadia. It consists of high pitched, deep tone, rabler warblerms

>>54
People withing 100 miles from me understand Guarani :<