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.
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Anonymous2007-02-10 2:12
>>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...
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Anonymous2007-02-10 5:18
English, Spanish, and French are the most useful languages in North America.
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Anonymous2007-02-12 13:03
>>French
No. Only in French Canada, but they speak English too.
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Anonymous2007-02-13 2:47
>>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.
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.
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Anonymous2007-02-13 11:34
>>46
lol muy bueno el chiste mi amigo ahora dime como la tiene tu novia veradd
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Anonymous2007-02-13 11:42
>>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!
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Anonymous2007-02-15 11:40
Learn at least 2 of the official languages of the United Nations.
English
Français
العربية
Español
Русский
中文
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Anonymous2007-02-15 14:58
People should look at languages by how many countries they're spoken in, not by how many people speak it.
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Anonymous2007-02-22 14:21 ID:1MMGIqgv
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.
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Anonymous2007-02-22 21:37 ID:TWbIeVK+
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.