Okay, I'm a fluent speaker of American English, and I'm planning on learning one of the so-called 'Romance' languages: the choice comes down to Spanish (probably most practical here), French (AAAAAAAA), and Italian (interested me ever since I read Catch-22).
So... which should I pick? And why?
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Anonymous2007-07-02 16:43 ID:5EfypOWr
Afrikaans
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Anonymous2007-07-02 16:47 ID:AUZlFdsG
Le Français, parce qu'il y a un topic juste en-dessous.
Personally, I'd learn Romanian for the lulz. But I am American and know French, it was pretty simple and easy. I am put off by spanish mainly because of the poor mexicans here in south texas that give spanish a bad name, I guess.
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Anonymous2007-07-02 20:18 ID:SuVRFEWi
I know both Spanish and English(I am american, not mexican). If you want practicality, Spanish works for both talking to wetbacks and making women wet. Not a real player of sorts, but every woman I have been with loved it when I spoke to them in spanish.
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Anonymous2007-07-02 22:47 ID:VIS81inT
>>1 So... which should I pick? And why?
4chan can't think for you. I can play Master of the Obvious and ask, which one are you going to use most? Don't forget to take the internet into account. Better to know Italian if you want to read Italian literature/websites even if you live right next to the Mexican border but are never going to talk to people in Spanish.
But I am American and know French, it was pretty simple and easy.
impossiiible! how good are you?
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Anonymous2007-07-03 0:25 ID:6N/OPxnG
PROTIP: if one claims doing well in a foreign language, then chances are high that it's not true.
I'd take Spanish. I learned 日本語, and I haven't used it once (and it's not a romance language, so...), whereas, as an intern in my local hospital's ER, I've helped doctors speak to Spanish patients. I learned Italian too, but that was more because my mom's Italian and she'd've killed me if I hadn't taken it.
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Anonymous2007-07-03 3:48 ID:YM+Q4IrZ
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Le français, parce qu'il y a plein de belles filles chez nous.
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Anonymous2007-07-03 4:34 ID:ympH2omF
spanish is ugly.
italian is better.
and of course, I'm french, so get lost.
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Anonymous2007-07-03 7:57 ID:1dRI9dCq
Let's see...
Spanish: useful if you're American. Italian: not very useful, even to other Europeans, but if you're into things like opera, literature, painting, the Renaissance, etc., then this is the language for you. Portuguese: a not so popular language that's a bit more useful than Italian, but not much. French: very useful, especially in Europe and Africa; a true language of business, politics and culture. I recommend. Romanian: useful in Romania, Moldova and...and...and...err, that's about it! ^___^;;;; Classical Latin: if you're into ancient history and literature, this is for you. But I warn you, it's fucking difficult. For some reason ancient languages tend to be more complex than modern ones. Medieval Latin: if you think Muslims and homosexuals should go to Hell, and you like/want/aspire to be a God-fearing man, then why not? Catalan: the least useful Romance language.
It's more of a second opinion type thing; I can (at least attempt to) filter out the cruft from the useful advice. Aaand yeah, as of now, Spanish has a much higher chance of being used where I live (rural Texas).
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Anonymous2007-07-03 17:23 ID:6w0fRgj6
learn sicilian or galican. you would only be able to speak with like five people, but they'll fucking love you for knowing their language.
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Anonymous2007-07-03 19:45 ID:YXjoJ+6a
stick with american?
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Anonymous2007-07-04 5:03 ID:qoiHuGHS
Spanish is useful because it is spoken in more places in the world than any of the other Romance languages.
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Anonymous2007-07-04 8:29 ID:UnWfbFYF
Traditionnal bullshit. If one doesn't plan to work with or go in spanish-speaking countries, they one really don't gives a fuck about this "most widely spoken" argument.
Latinamericans talks and write spanish horribly cause they are like fucking oligophrenic monkeys, and they don't know the diference between "z" and "s". Spaniards speak and write perfectly.
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Ah, yes... That's why they write "valla" instead of "vaya", "haber" instead of "a ver", they write n before b, they can't write imperative correctly...
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No creo poder expresar este sentimiento con texto. es esta masiva,incontrolable urgencia de agarrarte por la cabeza y estrellarla contra el pavimento hasta que mueras, es como cuando estas a punto de venirte, asi de grande es el deseo que tengo de lastimarte, quiero meter mi pene en tu boca y despues en tu trasero hasta que me ames puta, si asi es!, tu vas a gritar y a llorar pidiendo por ayuda,i yo,voy a violarte y despues a matarte ,despues de eso voy a enterrar tu asqueroso cuerpo en mi patio trasero.
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Annonomys2007-07-06 2:22 ID:RXendJEV
Latin, simply because it is usless yet amazing
it is the most beautiful of dead languages.
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Anonymous2007-07-06 5:56 ID:gU2eI1dM
>>32
Beautiful beaner Spanish language. Me rike japanese
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Then I won, thank you. n.n We love you too, beaner.
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Anonymous2007-07-11 20:09 ID:ny2uICcK
If you're going to learn just for fun, then learn Romanian. Because it's a romance language with a lot of Slavic and Hungarian influence in vocabulary. Also it's the romance language that kept most Latin ressemblance. The only problem: it's completely useless.
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Anonymous2007-07-12 1:48 ID:6Vh0cSgh
Spanish is boring and sucks. French is alright, but useless becayse they hate everyone anyway. Italian's the coolest.
Go for something more foreign though.
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Anonymous2007-07-12 11:00 ID:eRM9EJ8Z
Icelandic, bitch! Fuck "Romance languages"!
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Anonymous2007-07-12 11:05 ID:KRDInPa6
Spanish : widely used
French : vocabulary similarities with English
Relevant to my interests. I've been studying Chinese for a bit, and I think i'm going to try to learn two at once. I know I'm going to fail miserably, but there are few things i've wanted more than to do this. I studied Latin a bit before going to college, and I've narrowed it down to either french, italian, or portugese. I don't really care about exoticism, I get more than enough of that through Mandarin.
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Anonymous2007-07-14 4:01 ID:pDB83dk/
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>french, italian, or portugese.
I'm a Portuguese speaker and I can tell you our grammar sucks, it's too complicated.
Go with French, it's slightly less complicated and slightly more useful.
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Anonymous2007-07-14 11:34 ID:3ymDWiCE
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as a sanskrit learner i can confidently say fuck that noise
Any particular reason to choose French over Italian besides number of speakers? I've wasted four years of my life learning Latin, which of the two is closer? I'd assume Italian, but I'm often wrong about this sort of thing.
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Anonymous2007-07-14 16:23 ID:0Fvn9ver
Italian is closer to Latin than French is.
But French is a lot closer to English than Italian is.
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Anonymous2007-07-14 17:02 ID:O9g0NxpM
Hmm. I hate to ask this, but which is more commonly judged as "easier"?
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Anonymous2007-07-14 18:24 ID:0Fvn9ver
You should consider the cultural interest you might have in learning one language or the other.
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Anonymous2007-07-14 18:59 ID:O9g0NxpM
Well, my family's from Norway, so neither of those is really applicable. I guess the best thing to do would be to try and visit both those countries, but that's a bit tricky.
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Anonymous2007-07-14 19:58 ID:0Fvn9ver
It's not about family, but feelings about italian/french history/litterature/cinema/people/country/etc.
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Anonymous2007-07-14 20:10 ID:O9g0NxpM
Good point. I guess there's no right answer, hopefully the answer will be more and more obvious the more I research.
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Anonymous2007-07-14 22:45 ID:maWFntkG
Learn catalan. Its similar with french, italian and spanish.
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Anonymous2007-07-15 6:10 ID:V8wAsu0+
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This is a good idea.
Learn some minor language that will give you another major language as bonus, then it will be much more rewarding!
For example, learn Galician and with a couple of tweaks you will know Portuguese. Or learn Romanian and with some effort, Italian will come to you.