New language

I pressumed this would be the best place to ask this question so I'll try even if it is actually innapropriate.

I'm a highly communicative person and I love social interaction, (even though I am a regular 4chan user) However I find that only knowing one language limits my possibilities of finding an equally intelligent and like-minded person so I want to learn a secondary language, (well I do know latin, but that's practically dead in terms of use) yet I'm not really good at learning a new language or even anything if I don't have a high interest in it, like most 4channers I lack motivation. High-school french got me nowhere (I'm a Britfag).

I just wanted to ask you on what language you would reccomend me to learn, I don't care about how many people speak it, especially as Chinese is a dominant language yet the chances of me talking to such a speaker is minimal considering thier suppresive government. I'm interested in learning an interesting language that many intelligent and emotive people speak, so I can readily talk to a new kind of being.

Do you understand what I'm on about? As a conclusion, give me advise on what language would be most interesting to learn and even national i.q's. I was thinking of learning Japanese but I from what I've heard most of them speak English anyway, I also like the Germanic and Russian people (not thier government, just most of thier people).

P.S My name is OP for when I reply in this thread I can be identified.

Learn German. It is fairly similar to English (both are Germanic languages, both share many cognates &c.). You can also learn at the Goethe Institute, if it's nearby, or hop on a plane (probably only about £15) and fly to Berlin, Bern, Vienna &c. German is widely used in Mitteleuropa, so German will be useful in Slovenia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Northern Italy, Hungary and so on.

Learn useful languages like French or Mandarin. Swedish, Danish and the likes are useless, and this is coming from a Swede.

Learn Arabic. Lots of countries in the middle east speak it and they have contributed a lot to science in the past.

>>42
Does italian count as useful ? D:

Consider Hindi?  India has an intellectual culture that goes back a zillion years.  And it's actually different enough to be interesting.  It's also devloping rapidly so will get more useful in the future.

Learning materials probably suck though.  Finding a tutor or actually visiting (or both) is probably necessary.

If I were to magically learn a language that's what I might pick.  Too much work for me though.

Learn fucking Finnish, move to Finland and be bitter for the rest of your life.

You should try Russian. Russian is very easy to learn. I learned it when I was one, and do not recall having any difficulties. I doubt I would be able to learn anything else, like Calculus or Quantum Mechanics, at that age with such easiness.

I would recommend the language of Danish, for a number of reasons.

#1: http://2ch.us/ lists, just under 4chan, 4chan.dk. Dk is for Denmark. There are actually some danish 4chan sites out there, and though they are generally dead, then thats because every danish person speaks english as a second language; And who would want to miss being a collective hivemind and all. But there are Some sites, and if you compare statistically the amount of danish posts, then you will find out that compared to danish people are a very large percentage chanfaggots that speak danish.

#2: When you have learnt Danish, you will be able to undestand and speak Swedish and Norweigian and Street-faerose as well.

#3: It is very easy to learn Danish as English and Danish are very related languages.

#4: Danish people are the most happy people in the world.. Orly? Yar Rly! : http://www.google.dk/search?q=denmark+is+the+happiest+country+in+the+world&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:da:official&client=firefox-a

>>48
Agreed. Danish is rated as one of the easiest languages for a native English-speaker to learn, according to the FBI or CIA or something. Wikibooks has the list somewhere. Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Arabic are in the most difficult languages group.

>>48
>>49
Easier than Swedish?

°[o_ 0 °\] PERSON ABOVE IS GOING TO GET MANHANDLED BY A GERMAN NIGGER

>>47
Young children's brains are specifically set up for language acquisition. Learning any language as a small child will be relatively easy. It's very different from the other topics you mentioned.