Underrated and overrated languages

Arabic, Hindi and Bengali are some of the most spoken languages on the planet, yet very underrated when it comes to language learning. It's pretty difficult to find a decent textbook in these languages.

Japanese, French and German on the other hand, if you look at them on a global scale, are overrated languages. It's actually amazing how much material there is for learning Japanese.

Are you a learner of an underrated language? Or do you feel that the language you are learning is overrated?

Yeaaas! I am!
It would be great to learn Hindi or Bengali. I could say to sezy women "I speak Bengali!" and they would ask "So, you must be going to Greenland!!!".
I don't care how many people speak language as long as they live in a country someone would have to pay me a lot of money to go.

I learned both overrated and underrated languages. My first language is French and I learned English and Dutch, two unnecessarily popular languages where I live. I have also learned Esperanto, a small language and its a complete underdog. From all the languages I have learned, Esperanto has been the easiest and most fulfilling.

They're probably not taught en masse in Western schools or institutions because aside from killing or sabotaging the economy of the people who speak them; we have little use for them.

All European languages are overrated.

>>5
Even English? :-)

>>6
Especially English.

>>5
People die trying to get to Europe and US to work. Are they at all trying to get to those "other" countries. Do you produce culture entertaining or sophisticated enough to watch for Europeans. I saw great French, American, British, Japanese and Korean, and so on movies. I've never seen a whole bollywood movie - it is just boring, cliche and stupid. Face it. No one benefits from learning a third world countrys language.

>>8
Bollywood movies are made according to the midset and their cultural standards,they consider your cultural habits disgusting.According to you people learn a foreign language for the sole purpose of watching movies then please continue on with your ignorance and please don't learn i'm sure you would make no difference to the ocean.

>>5
Don't know if its overated but they did classify their languages as "indo-european" instead of just "european" with Sanskrit as a starting point and even fought a whole war based on a misinterpretation of a Sanskrit word Arya.

Maybe russian. I hear you can still understand the whole eastern block.

bah i had to take german classes in school for 2 years!
i sucked ad it (i hate german) i am dutch myself we have to learn diffrent languages.

the reason french and german are so overrated is because the french and german bastards are to damn cocky to even try and learn another (french are the worst) and if they now english they won't even speak english!

arabic and hindi are underrated because those people have taken peace by learning english and i worship them for that, if everyody on the world learned english or tried to learn english we all only need to learn 1 language besides ournative language.

Underrated, Georgian and the Sami languages.
Overrated, English and Japanese..

Hungarian and Atlantian

>>12
>the french and german bastards are to damn cocky to even try and learn another
The French, yes very much so. However, the Germans are very open to learning English, and in fact quite a few of their words are taken directly from English, mostly technology-based words such as Computer, Software, CD, etc. They just change the pronunciation. Considering that German and English are a lot alike, it doesn't surprise me in the least.

underrated: turkish and arabic
overrated: french

Even though Chinese is becoming more and more popular, the fact that it is not #1 for English speakers means it is still underrated :3

Also, off topic, what do you guys do when you are trying your hardest to focus on one language at a time but the language lust gets so strong?

>>15
Do you include Quebecers in your definition of the French?

>>18
No, my definition of the French was meaning the people in charge of the language's mechanics. My apologies, that was stereotypical.

>>19
This is 4chan you dont have to apologize for being stereotypical asshead

>>17
Also, off topic, what do you guys do when you are trying your hardest to focus on one language at a time but the language lust gets so strong?

Drop learning the one I was learning and learn the new one (._.)

;_;