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Which language should I learn

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-28 18:16

Hello- my university offers cheap Language courses. I already have learnt conversational Spanish, and need to know what I should go for next.
The choices are:
Arabic
British Sign Language
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Mandarin
Polish
Russian

Considering Polish atm, but have heard it is ridiculously hard.

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-28 19:16

German is relitively easy.

Japanese is interesting, mind you this is 4chan so everyone will suggest that.

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-28 22:55

Polish is faggots
What are you interested in? There are a few languages I would recommend from my own interests:
Arabic
French
German
Italian
Mandarin
Russian

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-28 22:56

>>3 here
Didnt even read >>2 till after I posted and I didn't say Japanese

Partly because I hate weeaboos and have no interest in Japan, partly because it looks and sounds like faggots

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-29 10:00

Learn British Sign Language

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-29 10:05

Japanese or Arabic

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-29 18:37

>>6

Why Japanese?  I'd rather learn Chinese or Arabic on that list.  Japan isn't bad, but most people who learn Japanese do so to read manga in Japanese and act like faggots.

Mandarin is pretty interesting on its own, though I don't know how many speakers you'll find.  Arabic is cool sounding, and due to islam, there are probably a good number of speakers.

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-29 23:13

>>7
>>7
though I don't know how many speakers you'll find
~800 million
Where do you live?

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-30 18:59

considering 99% of them live behind the fucking Chinese Iron Cutain, how the fuck do you talk to them?

I live in America.  Everybody hear into english.

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-30 21:32

>>9
Go to a Chinese restaurant
Most of em cant speak fucking English anyway

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-02 23:09

learn arabic if you want to hurt your brain

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-02 23:14

>>11
learn brain if you want to hurt your arabic

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-03 7:23

Learn Russian if you want to read long shitty books.

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-03 15:55

German is fucking hard to learn.
Normally, you need to learn a fuckton of rules to learn a new language... German has no rules. Almost EVERY SINGLE WORD is irregular.

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-03 21:12

>>14
You've mistyped  "English" as "German".

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-03 22:00

Learn a language you actually WANT to learn. Learning at school gonna suck anyway and if you're not at all interested in the language, you're gonna fail bad. From experience, learning something you actually are interested in, makes it easier.

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-04 0:20

>>15
A plague in both houses.
(At least German has an half-decent orthography...)

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-04 9:18

>>15
I think you never tried German.
English is insultingly easy. Even the spelling follows SOME kind of rules. Hell, even the irregular verbs follow a rule!
As an example, how you are saying "to go" (-> "Gehen" in German) in both languages:
I go
You go
He/she/it goes
We go
You go
They go

Ich gehe
Du gehst
Er/sie/es geht
Wir gehen
Ihr geht
Sie gehen

(And if you learned this by heart? Congratulations! Now you can apply this rule to... The word "gehen". And nothing more.)

So stop saying English is hard. >.>
It's only hard if you are from the east.

(I'm German myself btw. Started teaching myself English because there were no English lessons in third class... And when I did get English lessons, it got even easier.)

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-05 2:25

>>15
You forgot about tenses.

I go
I went
I gone

And if you learned this by heart? Congratulations! Now you can apply this rule to... The word "go". And nothing more.

GO and WENT share no single common letter. At all. They don't even have similar letters like A/O, I/E, K/G.

>It's only hard if you are from the east.

Is Russia east enough?

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-06 4:18

>>18
>It's only hard if you are from the east.
It's only hard if you are from:
Decently spelled languages (like Italian), OR
Fully isolating languages (like Mandarin), OR
Fully inflecting languages (like German), OR
Vowel harmonic languages (like Turkic)... OR
Consonant+vowel languages (like Portuguese)... OR
et cetera.

It's kinda cheap to say "English is easy" if you're from a Germanic language, since most of English grammar ("whattahell is a definite article", or "how use a genitive/possessive", "most phrases are SVO", this kind of thing) you already learned from your mother tongue. And many, MANY real (non orthographic)  English irregularities are aswell present in German...

But see people that start from other indoeuropean branches - like from Spanish, from Russian, from Hindi...

Or, better yet, people from other LANGUAGE FAMILIES - like from Turkic or Basque or... etc., you understood.

(And about "from the east", well... you and all Eurasians and Africans are "from east" for me. ŁØŁ :P)

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