Its that time again (suggest a language)

What's the best language for a complete beginner to pick up and learn?

I'm able to read through sources in various languages and understand whats happening on a fundamental level.

I want to learn a language over the next 3~5 months and i cant make any informed desicions on which.

Suggest the language best suited to an entry level programmer.

IN BEFORE SHITSTORM

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I admit it's not pretty; it's full of noise. That's Perl for you.

I'm just pointing out that there's no inherent reason why a dynamically-typed language can't do the same. I am convinced that statically-typed languages can at best (with inference, pattern matching, and the like) match dynamically-typed languages for expressiveness and terseness, and that it rarely happens in practice. Is there any feature that statically-typed languages have that dynamically-typed cannot incorporate well? Multimethods maybe?

That's ignoring the problems with dynamic typing though, which drive me batshit sometimes, and the ruby/python apologists don't help. I really hope optional typing becomes the norm one day, because I want the best of both worlds.

However, if anybody can point otherwise, I'd be happy to learn.