Where do you live? It would be best to learn something that most of the people in your area speak. I live in AZ, so I learned alot of spanish at school. If i could learn any languages though, it'd be German and Japanese.
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Which language should I learn?
- Thread starter HGS
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Well, those three languages have masculine and feminine name genders to designate objects. English only has neutral. German has all three of them.
and thats only one verb conjugation. if you go to different verbs it changes, such as voy.
Chinese verbs don't change at all. For example:
Wo qu - I go
Ni qu- You go
Ta qu- He/she goes
Women qu- We go
Nimen qu-You (all) go
Tamen qu- They go
Also notice that we, you(plural) and they are just I,you and he/she with "men" on the end of it.
Wo qu - I go
Ni qu- You go
Ta qu- He/she goes
Women qu- We go
Nimen qu-You (all) go
Tamen qu- They go
Also notice that we, you(plural) and they are just I,you and he/she with "men" on the end of it.
Apparently, different sources provide different rankings. I've read in many places that (after Chinese and English) Hindi is the 3rd most spoken language in the world followed by Spanish.
Spanish o Mandarin. I can speak Spanish, but I've always wanted to learn Mandarin. It's a horrible thing to say, but Spanish and Mandarin are likely going to be the languages of the future.
I plan on learning French once I am done school. Moving to Ottawa (on the border of the French speaking part of Canada) and I hope to get a Government job and to move up very high you need to be able to speak both official languages. My girlfriend is fluent (a little rusty on the speaking part, because she doesn't do it much) already, so that will help me.
As for Norwegian, the only thing that I know how to say is "Absolutely Dirt" and only because it sounds really bad in English. Google translate it if you are interested. I am not getting an infraction.
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As for Norwegian, the only thing that I know how to say is "Absolutely Dirt" and only because it sounds really bad in English. Google translate it if you are interested. I am not getting an infraction.
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150 is still quite a lot... and about 12 - 20 of those 150 are quite common verbs that it's useful to know. Besides, like I said earlier, the verbs are the easy part, it's the cases I have trouble with.
Go for Spanish. I recently started seeing a Spanish girl. I get help with things I didn't know before.
I've called her a guy by using masculine nouns by accident. Oops.
I've called her a guy by using masculine nouns by accident. Oops.
I'm with the people who are asking the purpose. I'd say that Czech and Greek are going to be semi-useless unless you're going to be dealing with native speakers all the time, and the same languages such as Hindi.
Mandarin- as long as you master the tones and don't mix them up, learning Mandarin is pretty straightforward. I know a little bit from friends.
The only thing that gets most people is the script. To write or read Chinese you need approx. 50,000 symbols. Luckily it's made easier by the fact that they're organised into 125 groups based on certain parts of the symbol shape, like Japanese kanji.
Arabic- I know a minute bit of Arabic and it's more straightforward than people think. Once you know the root (for example, the root for book is k-t-b) and then you can make all sorts of words:
kitab (book)
ketaba (he/she writes)
ketuba- writer
maktab- desk (ma- added onto the start of a word along with the appropriate vowel in the middle gives the place of doing, such as madrassah which means school).
The adjectives are a bit weird. For example, if you wanted to say 'with X' then it's alay- with the appropriate ending. For example:
alayhii- with him
alaykum- with you (male)
alaykunna- with you (female)
alayli- upon me
The only really hard part is that there's some sounds which don't exist in English.
THis is the one which'll earn you the most money.
Mandarin- as long as you master the tones and don't mix them up, learning Mandarin is pretty straightforward. I know a little bit from friends.
The only thing that gets most people is the script. To write or read Chinese you need approx. 50,000 symbols. Luckily it's made easier by the fact that they're organised into 125 groups based on certain parts of the symbol shape, like Japanese kanji.
Arabic- I know a minute bit of Arabic and it's more straightforward than people think. Once you know the root (for example, the root for book is k-t-b) and then you can make all sorts of words:
kitab (book)
ketaba (he/she writes)
ketuba- writer
maktab- desk (ma- added onto the start of a word along with the appropriate vowel in the middle gives the place of doing, such as madrassah which means school).
The adjectives are a bit weird. For example, if you wanted to say 'with X' then it's alay- with the appropriate ending. For example:
alayhii- with him
alaykum- with you (male)
alaykunna- with you (female)
alayli- upon me
The only really hard part is that there's some sounds which don't exist in English.
THis is the one which'll earn you the most money.
I like the confusion between "El Papa" and "La Papa" that can arise in Spanish
Haha. Definitely one of the good ones.
+1
I still don't get German topping the poll? It's an important historical language but it's headed down the same road as Latin, sorry to say.
I had two years of German in high school, BTW.
They're hard to learn but from a logic and communicative standpoint, modal grammar is an incredibly smart thing to use.
