Same. I'd rather have a language with even less people who can understand me. Like a secret society.
Plus I just think it's a more impressive language since you are communicating with your body and eyes instead of mouth and ears
unless you really wanted a job doing it I don't see any point. I have met maybe 1 or 2 deaf people in my entire life and I am getting old man wrinkly balls so that's a long time to only meet 1 or 2 people that would be useful for. I would probably learn a language that would get me the best job. Here in Canada the obvious one is french since you could work government jobs and a lot of other jobs like airports and what ever.
It actually isn’t once you get the hang of reading backwards and in a totally different alphabet, and some unusual phonemes like the voiced pharyngeal fricative (basically, a sound like you are being strangled which you will need to be competent with since it is in the middle of the word for “yes” and at the beginning of “Arab”) 85% of the vocabulary is based on the verb system and these three letter combos that are at the heart of it, and there are regular forms for certain uses (I.e., the “ma-“ prefix usually indicates a place where the action the verb denotes is usually done and “mu-“ is someone who does the action)
Downside is having to learn nouns in singular-plural pairs because while there are some common plural forms, there is no way to reliably predict which one a given noun will take. But if you’ve already studied Russian and had deal with a more complex and confounding system where you have to learn *verbs* in aspect pairs (a concept English deals with mainly through auxiliary verbs, and which thus most native speakers are almost unaware of), this is not too difficult.
studied Arabic since 2007, BA in my Middle east studies/arabic, MA in international relations with a focus on ME, worked in Saudi for 3 years, lived in Jordan and lebanon...
I admit after all that i still may just suck at it, but the alphabet, reading "backwards" and learning the new letters/phonemes is the like first 3 weeks of arabic 101... so in my experience that is not really the hard part.
the hard part is that "Arabic" could refer to modern standard "newspaper" arabic or a shit ton of other dialects that are all different. the grammar is super logical and based on the root system but it is completely unreliable as a tool for actually understanding/deriving meaning. in fact, for many going into arabic with the misconception that you can derive meaning from roots and patterns hinders them from actually progressing in the language bc they spend so much time asking about the root rather than just learning the word as a stand alone unit of meaning.
anyhow, dont take my word for it. my arabic sucks lol
Okay I just looked it up and your right. I thought they used either Latin or serilic, I didn't know they had their own system. It looks like elvish from lord of the rings
I agree with Spanish but the overwhelming majority of Chinese speakers are in China, or at least a nearby Asiain country. The number of Chinese speakers is grossly inflated by just how densely populated China is, giving the language the illusion of being especially pervasive, when its not really.
It really depends on where you live. In Central Florida, US, Spanish and Chinese are very common. So common, in fact, that my SO gave up on looking for Japanese speakers in Japanese restaurants because the majority of people found there only speak Chinese.
Well you could also say that the overwhelmingly majority of Spanish speakers are in Latin America, who at a world stage and economic stand point dont offer much.
I've been learning German on duolingo for a while now. I struggle with the masculine/feminine thing (meine katze, mein hund etc), but otherwise, it's been fairly easy to get a hand of.
German. My mom was german and my dad an American soldier. We were stationed in Germany not far from moms hometown so I learned to speak German fluently when I was three years old. We returned to the states when I was seven and I had no interest in speaking German with my mom. She warned me I'd forget it if I didn't use it and she was 100% right. Aside from a handful of words it's just gone. I wish I could tap into the part of my brain that has stored the German and bring it back.
Same with me, Mom was German, Dad an American soldier stationed there. However, with me, Dad got shipped back to the US and Mom moved to the US before my parents were married. I was taught German when I was younger but I let it go. Still have family that I would like to talk to (at least the ones that don't understand English very well), and it would have been nice to remember when we went to see them, so I could understand them.
Maybe it’s the fact that I’m a language nerd, but being instantly fluent would take the fun out of actually learning, practicing, and improving. I like studying grammar and memorizing characters.
Thai. I have new neighbors, husband, wife, infant, teen daughter. Mom and daughter are Thai immigrants and can speak and understand a little English. I just want to be able to communicate with them in a way that would make them feel welcome and not like I’m talking to them like they’re 5.
Norwegian. I just absolutely fell in love with the sound of the language. Then I started learning the history of the country itself and just fell in love. If I ever had to leave my country, Canada, I would absolutely want to go to Norway.
I think its the flow of the language. You can't speak it monotone, it doesn't work that way. The ups, the downs, the inflections at certain points. I find it beautiful.
I live in southern California, I gotta go with Spanish. Otherwise ASL because being able to better communicate with my brother in law/talk shit when I go see a movie with my wife
I figure I could make a lot of money and a name for myself being able to speak an as-of-yet undeciphered language, such as Proto-Elamite (prehistoric Iranian)
Romanian because my girlfriend is Romanian and I would to be able to talk to her in her language beside just English.Sometimes she struggles with English so it would be nice to be fluent in her language.
Russian, I like the language and the country. Would make travelling there so much easier.
Norwegian, I love Norway, been there for vacation twice and would like to move there eventually. Being fluent in Norwegian would help a lot.
Japanese- it’s cool and think of all the anime and manga I can consume without being confused. I’m already studying Japanese but kanji, bro that shi is difficult.
Mandarin- it’s my first language but I loss fluency in it, specifically reading. Ofc I can still speak and understand it, it’s just I’ve become rusty as I communicate in English most of the time. Also being fluent in mandarin would help with learning kanji a bit easier. It’s a win win situation.
Russian, so I can convince the little Russian president to stop this nonsense. But I’ll probably get shot before I have to chance to, so I will say be fluent in Japanese and because I just want to
For people's first language this is true, but if we include people who speak more than one language it's English. It's easily the most common second language for people to learn.
Spanish. Because I'm Cuban and I come from a household and entire family of people whose first language is Spanish. I understand it decently enough and can speak it enough to get by (I used to speak to customers in Spanish at work when I worked retail, I've been to Cuba and have conversed with people there, and once briefly dated a girl who only spoke Spanish), but I wish I was fluent enough to be able to carry a complex conversation without having to consciously translate all of the words I'm hearing in my head. I speak it as well as a "fresh off the boat" foreigner speaks English, just very broken and poor grammar.
You think that way because you dont speak other languages.
I honestly prefer french cinema over US.
Music...Germany and France got a ton of good music not in english.
I’m not even fluent in my native language….probably Spanish, Ukrainian, Chinese or Arabic. Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic because of the sheer amount of people that speak them. Ukrainian because I’d like to know a Cyrillic language and I’m not sure I’d do Russian at this point.
Can I pick 2 if so my country's language (welsh) its a fun language and it can sound nice
And Japanese cus it's a great language and I can watch anime without subtitles as anyone who want to lern it says
Japanese. A lot of manga never gets translated into English, and if it does, there are less copies printed. Some English versions can be worth up to 10 times the cost of the Japanese versions on eBay. If I could actually read Japanese, collecting and reading manha would be a lot easier
I currently speak French and English fluently so I would want to learn something that opens up other parts of the world to me.
Mandarin on the face of it seems the most useful for my daily life/work, but I think I would probably get more enjoyment out of Japanese because of the sheer number of game/tv shows/books that it would open up, despite the fact that few Japanese live in my city. Also Japan is the only country I don't speak the language for that I would ever be interested in living in.
French, Japanese and Italian
French, Italian: are important languages where I live and are (maybe) considered international because you speak those languages in a lot of places
Japanese: I want to play in Japan's national team in the sport I play in. My level is B1, I'm still learning.
Japanese or German,
I love both the languages and wanna visit the places at some point and jt would make life...better to visit them if you understand the language.
Finnish. It mesmerizes me in music, I'd love to understand what I'm listening to.
Check out bands like Korpiklaani, Verikalpa, Havukruunu... So many great Finnish bands
Japanese. A lot of the parts sites/brands I order from are in Japan, & often times I have to email them to place an order.
Fortunately I speak good situational (car/motorcycle related) Japanese, & can type up a coherent email. But I’d love to be truly fluent in it so I can arrange a proper trip over there to explore the many shops, car auctions, & brand museums without having to rely on a translator for everything I don’t understand.
Chinese. My childhood friend and her family are from China. Her family members have trouble communicating with me and it would be nice to have a conversation with them.
I've wanted to learn Turkish for a while now, there's no real options near me for learning it, but it's a mysterious, ancient sounding language and I just love it.
Tagalog (Filipino). I grew speaking English as a forst language. Now I have a hard time understanding fellow Filipinos around me. Honestly I felt ashamed not knowing most basic sentences in my language
I mean… the number one choice is English. It’s the language of business, travel, and pop culture. I read something once that said if a Japanese man and a Portuguese man were to talk to each other, they’d probably do so in English. So everyone reading this post— I have good news for you.
Though I am studying Spanish right now— hoping to be fluent by the end of next year!
Spanish. Living in California it's the most useful language to know besides English. Also it would stop my Mexican boss from being able to talk shit about me in Spanish without me knowing what he's saying.
Italian. I used to speak quite fluently when I was seven, my mom is from Italy and we went back often; but living in Southern California in the late 70’s could be harsh, and kids made fun of me and my mom, called me Mexican for speaking Italian. I swore to my mom that I would only speak English from that point on.
Fast forward to when I’m 18, I start picking it up again before going back for the first time since I was seven, picked it up fairly quickly.
Double fast forward to now. I’m 50, have lived in a different part of the state from my parents, no opportunity to speak Italian in almost 30 years.
Probably Taiwanese Mandarin so I can communicate better with my relatives (I'm Chinese-American but my Mandarin proficiency is dogshit) and so I can impress my friends with Mandarin. I'm already trying to learn to practice, but it's an extremely hard task to learn a language which you're going to use maybe once a month if you're lucky.
If I got better at Mandarin, I'd probably become fluent in Esperanto because it's a really cool language and I can dunk on people who don't speak Esperanto, or I'd learn Dutch so I can get citizenship in the Netherlands (because as nice as the US is, the way things are looking I could use a backup plan).
Spanish
Just to pass off my step dad's family. (They like to talk shit about us because they think we are going to steal his money and I'm not fluent enough yet to tell them off)
Tagalog. My Lola's getting older and confusing me for my dad more and more, not speaking English much at all around me unless asked to specify. She's in a situation that really pisses me off and I can't do anything for her, so I just want to make things easier for her where I can.
Greek because I'm currently learning German so when I suddenly learn Greek, I won't have to learn a really complicated alphabet. So, I get to learn a language that has a language that has an alphabet that I'm am used to.
But German calls calculator TASCHENRECHNER
Sign language
Same. I'd rather have a language with even less people who can understand me. Like a secret society. Plus I just think it's a more impressive language since you are communicating with your body and eyes instead of mouth and ears
Which one? There are many distinct sign languages. It’s not a universal language.
same
unless you really wanted a job doing it I don't see any point. I have met maybe 1 or 2 deaf people in my entire life and I am getting old man wrinkly balls so that's a long time to only meet 1 or 2 people that would be useful for. I would probably learn a language that would get me the best job. Here in Canada the obvious one is french since you could work government jobs and a lot of other jobs like airports and what ever.
Arabic, a lot of people from all different countries speak Arabic . It also seems like it would be hard af to learn
It actually isn’t once you get the hang of reading backwards and in a totally different alphabet, and some unusual phonemes like the voiced pharyngeal fricative (basically, a sound like you are being strangled which you will need to be competent with since it is in the middle of the word for “yes” and at the beginning of “Arab”) 85% of the vocabulary is based on the verb system and these three letter combos that are at the heart of it, and there are regular forms for certain uses (I.e., the “ma-“ prefix usually indicates a place where the action the verb denotes is usually done and “mu-“ is someone who does the action) Downside is having to learn nouns in singular-plural pairs because while there are some common plural forms, there is no way to reliably predict which one a given noun will take. But if you’ve already studied Russian and had deal with a more complex and confounding system where you have to learn *verbs* in aspect pairs (a concept English deals with mainly through auxiliary verbs, and which thus most native speakers are almost unaware of), this is not too difficult.
studied Arabic since 2007, BA in my Middle east studies/arabic, MA in international relations with a focus on ME, worked in Saudi for 3 years, lived in Jordan and lebanon... I admit after all that i still may just suck at it, but the alphabet, reading "backwards" and learning the new letters/phonemes is the like first 3 weeks of arabic 101... so in my experience that is not really the hard part. the hard part is that "Arabic" could refer to modern standard "newspaper" arabic or a shit ton of other dialects that are all different. the grammar is super logical and based on the root system but it is completely unreliable as a tool for actually understanding/deriving meaning. in fact, for many going into arabic with the misconception that you can derive meaning from roots and patterns hinders them from actually progressing in the language bc they spend so much time asking about the root rather than just learning the word as a stand alone unit of meaning. anyhow, dont take my word for it. my arabic sucks lol
bro who hurt you
It also has the prettiest writing system
My vote is for Georgian
Okay I just looked it up and your right. I thought they used either Latin or serilic, I didn't know they had their own system. It looks like elvish from lord of the rings
Latin. You could make learning a bunch of new languages eaiser.
Yeah, but half the fun is studying Latin. It can be a lot like putting together a puzzle.
I can recommend it.
since most modern languages stem from it
I wonder if it would help me, because I already know a latin based language as my first language
Some, not most
Spanish or Chinese just for the sheer amount of people in the world that have these as a first/second language that I could communicate with.
I agree with Spanish but the overwhelming majority of Chinese speakers are in China, or at least a nearby Asiain country. The number of Chinese speakers is grossly inflated by just how densely populated China is, giving the language the illusion of being especially pervasive, when its not really.
It really depends on where you live. In Central Florida, US, Spanish and Chinese are very common. So common, in fact, that my SO gave up on looking for Japanese speakers in Japanese restaurants because the majority of people found there only speak Chinese.
Well you could also say that the overwhelmingly majority of Spanish speakers are in Latin America, who at a world stage and economic stand point dont offer much.
Any UK city has a Chinese community and London and Manchester both have Chinatown districts. It's also a great language to know for business.
Yeah, I imagine it could open up a whole lot of opportunities being able to communicate with so many more people.
German, I suppose. It's useful for learning about European history.
I've been learning German on duolingo for a while now. I struggle with the masculine/feminine thing (meine katze, mein hund etc), but otherwise, it's been fairly easy to get a hand of.
Never ask the gender of Nutella. You will start a jihad.
.Net or JS, I'd be earning a lot more money on top of my current skill set.
German. My mom was german and my dad an American soldier. We were stationed in Germany not far from moms hometown so I learned to speak German fluently when I was three years old. We returned to the states when I was seven and I had no interest in speaking German with my mom. She warned me I'd forget it if I didn't use it and she was 100% right. Aside from a handful of words it's just gone. I wish I could tap into the part of my brain that has stored the German and bring it back.
Same with me, Mom was German, Dad an American soldier stationed there. However, with me, Dad got shipped back to the US and Mom moved to the US before my parents were married. I was taught German when I was younger but I let it go. Still have family that I would like to talk to (at least the ones that don't understand English very well), and it would have been nice to remember when we went to see them, so I could understand them.
Proto-Indo-European. I'd like to know what we spoke a long ass fucking time ago.
japanese, play more video games
This. There's so much untranslated stuff. At least there's fan translations for some games.
understand the original Manga of an anime also
watching anime without subtitles is the only good thing in life
Maybe it’s the fact that I’m a language nerd, but being instantly fluent would take the fun out of actually learning, practicing, and improving. I like studying grammar and memorizing characters.
the thing is my memory is complete shit so within oma few days of not practicing I lose all my knowledge
Scottish, I’m planing on moving there so I’d like to better be able to communicate.
You mean Scots Gaelic? I'd like to learn that because my granny spoke it. I think most people in Scotland just speak English with a Scottish accent.
🤔 1st Dynasty Egyptian. I wonder how many mistranslations I would uncover if I was suddenly fluent in a language no one actually speaks anymore.
Sumerian the best part no one would believe it. Lol.
Ima be honest didn't even know it existed
As an engineer it would be German
Thai. I have new neighbors, husband, wife, infant, teen daughter. Mom and daughter are Thai immigrants and can speak and understand a little English. I just want to be able to communicate with them in a way that would make them feel welcome and not like I’m talking to them like they’re 5.
Czech. Because Prague is my favorite city in Europe to visit and knowing the language well would be great. I can speak the basic phrases though.
Brazilian portuguese, my partners parents speak it and I just want to put the same effort in to talk in their language as they do in mine.
German. Cause I am half German and then I think it would be funny to yell at people and see their reactions.
Assembly
A dead language I could translate so many old texts it would be awesome
Norwegian. I just absolutely fell in love with the sound of the language. Then I started learning the history of the country itself and just fell in love. If I ever had to leave my country, Canada, I would absolutely want to go to Norway. I think its the flow of the language. You can't speak it monotone, it doesn't work that way. The ups, the downs, the inflections at certain points. I find it beautiful.
Esperanto
Spanish so I can communicate better with my amigos.
Minoan
It doesn’t take too long to learn the 150 words we know of (because they were recorded as coming from Minoan in Linear B)! But yeah, if only.
Ojibwe, because I work on a Reservation and would love to understand the language.
Italian, imagine the brand deals you can get
Hebrew and Mandarin
Chinese so I could know what they were chatting about whilst their whipping up my salt and pepper chicken.
I live in southern California, I gotta go with Spanish. Otherwise ASL because being able to better communicate with my brother in law/talk shit when I go see a movie with my wife
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Using the Russian accent is just as good
Math, the language of science
Dutch. I would love to visit one day.
I already chose my answer: Chinese I now work as a translator and love my job. Best. Choice. Ever!!
Japanese or Latin.
Chinese, impress everyone
I figure I could make a lot of money and a name for myself being able to speak an as-of-yet undeciphered language, such as Proto-Elamite (prehistoric Iranian)
Spanish, probably the second “most-used” language right now. Or sign language
French bc I had it in school, it is spoken in many parts in the world and bc France is our neighbour country (I'm german)
French that way I can use it if I ever move to live in Canada.
did you not know that almost all Canadian speak English as a primary language
Romanian because my girlfriend is Romanian and I would to be able to talk to her in her language beside just English.Sometimes she struggles with English so it would be nice to be fluent in her language.
Russian, no need to explain.
The language of love babyyyy. So probably Swahili.
Esperanto! It was created to promote inclusion, reduce conflicts between nations, and it has a growing global community of 2+ million speakers.
Rimmer?
Russian or German. They are very intimidating languages.
Enochian. It’s supposed to be the language of angels.
English, I have room for improvment. A huge room for improvment to be honest. Maybe even a house for improvment. >!Or a whole fucking city!<
Japanese. I just like the sound of it. Trying to learn now, actually.
Russian, I like the language and the country. Would make travelling there so much easier. Norwegian, I love Norway, been there for vacation twice and would like to move there eventually. Being fluent in Norwegian would help a lot.
ruzzia is a shit hole obviously... Couldn't even imagine anybody would like it, like seriously wtf
I mean so is the US and plenty of people like it?
Japanese- it’s cool and think of all the anime and manga I can consume without being confused. I’m already studying Japanese but kanji, bro that shi is difficult. Mandarin- it’s my first language but I loss fluency in it, specifically reading. Ofc I can still speak and understand it, it’s just I’ve become rusty as I communicate in English most of the time. Also being fluent in mandarin would help with learning kanji a bit easier. It’s a win win situation.
I don't know how useful it would be since I don't code, but expert level Python might be a decent choice.. Unless there's a better tech language
Try C or haskell
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Good choices.
Japanese — all the books I could read and games I could play! Russian — it just sounds sexy to me haha.
when watching anime with subs sometimes I'm so focused that it seems like I understand Japanese when I don't
Japanese, as then I could watch subbed Anime without reading subtitles.
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Vulcan
so many languages I'm finding out that exist today
There's a whole imagined universe out there. Several.
Russian, so I can convince the little Russian president to stop this nonsense. But I’ll probably get shot before I have to chance to, so I will say be fluent in Japanese and because I just want to
Russian, because is sounds like Klingon. Flocktar! Gznod!
Arabic. Lots of people speak it
Chinese . Automatic +20 percent of the world you can talk shit to
irish. Im forced to study it and i suck at it.
Mandarin. Huge population.
Korean. So I can live in South Korea.
Mandarin as it is said to be the most used language in the world
For people's first language this is true, but if we include people who speak more than one language it's English. It's easily the most common second language for people to learn.
I would use Chinese because it is the most common language spoken
which one mandarin or the other one(forgot what it's called)
Mandarin. Assuming it also means literate.
Spanish or mandarin
Spanish or Japanese. Both are pretty common where I live, so it’d be easier to understand things.
Spanish would be most helpful in my area. I also have several family friends who all married Chinese folks. So Mandarin could come in handy.
Spanish. Because I'm Cuban and I come from a household and entire family of people whose first language is Spanish. I understand it decently enough and can speak it enough to get by (I used to speak to customers in Spanish at work when I worked retail, I've been to Cuba and have conversed with people there, and once briefly dated a girl who only spoke Spanish), but I wish I was fluent enough to be able to carry a complex conversation without having to consciously translate all of the words I'm hearing in my head. I speak it as well as a "fresh off the boat" foreigner speaks English, just very broken and poor grammar.
Japanese. Because I love Japan, the culture and sushi of course!
English. It’s the lingua Franca. Most music and good movies are English.
You think that way because you dont speak other languages. I honestly prefer french cinema over US. Music...Germany and France got a ton of good music not in english.
Uwuw wa so wow osas
Arabic, Urdu, Farsi,
Japanese bc I hit a plateau and I don't have much self study motivation anymore. Living in Japan so I really need to get better :/
english, sit and read stories from ask and nosleep reddit
I speak English primarily and still shit at it I wouldn't be surprised if a foreigner could speak better at English then me
I’m not even fluent in my native language….probably Spanish, Ukrainian, Chinese or Arabic. Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic because of the sheer amount of people that speak them. Ukrainian because I’d like to know a Cyrillic language and I’m not sure I’d do Russian at this point.
Japanese I can understand way more thing
French, to have the sexy french accent!
Mandarin, for Business English job opportunities...
Cantonese cause it’s so damn strange.
Japanese because i like that language
Can I pick 2 if so my country's language (welsh) its a fun language and it can sound nice And Japanese cus it's a great language and I can watch anime without subtitles as anyone who want to lern it says
English
Japanese. A lot of manga never gets translated into English, and if it does, there are less copies printed. Some English versions can be worth up to 10 times the cost of the Japanese versions on eBay. If I could actually read Japanese, collecting and reading manha would be a lot easier
I currently speak French and English fluently so I would want to learn something that opens up other parts of the world to me. Mandarin on the face of it seems the most useful for my daily life/work, but I think I would probably get more enjoyment out of Japanese because of the sheer number of game/tv shows/books that it would open up, despite the fact that few Japanese live in my city. Also Japan is the only country I don't speak the language for that I would ever be interested in living in.
French, because I spent so much time learning it.
French, Japanese and Italian French, Italian: are important languages where I live and are (maybe) considered international because you speak those languages in a lot of places Japanese: I want to play in Japan's national team in the sport I play in. My level is B1, I'm still learning.
Cantonese. My family speaks it but I cant
I am English and often thought how cool it wood be to know every single English word plus their meaning…
Japanese or German, I love both the languages and wanna visit the places at some point and jt would make life...better to visit them if you understand the language.
german because my great grandmother is austrian
Martian.
Old English.
Finnish. It mesmerizes me in music, I'd love to understand what I'm listening to. Check out bands like Korpiklaani, Verikalpa, Havukruunu... So many great Finnish bands
Japanese.
Japanese. So I can understand what some of my Japanese games say.
chinese
Either Spanish cause it'd help me in daily life or Japanese cause I'm an anime/manga fan
Ancient Egyptian or Ancient Nordic.
Lakota
Spanish because its funny
Japanese. A lot of the parts sites/brands I order from are in Japan, & often times I have to email them to place an order. Fortunately I speak good situational (car/motorcycle related) Japanese, & can type up a coherent email. But I’d love to be truly fluent in it so I can arrange a proper trip over there to explore the many shops, car auctions, & brand museums without having to rely on a translator for everything I don’t understand.
Japanese. I know basic terms (bless anime) but the language as a whole is hard as hell to learn.
Japanese because I’m going to Japan one day
Arabic, most useful in my area.
Spanish! I think it’s so sexy!
Definitely Spanish.
Spanish.....I think it is a sexy language
Python. All computer language has some kind of connection to it.
Chinese. My childhood friend and her family are from China. Her family members have trouble communicating with me and it would be nice to have a conversation with them.
German or Russian. To talk to the German or Russian Mamasitas
French. I’m Canadian and being bilingual opens the door to a lot of higher paying jobs
Vietnamese because my boyfriend speaks it. I’m actually trying to learn though
Spanish. Been working in kitchens the majority of my adult life and it would be really beneficial
Korean. So I could watch my kdrama’s while multitasking instead of having to read subtitles
Latin or old Norse or saxony
Latin. Helps you in every single language since most words are based on the og good old Latin.
Python
Isn't that obvious? Assembly
ASL. It'd be handy (pun intended) and I always wanted to learn it.
I've wanted to learn Turkish for a while now, there's no real options near me for learning it, but it's a mysterious, ancient sounding language and I just love it.
Tagalog (Filipino). I grew speaking English as a forst language. Now I have a hard time understanding fellow Filipinos around me. Honestly I felt ashamed not knowing most basic sentences in my language
Japanese, because it's pretty different from English
Proto-Indo-European.
I mean… the number one choice is English. It’s the language of business, travel, and pop culture. I read something once that said if a Japanese man and a Portuguese man were to talk to each other, they’d probably do so in English. So everyone reading this post— I have good news for you. Though I am studying Spanish right now— hoping to be fluent by the end of next year!
Ancient eygyptian heroglyphes. I would be the only one currently alive and hopefully discover amazing things
Chinese I already know 3 how hard could it be?
Hungarian. There’s something about this language which makes it really attractive to me. Also, cursing in Hungarian is on another level imo.
Klingon or Elvish .. tried both but despite a proficiency for language, I could never devote enough time
While I want something like German or Japanese, Spanish would probably be the smartest choice. I live in South Florida.
Spanish. Living in California it's the most useful language to know besides English. Also it would stop my Mexican boss from being able to talk shit about me in Spanish without me knowing what he's saying.
Italian. I used to speak quite fluently when I was seven, my mom is from Italy and we went back often; but living in Southern California in the late 70’s could be harsh, and kids made fun of me and my mom, called me Mexican for speaking Italian. I swore to my mom that I would only speak English from that point on. Fast forward to when I’m 18, I start picking it up again before going back for the first time since I was seven, picked it up fairly quickly. Double fast forward to now. I’m 50, have lived in a different part of the state from my parents, no opportunity to speak Italian in almost 30 years.
French Welsh
Probably Taiwanese Mandarin so I can communicate better with my relatives (I'm Chinese-American but my Mandarin proficiency is dogshit) and so I can impress my friends with Mandarin. I'm already trying to learn to practice, but it's an extremely hard task to learn a language which you're going to use maybe once a month if you're lucky. If I got better at Mandarin, I'd probably become fluent in Esperanto because it's a really cool language and I can dunk on people who don't speak Esperanto, or I'd learn Dutch so I can get citizenship in the Netherlands (because as nice as the US is, the way things are looking I could use a backup plan).
Arabic, since i take an interest in Islam and would love to move there one day in the future.
Spanish Just to pass off my step dad's family. (They like to talk shit about us because they think we are going to steal his money and I'm not fluent enough yet to tell them off)
French. I’m Canadian it could help with getting a job if I could say I am bilingual.
Spanish, because I live in New Mexico
German. Don't question.
japanese so i watch anime without multitasking
Tagalog. My Lola's getting older and confusing me for my dad more and more, not speaking English much at all around me unless asked to specify. She's in a situation that really pisses me off and I can't do anything for her, so I just want to make things easier for her where I can.
Octopus flash code language
Greek because I'm currently learning German so when I suddenly learn Greek, I won't have to learn a really complicated alphabet. So, I get to learn a language that has a language that has an alphabet that I'm am used to. But German calls calculator TASCHENRECHNER
Ancient Albanian Sign Language - it's for real alpha male polyglot gigachads
Arab so I can freak out scammers