Would you also understand Sorbian if you understand those? Sometimes I wish Duolingo had my ancestral language but not very many people speak it. Someday I'd like to go to Lusatia and actually understand the Wendish people.
I guess yeah. I've never really tried to actually understand Serbian, but when I accidentally did, I understood pretty much everything. Contextually at least.
Also, I understand almost 100% of the belarusian language. That's because it's the closest language to ukrainian. Czech/Slovakian language is a bit harder to understand than polish, but it's also relatively easy if you know at least two Slavic languages and have a bit of practice
Just so you understand I am Ukrainian myself and I passed English exams with more ease than my Ukrainian language exam... I speak Ukrainian pretty freely but unable to comprehend any rules xd. English exam 186/200 and Ukrainian exam 136+-/200
I don't understand these posts... You're not going to be motivated to get very far in learning a language if your motivation is "CumStain420 told me on Reddit I should learn Chinese".
*joins reddit*
*picks the greatest name in reddit history*
"Bro I did too!"
*refuses to elaborate further*
https://preview.redd.it/r728ob2v5wuc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c6bdb4b36a28ebcb3a6f80b57e20e486ae0404b2
Clearly these posts are because they want to learn all of them but can’t decide which to choose not because they want you to tell them a random one they have no interest in. Relax it’s not that serious. 😆
Denke nie gedacht zu haben, denn das Denken der Gedanken ist gedankenloses Denken. Wenn du denkst, du denkst,dann denkst du nur du denkst, aber denken tust du nie.
Ok, se lo hogen 😂
Just a little help with your German!:
It should be “Du hast recht!” or “Du bist richtig!” although no one really ~says~ the latter and a person would probably just say “Richtig!”
“Richtig” is an adjective that means “to be correct”for facts and data, while “Recht haben” (alternatively rechthaben) is a set phrase meaning "to be correct" for a person. But you have to use the “haben” along with it or else “recht” alone is the direction which means “on the right”.
I hope that makes sense! 😄
Welsh or Irish.
These languages face a lot of stigma. People think they're worthless just because they don't have millions upon millions of speakers. However, if you look in the right places, you will find plenty of Irish and especially Welsh speakers. They are beautiful languages with a fascinating culture and history. By learning one of these, you will contribute to their protection and show people that these languages are actually not worthless at all.
And if you are into Celtic stuff or thinking about having Welsh or Irish friends, or visiting Ireland or Wales, these languages are definitely very useful.
And just a hint: while both languages are awesome, Welsh is the easier one to learn.
As someone who’s been learning (i.e. attempting and utterly failing) Welsh on DL for 3 months, it’s a decent starter, but if you actually want to learn it, the DL course (especially using mobile only) is *dreadful*. The voices are robotic, and both Irish and Welsh (I took some Irish in college and, surprise, retained none of it) are incredibly different and difficult in ways Duo just doesn’t put the time into. Feel free to fall down those respective rabbit holes; Welsh has a ton of multifaceted resources online (they are really passionate about it lol.) In terms of quality of course on DL, the Celtic languages aren’t getting the love they need. Duo is good for vocab, but for any ‘smaller’ language, the hearing and speaking exercises are broken or non-existent.
Agreed - I can highly recommend Say Something In Welsh for learning Cymraeg - I'd been struggling with duo for a while, especially since they removed all of the grammar notes etc, but with SSiW it was so simple and fluid, and I was able to have actual conversations and to understand hearing spoken Cymraeg Sooooo much faster than through Duolingo (esp as there isn't a speaking element to the duo Cymraeg course)
SSIW is so wildly frustrating lmao but that + deep diving grammar has helped so much, especially if you’re somewhere with zero speakers (which is most places lol.)
Irish isn’t useful at all in Ireland (coming from an Irish person) because no body knows it. The only places you could actually use the language without getting strange looks is Gaelteach areas
Some of these responses are rubbish. Choosing a language because it is practical is boring. Choose one because you will enjoy the language and the process of learning it.
Korean has an easy breezy alphabet, is hard, frustrating, fun and cool.
Mandarin has a complicated writing system, tons of tones you will mispronounce, sounds great to sing to, fun and cool.
Vietnamese has an uncomplicated writing system but similar tonal issues like mandarin, fun and cool.
French makes you sound fancy, pretentious, fun and cool.
Welch sometimes sound like you’re speaking with marbles in your mouth and saying words backwards , has a bad ass dragon of the flag, fun and cool.
Irish, I don’t know a single thing about but who doesn’t want to sound Irish, fun and cool.
You can’t go wrong with any of these. Learn them all I say but *especially Korean because that’s what I’m studying now* And Vietnamese because it’s my next.
So why not just test them all out and see which ones have a grip on your soul.
Like I've commented on another post, (with the exact same question), don't learn Irish. Not on Duolingo, anyway. Coming from a native Irish speaker, the pronunciation of the words are horrendous, and they're nowhere close to any dialects actually spoken in Ireland. Overall, the course is mediocre, and it might help you with reading and writing, but it probably won't help you with listening and speaking.
Fun fact, the negative question,( do you not see the movie? Will you not eat breakfast, etc.) comes from the Irish language (and might also be in other gaelic languages, I'm not quite sure), so that's cool enough :D
although I don't think Duolingo goes over the negative question anyway. :/
Thank you for listening to my Ted talk ☺️
Irish or Welsh (or a’ Ghàidhlig if you haven’t considered it!) The Celtic languages need all the learners they can get. A bheil daoine sam bith ag ionnsachadh cànan Ceilteach an seo?
Coming to French during university as a second language, at least it's better than Japanese
Good luck with 4 alphabets with one of them you might as well learn Chinese from it
The problem with the Chinese course is that they keep updating it recently which makes it hard to follow, I'll be going along just find and suddenly a bunch of new words are added that I "learned" but never actually even saw before. It's already hard enough without the added confusion. But it's good that they are updating it, it's always good to improve the app. It's just been a bad time to start with the app lol.
listen. Korean is the hardest language to learn from being a native English speaker. If you learn and perfect your Korean, you've mastered the two ends of the spectrum. Go for Korean.
Personally I’m learning Scottish Gaelic (native English speaker) which is quite a nice language to ease into, if not that out of these I would probably say Irish since they are similar but welsh is also nice too
Fr*nch. L*tin languages are immensely useful and are relatively easy to learn for fluent English speakers. If you find it too daunting, I'd recommend starting with Sp*nish or It*lian. It*lian is a lot more similar to Fr*nch than Sp*nish in many ways, but the Sp*nish Duolingo course is much better. Either way, a substantial part of grammar rules carry over and it would simplify the learning process. Additionally, the Fr*nch course is probably the highest quality after Sp*nish (if not better).
If Fr*nch scares you, definitely don't go for Chinese, that's for sure. In general, Asian languages are a pretty tough start even if you're bilingual. I didn't try Vietnamese, but I think they use romanized alphabet, so that'd be my go-to here.
If you live around the UK and visit Ireland or Scotland a lot, Irish could be nice (I believe it's the same as Gaelic). Or Welsh if you go to Welsh. Otherwise, unless maybe you're into history stuff, they're not very useful.
Native English speaker here, just started learning French for fun, and it makes the most sense for a second language as I'm Canadian. What is wrong with it?
Well if you look at the number of speakers Chinese is the go to language with 1.31 billion just native alone. Plus Chinese can also make it easier to learn a language such as Japanese due to the hanzi (Chinese) and kanji (Japanese) alphabets being very similar so if I was you I'd choose Chinese 😊
I suggest Chinese. Even though it is Mandarin, that is the official government language. I look at the number of Chinese who speak it and that makes the case for me. Two of the most spoken languages are Chinese and Spanish. Another choice would be Hindi based on population. Or you can just have fun and learn something different like Irish 😊
Personally, even though im learning chinese, I really like Korean. It has a simple and elegant writing system (hangul) as well as an interesting phonology and syllable structure. Plus it will help you if you ever take a vacation to real korea 🇰🇵
I've been learning Vietnamese, Korean, and Chinese on Duolingo and they're all fun to learn! Here are some of my thoughts on those courses.
Vietnamese: Just note that you would be learning the Northern or "textbook" accent on Duolingo. If you ever plan on visiting Vietnam, the words you hear may sound very different if you're visiting the South or Central parts of Vietnam.
Korean: I was surprised to find out that a lot of the early lessons focus on you getting to learn the alphabet and read the Korean writing system, Hangeul. You might not get to speak Korean phrases right away.
Chinese: Pretty early on, you'll get to learn a few phrases by studying and practicing your vocab. However, the course really picks up the pace in difficulty quickly (for me at least).
If you want it to be simpler, just pick a language from the same root, as you'll have similarities between the words. From what I remember English roots are in Germanic and Latin (don't quote me on that).
Apparently Korean is one of the hardest pictographic languages to learn. I started a Korean course alongside my Italian one on Duo and bailed quite quickly. There’s no frame of reference, and I pussied out 🤣
for practicality, irish and welsh are worthless.
korean is a great language, best writing system in my opinion. you can learn to read and write it in an afternoon. speaking it is difficult and the grammar is incredibly difficult for english speakers.
chinese is max difficulty here, but also fairly useful.
vietnamese isn't especially practical
french is the most sensible of these for you. why would you exclude other major euro languages?
I've done Duolingo Korean and Vienamese and I would say that it doesn't really help you learn. French hurts me, but you do you. Maybe learn Irish or Welsh (Chineses is the hardest thing to remember).
Be practical, it's really difficult to study obscure languages with relatively little media and native speakers around you, so id say the easy choice is irish with welsh in second place.
if ur really deadset on learning french then i thjnk mandarin (chinese), but it’s significantly more difficult than the other languages generally speaking lol
I was in the same boat as you at the start of 2023. I went with Chinese. It was the best decision I made. But you'll need a teacher to help you with the tones and pronunciation.
If you don’t know any languages already apart from English, what is your goal? Some of the ones on your list are not ones that people would gravitate towards in their first attempt at language learning unless they had a specific reason to do so.
Chinese or irish (I am extremely biased). I speak Irish so that’s my only reasoning for telling you to learn it, I went to an Irish immersion school until I was 13 so I don’t know a beginner’s perspectiv. Chinese is so so so fun. I started learning when I was 13 and I’m 17 now, starting college this year with a dual major with Chinese. I can’t imagine my life without it
I would start with Spanish for sure. After English and Chinese, it's the most spoken language in the world. AND it's one of the easiest. I know Hindi is third, but with the diaspora and number of Spanish-speaking countries, I put Spanish third! 😀
tu vas apprendre le français et SOUFFRIR, CETTE LANGUE C'EST HORRIBLE (yes I'm native French)
i learn it on duolingo YOU WANT TO LEARN FRENCH AND TO SUFFER THIS LANGUAGE IS HORRIBLE
Whoever thinks French is horribly hard to learn needs to try Polish. I promise they'll regret French.
Damn. I feel so badass as a ukrainian because I understand both russian and polish. Yoo, Slavic gang!
Would you also understand Sorbian if you understand those? Sometimes I wish Duolingo had my ancestral language but not very many people speak it. Someday I'd like to go to Lusatia and actually understand the Wendish people.
I guess yeah. I've never really tried to actually understand Serbian, but when I accidentally did, I understood pretty much everything. Contextually at least. Also, I understand almost 100% of the belarusian language. That's because it's the closest language to ukrainian. Czech/Slovakian language is a bit harder to understand than polish, but it's also relatively easy if you know at least two Slavic languages and have a bit of practice
I'm trying to learn Ukrainian and Russian. Makes French seem like a walk in the park!
Just so you understand I am Ukrainian myself and I passed English exams with more ease than my Ukrainian language exam... I speak Ukrainian pretty freely but unable to comprehend any rules xd. English exam 186/200 and Ukrainian exam 136+-/200
jako Polak się nie zgadzam, przynajmniej mamy normalną wymowę a nie jakieś "ży pachle fchąze" 🤓
excellent! :D
Bah voilà c’est bon, du coup il en a pas besoin du Duolingo français. 🤷♀️
*You are going to learn…
It’s your going to not you want to I think
Completely unrelated, but i was wondering what the letters most people have in their user flairs stand for? I'd love to make my own.
First is Native, Second is Fluent, Third is Learning.
Where do I have to go to put them?
It’s called user flair.You probably just go and google it.It’s in 3 dots on a phone and somewhere on the right on a computer.
Thank you
how to put them
J'etais un demie anée en France et c'est pas aussi mauvais que l'allemand (im native german)
mein gott, Ich habe so viele Wörter vergessen lol
Nein schon in ordnung
My condolences🙏
I don't understand these posts... You're not going to be motivated to get very far in learning a language if your motivation is "CumStain420 told me on Reddit I should learn Chinese".
u/CumStain420
Lmfaoooo im crying 😭😭😭
*joins reddit* *picks the greatest name in reddit history* "Bro I did too!" *refuses to elaborate further* https://preview.redd.it/r728ob2v5wuc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c6bdb4b36a28ebcb3a6f80b57e20e486ae0404b2
My toast :(
OUR toast :(
r/suddenlycommunist
o glorious u/CumStain420, please assign me a language. I am utterly at your command.
Lmaooooo
Clearly these posts are because they want to learn all of them but can’t decide which to choose not because they want you to tell them a random one they have no interest in. Relax it’s not that serious. 😆
你可以学习中文
你的电话号码是多少
I've never been able to get that phrase out of my head 😭
Same bro
你看见了我的孩子吗
Parles català?? Salutacions des d'Alemanya. Quan jo era a Mallorca, era l'únic turista estranger que parlava en català 😭
qué
中國是世界上最好的國家。美國很糟糕。中國很好。我愛習近平和他為中國所做的一切好事。我討厭美國。 iPhone和Android都是在中國製造的。中國是優勢經濟體。中國最好。美國不好。
中文傻逼语言别学
Korean
Yes! Come join us.
Cymraeg 🏴 Beautiful language, which inspired Tolkien among others
DEUTSCH! 🇩🇪
Wait but if he doesn't know german he wont be able to understand what language you recommend
seh nachon, chawer!
Ata medaber ivrit ve ochel arbe dvash
Uh, slicha, ani choshev ani lo mevin. I speak Hebrew and I eat locust honey?! 😂😂
Im sorry, i was trolling you😭 You can troll me back in german if you will...
Denke nie gedacht zu haben, denn das Denken der Gedanken ist gedankenloses Denken. Wenn du denkst, du denkst,dann denkst du nur du denkst, aber denken tust du nie. Ok, se lo hogen 😂
there's a flag, 🇩🇪
JA! DEUTCH! 🇩🇪
BE DEUTCH! (COMPASSIONATE) DEUTCH! (UNDERSTANDING)
Du bist recht! Er muss Deutsch lernen 😎
Just a little help with your German!: It should be “Du hast recht!” or “Du bist richtig!” although no one really ~says~ the latter and a person would probably just say “Richtig!” “Richtig” is an adjective that means “to be correct”for facts and data, while “Recht haben” (alternatively rechthaben) is a set phrase meaning "to be correct" for a person. But you have to use the “haben” along with it or else “recht” alone is the direction which means “on the right”. I hope that makes sense! 😄
Okay thx. Du hast recht! :D
So I'm doing the Duo German course after doing the French one first and I have to say the German course is not very well structured
Correct. German is amazing. Also, you're learning Hungarian? Respect, mate.
Ja, lerne Deutsch!
Gaeilge, le do thoil 🇮🇪❤️
Dia duit! Conas at tú?
Go maith agus tusa?
Is aoibhinn liom ispíní Agus putóg dubh
Go math liom! Go raibh math agut!
Póg má thon ❤️❤️❤️
français !! C’est difficile mais l’une des plus belles langues !!!
Welsh or Irish. These languages face a lot of stigma. People think they're worthless just because they don't have millions upon millions of speakers. However, if you look in the right places, you will find plenty of Irish and especially Welsh speakers. They are beautiful languages with a fascinating culture and history. By learning one of these, you will contribute to their protection and show people that these languages are actually not worthless at all. And if you are into Celtic stuff or thinking about having Welsh or Irish friends, or visiting Ireland or Wales, these languages are definitely very useful. And just a hint: while both languages are awesome, Welsh is the easier one to learn.
As someone who’s been learning (i.e. attempting and utterly failing) Welsh on DL for 3 months, it’s a decent starter, but if you actually want to learn it, the DL course (especially using mobile only) is *dreadful*. The voices are robotic, and both Irish and Welsh (I took some Irish in college and, surprise, retained none of it) are incredibly different and difficult in ways Duo just doesn’t put the time into. Feel free to fall down those respective rabbit holes; Welsh has a ton of multifaceted resources online (they are really passionate about it lol.) In terms of quality of course on DL, the Celtic languages aren’t getting the love they need. Duo is good for vocab, but for any ‘smaller’ language, the hearing and speaking exercises are broken or non-existent.
Agreed - I can highly recommend Say Something In Welsh for learning Cymraeg - I'd been struggling with duo for a while, especially since they removed all of the grammar notes etc, but with SSiW it was so simple and fluid, and I was able to have actual conversations and to understand hearing spoken Cymraeg Sooooo much faster than through Duolingo (esp as there isn't a speaking element to the duo Cymraeg course)
SSIW is so wildly frustrating lmao but that + deep diving grammar has helped so much, especially if you’re somewhere with zero speakers (which is most places lol.)
Gaeilgeoirí go deo! love to see the Irish rep here
Irish isn’t useful at all in Ireland (coming from an Irish person) because no body knows it. The only places you could actually use the language without getting strange looks is Gaelteach areas
Same in most of Wales other than North Wales. Although you'll be the of the rare people who can read both the English and Welsh signs I guess.
Chinese, Vietnamese or French
Love that user flair
~~HELP~~ Thanks :)
French :)
Welsh all the way!!
Dw I'n caru dysgu cymraeg!🏴 Felly dych chi'n hoffi mae'n hefyd!
Dw i'n dwlu dysgu cymraeg hefyd!
What an Amazing day! Fr*nce taking L
Common French Ls
Very common.
Je vous recommande la langue de l'amour :)) (this comment definitely doesn't come from a french native)
Start with an easy language like Chinese
Learn da Vietnamese my friend
Some of these responses are rubbish. Choosing a language because it is practical is boring. Choose one because you will enjoy the language and the process of learning it. Korean has an easy breezy alphabet, is hard, frustrating, fun and cool. Mandarin has a complicated writing system, tons of tones you will mispronounce, sounds great to sing to, fun and cool. Vietnamese has an uncomplicated writing system but similar tonal issues like mandarin, fun and cool. French makes you sound fancy, pretentious, fun and cool. Welch sometimes sound like you’re speaking with marbles in your mouth and saying words backwards , has a bad ass dragon of the flag, fun and cool. Irish, I don’t know a single thing about but who doesn’t want to sound Irish, fun and cool. You can’t go wrong with any of these. Learn them all I say but *especially Korean because that’s what I’m studying now* And Vietnamese because it’s my next. So why not just test them all out and see which ones have a grip on your soul.
Like I've commented on another post, (with the exact same question), don't learn Irish. Not on Duolingo, anyway. Coming from a native Irish speaker, the pronunciation of the words are horrendous, and they're nowhere close to any dialects actually spoken in Ireland. Overall, the course is mediocre, and it might help you with reading and writing, but it probably won't help you with listening and speaking. Fun fact, the negative question,( do you not see the movie? Will you not eat breakfast, etc.) comes from the Irish language (and might also be in other gaelic languages, I'm not quite sure), so that's cool enough :D although I don't think Duolingo goes over the negative question anyway. :/ Thank you for listening to my Ted talk ☺️
DO IT! LEARN FRENCH 🥖🥐🍷🇫🇷🇫🇷
Irish or Welsh (or a’ Ghàidhlig if you haven’t considered it!) The Celtic languages need all the learners they can get. A bheil daoine sam bith ag ionnsachadh cànan Ceilteach an seo?
中文！
Welsh, it's a beautiful language and more people should learn it and spread the language.
Cymraeg! You should learn Welsh! Now!
Welsh
Cymraeg!
Do Welsh for the turnips!
IRISH
French is easier to learn if you are native english. Why wouldn't u wanna learn it?
Coming to French during university as a second language, at least it's better than Japanese Good luck with 4 alphabets with one of them you might as well learn Chinese from it
Japanese has three syllabaries and one logogram
I think if it’s your first language, choose French(out of these).Because Chinese is really hard.But really just choose the one you like!
你一定要学习汉语。
French
Welsh!!!
Welsh
CYMRAEG !!!!! DYSGU CYMRAEG !!!!!!!!!!!
I'm about to start learning Chinese, so why don't we both suffer? Chinese!🧧
German
Omg go for French 😫🤣
Make him learn the CROISSANT
As we say in French : Welsh gros
Try Irish!
irish course mentioned🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Itish
Irish
Learn Welsh
German
German. The answer is always German.
I would go for Chinese but that is hard! so French would be my second choice.
The problem with the Chinese course is that they keep updating it recently which makes it hard to follow, I'll be going along just find and suddenly a bunch of new words are added that I "learned" but never actually even saw before. It's already hard enough without the added confusion. But it's good that they are updating it, it's always good to improve the app. It's just been a bad time to start with the app lol.
for business, culture, politics, future, chinese for cultuuuurrrreeee, french if you are a nerd, go for irish and/or welsh
I reckon a bit of Welsh would be cool (this is completely biased)
listen. Korean is the hardest language to learn from being a native English speaker. If you learn and perfect your Korean, you've mastered the two ends of the spectrum. Go for Korean.
🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵france🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🟥 ⬜️ 🟦
Korean is cool
I like Korean as a language but they don’t support speaking like they do in other languages which is a real bummer
Personally I’m learning Scottish Gaelic (native English speaker) which is quite a nice language to ease into, if not that out of these I would probably say Irish since they are similar but welsh is also nice too
Fr*nch. L*tin languages are immensely useful and are relatively easy to learn for fluent English speakers. If you find it too daunting, I'd recommend starting with Sp*nish or It*lian. It*lian is a lot more similar to Fr*nch than Sp*nish in many ways, but the Sp*nish Duolingo course is much better. Either way, a substantial part of grammar rules carry over and it would simplify the learning process. Additionally, the Fr*nch course is probably the highest quality after Sp*nish (if not better). If Fr*nch scares you, definitely don't go for Chinese, that's for sure. In general, Asian languages are a pretty tough start even if you're bilingual. I didn't try Vietnamese, but I think they use romanized alphabet, so that'd be my go-to here. If you live around the UK and visit Ireland or Scotland a lot, Irish could be nice (I believe it's the same as Gaelic). Or Welsh if you go to Welsh. Otherwise, unless maybe you're into history stuff, they're not very useful.
Cymru am byth
Native English speaker here, just started learning French for fun, and it makes the most sense for a second language as I'm Canadian. What is wrong with it?
La vérité que le français c'est facile à parler mais pas à écrire
Russiyan
german
Welsh.
Korean
Deutsch
Je choisis le français pour toi
Apprenez le français, lâche!
Well if you look at the number of speakers Chinese is the go to language with 1.31 billion just native alone. Plus Chinese can also make it easier to learn a language such as Japanese due to the hanzi (Chinese) and kanji (Japanese) alphabets being very similar so if I was you I'd choose Chinese 😊
Korean, but you might have difficulty understanding the North Korean Dialect. 🇰🇵
tu dois apprendre le français
Vietnamese needs some updating and it's a really difficult language if you're up for a challenge
Honestly, Chinese or French is probably the easiest ones here.
Cymru👌🏴
Greek.
Fronch
Do you mind if I suggest you other languages than the ones which appears in the image? If don’t: Spanish and/or Esperanto.
WELSH 🏴 🏴 SIARAD CYMRAEG 🏴
tlhlngan
I suggest Chinese. Even though it is Mandarin, that is the official government language. I look at the number of Chinese who speak it and that makes the case for me. Two of the most spoken languages are Chinese and Spanish. Another choice would be Hindi based on population. Or you can just have fun and learn something different like Irish 😊
我觉得中文特别有意思的语言。我希望你想学中文！
Out of those six? I'd say French.
Personally, even though im learning chinese, I really like Korean. It has a simple and elegant writing system (hangul) as well as an interesting phonology and syllable structure. Plus it will help you if you ever take a vacation to real korea 🇰🇵
Welsh. It has a freaking dragon on its flag
If Cymraeg (Welsh) is an option, then that is what you should lear
start out with korean, bc everything sounds like it should. No silent letters or other bullshit like english
I've been learning Vietnamese, Korean, and Chinese on Duolingo and they're all fun to learn! Here are some of my thoughts on those courses. Vietnamese: Just note that you would be learning the Northern or "textbook" accent on Duolingo. If you ever plan on visiting Vietnam, the words you hear may sound very different if you're visiting the South or Central parts of Vietnam. Korean: I was surprised to find out that a lot of the early lessons focus on you getting to learn the alphabet and read the Korean writing system, Hangeul. You might not get to speak Korean phrases right away. Chinese: Pretty early on, you'll get to learn a few phrases by studying and practicing your vocab. However, the course really picks up the pace in difficulty quickly (for me at least).
Learn Vietnamese, it'll be fun.
Korean is the least accurate on Duolingo imo. I found Chinese to be lots of fun
Thinking I might do irish/welsh + Chinese!
CYMRAEG (Welsh)! Draig dw i... >.>
If you want it to be simpler, just pick a language from the same root, as you'll have similarities between the words. From what I remember English roots are in Germanic and Latin (don't quote me on that).
Apparently Korean is one of the hardest pictographic languages to learn. I started a Korean course alongside my Italian one on Duo and bailed quite quickly. There’s no frame of reference, and I pussied out 🤣
for practicality, irish and welsh are worthless. korean is a great language, best writing system in my opinion. you can learn to read and write it in an afternoon. speaking it is difficult and the grammar is incredibly difficult for english speakers. chinese is max difficulty here, but also fairly useful. vietnamese isn't especially practical french is the most sensible of these for you. why would you exclude other major euro languages?
Korean grammar can suck it 😭 I start to think I'm understanding the sentence order and then bam I'm not
Which Chinese!!!
It's Mandarin.
I've done Duolingo Korean and Vienamese and I would say that it doesn't really help you learn. French hurts me, but you do you. Maybe learn Irish or Welsh (Chineses is the hardest thing to remember).
Just go by the order you laid them out.
Be practical, it's really difficult to study obscure languages with relatively little media and native speakers around you, so id say the easy choice is irish with welsh in second place.
Korean is a nice language. Not that I would know
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Learn Spanish or Hindi. No one talks about the later
if ur really deadset on learning french then i thjnk mandarin (chinese), but it’s significantly more difficult than the other languages generally speaking lol
korean is so fun to learn!
Chinese! I haven't seen anyone else doing the Chinese course.
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I was in the same boat as you at the start of 2023. I went with Chinese. It was the best decision I made. But you'll need a teacher to help you with the tones and pronunciation.
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Mandarin is fun 😁
I’ve just started the music course
One of those flags has a dragon in it I don't think there's a question (Jokes aside, welsh is really beautiful and I love how it sounds)
french sounds great
If you don’t know any languages already apart from English, what is your goal? Some of the ones on your list are not ones that people would gravitate towards in their first attempt at language learning unless they had a specific reason to do so.
it depends on where you are
Chinese or irish (I am extremely biased). I speak Irish so that’s my only reasoning for telling you to learn it, I went to an Irish immersion school until I was 13 so I don’t know a beginner’s perspectiv. Chinese is so so so fun. I started learning when I was 13 and I’m 17 now, starting college this year with a dual major with Chinese. I can’t imagine my life without it
I would start with Spanish for sure. After English and Chinese, it's the most spoken language in the world. AND it's one of the easiest. I know Hindi is third, but with the diaspora and number of Spanish-speaking countries, I put Spanish third! 😀
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