Languages you wished you could speak.

[Baron Von Evil Satan]

Seeing as ich spreche ein bischen Deutsch bereits. I's have to say Norwegian, mainly because I am about half Norwegian and also because then I could get by if I ever went to Sweden seeing as the languages are similar.

 

[GhostKnifeFish]

Japanese. Obviously.

 

[Segadroid]

Japanese. Obviously.

*looks at picture* You don't say?

 

[LewsTherin]

Gàidhlig, French, German, and Hawai'ian.

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

Japanese because it's interesting and I'm an anime geek. Vietnamese so I can finally understand what my parents are saying to each other. I can only catch snippets of both, but I usually can't make perfect sense of what I'm hearing.

 

[JDviewer]

I would like to speak spanish, or italian. I had french and german lessons back in secondary school, but I've forgotten a lot.

 

[DarkRyter]

Japanese, so I don't have to wait for manga fan translations.

Russian, I just like how it sounds.

 

[GhostKnifeFish]

Japanese. Obviously.

*looks at picture* You don't say?

Just for the slow people out there.

 

[skywalkerlion]

Russian, so everywhere I go I could scare people..especially in airports..

 

[Murlin]

Japanese, just because I think its quite cool. I've taken it as one of my uni models, having watched soo many animes I'd have to say that I know more than I actually thought...just learning the alphabets are troublesome.

One, two, three...*counting on* Why do people want to speak Japanese so much? It's one of the most complicated languages on the planet!

You're the one that wants to speak french dude...swearing i it doesn't even remotely sound nice(on a side note: I live there now so I had to learn it quite fast, and it still sucks to me and to French students)
OT: I'd like to learn Japanese to, or Swedish that would be cool.

 

[Actsub]

because then, I could swear at the teachers at school while sounding nice!

You mean swear at teachers while sounding pompous, it tends to happen when you say anything in French.

 

[Viper1265]

MY list of laguages to learn before i die is Mandarin, Japanese and German

 

[Maluku]

Ok, languages I can already speak: German, English
Languages I want to learn: Spanish
Languages I had in school but forgotten: French, Latin, Japanese
Languages I want to be able to speak, but I don't want to put in the effort to learn: Turkish, Japanese, Russian, Mandarin and Kantonese

Seriously, why would anyone learn german? It is very hard and does not involve any benefits.

Take verbs for example: In english there are about 50 irregular verbs, why in german there are about the same regular ones.
Or word-gender: In english there aren't really any. In german you have three, which are very important. They affect the other words in the sentence. I'm not talking about he/she/it, that is there in german too.

The boy eats his cake: Der Junge isst seinen Kuchen.
The girl eats her cake: Das Mädchen isst ihren Kuchen.
The mother eats her cake: Die Mutter isst ihren Kuchen.
The baby eats its cake: Das Baby isst seinen Kuchen.

As you can see, the german word for boy is masculine and describes something masculine.
The german word for mother is feminine and discribes something feminine.
The german word for baby is neutral and discribes something neutral (without gender. The same word is used to translate 'its' and 'his'.)
The germand word for girl however is neutral, but discribes something feminine.

The whole language makes hardly any sense at all.

 

[Actsub]

Spoiler

Saint-Sacrament de Calice d'Estie de Tabarnack de Calice! 5 Hit Combo (Yeah you can repeat words if necessary. And no it doesn't really sound "nice".

Don't forget to follow that with an "ohohohohohoho"

 

[The Hairminator]

Latin, ancient scandinavian and finnish.
Latin because... it's LATIN.
Ancient scandinavian becasue that's how the vikings spoke.
And finnish because it sounds awesome.

 

[J-Alfred]

I'd like to be able to speak French. Mainly because I've taken 3 years of French and still can't speak it. You'd think I'd be able to. But I can't.

 

[A random person]

Japanese, because it's the most applicable to my interests (anime and video games, and websites related to them) and it looks/sounds cool.

Also, german, because it makes you sound tough/really angry if spoken right. I actually chose it as my language for high school over spanish and french.

Oh, and latin, it's the root of the romantic languages and is practically the old language.

 

[Mekado]

French has some nice combo swearing:

Spoiler

Saint-Sacrament de Calice d'Estie de Tabarnack de Calice! 5 Hit Combo (Yeah you can repeat words if necessary. And no it doesn't really sound "nice".

OP: I'd say Japanese. That'd let me play so many import games! And I'd be able to speak to the in-laws.

That's Canadian french though, France's french don't swear the same way, for whatever reason we (Canada) use a lot of religious terms while swearing, the French do not.