Poll: Favorite Foreign Language

[MagnusShalefist]

English, because its a versatile language and because there are countless cool accents all over the world.

EDIT: Welp, double post. Sort of.

 

[cke]

Have to say English, my native being Russian.

 

[Jhuyt]

English.
I can speak it pretty damn well.
After that it's a three way tie between french, italian and icelandic.
Out of those three I can only speak french, but I want to learn the other two.

 

[stikku]

English: in my case it is a foreign language, an i kinda prefer it to my language

 

[meticadpa]

I like Latin. It's a completely useless, dead language, but it still sounds absolutely awesome. My grandfather is fluent in it.

 

[Daniel Laeben-Rosen]

I'd have to say English.
To me that's a foreign language and the one I know best. Not to mention it's a good solid language with lots of nuance.
Also quite fond of German and I do love the way spanish sounds spoken proper.

 

[Meneghetti]

I won't vote, because I'm not from a english-speaking country.

My native language is Portuguese, and I speak english, took classes of Japanese and Italian, worked with an Uruguayan (Spanish speaking) and want to learn Russian, German and French.

I bet no one is gonna say "Portuguese" as his/her favorite... *sad*

maybe that's because it's pretty close to Spanish, which more people talk, so that will be heard more often. I think.

Yes, and there are people who think Portuguese is the same as Spanish... they don't know they are completely different! It's like you say Japanese is the same as Mandarin!

That kind of thought makes me sad.

 

[Meneghetti]

I like Latin. It's a completely useless, dead language, but it still sounds absolutely awesome. My grandfather is fluent in it.

There is a language I respect! Yes, it is a dead language, but, aside being the mother to other languages and a language with a big complexity in its simplicity, it's just so awesome how it sounds! Each word spoken in latin have some kind of magic (It's a kind of magic! One dream one soul, one prize, One goal... ops), and not some because of the religion or other, let's say, external factor. It just is!

 

[Arkhangelsk]

Norweigan. Even though I'm Swedish and must hate them by law.

 

[IamQ]

French, German or Japanese.

It sounds so slick when a French man talks naturally.

German, because I'm swedish and studying german aswell, so I've a easy time understanding it (well, some of it)

Japanese, because I can understand some, and it's easy to pronounce. They never have two consonants between each other (And if they do, they don't pronounce both of them).

 

[The Night Shade]

Italian or english

 

[Schreck157]

Chinese, actually no, Mandarin. Because "Chinese" isn't a language! But yeah, Mandarin. 'Cause I'm a Browncoat.

 

[magicmonkeybars]

That would be English.

 

[WaffleGod]

Norwegian and Swedish sounds awesome.

I want to learn atleast one of the two.

 

[Daggedawg]

Japanese, have liked it for a long time, and am now studying it.

 

[Lordpils]

I honestly can't think of a language I dislike other then german (not to slam any german speakers I just don't perticularily like the language). If I had to pick one though Swahili would be my pick.

 

[Merkavar]

i wanted to learn japanese a while ago just so i could watch anime with out having to read subtitles

 

[Vrach]

English. 'Tis foreign to me, but really love it for everything from the sound of it to it's use for communication.

For second choice, I'd say French or Russian, they sound awesome, perhaps French slightly more so for the sexual value

 

[Illesdan]

I've always liked German and French, just because I can understand conversational German and French without trying too hard. I also like Latin and Russian, but it's been a long time since I've studied either; I'm pretty much rubbish at understanding it anymore.

I should study Norwegien. I've always wanted to go to Norway, anyway....

 

[Anchupom]

Italian.
Pretty much any sentence sounds like the name of a pasta dish...
Is that racist? I didn't mean it to be racist. Just me being ignorant.

On a sidenote, my favourite phrase in another language is in German - "Es tut mir leid, aber es ist zeit zurückgeben auf Die Mutterschiff."
(that's grammatically correct, too.)