Poll: If you could learn another language, which would you pick?

[Lionsfan]

I'm learning French this year, but I would say I would want to learn Russian. With English, French, and Russian I could conceivably navigate around more of the Eastern Hemisphere without any difficulties

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I picked Japanese/Korean. I've been trying to teach myself Japanese since about middle school and at this point I can potentially hold a conversation with a young child (not creepy...it sounded better in my brain). But I picked it mainly for Korean since my GF has a hard on for South Korea and I want to be prepared in the event/eventuality that we travel there.

 

[Blue Jay]

Someone mentioned that Spanish was the fastest growing language so yeah that.

 

[sinsfire]

While spanish would probably be more useful I studid Japanese and never kept with it to really become fluent, I regret that and would have liked to finish my studies.

 

[Zantos]

Bumping up my working knowledge of basic French would be quite nice, but at the end of the day the reason it's so basic and rusty is because I don't use it. Of all the great failures I've had to communicate, I think the one that I'd get most use out of is British Sign Language.

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

Portuguese/Spanish (I live in Texas, nuf said. Plus I really want to visit Brazil)

Either those two or Swahili. My parents speak it and I'm tired of them talkin shit about me behind my back to my face.

I took Japanese in high school just because it was a notorious for being a blow off class and for having a nutty as shit teacher.
God I was not expecting the weeaboos I ran into

 

[DanielBrown]

Been wanting to learn German, though Arabic wouldn't be too bad. We got a ton of Arabic speaking people in Sweden, so I'd be able to practise it a lot. 8D

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Japanese. Why? I don't know. I like anime and I can't stand subtitles... yeah let's go with that.

Binary though it's a pain to speak

Binary isn't a language, it's a counting system.

 

[Xan Krieger]

Japanese. Why? I don't know. I like anime and I can't stand subtitles... yeah let's go with that.

Binary though it's a pain to speak

Binary isn't a language, it's a counting system.

I'd always heard it reffered to as "computer language", never thought of it as a counting system but you're right, that's exactly what it is.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Japanese. Why? I don't know. I like anime and I can't stand subtitles... yeah let's go with that.

Binary though it's a pain to speak

Binary isn't a language, it's a counting system.

I'd always heard it reffered to as "computer language", never thought of it as a counting system but you're right, that's exactly what it is.

Well you could say it's the computer's "language" in a manner of speaking since at the most basic level it's all the computer understands, but strictly speaking it's not a language, it's a counting system just like decimal and hexadecimal.

 

[thesilentman]

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Fuck you OP for taking all of my choices! /sarcasm

Seriously though, all of those languages I want to learn pretty bad. I already know Hindi as I'm Indian, Spanish sounds similar to what I'd do on a date, German sounds fucking awesome (and Arabic by extension), and I'm planning for a trip to Italy when I'm older. And I'd really like to learn the language wo-

I would attempt to learn the most obscure language of all.

The language of WOMEN.

Damn it, I was ninja'd. For the tenth time. Lemme go back to my cave and cry now for my bad luck...

 

[gaiusimperator]

Well, I already know Latin and Italian, and I'm working on French, so I'd pick Russian as my next language. I always loved the way it rolls off the tongue.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

Japanese, so I can critique anime subtitles.

Also French. Because French is sexy.

... of course, I kind of suck at languages aside from English, so... probably not going to happen.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I wouldn't mind learning Finnish.

My grandpa was Finnish and he was teaching some words and I think it was rather fun to learn them.

Also, I wouldn't mind re-learning French. I took it high school for two years, but I couldn't continue it. :/

 

[likalaruku]

Japanese could be useful, though a massive chunk of the populace in my state speak Thai & Korean.

 

[EboMan7x]

It depends on whether we're talking like I would magically know the language or I if I'm just given the opportunity to learn it. I know from experience that I absolutely hate taking foreign language classes, so I would choose Spanish because I already know a little bit of it. But if I could just magically know it I would choose Japanese so I could watch anime and read manga in the original.

 

[Zyst]

Spanish is my native language and I got better grammar in English than in it. So I got both of those covered, and I learned Japanese a while ago and practice it very often on forums and voice chat so I selected Chinese.

 

[DasDestroyer]

If I had to skip all the work associated with learning it then I would pick Latin, because then suddenly anything I say is either an insightful proverb or a powerful spell that grants me omnipotence.

Salve ego sum canis.
Doesn't that sound brilliant?

 

[TeletubbiesGolfGun]

I'm assuming that the language learned would be instantaneous and effortless. If so, then Japanese because I'm a big anime/manga nerd and there's tons of games, videos, and shit that I'd like to be able to understand.

Besides, I don't have the force of will to learn the fucking alphabet and kanji and sasldkfjds;lkjfds;lkafjlkdsfjkds FUCK! I'll just learn German and Arabic the hard way as I think they'd be easier than Japanese.

this. to the letter.

;sdfklj;lsdjkaf;asdfkjasdf; fuck indeed.

i'd love to learn japanese just for the pure satisfaction of jrpg's/animes but i digress, that would require quite a bit of effort, and i'm all out of fucks.

 

[Mr0llivand3r]

I want to learn to speak Braille...