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

[BrotherRool]

German, because I'm living in Germany right now and it'd be really useful if I could understand what people were saying to me.


After that I want to learn Italian, British Sign Language and Welsh.

Italian because it's a lovely sounding language, by far my favourite of the romantic languages (Italian>Portugues>Spanish>French, seriously I don't understand why people like French, it sounds like they figured out a method of communciation through continuously spitting [which they were naturally good at because of all the garlic and snails and arrogance. I would like to point out at this point that as a British citizen it's my duty to be racist to the French and it's all in good jest. Maybe )


British Sign Language because it's so intuitive, I was stewarding at a christian festivaland I was stationed near the deaf area (because they need line of sight to 'hear' so someone needs to stop people from walking in front of them =D) And so I got to watch all the people singing in sign language and its such a beautiful form of expression I decided I wanted to learn it as my leisure thing.


Finally Welsh because its a fun language and I'm Welsh and so I really should be able to speak it at some point

 

[Zealous]

Spoiler: The poll results in a nutshell.

OT: Some Arabic or Hindi dialect . I'm already fluent in English (no way, really?) and French so I'd like to try something different. Italian sounds good too and it's pretty close to French so it wouldn't be too tricky to learn.

 

[Subatomic]

I've always found German to be a pleasant language, so probably that. Preferably with a Berlin/east German accent so I can sound unintentionally threatening without being overt about it.

To a German, most of the East German dialects sound more funny than threatening and even a bit dimwitted, especially Thuringian/Saxon. Berlinerisch (the dialect spoken around Berlin) has a lot of influences from Low German and northern dialects, so it's not very similar to the other eastern dialects.

German, mainly on the fact it sounds like such a evil language! >

Only if your sole exposure to the language are certain... older radio recordings and German Metal, both of which don't really represent the language as a whole very well.

As for me, I'd probably go with one of the sign languages (most likely the German Sign Language DGS), as it would actually be useful in my job, though Chinese or a scandinavic language would also be very interesting to learn.

 

[Wolf In A Bear Suit]

My first language is English as you may guess but I've been learning Irish since I was about 4. Despite this I am not fluent as the language is so badly taught in Ireland. I really want to be better at it as it is a massive part of our history and it's something many people have died to preserve. I also started learning German 5 years ago. I'm okay at it, our teacher is a psycho nicknamed Kaiser and he's a rather....... motivational teacher

 

[Poetic Nova]

Japanese and Russian maybe chinese.

 

[thespyisdead]

since i know english finnish and russian(and and a little swedish, but i normally don't want to touch it with a 20 m pole), i would say i am doing pretty well! however, i would like to learn spoken japanese(just thinking of learning kanji makes me cringe, though who knows... maybe it's fairly straight forward)

 

[Latinidiot]

I speak dutch, english and spanish, and am pretty good at listening to and reading french and german, so what I d really like to speak would be either japanese or chinese.

 

[crusha_aa]

Japanese because I am a nerd.

Gaelic because I like to think it would make me more Scottish

 

[GLo Jones]

I actually made a thread on this over 2 years ago. I was thinking about picking up a bunch of languages, but didn't know which to start on.

Since then, I've become pretty damn sharp with Italian, and am studying Korean. At the start of 2014 I'm going to begin studying for a degree in modern languages with English & German (hopefully becoming somewhat fluent in German in the process). After that, I'm moving to Korea to teach English, and during the years I'm there, will hopefully be able to learn Russian and some Chinese.

If all that goes at least partially to plan, then I'd like to also learn some Arabic. Can you tell that I like languages yet?

 

[AnarchistFish]

I actually made a thread on this over 2 years ago.

Didn't think to search. Sorry

 

[Launcelot111]

Icelandic, because why not. I've heard that they make up their own word for every newly invented foreign word (eg. computer would have some very Icelandic word instead of being komputor or something). I don't know if that's a common practice or not, but I'd like to know more about it.

 

[SenorNemo]

Me gustaría aprender inglés. Me parece que sería muy util.

But really though, I already speak fairly OK Spanish and am learning Japanese, so on top of that, it'd probably be cool to know some proto-indo-european. Totally useless, but cool.

 

[Reaper195]

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

The language of WOMEN.

But that's not a language. At least...there are no identifiable patterns that count it as a language.





On a less joking term....Latin. Because Latin sounds awesome.

 

[SFMB]

I'd go with Klingon or Esperanto. I already know Finnish, so which is more useful of the two?

 

[Sethzard]

I would probably learn Chinese simply because it's the language of business these days. I would Probably learn Japanese if I wasn't thinking of practicality.

 

[lacktheknack]

I think Italian should be lumped with Spanish.

With that said, I'll go Arabic. It seems like a language that might be really useful for trolling some of my friends.

 

[DirgeNovak]

I can handle myself decently in Russian now, but I'd like to be fluent in it. Once you manage to wrap your brain around it (not only the alphabet, but the completely fucked up grammar too) it starts getting easier. I'm actually thinking of going to МГУ and take some classes there next year.

Oh and what the hell, I'll try this: if there's a native Russian speaker who wants to learn French lurking about this forum (you never know...), PM me, we can help each other out!

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Brail, to increase chances of surviving under our coming robot overlords.

 

[monkey_man]

Well, I'm not English, but I've passed the Cambridge bloopity bloo words Exam,(CPE) and that's basically proof I'm good at English. I've got a fancy certificate and everything. but I suppose I'm decent enough at it.
Seeing as I don't really care about Dutch (My native tongue) or any other language, I don't care about any of those options. I suppose Greek or Latin would be sort of cool to know though. I went into this thread hoping it'd be like "You magically know [language x] congratulations!", so I could sleep during German class, sadly not. If I still have to actually work for it it's not going to help, I'm terrible at it's stupid Grammar. Way too complicated.

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