What language should I learn?

[Mr.LichTwitch]

I'm going to be learning a second language, but I'm having one hell of time trying to pick a language. So I decided that I had to take this up with the most important authority in the world: Forumfall :lmao:

Poll forthcoming....

[Horseman]

Spanish is a good second language to English. I am in the process of learning this myself.

[Honorius]

I'm learning Italian and Greek, those are two simple languages to learn. But I do go to Greece and Italy a bit. :p

[Camelmix]

Learn Italian. It gets the bitches wet, trust me on that one :sly:

[Arintyll]

Other.

Learn Chineese or Russian. Both their economies are growing and the ability to communicate fluently with them will put you into a position where you can apply to a company doing business in those countries as a translator, or purchaser, or contract negotiator.

Please for the love of all that is holy, buck the trend and skip spanish, they push it so they can do the whole NAU deal.

[IcePillow]

Klingon!

[Mr.LichTwitch]

Other.

Learn Chineese or Russian. Both their economies are growing and the ability to communicate fluently with them will put you into a position where you can apply to a company doing business in those countries as a translator, or purchaser, or contract negotiator.

Please for the love of all that is holy, buck the trend and skip spanish, they push it so they can do the whole NAU deal.

Interesting. I'll definitely consider this.

[Dredgon]

Klingon!

bIjatlh 'e' yImev

[alfaroverall]

One or more of the following:
Spanish (lotta Hispanics round these parts now)
Chinese (lotta Chinese people in general, also a booming economy)
Japanese (pretty good number of Japanese people, plus it's a fairly cool culture. Not to mention that you can play JRPGs a year before they release in English, if you're like me and into that sort of thing)
Russian (as stated by other posters)

It really comes down to what you want to do with it though. If you're doing it for the academic challenge, decide how much of an academic challenge you want. Spanish will likely be easiest and Chinese hardest, of the mainstream languages that someone in this country could actually teach you. If you want a translator job, Spanish or Chinese are probably best. If you just want to feel good about yourself, go for Spanish since it's fairly easy. If you want to look good with the ladies, try for Italian or French. If you want to start a massive empire of total annihilation and *insert anti-Semitic activity here*, try German.

OK, that last one was a joke, but you get the idea.

[Kaorn]

Other: Arabic,

Trust me, you'll need it.

[Dredgon]

Other: Arabic,

Trust me, you'll need it.

No one trusts you, you're a furry!

[IcePillow]

bIjatlh 'e' yImev

jIyajbe'

[Mordhak]

I always snicker at Americans trying to pronounce languages like German or French. They usually fail so thoroughly at it you gotta feel sorry for them somehow.

[Echo Del' Torre]

What's the best way of learning another language? Without taking a course in it of course.

[Foodfreak18]

Other: Arabic,

Trust me, you'll need it.

Farsi is an Arabic like language they speak in countries like Afganistan, Iran.

I always snicker at Americans trying to pronounce languages like German or French. They usually fail so thoroughly at it you gotta feel sorry for them somehow.

At the same time, when Germans and French try to speak English, they sound just as funny :D

[Weeking]

Norwegian. You'll need it when you have to seek asylum to get away from NAU/rebellion and don't want to live in EU or a poor part of the world. You'll get free housing and all sort of privileges if you come here too and easy access to the ocean for escaping and hiding places inland if the man is out to get you.

You have to wait for the shit to go down/start first though.

[alfaroverall]

Norwegian. You'll need it when you have to seek asylum to get away from NAU/rebellion and don't want to live in EU or a poor part of the world. You'll get free housing and all sort of privileges if you come here too and easy access to the ocean for escaping and hiding places inland if the man is out to get you.

You have to wait for the shit to go down first though.
Don't the majority of Norwegians at least speak some English, giving him a chance to learn Norwegian while taking asylum over there?

[Entreri]

Learn German so you can scream all the time.

The best way to learn a language without taking a course would to find someone who speaks the language you want to learn and hang out with them a lot.

Learn a less used language so no one ever knows what you are saying. I would learn Latin.

[Arkh]

French. If you can learn it, you can learn any other language.

[alfaroverall]

Learn German so you can scream all the time.

The best way to learn a language without taking a course would to find someone who speaks the language you want to learn and hang out with them a lot.

Learn a less used language so no one ever knows what you are saying. I would learn Latin.
Latin is a bitch to actually speak (for a native English speaker anyway)...just putting that out there. There's just a lot of grammar that has to run through your head at the same time to compile a sentence. It's fairly easy to write (especially since the grammar is subtle, like an m instead of an s at the end of a word) because you get a little extra time, but it is just torture to try and speak.
French. If you can learn it, you can learn any other language.
BS. Objectively speaking (i.e. based solely on the complexity of the grammar), French is one of the simplest languages on the planet. It's simpler than English. On top of that, it has cognates galore with English.

Now, if you can learn an African click-based language (such as that of the !Kung (yes the exclamation point is intentional)) as a native English speaker (or even anything other than a native African language speaker), you can learn any language.

[the Akorn]

voted German. Both german and italian have similarities to the english language, making it easier to learn. This can be a big deal as progression is needed if you are to keep up the motivation.
Both are large countries with large economies, wich makes it potentially applicable at work. My choise here is balanced, as while Germany is larger and richer, they are usually passably good at english, at least in the west. Italy is more varied, and in my experience italians are rarely any good exept for the northern part. And the north is under doubt. This making english more usefull there.

[Spinewire]

Spanish is a good second language to English. I am in the process of learning this myself.
I picked Jap but yea Spanish would be a very good call imo.

[Metal Wolf]

Pick Jap. Cause I did and someone else deserves to have two semesters of of torture If I had to.

Also the teacher will likely kill a rain forest printing out handouts for your class.

[Razli]

Could be biased at saying German becuase I'm currently learning it, However I say yes to Italien and Chinese, The other two languages I want to learn.

[Eclipso]

If i was going to learn another the order would be.

Spanish. ( dont listen to these American fuckers, its spoken by a shitload of people worldwide and in lotsa different places) most of the Americas for example.

French: France is big and its spoken in lots of places in africa.

Mandarin: THE NEW WORLD ORDER BITCHES!!! well will be soon enough i guess.


Mind you i speak English so i dont really need to learn another language, for people who dont understand me in there own countries i just speak louder and slower.
If they dont get it then then fuck them,i move to someone who can understand :p

If you got anyone one of these languages covered then you got most of the world covered after English IMO

[Fro]

Out of those languages i would say japanese.

[Nexus]

Javascript.

[Amaryl]

Learn dutch because its useless! unless you spend a lot of time in the netherlands/belgium

[Kietharr]

Spanish is a pretty good stepping stone if you want to pick up other romance languages later on, it's full of cognates and borrow words which makes things pretty easy. German is a decent second language too. Asian stuff is inherently tougher to do for a westerner because other than obvious modern borrow words you're basically starting from scratch.

It really depends on what you want it for though, Spanish can't be beat for sheer utility, it has applications everywhere and is the primary language of the majority of a hemisphere. English and Spanish are the two most widely spread languages out there, so between the two you can communicate just about everywhere. Learn the Latin American stuff first, it's much easier, especially considering they don't even use an entire verb form.

Russian is a good third choice because Russians are assholes and refuse to speak English because deep down inside they know that by speaking it they admit they lost the cold war. Russian will serve you well in the few parts of the world where they don't speak English or Spanish.

Chinese is something I advise against, there may be a billion speakers but they're all in China with few exceptions. English is a requirement at virtually all Asian schools so interpreters aren't exactly in high demand. In the next couple of decades all of the old chinese people who don't speak English will be dieing off and the population will start decreasing so it's no big deal.

[Deja vu]

Pick one you can use. When I lived in the South-west I learned some Spanish it is still useful. Though I doubt I would ever get a chance to use German/Italian or Greek here in the USA.

*edit to day the Spanish grammar still gets me, but then again so does English lol

[Uzik]

Learn English.

Since Spanish is only the mandated American language under chancellor Obama, it is useful to know English as well.

[Mr.LichTwitch]

Learn English.

Since Spanish is only the mandated American language under chancellor Obama, it is useful to know English as well.

Spanglish should do the trick.

[Lorth]

french italian spanish: these will get you VERY far as they are VERY common, especially the latter

[Gloomrender]

Whats the best language/s for living in Europe?

[Tiarilir]

Whats the best language/s for living in Europe?

Swedish is the best to know if you're playing online on european servers.

[Goty]

Spanish. I speak spanish and english fluently, and it's great.

Spanish is extremely common, and with English under your belt, you'd have no trouble communicating through half the world.

If I were to learn a third language, which I've been considering, I may pick up another Romance language. Maybe Italian.

Also... Here are some thoughts on learning japanese. (http://soyouwanttolearnjapanese.com/)

[BeSt]

Chinese, or maybe Korean.

[BeSt]

Norwegian. You'll need it when you have to seek asylum to get away from NAU/rebellion and don't want to live in EU or a poor part of the world. You'll get free housing and all sort of privileges if you come here too and easy access to the ocean for escaping and hiding places inland if the man is out to get you.

You have to wait for the shit to go down/start first though.

A cigarette pack in Norway costs 10 bucks. That is all.

[Xtra-Medium]

learn farsi cuz idk what it is

[Alkivor]

Well ... Greek guys...why don't you learn a living ancient language like Greek?
Its also the language of the next generation of PCs .
Specifies the meaning and the reason of an object , an action or an emotion with one and only one word.Anyway..any language is good but u should try something more sophisticated like languages of the east or so.
At least Europeans Should learn Greek after English..Its the mother language of these.
My opinion.

[Loose]

I'd pick Japanese or Chinese because they're both cool languages to me and the asian economy is skyrocketing pm.

[Kekshorts]

I'd pick Japanese or Chinese because they're both cool languages to me and the asian economy is skyrocketing pm.
don't encourage the chinese language, it's the most impractical thing in the world as far as writing.

[Eclipso]

Whats the best language/s for living in Europe?


English, then prolly german i would say .

French third.

Spanish fourth.

[Bunkah]

I'd say French... tabarnac!

[Mulambo]

Other: Arabic.

[The Cougar]

Don't the majority of Norwegians at least speak some English, giving him a chance to learn Norwegian while taking asylum over there?
Yes, just about everyone under the age of 70 here speaks English. Even some of the immigrants speak better English than Norwegian.

don't encourage the chinese language, it's the most impractical thing in the world as far as writing.
Actually, using a computer with a decent pin-yin-to-character program, a good writer can write with Chinese characters just as fast as English.


I wouldn't recommend learning Chinese though, partly because it's so difficult to learn for a westerner and partly because everyone in China is learning English now anyway. Pick a language where the natives refuse to learn English because they're too damn stubborn, like Russian.

[Staatsschutz]

for living in europe, german wouldnt be a bad choice at all, since with german you have covered the most territory of europe of the given languages, where the ppl will understand you. they will understand you in austria, switzerland, north italia, then to a certain degree in holland, denmark, then in croatia (and in large parts of most other easter european EU or EU neighbour countries too)

if you want to learn one of the most beautiful languages on earth (if not the most beautiful, in my opinion of course) learn italian

for farsi: id have to look up what that is, so cant really comment on that

[Lorthral]

Mandarin Chinese, by far. It'll soon become the most popular language in the world, if it's not already.

[Carnivo]

If you are planning to stay in and around the US: Italian is very similar to Spanish so if you are going to pick one on the list I'd go with Italian. Otherwise go with Spanish from the get go.

[Staatsschutz]

Mandarin Chinese, by far. It'll soon become the most popular language in the world, if it's not already.

this depends on the point of view i think. if you count it by the number of total chinese people, then probably yes. if you count it by how shitty the language sounds and how difficult it is to read and all, and how many ppl outside of china, who are not chinese, speak it, then probably not.

[Kekshorts]

this depends on the point of view i think. if you count it by the number of total chinese people, then probably yes. if you count it by how shitty the language sounds and how difficult it is to read and all, and how many ppl outside of china, who are not chinese, speak it, then probably not.
+1 for truth

[FraBaktos]

The Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL) Ethnologue Survey (1999) lists the following as the top languages by population:
(number of native speakers in parentheses)

1. Chinese* (937,132,000)
2. Spanish (332,000,000)
3. English (322,000,000)
4. Bengali (189,000,000)
5. Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)
6. Arabic* (174,950,000)
7. Portuguese (170,000,000)
8. Russian (170,000,000)
9. Japanese (125,000,000)
10. German (98,000,000)
11. French* (79,572,000)

[Lorthral]

this depends on the point of view i think. if you count it by the number of total chinese people, then probably yes. if you count it by how shitty the language sounds and how difficult it is to read and all, and how many ppl outside of china, who are not chinese, speak it, then probably not.

Actually, I took Chinese for a time, and reading was actually very easy. The only difficult part was pronunciation, because the same word pronounced differently means different things.

[Mr.LichTwitch]

Just wanted to note that Farsi is Persian(Iranian).

[Incanam]

The Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL) Ethnologue Survey (1999) lists the following as the top languages by population:
(number of native speakers in parentheses)

1. Chinese* (937,132,000)
2. Spanish (332,000,000)
3. English (322,000,000)
4. Bengali (189,000,000)
5. Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)
6. Arabic* (174,950,000)
7. Portuguese (170,000,000)
8. Russian (170,000,000)
9. Japanese (125,000,000)
10. German (98,000,000)
11. French* (79,572,000)

You might want to get a more modern one, since a lot changed in 9 years language wise. I believe now it is Chinese, English, Hindi and Spanish in that order...but h/o while I go check.

Edit: Yeah I was right. Russian is number 5.

Edit: Edit: By the way, by Chinese I mean Mandarin if it's ambiguous.

[Mippoose]

Chinese or spanish.

Duh.

[Kebek]

Assuming you're not going to study it for years I'd suggest German or Spanish.
German which should be quite easy to learn since you already know English. Spanish being very useful and doesn't take years to learn like Chinese.

[Arolas]

I would go for putonghua/Mandarin. China is developing at incredible speed and the amount of opportunities for Westerners over there is staggering. Guangdonghua isn't as important as it used to be since the '97 handover.. at the moment it's the 'one country, two systems' policy, but that won't last forever; they'll all be speaking Mandarin eventually. If opportunity is the reason you're looking to learn a new language, anyway, I'd recommend Mandarin for sure. Otherwise, Korean is a really interesting and lovely sounding language.

[Ababoba]

Learn Finnish! All you need is "Perkele" and "Vittu" and you will do fine.

[Kekshorts]

Learn Finnish! All you need is "Perkele" and "Vittu" and you will do fine.
Eläköön!

and that's all i know

[alfaroverall]

Well ... Greek guys...why don't you learn a living ancient language like Greek?
Its also the language of the next generation of PCs .
Specifies the meaning and the reason of an object , an action or an emotion with one and only one word.Anyway..any language is good but u should try something more sophisticated like languages of the east or so.
At least Europeans Should learn Greek after English..Its the mother language of these.
My opinion.
Greek is the basis for a significant but comparatively small amount of all of the Romance languages, and that is in its ancient form. Its current form has been changed tremendously since then (compare Old English (as in the original Beowulf text) with modern English and then multiply that by at least 2 to get the amount of change that we're talking about!), stripping away much of the etymological connections that once existed.

Latin, however, remains relatively unaltered (medieval Latin left some significant changes but Latin can be learned in its classical form anyway) and is a much stronger influence on the Romance languages than Greek is.

[Killuminati]

Japanese..my inner weeaboo commands you.

[Dredgon]

jIyajbe'

nuqjatlh?

[Jyibe]

I always snicker at Americans trying to pronounce languages like German or French. They usually fail so thoroughly at it you gotta feel sorry for them somehow.

You must have a hard time getting coke dealers off your ass.

[TiraX]

Depends on why you want to learn another language...

Do you want to get a job through it?

Do you want to use it when you travel?

Do you need it in your community?

If I could choose one lmore anguage to know, without considering how har dit is to learn, I would probably learn russian or a arabian language.

[Xzi]

Binary. The language of love.

[palo god]

You should learn Russian, its a really cool language.

[HorrorHotel]

Depends on why you want to learn another language...

Do you want to get a job through it? Yes

Do you want to use it when you travel? If they still allow laptops on the plane

Do you need it in your community? Yes


If these are your answers, then pick C++.

[kordoyn]

Arabic

[slugy]

i chose jap but spanish would be usful as many people know it. usa mainly.

[Kebek]

i chose jap but spanish would be usful as many people know it. usa mainly.


I don't see how many Americans being able to speak Spanish makes it a better choice.

[Xianin]

Japanese is cool, if you like Anime or shit like that learn Japanese.

Otherwise, learn Chinese. Inevitably, we'll all be speaking Chinese in ~10 years anyway.

Edit: @Alfar. Greek is really cool, the Greek alphabet looks sweet and it's kinda fun in my opinion.

However, if you learn Greek and Latin together, you'll know a great amount of the roots of English. If this interests you, OP, pick one of these two or both!

[Tomaj]

or you can pick any you want and learn it like you learned english. instead of repeating and memorizing entire sentences learn it from the ground up alphabet word form and stucture sentence structure. the best for this in my opinion is rosetta stone. im going to be learning japanese russian and MABEY german.

[Darkmatter]

Learn Chinese. They're plotting world domination you know.

[sorros]

spanish. or chinese, theyre gonna be the next imperialist empire...1st Rome, then GB, then USSR, now the US...china is next!

[Madrandomize]

Learn greek or japanese.

If you do it for chicks then going italian might be a solution but if you don't have the looks to match then you are out of luck anyways.

Greek rules.

[Madrandomize]

Greek is the basis for a significant but comparatively small amount of all of the Romance languages, and that is in its ancient form. Its current form has been changed tremendously since then (compare Old English (as in the original Beowulf text) with modern English and then multiply that by at least 2 to get the amount of change that we're talking about!), stripping away much of the etymological connections that once existed.


You are significantly wrong here alfar.
Every greek citizen and his monkey can understang ancient greek just by going to museums and reading the scripts writen on marble stones etc.

Ok they might miss something eventually due to words that we may not use now.But i have Archimedes "method" on ancient greek (ok it has spaces between the words ,cause they didn't use them then) and you can read it from the prototype just as easily as a normal book.

And i didn't chose the theoretic direction on my school,i went for mathematics.

Those who went the theoretical direction can read them more fluently.

I don't know if old english are hard to learn or different than modern english but surely ancient greek can be understood to a point of making sense by modern greeks.

Quote from wikipedia:

"It has been claimed that an "educated" speaker of the modern language can understand an ancient text, but this is surely as much a function of education as of the similarity of the languages. Still, Koinē, the version of Greek used to write the New Testament and the Septuagint, is relatively easy to understand for modern speakers."

[Aragoni]

German.
Edit: Or you can go against the flow and learn Swedish! :D

[Apex Vertigo]

Spanish would probably be the most useful for an American to learn.

[Rycon]

Japanese and french are good since people living in japan and France barley know how to speak English.

Well all the languages can be useful but some more then others depending on which people you interact with.

I say just choose the language you like the most since its a 2nd language after all.

Personal : I would go for Japanese since i like that language and plan on doing 3week holiday vacation every 5 years or so in japan.

[umustbemistaken]

What's the best way of learning another language? Without taking a course in it of course.

Rosetta stone, but then again they are kind of like courses only on a disc, instead of an actual class. But hey the army uses them so imo must be good.





On topic: learn Spanish and then Chinese because that it is in the order of when it should be affective. Spanish now Chinese later.


O and a question to the Frenchies here. Now if me a Yankee were to go to France, Ya'll would want me to atleast attempt to speak your language right ? You'll most probably laugh, but French folks typically turn their nose up at folks that don't atleast give it try right ? 'Cause I've heard a myriad of conflicting views regarding Frenchy etiquette. Also the term Frenchy its going to piss some frenchies off ?

[Yin]

Other.

Learn Chineese or Russian. Both their economies are growing and the ability to communicate fluently with them will put you into a position where you can apply to a company doing business in those countries as a translator, or purchaser, or contract negotiator.

Please for the love of all that is holy, buck the trend and skip spanish, they push it so they can do the whole NAU deal.

That. But more correctly - learn a language you intend to use. Theres no point learning another language just to be able to tell you know it.

German is best for Europe.
Russian and chinese are great choices but only if you actualy intend to use them else its a big waste of time.
Japanese is good language if you just need it for yourself - fun and easy to learn and plenty of things, books, sites, resources you would benefit from knowing it.

[Squarehelljumpr]

French, because canadians speek it
and so does most of europe

[Yin]

French, because canadians speek it
and so does most of europe

Most of Europe speaks German. And that parts of it that speak French and arent France itself, speaks German aswell.

[Rycon]

agreed - just a test:lmao:

[Lachrymose]

it really depends on why you're learning the language. if you plan on using it at all in a career, i would go with something like chinese/japanese, languages that not many americans know. it will get you jobs that not everyone is suited for and it makes you stand out, since they are much more challenging than say, spanish. besides, they are much more interesting since they are very different than english.

if you never plan on leaving the US, spanish would be ok, since a lot of people speak spanish. i took spanish and i hated it though. it's really easy, and some things you can almost understand in spanish without ever having studied it. also, even tho a lot of the US speaks spanish, they are probably learning/have learned at some english, and even then, you probably won't gain much (unless you plan on working in construction), since just about the only people in the US that speak spanish only are poor immigrants. :(

EDIT: actually, i take that all back. learn spanish so you can pick up big bootay brazilian hoes.

[Osirus]

selecting a secondary language really depends on what you're trying to do with said language.
do you want to be a translator for an international corporation?(Japanese or Russian(Ruski is relatively easy to speak imo)).
or a translator for the military?(Farsi/Arabic or Chinese, maybe Russian)
or do you want to be a cop?(Spanish)
or just learning another language because you have to for school?(choose a language that you are genuinely interested in and hope it's easy enough to learn)

there's always Latin or Greek.

[Everto]

I'm going to be picking up sign language this year in school.

not really a language, but honestly... it sounds fun.

[alfaroverall]

EDIT: actually, i take that all back. learn spanish so you can pick up big bootay brazilian hoes.
Brazil speaks Portuguese (a word that I always struggle to spell :()
You are significantly wrong here alfar.
Every greek citizen and his monkey can understang ancient greek just by going to museums and reading the scripts writen on marble stones etc.

Ok they might miss something eventually due to words that we may not use now.But i have Archimedes "method" on ancient greek (ok it has spaces between the words ,cause they didn't use them then) and you can read it from the prototype just as easily as a normal book.

And i didn't chose the theoretic direction on my school,i went for mathematics.

Those who went the theoretical direction can read them more fluently.

I don't know if old english are hard to learn or different than modern english but surely ancient greek can be understood to a point of making sense by modern greeks.

Quote from wikipedia:

"It has been claimed that an "educated" speaker of the modern language can understand an ancient text, but this is surely as much a function of education as of the similarity of the languages. Still, Koinē, the version of Greek used to write the New Testament and the Septuagint, is relatively easy to understand for modern speakers."
I was mainly referring to pre-Koine Greek, i.e. Attic and Homeric Greek. And I know those differ more significantly because I've already read a good bit about them, and have also learned some things about the changes in my meager study of Koine Greek. Whole noun cases were dropped. The dual ceased to exist. Even some tense/mood combinations ceased to exist. The language changed substantially. OK, perhaps my comparison to Old English was an exaggeration, but it couldn't possibly be that easy for a native modern Greek speaker to understand ancient Greek. It probably is or at least borders on the easiest language for them to learn (imagine learning vocabulary, heh) but they couldn't possibly just pick it up and understand the vast majority of sentences properly. Being able to do so probably wouldn't take that long, though; study the dual, learn the cases and tenses that were dropped, and you're pretty much done, with maybe some conjugation work added in.

Old English, by the way, is basically German to a native English speaker who doesn't know it or German. It sounds similar and makes just as much sense, though there are a fair number of cognates, especially in short words.

Why'd the damn Normans have to corrupt our language...? French bastards.

[Everto]

Brazil speaks Portuguese (a word that I always struggle to spell :()

this man speaks and spells the truth.

[Paralda]

I dunno, Swedish?

[Fluffington]

How do you plan on learning this language? Self-study?

[PrimalSign]

I say learn German for a kick-ass language, or the commonly used form of Chinese for a functional benefit.

If you try to learn the Chinese there is a good chance you will commit suicide when on their system of writing.

[heroshade]

Etheopian.

[PrimalSign]

Etheopian.

I'll one up you and suggest he learn !Kung (the language).

[Koveras]

Spanish is the way to go!
I could choose between Chinese, Russian or Spanish.

I want to be able to speak to some Spanish latina's por favor, since they are way hotter then chinese or russian senorita's. :lmao:


Most of Europe speak French or German because the French/German are to lousy to learn English.

[Beorg]

French. It's a widely-spoken language that is fairly easy to learn.

[Thugstyle]

French. It's a widely-spoken language that is fairly easy to learn and is also very very gay.
Fixed.

[Kebek]

Originally Posted by Beorg
French. It's a widely-spoken language that is fairly easy to learn and is also very very gay.

Fixed.


Why is the language gay? Because you think the French are gay?
Language does influence culture but calling French gay makes little sense.

[alfaroverall]

I'll one up you and suggest he learn !Kung (the language).
Have the !Kung people started speaking a more mainstream African language (like Bantu) since the ~1980s, or do they mostly still speak !Kung?

[Hemlawk]

Latin

[PrimalSign]

Have the !Kung people started speaking a more mainstream African language (like Bantu) since the ~1980s, or do they mostly still speak !Kung?

Well according to Wikipedia:

ǃKung is endangered, along with most other Khoisan languages, because of encroaching Bantu and Khoi cultures. The Herero and Nama languages are becoming more commonly spoken among the Kung-ekoka, and the hunter-gatherer way of life that is typical of the Khoisan-speaking peoples is being eroded by Bantu and Khoi farming settlements.

Although, taking from how the article on tongue and people is worded, I believe the !Kung still use the language for most communication. At least for now.

[Unknewn]

I'm going to be learning a second language, but I'm having one hell of time trying to pick a language. So I decided that I had to take this up with the most important authority in the world: Forumfall :lmao:

Poll forthcoming....

Try icelandic

[Spineless_DoO]

Spanish is a good second language to English. I am in the process of learning this myself.

If you turned that around to "English is a good second lanquage to spanish" It would be more accurate.