Help GP Choose A Foreign Language to Learn

GreecePwns · Post by **GreecePwns** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:42 pm

To finish up college, I need to take two foreign language courses. It can be two level 1 classes in one language or a level 1 and level 2 in one.

Arabic
Chinese
French
German
Hebrew
Hindi
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latin (I'd rather not)
Greek (wouldn't really learn anything here)
Russian
Spanish (took in high school, wouldn't learn much here either)

maasman · Post by **maasman** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:44 pm

Russian, Japanese, Chinese, or Arabic.
All of these will be the most useful in the future imo, though I think that Chinese or Arabic would be most helpful.

Army of GOD · Post by **Army of GOD** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 5:28 pm

I agree with maas that Chinese and Arabic would be the most helpful, but personally I'd rather learn Latin. I know it's dead, but it really helps a lot with Romance languages and a bunch of other shit.

muy_thaiguy · Post by **muy_thaiguy** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 5:49 pm

Army of GOD wrote:I agree with maas that Chinese and Arabic would be the most helpful, but personally I'd rather learn Latin. I know it's dead, but it really helps a lot with Romance languages and a bunch of other shit.

Like French, Spanish, Portugese, and Italian?

But yeah, Chinese or Arabic would be most useful, but personally, it would be Latin or Japanese.

Army of GOD · Post by **Army of GOD** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:14 pm

muy_thaiguy wrote:
Army of GOD wrote:I agree with maas that Chinese and Arabic would be the most helpful, but personally I'd rather learn Latin. I know it's dead, but it really helps a lot with Romance languages and a bunch of other shit.
Like French, Spanish, Portugese, and Italian?

ben79 · Post by **ben79** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:17 pm

learn french first than it'll be much easier for italian, spanish and portuguese

Baron Von PWN · Post by **Baron Von PWN** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:05 pm

My picks, would be Portuguese, Russian or Chinese.

Why? these are three of the main languages of the four largest most dynamic developing economies( Brazil, Russia, India, China) India mostly speaks English and have no native national language.

mviola · Post by **mviola** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:31 pm

Take Latin, and then take a new romance language or Spanish again. It really helps with the vocabulary and you remember so much more. I did this with Italian and when I hear something in Italian, I can remember it easily because of the roots in Latin.

BigBallinStalin · Post by **BigBallinStalin** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 4:00 pm

Army of GOD wrote:
muy_thaiguy wrote:
Army of GOD wrote:I agree with maas that Chinese and Arabic would be the most helpful, but personally I'd rather learn Latin. I know it's dead, but it really helps a lot with Romance languages and a bunch of other shit.
Like French, Spanish, Portugese, and Italian?

That chart can't be right. I don't see no Uhmerican on there, and I don't care if they call it "Germanic" because it's still Uhmerican, which still dominates everything--even this here chart.

AndyDufresne · Post by **AndyDufresne** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 4:04 pm

Indonesian. I have a friend learning it, and I picked up a random phrase book cheap so I can send them random text messages and e-mails in Indonesian. It doesn't seem that difficult to learn either, from an English Language starting point.

--Andy

BigBallinStalin · Post by **BigBallinStalin** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 4:05 pm

Chinese isn't a beautiful language--nor is it in modern times a literary giant, and culturally the movies, books, and poetry are just lame, or copycattish from the "West" or Japan.

Russian is interesting.

Arabic is interesting, and their literature from the 1300s and up has an abundant treasure-trove of excellent reading material (seeing that they borrowed heavily from the Greeks all those years ago, while the Europeans' idea of fun was hitting piles of feces with sticks).

It really depends on how much you like some country's culture, and whether or not you're willing to live there (or capable of living there), so I'd also go with Japanese, Italian, French, Spanish, or Portuguese.

BigBallinStalin · Post by **BigBallinStalin** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 4:06 pm

AndyDufresne wrote:Indonesian. I have a friend learning it, and I picked up a random phrase book cheap so I can send them random text messages and e-mails in Indonesian. It doesn't seem that difficult to learn either, from an English Language starting point.

--Andy

Indonesian's a great choice if one were to go into business and want to facilitate some deals there, but really? Indonesian? ....

QoH · Post by **QoH** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 4:07 pm

French is a great language to learn. Its easy, fun, and everyone recognizes it as the Language of Love.

If you are a sissy and can't get girls, then take Arabic.

AndyDufresne · Post by **AndyDufresne** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 4:07 pm

BigBallinStalin wrote:
AndyDufresne wrote:Indonesian. I have a friend learning it, and I picked up a random phrase book cheap so I can send them random text messages and e-mails in Indonesian. It doesn't seem that difficult to learn either, from an English Language starting point.

--Andy
Indonesian's a great choice if one were to go into business and want to facilitate some deals there, but really? Indonesian? ....

Yeah! Indonesia is a fast growing country, hugely populated, and lots of speakers. And it sounds cool.

--Andy

Qwert · Post by **Qwert** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 4:11 pm

i learn russian in scoll,where mine country whas socialist republic of Yugoslavia( some 5-6 years) but not been to much interesting ,so i dont remember to much, but i think that i can understand with russians,because its same letter(cyrilic).

BigBallinStalin · Post by **BigBallinStalin** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 4:27 pm

qwert wrote:i learn russian in scoll,where mine country whas socialist republic of Yugoslavia( some 5-6 years) but not been to much interesting ,so i dont remember to much, but i think that i can understand with russians,because its same letter(cyrilic).

So when you do plan on leaving Serbia?

saxitoxin · Post by **saxitoxin** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:08 pm

qwert wrote:i learn russian in scoll,where mine country whas socialist republic of Yugoslavia( some 5-6 years) but not been to much interesting ,so i dont remember to much, but i think that i can understand with russians,because its same letter(cyrilic).

I heard (I think) Davor Ebner say in some TV interview that Russians like the accents Serbians have when speaking Russian. That true?

Fircoal · Post by **Fircoal** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 6:34 pm

Greece and Spainish, nawt because they're good but because you won't have to learn much and foriegn languages are boring. x3 (From the baised opinion of someone who only knows about 4 words from 2 years of foreign langauge classes)

BigBallinStalin · Post by **BigBallinStalin** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 6:47 pm

Fircoal wrote:Greece and Spainish, nawt because they're good but because you won't have to learn much and foriegn languages are boring. x3 (From the baised opinion of someone who only knows about 4 words from 2 years of foreign langauge classes)

You're not one of those Japanime fans who know no Japanese, are you?

tkr4lf · Post by **tkr4lf** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:09 pm

If you're looking for ease, and have an English starting base, then German would be one of the easiest. I took German in high school and found it quite easy. But then again, I enjoy German culture and whatnot, and would love to live there, so I have my personal reasons for taking it as a foriegn language. However, I am also required to take 2 credits of a language for college, and will be taking Spanish. I live in Texas for now, so it seems the most useful, if you know what I mean.

TheSaxlad · Post by **TheSaxlad** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:54 pm

Baron Von PWN wrote:My picks, would be Portuguese, Russian or Chinese.

Why? these are three of the main languages of the four largest most dynamic developing economies( Brazil, Russia, India, China) India mostly speaks English and have no native national language.

India's native language is punjabi baron

and personally I would take arabic, cause there is a lot of work to be had in middle eastern countries. Take dubai for example. they have oil. when they run out of oil they sell silicon sand to computers. lots of businessmen wanting people who speak theirs and other languages.

Arabic is the way to go.

Baron Von PWN · Post by **Baron Von PWN** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:17 pm

TheSaxlad wrote:
Baron Von PWN wrote:My picks, would be Portuguese, Russian or Chinese.

Why? these are three of the main languages of the four largest most dynamic developing economies( Brazil, Russia, India, China) India mostly speaks English and have no native national language.
India's native language is punjabi baron

)

Yes, so are 20 other languages. I didn't mean to say they have no native languages only that none of them are spoken nationally, so learning any one of them would be of limited use. From wikipedia; According to the most recent census of 2001, 29 'languages' have more than a million native speakers, 60 have more than 100,000 and 122 have more than 10,000 native speakers.

Falkomagno · Post by **Falkomagno** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:32 am

Spanish for the win. If you know English and Spanish, you can go around the world without much communication struggling

saxitoxin · Post by **saxitoxin** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 4:53 pm

Falkomagno wrote:Spanish for the win. If you know English and Spanish, you can go around the world without much communication struggling

Maybe Falko could teach GP Spanish and GP could teach Falko English?

(J/K, Falko, you know you and I are BFF.

)

Fattyschippy · Post by **Fattyschippy** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 4:56 pm

我建议你学中文！！

...And I didn't use google translate, promise!!

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