German, I already know the basics.

Latin and Hebrew FTW. Chinese would be the most useful and definitively the most spoken, nevertheless, it's a really hard language, I remember reading somewhere that chinese themselves take 10 years to learn it properly. I find chinese to be a beautiful language, but it's so complicated that I rather hope chinese learn english. Japanese is just as hard as chinese but if you are really looking forward to do business in Japan then you MUST learn it, but there are like 2000 characters to learn so unless you are planning to work in Japan it's not that useful. As for Arabic I'm not sure about the structure but remember it's another completely different alphabet. French and Italian are both romance language therefore the structure will be very similar to Spanish and Portuguese. Italian is especially similar to Spanish,however, that doesn't mean it's easy because it's just as complex but I can understand to a certain extent Italians and viceversa. French is more useful than Italian and most widely spread, it's second official language in lots of official international organizations and the primary in some as the Olympics and UNESCO, in addition it was like the official language during the 19th and begginig of 20th century, many books and articles were translated to french and from there to else language, in fact, here in Mexico was the elite language par excellence (not sure if it's seen like this at this point when everyone has access to information). German is more spoken than Italian and just as much as Japanese (more or less), Germany is the 4th world economic power and first in Europe, it bears resemblance with English in some vocabulary but of the 4 languages I speak ( along spanish, french and english) it is the hardest one.

So considering how much people speak it:

Chinese

Arabic

French

Japanese

German

Italian

Economics, politics, education:

Chinese

French

German/Japanese

Italy

Arabic

 

PS 1: if you wonder which one is sexier listen to a french woman speaking.

PS 2: i wrote this with my fucking iphone, hope you appreciate the work it took me and give a medal or an award or something.

Japanese and Italian... and greek and some nordic languages too :)

Chinese, as what Michael has said.

I mean Mike.

I vote french cause I think it's a beautiful language and I'd really wanna learn it myself. Oh and cause french people are hot.

That basically.

 

And voted Japanese too cause well Japan RULES.

 

Arabic I do not recommend cause it's a quite difficult language to learn without actually living in an Arabic-speaking country. Also there's a huge difference between spoken and formal Arabic and formal Arabic is sometimes a bit hard for some Arabs themselves, so yeah. But if you really want it or summin', it is possible, though you'd just need to study harder for it.

 

I wouldn't go for Italian though. Not cause I mind the language or anything, but you already know Spanish, which is quite close to Italian and this is a good chance to learn something different and new. Something non-european perhaps.

haha... doesn't matter to me

Should have stuck English down for Lory

 

/harsh

Arabic I do not recommend cause it's a quite difficult language to learn without actually living in an Arabic-speaking country. Also there's a huge difference between spoken and formal Arabic and formal Arabic is sometimes a bit hard for some Arabs themselves, so yeah. But if you really want it or summin', it is possible, though you'd just need to study harder for it.

True. I learned Arabic 13 years ago, and I quit after a few months :P

Anyways I think it's really hard to master in Arabic if you have no basics in its characters and alphabets.

 

haha... doesn't matter to me

:D

omg Greg :|

Why does everyone love french so much?

I just don't get it but maybe it has something to do with my old french teacher being creepy :blank:

It's fucking hot.

I voted French, cause like everyone said its HOT! But I see that you have Russian on the list but you didnt put it in poll. I'd love to study Russian! Its so amazing and also as Chinese very important these days.

Why does everyone love french so much?

I just don't get it but maybe it has something to do with my old french teacher being creepy :blank:

 

hahaha this....all french teachers I had sucked....generally I like the sound of it, but it depends on the voice....because I don't know sometimes it sounds a bit too much like "ooooooh mon amooooouuuuuur"....I find that hm I don't know how to describe it haha

 

I chose italian, because yeah I like the sound of it and I think it'd be interesting to learn

My friend is currently studying sign language in college. :|

I imagine there will be quite a few jobs available for people who know it.

French cause I never did it in high school and German because it's fucking German.

Chinese would be very useful but it must take forever to learn it so it might not be the best choice if you're only studying it for three years or so. My brother, who is about to graduate did Japanese as his second minor and he can barely say anything.

 

I speak German, French and Spanish, although I couldn't actually say a lot in French or Spanish. If I had to learn another language, I'd probably learn Dutch.

 

I wouldn't go for Italian though. Not cause I mind the language or anything, but you already know Spanish, which is quite close to Italian and this is a good chance to learn something different and new. Something non-european perhaps.

 

My Spanish teacher did Italian as her minor but she dropped it because the two languages were too similar and she somehow started confusing them.

 

Then again, I'd imagine Spanish and Portuguese are quite similar too.

Of all the languages mentioned so far, Spanish and Portuguese are certainly the most similar, and I've had no trouble with them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_similarity

 

It seems Italian and French are also very similar, but everything is pronounced much differently.

Chinese is intense, I've studied it for one year and I can't really say that I remember much. I think it's a language that you can only learn to a satisfying degree (meaning being able to communicate in Chinese) if you're willing to dedicate years of studying.

The pronunciation is really tough and you'd have to learn a whole new alphabet that has thousands of symbols.

I really loved studying it though and it was really interesting to learn about the Chinese culture, but it's also a mindset that is so different from the Western one, that you get irritated easily.

 

I always struggle with Spanish and French, because they're quite similar in grammar and vocabulary. Once I studied the one some more, I forgot a lot of the other one. French is a beautiful language, but I find Spanish much more useful. Also since you already speak two Romanic languages, you might want to go a different way.

 

German might be useful for international business, because we're one of the leading economies and you'll find Germans everywhere. Okay I sound like I'm promoting Germany now, so I better stop. :tongue:

You'll find similarities to other European languages, but I think German is pretty different, so it might be interesting to study it. (The grammar rules can be uber-annoying for non-native and native speakers though. :P)

 

I can't really say much to the other languages, but part of what I said about Chinese applies to Japanese too.

oh I love our orthography rules :heart:

 

haha

German grammar = so much fun. :|

:curtain: