I only remember this :lol:

 

Mit

Nach

Bei

Seit

Von

Zu

Aus

Außer

Entgegen

Gegenüber

I only remember this :lol:

 

Mit

Nach

Bei

Seit

Von

Zu

Aus

Außer

Entgegen

Gegenüber

 

these are pretty much the most important words you need to survive haah...:wacky:

German must be really, really difficult to learn. Some of the kids I went to school with lived in Switzerland all their lives and you could still tell that it wasn't their first language.

I found German quite easy.

I reckon if I was there for a couple of months I'd pick it up again.

I struggled with French.

 

I do think it's down to the teaching though.

I struggled with all languages apart from English. :embarrassed:

I teach the language of love.

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.

 

 

*hands rodri an award for member of the month* for typing all that out in his iphone :p

 

RODRI!!!!!! :hug:

 

I'm gonna go with Japanese just because I honestly have no idea what they are talking about most of the time, but French and Italian would probably be the easiest for you to learn :wink:

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 think it's safe to say that Chinese is out of the running now.

 

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.

 

Haha thanks for all the advice Ricardo. Nice job typing all that out. Must have taken hours :laugh1:

I would go for French... I know some spanish and a little Catalan.

One I have masterd those two, I may do french.

 

I can say, learning and understanding spanish has been one of the best things I have ever done with my lfe. Pity I never seen that at school !

why don't you travel to these places (yes that'll be too expensive, bla bla blah) and see which language will be the most comfortable for you to learn? because all of those languages you mentioned are the most common ones being used, aside from english.

 

why don't you travel to these places (yes that'll be too expensive, bla bla blah) and see which language will be the most comfortable for you to learn? because all of those languages you mentioned are the most common ones being used, aside from english.

 

 

I'm 'comfortable' with any Romance language, and German wouldn't be too difficult for me.

It's fucking hot.

it's just classy and elegant... and a bit of sexy... SPANISH is hot. :cool:

I chose Italian and Japanese idk why i chose Japanese tho

I think I would more lean towards French cos mine is really rusty and i really wish i could speak it :(

I'm french and I speak German, so I voted Chinese - like you said it could be useful and I would love to learn a completely different language, with different signs etc. Start all over again!

Spanish can be very hot !

I'm 'comfortable' with any Romance language, and German wouldn't be too difficult for me.

 

ok.. I was rooting for the Chinese language as well, because the Chinese would go to other countries to invest in a business. I'm pretty sure they're all over the place. We all know that the Chinese are business-minded people (like here in the Philippines, some of the richest people in here are chinese businessmen).

 

Or try Japanese. haha.

I just bought a few Italian books. Hoping to get ahead before school starts.

http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/default.asp

I don't know how this would help you but this board is very intriguing and helpful