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What language should I learn?
Endless_Serpents
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And what languages do you know? Which do you want to learn? Languages! Wow!
What language should I learn? 36 votes
Arabic
19%
7 votes
Farsi
8%
3 votes
Hausa
0%
Russian
5%
2 votes
Ukrainian
2%
1 vote
French
36%
13 votes
Finnish (hard mode)
27%
10 votes
Toki Pona (nerd answer)
0%
0
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also a descendant of irish so I was biased in the other thread too, I am coming clean
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I have a very tiny less than toddler amount of German and I can ask you to please speak English in both French and Spanish.
I dunno what language I should learn though either.
Irish maybe? It sounds super cool to listen to
Yeah that’s a big draw. Because I am big on drawing. And Arabic is drawing. يرسم.
You should learn Irish! It’s fortunate we can find a lot of Irish songs with English subtitles.
Wait… is Irish Gaelic Irish? Hm. Probably not modern Irish.
I been to Tokyo and it’s now a permanent part of my personality. I’m a guy that went to Japan. I learned hello, bye and thank you. I made it pretty far by making faces and following people around when they made elaborate hand gestures.
They got some pretty good words, like warui, which I think a lot of people were saying to me. Not sure what it means.
It was twenty years ago, it's not like I was trying to brag on the little I retained, but the counterproductive default of 'thoroughly explain to avoid questions/criticism' is strong in ND.
Hopefully I will get to Japan someday!
they were actually trying to talk to you about Waluigi
missed your chance, friend
Wa!
My Finnish mother even has words of encouragement for you! "vitun onnea"
A two for one deal… now you’re…
…speaking my language.
And also because I just think it would be good to know the second most common language in this country/most common language in this hemisphere. We're thinking about spending next year's Christmas with their extended family in Mexico, so it'd be nice to know enough to get around on my own if I need to.
Spanish is wonderful too. Good luck with it!
of love
(Depending on your opinions on Howard or Rowling)
Lotta people don’t know this but the language of love is actually Maori, not French.
Tongue of the Serpent Men is also the language of love, but you gotta ask for consent.
I didn't pick up much, but there are words in te reo that fully pinged for me. Like when finding German expressions for familiar concepts.
'Whānau' as a modern term is basically extended family, genetic and/or chosen, a circle of care and like-mindedness. Your people. To include ancestors.
It describes an interdependence of social structures that isn't reliant on strict hierarchy. I dunno, it's just a word that slotted into a linguistic niche I'd been lacking.
"Whakapapa" is most commonly translated as one's genealogy, and that's the most literal definition, but it encompasses the entire framework of what contributes to 'you.' The degree of detail in description is contextual, but it's kind of your terroir while also being a conceptual framework for evolving perspective on your relationship to the world. A noun and a verb. Your personal past, present, and future in context to that of other people, physical environment, and cosmology. It's also not restricted to humans -- every thing has a history.
...Hi, it's me, a stopgap polyglot!
We lived in Germany for a time and I studied it in high school as well, so I've got a leg up there. But I just spent several happy minutes trying to figure out how the fuck (not for the first time!) to spell 몰라요 even Romanized (mollayo). Appropriate!
They're also so deeply embedded in my vocabulary that, typically a few times a week, I have to reverse in a conversation and find the English because my partner is like, what did you just say to me???
Magpie brain.
enough Latin to maybe pick up Italian too
some Japanese, some Spanish
i should, from a practical standpoint, learn Spanish and then triangulate Portuguese from Spanish and Latin, but also i'm lazy
uh, fille la ferme?
Pardon!
français... bad!
I'd also like to learn some Welsh because it's my closest neighbour and also one of the best sounding languages.
Japanese and Arabic are both cool but I'm not kidding myself that I could learn a new language and a whole new writing system, language alone is hard enough.
I still have bits of it - not a lot of vocab, but a general understanding of how the language works. Helps with other romance languages sometimes, if I've got the time to puzzle things out.
I eventually gave it up because I live in rural America and no one speaks Japanese. Even if I somehow ran into an actual Japanese person, they'd probably just be speaking English.
Bonus points if you have an incredibly sexy voice like this dude
Here's another question for everyone. Do you find it's harder to listen to another language than read/write/speak it? I've always assumed that everyone feels that way but maybe I'm wrong!