Learning a Language; Spanish, French or German?

Schism · 15 Aug 2011 at 15:57

Can't decide which one to learn. I know some basics of French already...

Anyone got any reasons why one is better than the other?

Volcs · 15 Aug 2011 at 15:58

Well you can speak to most people in South and Central America with Spanish, and the way things are going I think it's due to become the most spoken language in the US as well....*

* having done some googling this looks to not be the case, don't know where this factoid came into my head from.

alex_tank · 15 Aug 2011 at 15:59

Not German

Sudden · 15 Aug 2011 at 15:59

I would go with Spanish. Useful to know given the number of people speaking it.

Schism · 15 Aug 2011 at 16:05

Thanks all.

alex_tank said:
Not German

How come? Haha. Reason it was an option is because I love the way it sounds.

Morgoth · 15 Aug 2011 at 16:11

German is pretty useful if you want to travel around Europe. More so than French or Spanish at least.

Pestilence · 15 Aug 2011 at 16:14

I'd go with Spanish, simply because it's relatively easy and I like how it sounds.

Moothead2 · 15 Aug 2011 at 16:16

My votes for Russian

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Tefal · 15 Aug 2011 at 16:17

German.

it sounds cooler plus German girls are hot

Cosimo · 15 Aug 2011 at 16:19

Moothead2 said:
My votes for Russian .

They all speak English. Da da da.

cumulus1978 · 15 Aug 2011 at 16:22

Italian???

vicisthebest · 15 Aug 2011 at 16:23

If you already know some French then why not continue with it?

I'll go for French every time though, lived in France for a while and loved it there

alex_tank · 15 Aug 2011 at 16:34

Schism said:
Thanks all.

How come? Haha. Reason it was an option is because I love the way it sounds.

They speak pretty good English mostly, same for Lowland countries and Scandinavia. Would pick Spanish or French.

IceBus · 15 Aug 2011 at 16:36

French. By far. Unless you want to go to South America, French will get you a lot further in Europe and Africa.

checjb · 15 Aug 2011 at 16:37

Personally I would learn German as I like the way it sounds and I was fairly good at it in school. However, if you ask most women they would go for French. Let's face it, when you see a smooth guy in a film spouting a foreign language to get a girl in bed, how many times is he speaking German?

Natwee · 15 Aug 2011 at 16:38

cumulus1978 said:
Italian???

this. Italian is easy to learn, as its pronounced pretty much how it looks. No accents and stuff to remember when writing. I had lessons for 10 years.
Im currently learning Spanish

Morgoth · 15 Aug 2011 at 16:43

checjb said:
Personally I would learn German as I like the way it sounds and I was fairly good at it in school. However, if you ask most women they would go for French. Let's face it, when you see a smooth guy in a film spouting a foreign language to get a girl in bed, how many times is he speaking German?

French is for serenading a girl. German is for telling them how it is.

SCHNELLER!

Cosimo · 15 Aug 2011 at 16:46

You have some basic French then why not expand on that unless you plan to have dealings in Latin America then Spanish/Portuguese.

The1nonly1 · 15 Aug 2011 at 16:51

Currently I am trying to learn German, so far i have started with numbers which i am quite good at.

ic1male · 15 Aug 2011 at 23:33

German. Then you can watch Hitler's speeches. He was a great orator.