What language would you learn?

Neil79 · 6 Oct 2006 at 01:14

Islamic...

Na for me id love to learn german , because then i can play german games before they arrive here :cool:

Velocity219e · 6 Oct 2006 at 02:55

Personally I'd like to learn (in order)

Russian
Polish (lots of polish immigrants around my area)
Arabic
and then Chinese or Japanese

I speak a little French and a bit of German (although I understand quite a lot of written german)

badgermonkey · 6 Oct 2006 at 03:15

I was wondering how many people here would be interested in learning another language. Or just wish they could speak. And if so what language would you want to learn/know and why?

Japanese, because generally i just really like the sound of the language, and would love to go out there sometime. (And chat up all those hot japanese babes

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Also, would you make the effort to learn a few words of a language relating to the country you are visiting?

I always try yes.

Do you feel a bit embarassed or irritated when you go abroad and are completely clueless?

I feel stupid really. Although when they are playing stupid because my pronunciation or grammar ends up a bit off then im just annoyed that they are such jerks.

cheets64 · 6 Oct 2006 at 03:25

I'd only learn English, the English langauge is fast and I am proud millions and millions of people speak it, I can go to many countries and speak English, Ignorant No, Power of the British Empire YES to this day still.

mysticsniper · 6 Oct 2006 at 05:29

I would love to be able to speak Japanese, and Latin. The Italian language is very sexy as well

AthlonTom · 6 Oct 2006 at 07:37

RE: What language would you learn

Any. Aparently women can appreciate a second tounge...

karoshi · 6 Oct 2006 at 11:15

i started learning russian last month, signed up at the brasshouse language centre in birmingham for the "absolute beginners" entry level course.. cost £100 but i'm very impressed with it

have always hated only being able to speak english but i never got on with french at school, the language doesn't interest me in the slightest.

once i've gotten comfortable with russian i'm planning to start on japanese

Spacky · 6 Oct 2006 at 11:29

PAz said:
Ile tu pan mowi po Polsku?

No I don't but I am learning the sounds before I can head off and speak the lingo

Freefaller · 6 Oct 2006 at 11:34

cheets64 said:
I'd only learn English, the English langauge is fast and I am proud millions and millions of people speak it, I can go to many countries and speak English, Ignorant No, Power of the British Empire YES to this day still.

Thanks for cheering me up - that was great!

Efour · 6 Oct 2006 at 11:47

I speak French to some degree and i can get by in most situations with a lot of arm waving and sign language.

I would really like to speak a chinese dialect or arabic. Something completely and utterly alien.

I was lucky i did German and French at school, had good teachers and learnt some good basic stuff.

Freefaller · 6 Oct 2006 at 11:51

I would love to improve my Greek - it's emabrassing being 1/4 cypriot and not really being fluent, I can get by fine, and have simple conversations, but I should be better.

My arabic I'd love to get back up to scratch but I seldom go there anymore

It's a fantastic language.

Mercutio · 6 Oct 2006 at 12:28

If I was allowed 2 to wake up being fluent in id have to go with Japanese and Mandarin/Cantonese (whichever was the hardest). In the similar way to learning european languages the more you learn the easier it is to work out the rest, id think learning 2 languages that are very difficult from a european point of view would allow me to go for almost anything else I wanted