Which Language Would You Like To Speak And Learn?

[Jason0808]

Which Language Would You Like To Speak And Learn?

Arabic Aramean Armenian

English

Persian Kurdish Zazaki

Russian

French

Greek

Spanish

[Lliam]

I was born, raised, and still live in California. I took two years of Spanish in high school. I recall very little, though.
I have and still do run into quite a few Spanish speaking people and have visited Mexico many times.
My wife and I spent two weeks in San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato a couple years ago. Before our trip, we tried learning some Spanish. My pronunciation isn't bad, but I can't remember vocabulary.

Anyway, Spanish would be handy for me. Unfortunately, hablo muy poco español. Mi español es muy malo. LOL

I admire people who are bilingual and multilingual.

[Jason0808]

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[AviatorTom]

I've traveled a lot in my career and enjoy learning the language of the country I'm in. With English as my native language, I can get by in French and Spanish. I also know a small amount of German, Russian and Mandarin Chinese. Considering that one in seven people in the world speak Chinese, I'd like to become more conversant in Mandarin. That's not one of the choices in the question.

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[whereismyjohnny]

I've been learning Italian for the past four years, and I would love to get at the ''perfect'' level of it (get a certificate and all). It's a beautiful language. I would also love to learn Spanish (I understand quite a lot of it and know some basic phrases, but I would like to become fluent), Russian (I already speak one Slavic language, and they are extremely difficult but beautiful), and Arab. Lately, I've been interested in sign language too and thought about learning it.

I just love languages, and I would like to learn plenty of them xD

[European4Ever]

Which Slavic language? My two guesses would be 1. Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian which is one guess because all three are almost exactly the same except for Serbia's cyrillic alphabet. 2. Slovenian.

[whereismyjohnny]

@European4Ever Good take, it's Croatian 😂

[European4Ever]

@jason0808 I would guess you are probably Turkish. If not, then Lebanese or Sephardic Jew would be my other two guesses. If you were a Sephardic Jew from Israel you would probably have a more hardened look in your eyes because of military training and mandatory service and the conflicts. You don't really look Arab. You don't have any features that would make me guess Persian (Iranian), anywhere in the Balkans or anywhere in the Caucasus (Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia) which are really the only other ethnic possibilities for your look. Afghanistan is the only additional option but also has very low chance because your features wouldn't be too common among the population in Afghanistan.

[Jason0808]

@European4Ever thanks

[Jason0808]

@European4Ever Greek Armenian

[jaybee281]

@European4Ever You guessing he's Lebanese is unexpected and somehow extremely accurate - as a "european" how the hell did you manage to pull that one off? I thought I was the only who'd guess that as well as jew or georgian or Armenian.. I'm really intrigued

[European4Ever]

@jaybee281 I am really great at identifying ethnic traits. If I look at anyone from the European or Asian continents and accurately guess their ethnicity and if not, their main ethnicity or ethnic group. For example: look at the eyes, nose, ears, lips, face, and the shapes and sizes. Skin color as in the shade or tone. That can give the general region or the ethnic group. That's why my guesses were Turkish, followed by Lebanese, then Sephardic Jew. The Caucus and the Balkans were possibilities by the movement of people and because ethnic mixing throughout history. I would likely group certain Europeans together. Germanic: Germans, Austrians, Swiss, Dutch. Belgian could go either way as French or Germanic. Telling a Ukrainian from a Russian would be much easier than identifying a Germanic ethnicity, but it would be easy for me to confuse an ethnic Belarusian for an ethnic Russian which are Slavic. This is because ethnic Ukrainians have rounder heads than Russians and Belarusians. Baltic could potentially be confused as Slavic or Nordic. Polish are closer to Ukrainians compared to other Slavs but can have more rounder heads and easy to identify apart from other Slavs. Hungarians have a unique look for their location but it's because they're originally an ethnic group from Russia or so I heard. Among East and Southeast Asians, I can tell almost any apart. Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Malaysian, Thai, Filipino, and Indonesien. Ethnicity is what people in the Old World nations use. Race is just a larger grouping of main ethnic groups with common similarities or roughly common similarities. I got into this because I started to want to learn the areas in the world that have girls I find most beautiful. I also encountered many European, Asian, and Jewish ethnic groups to tell them apart. Any questions?

[Jason0808]

@European4Ever They call me lebanese but lebanese i am not arabic

[Apulu_3]

First I need to master English. Although I'm fluent in it I have grammatical mistakes sometimes. After English I will think if learning other languages like French and Spanish.

[Jason0808]

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[horatiohornblower]

That's not necessary for learning another language. You may improve your English grammar and learn another language at the same time. It'll be much easier for you to learn another language now than later. Each year that goes by the harder it becomes to learn another language.

You can use the Duolingo app on your phone and start learning a language for free. I'd suggest something practical where you're likely to find a class in High School to meet your prerequisites. Which would typically be Spanish, French or German in US schools.

If you do actually use the app every day. Be sure to test out for placement when you start high school. So, they don't stick you in the beginners class.

[Apulu_3]

@horatiohornblower I'm in 8th grade so I'm already in high school

[horatiohornblower]

Different school system. 8th grade would be middle school where I'm from. Still, if you want to learn another language. Now is the best time. By the time you get to college. It'll be much more difficult to learn one.

[Apulu_3]

@horatiohornblower Oh ok I will keep your words. Thank you :)

[jaybee281]

Of these I speak Arabic French and English - and yes fluently - I'm not a fan of Spanish just because everyone wants to speak Spanish even though Italian is a much better language - Persian is something I wouldn't like because I'm not a fan of the people who speak it - Greek for the philosophy and culture I guess - Or maybe Russian for the women - Or maybe Armenian because back in Lebanon I had Armenian friends as well as my hairstylist being Armenian - I miss that dude

[jaybee281]

I'd personally guess Lebanese or georgian or armenian or israeli - If neither then from the balkan area maybe?

[DeeDeeDeVour]

I'd like to be more proficient with Spanish, Japanese, German & Italian.
I'd like to begin learning and eventually mastering Chinese because it's important to understand your adversaries.

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[Jessica405]

Dutch, as I hope to move and work there later this year. I already have a little knowledge. So many Dutch people speak excellent English, it would be nice to hold a conversation in their own language.

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[Guffrus]

English would be nice, I have been speaking it natively for 42 years now and I still only have a working knowledge.

[Guffrus]

Erm, kind of mediterranean?

Perhaps half cast white arab? Turkish? Italian? Something like that perhaps?

[Jason0808]

Assyrian Armenian 🤣

[Guffrus]

Ok, well to my mind thats pretty much what I said so not sure why you are laughing but whatever.

[DesiUwU]

Ah, all languages tbh. I speak Japanese, I’m learning Spanish, Chinese and Korean. I looove languages so much ❤️

[DesiUwU]

But ones I’d like to speak would be French, it’s so difficult though. I’d like to make more of an effort to learn it. And Russian

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[DesiUwU]

@jason0808 I would learn English, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, or Hindi first because those are the most commonly spoken languages, though it also depends on where you live. Example: there is a part of California that has a bunch of Korean people that live there, so you would want to learn Korean, but it’s not one of the most well known and most spoken languages out there, just for the area you may live in.

[horatiohornblower]

Of those only French really interests me. Although Spanish would be far more practical.

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[BruceJender]

I've been learning German over the last two months or and I definitely want to continue, but I think I will have to move to Germany or at the very least get a tutor.

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[exitseven]

I would like to speak Italian since that is where my ancestors are from.

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[exitseven]

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[jazmiine]

Japanese, because I like watching anime. It is difficult to read the subtitle and watch anime at the same time. Sometimes I even miss one action just to read the subtitles.

[Miristheiss]

I speak English and German.
I'm probably done learning languages but if I could wave a magic wand and add a third language it would probably be Spanish.

[Miristheiss]

You have a Georgian flag in your picture. That kind of ruins the surprise assuming you are Georgian.
I can believe Georgian.

If you had no flag I would have said Turkey or Greece or something like that.

[Fireguy17]

it seems to be more prevalent now, so it would help make things a bit easier.
We do have Spanish speaking patients, and we really need to be able to communicate with them.

[Fireguy17]

I suck at this, my guess would be Easter European?

[Massageman]

I do talk a bit of Spanish, would like to learn more.

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[XXblack88]

As far as the ones on here I say French. If there was a choice for other I said Japanese

[Jason0808]

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[XXblack88]

No problem

[Titanic1912]

None of those. I learned to speak German in high school.

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[Dinosaursandanime65]

More dinosaurs. I’m basically a master for Iguanadon and all dinosaurs speak the same just their different sounds are the equivalent of our accents

[Dinosaursandanime65]

You look a lot like that KSI guy from Transformers: Age of Extinction

[Jason0808]

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[Dinosaursandanime65]

You’re welcome. You also look like my Enrichment teacher from 1st Grade. He was cool. That was also when I met my best friend

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

I don't need to learn foreign languages. Here in India, other states languages are good enough for now😅.

[Little_Bumblebee]

Oooh, I would love to learn French, Russian, Japanese, and sign language.

Not because I'm really trying to, but it could be awesome.

[Uptowngirl88]

Sign language because it's more beneficial to the field I work in.

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[ManOnFire]

I can already speak Spanish, so the next thing I'm trying to learn is Chinese. Although I really wish I could speak all the languages in the world.

[ManOnFire]

@jason0808 You like maybe middle Eastern. Or maybe like an ethnic group in France.

[Anonymous]

I would like to learn and speak Turkmen or Uzbek languages

[Jason0808]

Thanks Can you look at my profile, what nationality do you think I look like?