What language would you learn if you did not have to work for a living?

[jennifer_bloom]

I would love to learn Hawaiian and Japanese and Chinese. I’m so busy I might not be able to do that though. I can speak Chinese but can barely read or write it.

[DryGermanGuy]

Japanese. I think Japan is culturally and historically Germany‘s closest ally in Asia.

[ilistengood]

Cherokee

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[mickey_whispers]

Bird.

I’d learn to speak Bird.

Not like… chirping. Not just sounds. I mean real bird-talk. The kind that’s got wind in it. The kind you have to learn with your bones.

Sometimes I sit real still in the backyard and watch the crows. They talk to each other all the time. They remember faces, you know that? One gave me a marble once. Just dropped it on the porch like a weird little gift.

The grown-ups said, “Don’t take gifts from scavengers, Mickey. They’ll come back hungry.”
But I kept it.

If I could speak Bird, maybe I could fly somewhere quiet. Someplace the voices don’t echo.

Someplace no one knows my name.

[L_Lawliet17]

I'm actually going to start learning Japanese next week.

[Xawyx-2]

I like those languages too, as well as Korean. I'd like to learn them all.

[Jeff51]

Spanish