Languages

[Majed]

Which languages do you speak ? Which languages do you want to learn ? What is your favorite language ? 

Personally, i speak 4 languages, arabic, french, english, and italian. My favorite one is italian. And i wish to learn spanish or japanese, it's tricky to decide which one to learn first. 

[LastThursday]

I speak English fairly well, and my first language was Spanish. I would say I'm nowhere near fluent in Spanish any more, but my comprehension is much higher, say 85%. I think if I were to live in a Spanish speaking country for six months or so, I'd be fluent.

Because of my Spanish I find French quite comprehensible especially written down, and to a degree Italian for the same reason. Catalan and more so Portugese are less comprehensible to my ear, but Brazilian Portugese is a lot easier.

A while ago I thought I'd delve into a non-romance language, so Swedish was my gateway to the nordics. I enjoyed that, mostly did Duo Lingo and a lot of Scandi TV Noir. I eventually got an ear for it, and could get phrases here and there. I find German a lot harder to grok despite the similarities to Swedish and English.

I'd love to learn something completely whacky like Basque or Navajo or Welsh, but source material is scant.

I don't have a favourite I think all languages are equally interesting in their own right. But, English is kick ass because of it's giant lexicon.

My advice for you? Learn Japanese, something completely different for your brain to master.

Edited April 11 by LastThursday

[HopefulMan]

@Majed You wish to learn, but you didn't give us the reason so I can't say anything haha. 

I used to enjoy language learning so I studied French, German, Japanese and Russian, but only the first two reached a "decent" level

I stopped when I realized language learning is useless --> Mind you, I have no special love for learning them, I don't make enough money to be learning useless stuff when there is more useful and interesting stuff for me, etc

So, why do you want to learn? 

If it the love for it, just pick the one that looks most interesting to you

If it's due to its use, pick the one useful for whatever you need it

[glassfire]

Russian/Ukrainian as local langs. English for the internet. I would learn Spanish if had a time; I like Colombia.

[kavaris]

Cuneiform of Assyrian/Akkadian like that of Asherbanipal is horrific. I was just looking at this this morning, and my godis it not intelligble at all, as its more like How to document words that might mean something later, like its got so many incoherent phrases that couldve implied any number of things.

And then someone shows Cuneiform to the hebrews or maybe the canaanites and they start using real letters pressed into cuneiform tablets, like going back to the literal stone age of communication, sending the people backwards like some flight of the phoenix into god knows what (Clay tablets are like the twitter of real materials, wood, runestone columns and petra, and skin, and paper...)

Imean, we could prolly name all the writing systems and languages in one message, unless it includes like, very intricate african/south american and islander languages, who have questionable writing systems, if they even have writing systems.

Like lets see here: Arabic, Aramaic (Syrian-Aramaic, etc), Indian lineage, Asian lineage, Turkish and the various ones in and around Persia and Turkiye... Like Going through mountains and Caspian Sea

Latin & Greek (we just went one column over...)

Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovenian, Macedonian.... Baltic Sea Lithuanian, Latvian and Old Prussian

Albanian... Armenian, cause yous prolly get em confused like i do...

Romance/Castellano languages (Prior Italic/Etruscan and variants), Irish ppl languages, i.e. Welsh, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Breton..

Germanic English, Frisian, Dutch, Flemish, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Faroese, Luxembourgish, Old Norse (Gothic and various ones)

Finnish

Sign Languages

I need an English-Estonian dictionary... Oh you cant forget Tolkien's Gnomish and Quenya (based languages, for everything else in the lotr legend)

*Note, I was looking through the Unicode Character Table, and there is some crazy crazy writing systems for some of the recorded & well known aboriginal and tribal peoples

Edited 5 hours ago by kavaris