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Which Language to Learn?
« on: August 07, 2010, 01:40:11 AM »
Human language...not programmng language. I already know too many programming languages.

I'm trying to decide between French, German, or maybe Danish. I've read some on Old English and Old Norse; quite interesting. I had Spanish in High School and College, but I'm thinking of something else now.

Not trying to start a cultural war here. What's a good European language (other than English) to learn that's common amongst Europeans?
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Re: Which Language to Learn?
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2010, 04:12:54 AM »
If I was going to learn another human language it would be German for sure! There are so many good Amiga games and much software only in German.
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Re: Which Language to Learn?
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2010, 12:44:13 PM »
Well, if you want to use the language as much as possible, then Castillian is probably a really goood choice.

Learning Danish makes it very easy to understand the Swedish and Norwegian. They're basically three dialects of the same language anyway. :)

German is spoken by a lot of people, and as Cammy said, the German video game market has a lot of forgotten gems.
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Re: Which Language to Learn?
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2010, 08:28:04 PM »
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Human language...not programmng language. I already know too many programming languages.

I'm trying to decide between French, German, or maybe Danish. I've read some on Old English and Old Norse; quite interesting. I had Spanish in High School and College, but I'm thinking of something else now.

Not trying to start a cultural war here. What's a good European language (other than English) to learn that's common amongst Europeans?
Other than English, there's no such language 'common' amongst Europeans. Sure, there are similarities in languages, 'language families' so to say. You have the Germanic languages (German, Dutch, English), Nordic languages (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian), Slavic languages (Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian), Uralic languages (Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian), Latin (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French) and Greek.
There are cross-side influences however. English and Dutch have both strong influences from the Nordic languages (from the Vikings and the Danes) as well as the Latin languages (mainly from the French, and the Latin origins of the European Christian church).
Though, throughout Europe, Latin has been anyway the most influential language of all.
But don't think you'll understand a Polish person when you have learned Latin, German or Russian.
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Re: Which Language to Learn?
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2010, 08:40:37 PM »
Learn Suomi.

From what little Finnish I've heard, it sounds like a challenge :)
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Re: Which Language to Learn?
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2010, 02:23:06 AM »
Finnish is awesome, I do wish I could speak it. Russian also gets my vote. When you learn Danish you will easily understand Norwegian and Swedish, but Swedes and Norwegians won't understand you 8).

Problem is that there is not one language commonly understood in the whole of Europe other than English (er..like speel already wrote :).

Given the choice between French, German and Danish, French is the far more useful choice. You can use it in Africa, Canada and to a certain extent the Caribbean and Indochina probably.
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Re: Which Language to Learn?
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2010, 03:06:57 AM »
Turkish!
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Re: Which Language to Learn?
« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2010, 04:11:59 AM »
Thanks for the responses.
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Re: Which Language to Learn?
« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2010, 11:09:58 AM »
So, what will it be? :)
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Re: Which Language to Learn?
« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2010, 06:24:23 AM »
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So, what will it be? :)


Turkish. :)    I still haven't decided yet. I have ruled out French, so I'm down to two. I'm leaning towards Danish, actually, since I have some distant cousins who often write Danish for their FB status--and I can't read it.
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Re: Which Language to Learn?
« Reply #11 on: September 13, 2010, 04:26:29 PM »
Welsh :)
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Re: Which Language to Learn?
« Reply #12 on: September 13, 2010, 05:00:53 PM »
yaki da boyo, ogie ogie ogie , trogs,  have a swill in the bosh... :)

Welsh makes as much sense as Scottish, but it's still better than English... :roflmao:
 

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Re: Which Language to Learn?
« Reply #13 on: September 24, 2010, 05:59:33 PM »
Spanish but not el que tú has aprendido en Texas, el original el del origen el Castellano de Castilla y España, that as the english from England is more perfect and clear in its pronunciation.
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Re: Which Language to Learn?
« Reply #14 on: September 27, 2010, 04:40:04 PM »
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yaki da boyo, ogie ogie ogie , trogs, have a swill in the bosh... :)
 
Welsh makes as much sense as Scottish, but it's still better than English... :roflmao:

 
With the difference that Many many more people can speak welsh :)
 
And S4C had much bigger viewing figures than that BBC alba :)
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