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Posted: 2/19/2017 10:55:33 PM EDT
Took Spanish in HS, German in college. Let proficiency in both lapse badly, been brushing up on both in Duolingo.
Wife wanted to start learning Italian with me, so we're working on it right now. Thanks to Spanish, it's pretty easy to pick up so far (by pick up I mean I'll be able to communicate at a bare minimum level...duolingo isn't going to make me proficient in it at all, but it's nice to know some words/phrases). I'm close to done with the Spanish tree, and got to looking at the other languages Duolingo offers. Having trouble deciding what looks interesting, so I thought I'd let GD influence the decision. 
Options are as follows: French...another Romance language, which would be easy-ish. Swedish....another Germanic language, hopefully easy like German is/was. Turkish...Desire to visit Constantinople intensifies Russian...I've looked at it in the past. Cyrillic is difficult. Hebrew...watched a few Israeli TV shows, seems like an interesting language Vietnamese...Just to have some knowledge of an Eastern language Poll inbound, and yes I know I'm not going to become an expert in any of them playing on an app. |
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Posted: 2/19/2017 10:59:47 PM EDT
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What - no Japanese?
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:00:20 PM EDT
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Pig Latin
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:01:18 PM EDT
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Klingon
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:02:15 PM EDT
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Esperanto
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:02:32 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:03:24 PM EDT
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I voted French - easy for you to pick up, far more useful than Italian, and as useful as Spanish worldwide, if not more so.
I saw Arabic was not on the list. 
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:05:35 PM EDT
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I saw Arabic was not on the list. Talk to duolingo about that, not me. I'm just picking based on what they currently offer. |
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:06:55 PM EDT
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You're right that you'll have a head start with French.
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:13:48 PM EDT
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Latin
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:16:39 PM EDT
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Sanskrit is the obvious answer.
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:19:32 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:19:48 PM EDT
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Last year...I would have said Mandarin.
This year...Japanese. |
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:27:41 PM EDT
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From the list: Russian.
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:29:50 PM EDT
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Just downloaded the app. Have been trying to learn Russian for forever. We'll see if this helps.
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:30:33 PM EDT
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Off hand I'd say you better be fluent in both Chinese (Mandarin dialect) and Russian
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:31:27 PM EDT
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Klingon
Perl Interpretative dance |
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:33:33 PM EDT
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From the list: Russian. |
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:36:52 PM EDT
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Scouse
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:37:17 PM EDT
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What - no Japanese? i've started, and to my surprise the structure of the language is extremely logical. thus far, it's like someone sat down and tried to develop a simple, straightforward language. i'm sure there's plenty of arbitrary silliness, but so far it has been quite direct. |
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:39:06 PM EDT
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I have a basic understanding of German through duolingo, were I not doing that, I would do Russian.
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:44:12 PM EDT
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Cyrillic isn't that tough, and once you learn it you'll be able to read and make sense of signs and names and such in Greek, Bulgarian, etc. Russian is also spoken in about 15 countries, lots to see in the FSU.
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:45:59 PM EDT
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i've started, and to my surprise the structure of the language is extremely logical. thus far, it's like someone sat down and tried to develop a simple, straightforward language. i'm sure there's plenty of arbitrary silliness, but so far it has been quite direct. Most of the pronunciation is easy, because pretty much everyone is familiar with brand names like Mitsubishi and Sony and Kawasaki and the like. But some of the language constructs seem baffling to my Western mind. I really need to learn how to use more complex sentence structures. And a lot more vocabulary. Watching anime and dramas (with English subtitles) and NHK news (without subtitles) helps. |
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:46:34 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:48:23 PM EDT
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I would follow with French, then Mandarin, then Russian.
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:49:16 PM EDT
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 生活大爆炸-----Sheldon 学中文那段.mp4 chinese |
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:51:59 PM EDT
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Italian
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:52:06 PM EDT
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jive
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:52:48 PM EDT
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Esperanto  The Crew Meet Kryten - Red Dwarf - BBC |
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:53:03 PM EDT
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english
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:57:08 PM EDT
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 Pootie Tang Quotes! |
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Posted: 2/19/2017 11:59:04 PM EDT
[#31]
Greek
23% of English is Greek Could do Ancient Greek if you're into that sort of thing. Edit: of the ones on your list, French. |
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Posted: 2/20/2017 12:02:53 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/20/2017 12:09:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
i've started, and to my surprise the structure of the language is extremely logical. thus far, it's like someone sat down and tried to develop a simple, straightforward language. i'm sure there's plenty of arbitrary silliness, but so far it has been quite direct. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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What - no Japanese? i've started, and to my surprise the structure of the language is extremely logical. thus far, it's like someone sat down and tried to develop a simple, straightforward language. i'm sure there's plenty of arbitrary silliness, but so far it has been quite direct. Fortunately, the logical grammar is offset by the amalgamated character-syllabary writing system to keep it from being too easy  .
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Posted: 2/20/2017 12:11:25 AM EDT
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The person who picks my next language is the maker who decides where I am born. I am not good at learning languages
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Posted: 2/20/2017 12:18:55 AM EDT
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Fortunately, the logical grammar is offset by the amalgamated character-syllabary writing system to keep it from being too easy .i've got hiragana pretty much down, and am fighting my way through katakana. i don't even want to think about kanji.
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Posted: 2/20/2017 12:20:41 AM EDT
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Cyrillic isn't that tough, and once you learn it you'll be able to read and make sense of signs and names and such in Greek, Bulgarian, etc. Russian is also spoken in about 15 countries, lots to see in the FSU. It's not learning the cyrillic that is the issue, it's reading shit in English with same letters different sounds that trip me up still. Near D.L.I. there is a road called Canyon Del Rey. They abbreviate it to Cyn Del Rey on the street signs. I called it "soup" del rey the whole time I was there. 
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Posted: 2/20/2017 12:23:52 AM EDT
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I've done a little Arabic and want to do Hebrew next. Semitic languages are interesting, structurally.
Hebrew is probably the least useful on your list, though. |
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Posted: 2/20/2017 12:29:21 AM EDT
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Looking at the results of the poll so far, I believe people don't understand how hard Russian can be. Google "Russian Cases" to understand that if you couldn't get conjugations of verbs in romance languages easily, cases are going to ruin your world.
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Posted: 2/20/2017 12:30:57 AM EDT
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Chinese of the mandarin flavor.
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Posted: 2/20/2017 12:32:35 AM EDT
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Scouse Do they even understand it?? |
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Posted: 2/20/2017 12:35:35 AM EDT
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Farsi if you want to mess with people. Otherwise Icelandic.
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Posted: 2/20/2017 12:41:00 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/20/2017 12:44:32 AM EDT
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Memrise has a few different courses on Cyrillic. It's pretty easy to pick up in a few hours. I wouldn't let that stop you if you were interested in a language that used it. All in all I'd go with whatever really interests you. It's a lot of effort to put into something you will get bored of.
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Posted: 2/20/2017 12:46:10 AM EDT
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I would keep up with the Spanish and get as fluent as you can and ignore everything else unless they can be used for your job/career.
I grew up in Canada and went through the French school system. We only spoke Hungarian at home. Became proficient in Spanish through school as well. One year of German as a lot of (old) chemistry journals were in German and I was thinking about a PhD in chemistry. ETA: Being in TX, you could attempt to become as fluent in Spanish as a native speaker. That would be a trip. |
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Posted: 2/20/2017 12:49:07 AM EDT
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Voted Russian just because I think it would be cool to know. I hear it's a motherfucker to learn though.
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Posted: 2/20/2017 12:51:36 AM EDT
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Shun the Huns, OP.
Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai are a bunch of bullshit singsong, ching chong potato languages. A word shouldn't have 6 different meanings just because it is said with an alternate tone! Japanese, now there is a vastly superior Eastern language w/ easy pronunciation and structure. The only real difficulty comes w/ learning the writing system. |
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Posted: 2/20/2017 12:54:38 AM EDT
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Russian is fiendishly difficult. The Cyrillic alphabet is cake; you could learn that in a day but actually speaking/understanding Russian? Good luck without years of actual study.
Some SEA language would be kind of cool but probably less useful overall unless you plan on spending a lot of time there. |
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Posted: 2/20/2017 12:56:06 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/20/2017 12:57:10 AM EDT
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I took Spanish for 4 years. 2 in high school and two at community college. It has made me some good money just because I could communicate well enough to make a deal work.
My dad also lived in Austria for 20 years, he taught me some German... it has only been useful a few times, mostly when we went back to Austria. I'm now learning Russian just because. |
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Posted: 2/20/2017 1:00:01 AM EDT
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