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What's the most /lit/ language that a monolingual person should begin with. Please no pussy-footing. What's the objective absolute?

>> No.16194784
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16194784

French.

>> No.16194796
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16194796

>>16194782
Latin.

>>16194784
No.

>> No.16194803

>>16194782
The one that is more useful to you in the long term

>> No.16194810

German for philosophy, French for fiction

>> No.16194818

Chinese, Arabic or Koine Greek. Get the hard shit done.

>> No.16194823

>>16194782
Americanized English. No other language exists.

>> No.16194830

>>16194782
Spanish, or German

>> No.16194833
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>>16194796
It's better to master a romance language before moving on to Latin. Speeds up the process up learning Latin immensely. French is the best choice of all romance languages. Italian is great too. Spanish and Portuguese are both worth learning as well, but if OP wants to best language to learn out of all languages, its French, sans doute.

>> No.16194837

Latin. Or go try digging up the actual way to speak Egyptian (no one really knows today) and go around swearing at people in it. Hell, learn Sumerian--good fucking luck, it's the hardest language in history--or it's supposed direct modern relative Tamil.

>> No.16194857

>>16194782
French for literature, german for philosophy.

>> No.16194869

>>16194782
grow a dick and learn latin

>> No.16194874

>>16194782
Sanskrit or dont even bother

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>>16194796
>>16194837
>>16194869
t. anons who don't know latin

>> No.16194879

>>16194796
Based
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh0yIwbQFCg

>> No.16194894

>>16194879
that sounds gay as shit, wee wee weeeeeee, whoever is pronouncing that is a faggot anglo try hard lmao

>> No.16194914

>>16194894
cope

>> No.16194915

>>16194914
I'm italian, anglos shouldn't speak our language, sounds very gay and cringe

>> No.16194923

>>16194915
post a video of someone speaking latin correctly then.

>> No.16194949

>>16194879
based restored pronunciation

>> No.16194956

>>16194784
there really isn't any other answer. sure if you want to read regurgitated faggotry go for latin or greek. french is all you need. and worth reading in another language is better translated into french.

>> No.16194966

>>16194956
also i forgot to mention french is worth it just to read Céline's original work

>> No.16194973

>>16194782
What do you want to learn? French is good for sensual, German for complex philosophy, Hebrew for the Bible, Greek for the ogs... Do you just want hipster credit coins at the library? Learn French and fuck the art hoes. Spanish is good for the more down to earth chicks, German for the weirdos, latin for the mystical bitches.

>> No.16194989

>>16194782
If you're above the age of 25 you're fucked anyway

>> No.16195019

>>16194973
German it is

>> No.16195034

>>16195019
you wouldn't understand Hegel if you grew up next door to him. reading native french is far more valuable.

>> No.16195039

>>16194782
learn a language that will let you communicate with people who don't speak english and who don't share your worldview

learn russian

>> No.16195088

Just pick your favorite non-anglo author and learn his language.

>> No.16195098

>>16194973
for literature purposes only, nothing more nothing less.
>>16194857
>>16194810
>>16194784
>>16194830
alright, thanks anons.

>> No.16195101

>>16194810
this.

>> No.16195115

>>16195101
far more is lost from french fiction to english than german philosophy to english.

>> No.16195125

>>16194782
learn Albanian, bitch

>> No.16195343

>>16194989
yes, from the exact moment you become 25 you magically lose the ability to learn any other language. You become unable to even see words in other languages

>> No.16195350

>>16195343
This guy gets it

>> No.16195521

>>16194782
You should probably learn English first.

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>>16194782
Georgian

>> No.16195588

>>16194989
Who is Steve Kaufmann?