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Anonymous Tue Oct 9 06:33:37 2012 No.3044412 [Reply] [Original]

English-speaking monoglot jive turkey here,

What foreign language should I start learning next year, and why?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 07:15:37 2012 No.3044426 Latin, obviously

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 07:56:26 2012 No.3044449 >>3044412 I vote German. It has a bunch of untranslated works, and is close enough to english that it makes an excellent 2nd language

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 08:00:26 2012 No.3044453 File: 65 KB, 467x360, 1329999414612.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3044426 backed mfw

Anonymous Tue Oct 9 08:17:26 2012 No.3044470

It really depends on what you want from a language. If you want to be able to communicate with more people then Chinese, Arabic, Spanish etc. If you want to be a hipster faggot douche and learn a language just to tell people you can speak it then whatever you like the sound of you hipster fucking cunt.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 08:26:08 2012 No.3044474 >>3044412 You should learn moonspeak OP. We can take this journey together.

Anonymous Tue Oct 9 08:51:08 2012 No.3044500

>>3044449
Not German, it sounds horrendous.

French or Spanish if you want to learn a language closer to English, because they sound nice and are useful around the world.

Personally I would like to learn Russian, Japanese and Hungarian because they interest me as languages, but they are all quite difficult.

Anonymous Tue Oct 9 08:55:08 2012 No.3044507

>>3044470
This. I would go with Spanish and then go on the dole and live with my parents officially but secretly go down to southern Spain for months on end and live in a tent on some pleasant old guy's piece of land and swim in the Mediterranean and be tan and bare chested and sun bleached haired and go around wandering doing nothing and write short stories on a cheap notepad at night.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 09:26:41 2012 No.3044530 >>3044500 you shouldn't learn a language because of the way it sounds. german is a very poetic language, so is russian. if you get the hang of it, it can be fun to speak because you can express yourself more nuanced than you could with english.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 09:31:41 2012 No.3044531 How difficult would it be to learn three languages at once? (that's three days a week of lessons).

>>	dsfdsfdsf Tue Oct 9 09:32:41 2012 No.3044532 sdfsdfvdcv

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 09:36:41 2012 No.3044534 don't be a pussy, learn german spanish and french. set in europe 4 lyf niga

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 09:48:42 2012 No.3044538 >>3044412 >and why? That's your question to answer faggot. Tell us what do you want out of the next language you will learn.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 09:48:42 2012 No.3044539 >>3044534 >Spanish You mean German, Italian and French. Spanish is next to useless. >inb4 "400 million people speak Spanish" most of whom are Mexicans, Carribean islanders and South Americans

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 09:57:16 2012 No.3044551 since your turkish you might aswell learn german after that a slavic language and you're all set

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 09:58:16 2012 No.3044553 >>3044539 oh yeah cus if you know italian you can watch bits of the sopranos without subtitles

Anonymous Tue Oct 9 10:02:59 2012 No.3044555

>>3044412
I'm learning Arabic because I think it sounds at the same time terrifying and mysterious.

I'm also learning Mandarin after because it's very popular and seems to be becoming the language of international business.

Both of these language choices were based partially off the beauty of their caligraphy and partially because Malcom X said they were the two he was going to learn before he died, but never got to.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 10:02:59 2012 No.3044556 >>3044553 0/10

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 10:04:57 2012 No.3044557 I had an infograph that was "which language should I learn?", but I lost it.

Anonymous Tue Oct 9 10:09:57 2012 No.3044559
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>English for 380 million native speakers + 1.6 billion other speakers
>Spanish for entire Latin America, so more 500 million people
>Portuguese for more 200 million people
>Standard Chinese for 1.5 billion people

>mfw I can talk to 2/3 of the world.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 10:12:57 2012 No.3044562 >>3044559 >Spanish >Portuguese Nice waste of time you got there

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 10:13:58 2012 No.3044563 File: 75 KB, 240x200, smashingmon.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3044559 >mfw you know the words but have the social skills of a mentally challenged stick

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 10:23:57 2012 No.3044568 >>3044562 Nevermind, just reading Fernando Pessoa, Machado de Assis, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar... Just hitchiking from Rio de Janeiro to Chile, visiting Macchu Pichuu and ending up in Mexico. >>3044563 u jelly

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 10:24:57 2012 No.3044569 >>3044559 >learning a language to speak it to people and not just read lit normalfag pls go

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 10:26:57 2012 No.3044572 >>3044569 >normalfag pls go Oh God, this faggotry has reached /lit/ too? Will no board be safe?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 10:28:57 2012 No.3044575 >>3044572 People are not confined to one board. pls go

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 10:30:57 2012 No.3044576 >>3044559 That's a good combination, how many years has it taken you so far?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 10:31:58 2012 No.3044577 >>3044575 People like you should. /r9k/ or something.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 10:34:57 2012 No.3044579 >>3044577 People like you should deal with it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 10:40:57 2012 No.3044586 >>3044579 I'm dealing with it. You're a faggot. By the way, I have a girlfriend whom I fuck at least once a day.

Anonymous Tue Oct 9 10:42:57 2012 No.3044590

>>3044569
I didn't. I learned chinese for the calligraphy, spanish for the literature.

>>3044576
Portuguese is my first language. English came by getting into films, internet and books, in that order. I'd say it took me 10 years to go from not knowing shit to be able to express myself and read a book in English as if it was as natural as Portuguese. Spanish is very similar to Portuguese, I travelled across america, talked to people, read a lot of Pablo Neruda and in just a couple of years I became comfortable with it. I took a one year course on Chinese, and as pure coincidence I went to live next to a Chinese neighborhood. I exagerated, I don't think I can speak Chinese fluently, though I know how to get around.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 11:07:25 2012 No.3044617 Kurdish.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 11:32:41 2012 No.3044648 >>3044586 >HURDUR I RUB GENITALS WITH A WOMAN, OBSERVE MY SELF WORTH She's probably ugly.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 11:34:40 2012 No.3044653 I want to learn Russian so I can live in Russia and be an uber 1337 h4XX0r. I want to learn Japanese so I can live in Japan and watch animu and mango raw and untranslated all day all year

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 11:37:40 2012 No.3044659 >>3044568 >hitchhiking in South America post face, so I can purchase your shrunken head when it comes on the market

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 11:42:40 2012 No.3044667 >>3044659 Too bad, you're late. I already did that trip and came out okay.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 11:47:17 2012 No.3044670 File: 51 KB, 396x385, mournful-lizard.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3044667 >tfw no wants your shrunken head

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 11:48:17 2012 No.3044674 File: 94 KB, 399x388, melancholictoad.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3044670 >tfw you forget a word and everyone laughs at you

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 12:00:40 2012 No.3044698 >>3044531 please respond

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 12:12:46 2012 No.3044715 >>3044698 Depends on the languages. Choosing dissimilar languages would help if your liable to confuse things easily.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 12:14:45 2012 No.3044722 >>3044715 French, German, Russian.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 12:34:52 2012 No.3044748 Slovenian, it's one of the most difficult languages to learn.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 12:38:51 2012 No.3044751 >>3044586 You are the worst kind of poster.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 12:50:51 2012 No.3044760 >>3044617 Not OP, I want to learn it but fuckers have so little material to work on. I also can't move all the way to Turkey and step into a war zone just to learn Kurdish.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 12:51:51 2012 No.3044761 >>3044648 I'm not professing my self worth, I was just trying to upset the "oh my God, people have a social life" fucktard earlier. I don't even have a girlfriend.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 12:54:51 2012 No.3044768 fransızca kanka diğerlerini boşver bok gibi hepsi Je t'aime

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 9 23:51:58 2012 No.3046252 >>3044768 >>3044768 Turkish is a filthy language not worth learning. There are so many more worthy of your time such as any other language.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 10 05:13:34 2012 No.3046758 File: 179 KB, 300x371, jive turkey.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3044412 >English-speaking monoglot jive turkey here >monoglot jive turkey >jive turkey

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 10 05:21:09 2012 No.3046768 >>3046252 Pay debnts, Grease.

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