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NotOP !!xbamUMLm3g1 Wed Dec 14 22:10:52 2011 No.4142974 [Reply] [Original]

I want to learn another language. I know Basic French because I'm Canadian, but I despise the French language and its people. What's the most useful/transferable in the first world?

I like the prospect of learning German considering English is based on it.

Also I would be able to understand German porn.

Anonymous Wed Dec 14 22:11:03 2011 No.4142979

Pick your poison: http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=German

Yeah, German is a pretty common trade language in Europe, so I guess it's handy. I plan on learning German. You might want to learn Spanish too, gonna' be the primary language in like 20 years in North America.

>>	小白 !GWAILOlXiw Wed Dec 14 22:11:03 2011 No.4142978 Learn chinese. :3c

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 22:11:03 2011 No.4142980 >>4142974 Just learn French, French candians are awesome they are chill as Fuck and funny

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 22:12:03 2011 No.4142981 eubonics

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 22:12:10 2011 No.4142984 File: 63 KB, 375x375, 1000x500px-LL-cf675f07_George-costanza.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >~2012 >not learning latin like a boss ISHYGDDT

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 22:12:10 2011 No.4142985 german or russian, any sort of asian language is a waste of time. they are the definition of waste as seen by the majority of them also teaching english.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 22:14:19 2011 No.4142991 >>4142985 >asians already know english! >implying europeans don't

Anonymous Wed Dec 14 22:15:26 2011 No.4142992

>>4142979
lol, you think Spanish is going to take over North America. English is one of the two most widely spoken languages in the WORLD. It's probably the most widely spoken language. Why would that advantage, being able to communicate with almost anyone, disappear?

>>	Marvel /Co/nan Fan Wed Dec 14 22:25:39 2011 No.4143028 German isn't a terribly hard language to learn. Up until you hit the Genitiv case. Nobody I've talked to can tell me just WHY they need to use it. But they do. Sometimes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 22:29:02 2011 No.4143038 In order of future usefulness: Chinese, Spanish, or Italian. Bitches love Italian.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 22:29:10 2011 No.4143039 Learn latin and greek.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 22:35:50 2011 No.4143060 > I know Basic French because I'm Canadian, but I despise the French language and its people. high schooler detected

>>	NotOP !!xbamUMLm3g1 Wed Dec 14 22:38:06 2011 No.4143073 >>4143060 I've been around Europe and the Americas (Including France [Capitol & Riviera]) and French people are by far the rudest, most ungrateful people I have ever met.

Anonymous Wed Dec 14 22:42:38 2011 No.4143098

Fuck chineese. Have you seen that shit ? Is absolutely useless, is an inferior languaje and due to the "computer era" (i.e. the use of keyboards) will become obsolete.

If you wan to open you mind german might not be the best because engish is already a germanic language.

Try either a romanic, or russian. Everything else is a waste of time.

>>4143038

Btw this guy gets it, bitches love italian.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 22:42:38 2011 No.4143099 >>4142974 >What's the most useful/transferable in the first world? Chinese The future belongs to china. \thread

>>	NotOP !!xbamUMLm3g1 Wed Dec 14 22:45:03 2011 No.4143112 >>4143099 Which language? There's like 20.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 22:47:18 2011 No.4143120 >>4143073 >most ungrateful Grateful for what, exactly? What did you do that deserve thanks while there?

Anonymous Wed Dec 14 22:49:27 2011 No.4143125

>>4143112

You mean two? Mandarin and Cantonese?

Also they are absolutely identical at the introcudctory level, which is why intro (and even upper level undergad university) courses are literally called "Chinese".

source: i'm a canadian white male with no chinese connections who took two intro chinese courses in uni

also underage b&

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>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 22:51:43 2011 No.4143134 esperanto is the future

>>	Blackman Wed Dec 14 22:54:58 2011 No.4143145 >>4143125 There is only one Chinese language. Mandarin and Cantonese are simply dialects.

NotOP !!xbamUMLm3g1 Wed Dec 14 22:55:07 2011 No.4143149

>>4143120
If you gave up a seat to an old person on the metro. No merci.
If you crammed yourself into a cart to make room for someone. No merci.
If you held a door for someone. No merci.
If you bought something from someone. No merci
If you didn't let them scam the subway system they would be pissed.

All while acting like they live in the best place on earth and are mounds superior to you for speaking French. It was like the whole country had a superiority complex.

Paris is dogshit and hugely over-rated. Smells like shit too.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 23:17:39 2011 No.4143210 ITT: Trash France

>>	NotOP !!xbamUMLm3g1 Wed Dec 14 23:18:55 2011 No.4143218 >>4143210 Its fucking bad man. So bad that Francophones are emigrating to Quebec.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 23:29:14 2011 No.4143238 >>4143145 10 GOLD STARS

Anonymous Thu Dec 15 12:06:10 2011 No.4145061

>>4142974

english isn't "based on" german you fuckwit. that's like saying humans are based on chimps. they share a common ancestor.

if you trace old german and old english (and dutch, etc) back far enough you find a common germanic language, but one is not based on the other.

there are a lot of germanic languages; the one spoken in germany is called "german" but it isn't the base germanic language due to that fact; the base germanic language doesn't exist anymore and hasn't for thousands of years.

don't bother learning any new languages, just jump off a fucking bridge.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 12:07:19 2011 No.4145065 Learn japanese, you can watch all the anime and porn

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 12:10:42 2011 No.4145074 Spanish is easy. Learn numbers, colors, nouns, verbs, common phrases etc. Easiest way to pick up any language.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 12:53:46 2011 No.4145218 >>4143149 They probably don't say thanks because it's common, natural practice ?

Anonymous Thu Dec 15 13:04:06 2011 No.4145253

>>4142974
As a fellow Canadian who also knows basic french, I would recommend spanish or italian. A lot of the words are similar to french, but the pronunciation isn't as difficult. I spent 5 weeks in italy in highschool, and I was able to read their little crappy free commuter newspapers, just based on the french I knew. And I didn't really have any problems in restaurants or shops when they spoke italian to me.

On the other hand, I've tried to learn of bit of german, and it's much harder. A lot of people say german is easy to learn for someone who only speaks english, but if you know your basic canadian highschool french, it will be much easier to learn another romantic language than german, dutch, or other languages.

Anonymous Thu Dec 15 13:12:54 2011 No.4145275

>>4143149
>brother lives in france
>visits corsica (french island)
>they speak corsican there (it's own language, but basically french&italian in a blender)
>has a few drinks with some locals, starts asking them about the corsican language
>asks them how to say "thank you"
>guys look puzzled, spend a couple minutes speaking to each other in corsican
>"yeah, there's not really a way to say that in corsican. No one who speaks corsican would ever need to say thanks to someone else who speaks corsican"

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 13:14:18 2011 No.4145282 Mandarin Spanish Russian Arabic

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 13:20:58 2011 No.4145306 I want to learn Russian just so i can use a new alphabet. And it sounds like english played backwards. How useful is it as a language though?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 13:34:34 2011 No.4145349 >>4143098 你不聪明。 Chinese and German are two good languages to learn.

Anonymous Thu Dec 15 13:39:14 2011 No.4145374

>>4145306
Russian is only useful in Russia, or places with a big Russian population, of which there are not many. And if you're not white and skinny, and you travel to Russia, they'll skin you alive and feed you to their bears. Alive.
If you're not fat and white and live amongst Russians, then Russian will be the most useful thing ever.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 13:40:22 2011 No.4145377 >>4145374 And also be careful not to get mixed up with any of the mafia. You'd be surprised at how many Russians are part of some mafia.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 15:01:51 2011 No.4145661 >>4145374 They hate fat people?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 17:13:19 2011 No.4146109 >>4145661 Honestly now, who doesn't hate fat people?

Anonymous Thu Dec 15 17:22:23 2011 No.4146164

>>4142974
>>4142979
>>4143028

I'm actually studying German right now - it's not terribly complex at the moment but yeah, as someone said before, it's about to get much more complex. My main problem is that in German nouns have gender - but so do nouns in Hebrew (my first language), and they don't correspond at all! A ship is female in Hebrew but non-gender in German, a train is also female in Hebrew but male in German, etc.

Chinese will be spoken, not written, at least until voice recognition software gets much more advanced - writing all the hundreds of different Chinese dialects on standard keyboards is extremely difficult. English is an international language now, for better or worse.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 17:25:47 2011 No.4146174 OP is NOT a faggot, French are gay as fuck. Props OP.

>>	Blackman Thu Dec 15 17:29:10 2011 No.4146198 I write Chinese poems in my spare time if anyone is interested

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 17:33:43 2011 No.4146215 死婊子、草你妹 >>4145349

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 17:39:22 2011 No.4146253 >What's the most useful/transferable in the first world? English. Everything else is only useful in very specific contexts (ex: You're an employee in a business that deals a lot with Japan, so it would be useful to know Japanese).

Anonymous Thu Dec 15 17:45:10 2011 No.4146281
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>>4143149
If you made it apparent that you were a tourist that might explain a lot. Most french people don't expect tourists to understand french words and aren't confident enough in their level in english to say english words, so they will often stay awkwardly silent. I'm not saying most of us don't think we live in the best place in the world, but, admit it, in all non-shitty countries most people think their country is the best...

That being said... Go for Chinese.

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