Japanese or French picked Japanese, I want to watch anime without subtitles and read manga in it original language
Poll: If you could learn another language, which would you pick?
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Japanese, hands down. At least so I can watch anime in Japanese and not wory about paying attention to subtitles...
Japanese/Korean for me so I can stop reading those subtitles and be more focused on the anime in question.Besides that,I really like how it sounds.
PS: I hate the dubbed ones.
PS: I hate the dubbed ones.
A few days ago I definitely would have picked Japanese, but I watched Downfall which is a German film about Hitler's, well, downfall, and it was surprisingly wonderful to listen to. Plus I'd feel an odd little connection to my boyfriend whilst speaking it as he took a German language class during his first year of high school. Some people say German sounds like a burly, rough, unpleasant language, but I have to disagree with that and say I found it beautiful.
I also feel like learning Chinese would be really beneficial and also just feel "right" since I'm one-quarter Chinese, which is admittedly kind of a ridiculous reasoning. Also Italian, simply because Assassin's Creed II. My vote still goes to German, though.
Actually the only language I wouldn't want to learn at all, magically or the hard way, is French even though it's supposedly one of the easiest to learn if your native language is English. I've taken French on and off throughout my grade school years and abhorred it. Guess I'll never be able to run for Prime Minister.
I also feel like learning Chinese would be really beneficial and also just feel "right" since I'm one-quarter Chinese, which is admittedly kind of a ridiculous reasoning. Also Italian, simply because Assassin's Creed II. My vote still goes to German, though.
Actually the only language I wouldn't want to learn at all, magically or the hard way, is French even though it's supposedly one of the easiest to learn if your native language is English. I've taken French on and off throughout my grade school years and abhorred it. Guess I'll never be able to run for Prime Minister.
I would love to speak Chinese, specifically Cantonese. So I can know what the hell my family are talking about when we go out for dinner -_- really wish my mum had taught me.
Without having to put in any effort you say? In that case I want to be perfectly fluent in German, Arabic, Japanese and Imperial High Gothic-all perfect tongues for yelling at someone in!
Chinese or hindi/indian.
Beeing the 2 most populated countries in the world, to my knowledge at least, they are gonna be more and more major players in the globalized world.
Other choices would be russian, for the same reason, and spanish/portugese, since an entire continent speaks it.
My reason for down-prioritizing spanish in favour of chinese and hindi is simply that i'm pretty sure i'd have a much easier time learning spanish than chinese/hindu, so it would be less work, if i someday would need both.
Beeing the 2 most populated countries in the world, to my knowledge at least, they are gonna be more and more major players in the globalized world.
Other choices would be russian, for the same reason, and spanish/portugese, since an entire continent speaks it.
My reason for down-prioritizing spanish in favour of chinese and hindi is simply that i'm pretty sure i'd have a much easier time learning spanish than chinese/hindu, so it would be less work, if i someday would need both.
I've always thought it would be pretty rad to learn Latin. Unfortunately, none of the schools by me teach it so it's a no-go.
Probably for the best, really. I don't think I'd have the patience to learn a new language. I took two years of German in high school and it was a bit of a struggle. Then again, I had a completely awful teacher so I didn't try too much in the first place... Ah well.
Probably for the best, really. I don't think I'd have the patience to learn a new language. I took two years of German in high school and it was a bit of a struggle. Then again, I had a completely awful teacher so I didn't try too much in the first place... Ah well.
I feel for you.Girl With One Eye said:
Really thankful my mum taught me her native language. Hope I'm able to pass it on if I have children.
Japanese
I actually started a course at uni, but quit after forgetting everything over the kurisumasu break :-/
but I didn't start it because I'm an anime fan or one of those cliché-nerd reasons. It's just fascinating, I still wanna know how the hell kanji works, it can sound pretty cool, I can actually pronounce it (unlike French or Spanish or Arabic) and Düsseldorf has a small Japanese district, so it doesn't even feel all THAT foreign - people and storesigns and whatnot.
In fact, why don't more Americans know Chinese? You have Chinatowns all over! Oh wait, I forgot, you're Americans, you "don't have to learn anything", nevermind
Also, I'm German, so I can't learn that anymore^^
I actually started a course at uni, but quit after forgetting everything over the kurisumasu break :-/
but I didn't start it because I'm an anime fan or one of those cliché-nerd reasons. It's just fascinating, I still wanna know how the hell kanji works, it can sound pretty cool, I can actually pronounce it (unlike French or Spanish or Arabic) and Düsseldorf has a small Japanese district, so it doesn't even feel all THAT foreign - people and storesigns and whatnot.
In fact, why don't more Americans know Chinese? You have Chinatowns all over! Oh wait, I forgot, you're Americans, you "don't have to learn anything", nevermind
Also, I'm German, so I can't learn that anymore^^
Native Russian/Lithuanian speaker here. English was compulsory in school, had to learn it (the 2nd choice was German but I thought English might be more useful). Currently studying Japanese in uni, so I'd go for Italian. Always liked how it sounded.
i'm kinda torn between German and Japanese.
German would be awesome to learn. it's pretty easy to translate even for someone who only knows a few words. and very easy to pronounce once you know how to. (which i do) i also spent 3 years IN Germany as a child (my mother sheltered me from actually learning the language, damn her)
also, have you ever HEARD an angry German? it sounds badass. i would love to at least learn how to curse someone out in German because it sounds so good.
Japanese would be useful though... i could play games that're released only in Japan and not the US. i could read manga and watch anime before a fansub comes out. hell i could even contribute TO fansubs... it's just all around useful for a guy like me.
German would be awesome to learn. it's pretty easy to translate even for someone who only knows a few words. and very easy to pronounce once you know how to. (which i do) i also spent 3 years IN Germany as a child (my mother sheltered me from actually learning the language, damn her)
also, have you ever HEARD an angry German? it sounds badass. i would love to at least learn how to curse someone out in German because it sounds so good.
Japanese would be useful though... i could play games that're released only in Japan and not the US. i could read manga and watch anime before a fansub comes out. hell i could even contribute TO fansubs... it's just all around useful for a guy like me.
It would either be Japanese or Russian.
Japanese because it would be nice to be able to read/watch work that comes from japan without depending on someone else to translate/upload/seed.
Russian because it sounds fucking awesome.
alternatively Romanian would be a good choice because i got family there, but my mom never taught me the language so when I go visit there once in a blue moon I have no idea what they're talking about.
would I have preferred to learn another language? no, I need English and use it pretty much every day.
Japanese because it would be nice to be able to read/watch work that comes from japan without depending on someone else to translate/upload/seed.
Russian because it sounds fucking awesome.
alternatively Romanian would be a good choice because i got family there, but my mom never taught me the language so when I go visit there once in a blue moon I have no idea what they're talking about.
I didn't learn it by choice because of school, but I would have learned it by myself eventually due to gaming and the internet. so I guess it was both my choice and it was not my choice.AnarchistFish said:
would I have preferred to learn another language? no, I need English and use it pretty much every day.
I'm going into the the video game and animation industry, so Japanese would be more than a little handy.
