What languages do you wish to learn?
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Latin, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, German, Italian, Spanish. Those are form really want to learn to not really want to learn.
Latin is certainly helpful when learning French, Italian, Spanish and Portugese, but I don't know about the "figure out" part. I've studied Latin, French, Italian and Spanish, but Portugese still sounds like Spanish being spoken by a Polish person. Underwater.rutger5000 said:
Brazilian Portugese is a bit different and seems to have other languages mixed in... The instructor at my BJJ school keeps saying something which sounds like "ashpet" (meaning stop) but Iberian Portugese speakers I know don't understand this. In Italian, however, "aspetta" means "wait", so I'm guessing there's a link to that, possibly due to large numbers of Italians in Brazil.
I'd say that Latin was most directly helpful for learning Italian. The fact that one was the spoken language whilst one was the written language (Dante Aligheri was the 1st author to write in Italian) means a lot of Italian is just simplified/corrupted Latin. For instance, the Italian word for "really" or "indeed" is "davvero". The Latin equivalent is "ita vero".
In addition to brushing up the languages I already speak I'd like to get to grips with Farsi, Arabic, Greek and Russian. I've got phrasebooks and TYS packs for Tagalog and Hebrew as well, but I doubt those are gonna be super-useful any time soon. I did a year of German in school but again, not going there anytime soon and most of them speak good English.
Japanese, Sindarin (no one ever said it had to be real), and Python (or useful in everyday life, for that matter).
I would like to learn Choctaw (Native American Language) because I'm an 8th degree Choctaw and Spanish because I want to have more in common with my best friend, who speaks both English and Spanish.
Buy a kinect.FreelanceButler said:
OP: I'll go for Chinese (seems useful these days, there ARE a billion speakers of it) and Russian (I need to know it if I plan to badger my way into their space agency)
Latin, most of the northern European languages, since I'll likely spend a lot of holidays there. Lot's of Metal shows, you see. So German, Finnish, Swedish and possibly Norwegian. Wouldn't mind finishing off my Japanese education either. I studied it a little in lower school.
I want to learn Japanese. I know everyone just screamed ANIME WEEBO but it's actually because I was born there. Military brat and all. I was a toddler when we moved back the states so I don't remember it but I'd like to go back to my birthplace someday, and would like to be able to communicate when I do so.
