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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 21:40:36 GMT -5
☁︎ out of character ☁︎ i would like to learn a language, what do you think i should learn ?
☁︎ roleplay ☁︎
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Post by mickle on Aug 2, 2017 22:10:58 GMT -5
alrite. any preferences? european? asian? south asian? african? aboriginal? scandinavian? cyrillic? romance? a minority language? a conlang? what about the difficulty level? something that takes years like japanese or chinese, or something you can pick up more easily such as spanish? wanna learn a language that's important within your heritage? a language that's part of a culture you're interested in? something in high demand like chinese, russian, or spanish and sought after in the business world?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 22:29:56 GMT -5
unless u have a language u want to pursue for personal reasons (it's culturally important, a relative speaks it, etc), i'd go w something like chinese or spanish that that could be good to know for professional reasons or just bc ya know it's rlly widely spoken so it wouldn't hurt to know it
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 22:56:09 GMT -5
mandarin or spanish bc a good chunk of the world speaks those two languages, and they're both v valuable for jobs (chinese esp if you're going into business).
i learned french, which isn't too useful here, but it still helps me bc i can understand basic phrases in the other romance languages. i'm in the process of learning mandarin, and the true killer in that language are the characters and the tones. as far as simplified vs traditional chinese, simplified is used in the PRC and traditional is used in the RC. cantonese (a mutually unintelligible chinese dialect) is spoken in hong kong and iirc macau, and it uses traditional characters.
EDIT: if you want a language that will be *useful* in your everyday or business life, don't go for nordic languages (eg. swedish, danish, norwegian)... unless you want to learn them? because from my understanding, those countries possess extremely high english fluency due to phenomenal primary and secondary education.
if you want a "pretty" language (which is v subjective), i'd recommend french or italian. french pronounciation and knowing what letters to pronounce in words is really difficult until you get the groove of them, in which case it becomes pretty easy due to pronounciations being *fairly* standardized compared to english.
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Post by argyle lechuga on Aug 2, 2017 22:59:46 GMT -5
if u want something super fun and engaging russian is a good option! im learning it rn and it's great. but for practical/career stuff/travel, Spanish by far. ive been learning it for five years now and ive used it irl a lot
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Post by Haleigh on Aug 2, 2017 23:21:19 GMT -5
I'm teaching Japanese on the Non-English forums if you want to check that out...you have to learn to read it first though. If that helps.
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