I want to learn a new language but none of my options look appealing.There's Spanish, but what am I going to do with it, or any other European language really? I can talk to those guys through English as well. There's Japanese, but I lost interest in Japanese media over the last years so it feels pointless if I'm not watching or reading any anime/mangaFinally I'm actually considering Chinese, but I feel like I will never understand it without living in China for 20 years since it's apparently a mess of a language.Anyway, what would you do?,
>>35068364Taushiro
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Why not try a few on Duolingo and see what's most fun? I want to learn Spanish, Navajo, and sign language for my linguistics degree. Maybe a little French. My local university has an amazing Japanese program but the culture in Japan seems unfriendly to someone with my set of issues. I'm starting with Spanish because I am located in the Southwest and want to be able to help people who don't understand much English. If I were going to be a linguist for the FBI, then I'd focus on Arabic, Chinese, and so on. When I don't know what to do, I pray a lot and talk with my therapist. It doesn't help immediately but after a few days, I have more clarity.
>>35068364Sign language is easy to pick up because of muscle memory. Japanese is fun but hard. I don't even like anime or manga but I enjoy learning Japanese. ASL would take less time to become functional IMO. I wanna take Russian classes but my uni stopped offering them. If you wanna learn a language that makes you a more valuable employee, then German, Japanese, or Chinese. Although you probably wouldn't wanna work/live in Japan and ESPECIALLY not mainland China.
Esperanto, but only if you can speak it like a native.
>>35068364>There's Spanish, but what am I going to do with it, or any other European language really?Spanish is useful in the US, and in most parts of central and south America. Portuguese is useful in Brazil. French is the main language in a number of African countries.But you should also think about what you might want to read or watch. There are a great many wonderful novels written in French and Russian; and while of course they're available in translation, it's not the same. And needing subtitles or (worse still) dubbing for movies and TV isn't the same as being able to understand it directly.
>>35074751lolKinda evil for suggesting such a meme language
Go Russian
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You'll never learn a language you're not interested inLike, unless you want to watch their shows, read their books, play their games, it's not worth to learn a different language. You'll quickly forget it anyway
What's the point in learning a new language you have no use for? Also, you will never be truly fluent in any language you try to learn if you don't actively engage in it's media every day.I think you should either try to come up with a good reason to learn a specific language, or invest your time in a skill that's actually useful to you.
>>35075147>What's the point in learning a new language you have no use for?Bragging rights. Ideally, actually be interest in it as well
>>35075166Bro, you're gonna spend thousands of hours learning a languages for bragging rights? There are countless other things you can learn to achieve the same result.If you're really committed to the idea, what you can do is get a student visa by signing up for language school in another country. Japan for example is really cheap to live in now, so if you have any savings, you can go there for a year or two and live like a king, while also getting the everyday exposure to japanese that you need to learn ir. There are other countries with similar deals.
>>35075179>living in Japan for a year or two with savingsHow much savings do you think I have?Also, would it change anything if I wanted to learn Chinese for work, like if I wanted to relocate and work in Singapore for example?
>>35068364>I'm actually considering Chinese
>>35075214I'm not sure, i only looked deeper into japan, so i can't say anything about what's it like in china or what's the cost of living like, but i do think i heard the also have language schools for foreigners there.In japan you can get by on 25k for 2 years including the tuition, even more so if you decide to work part time. With 50k you'll be living really well.
>>35075254>picrelIt's just a racist being melodramatic who worked in shitty environmentsThere's no way all Chinese are like thatRight?
>>35075286>25k for 2 yearsWhat the fuck, I barely survived there as a tourist with 2000 bucks for two weeks lmao
>>35075297Maybe in tokyo if you're living in hotels and eating at restaurants every day. I'm also assuming you spent at least some of that money on entertainment that you wouldn't have paid for outaide of vacation. Also, tourists in general often tend to spend more than long term residents even on the same things.
>>35068364Learn Somali – I’m sure it will protect you from pirates in the future.
>>35075761Yeah I was a big spender alright
>>35075254Thank you for archiving this threadOP see >>35074313
Chinese isn't that hard to speak. It's difficult to write and read but the grammar is super simple for the most part and there's no conjugations like (awake/awoke/awoken or chose/choose/chosen) I would pick Chinese unironically
>>35080353funny you say that reading should be difficult. when i studied chinese at the defense language institute everyone passed reading on their final test but multiple people failed listening. OP, knowing a language isnt really that useful in this day and age. but if you do chinese you'll be able to consume tons of more internet content in chinese, and its representative of a larger pie of the global economy and population. ask me for how to study if u do end up doing chinese. i was top of my class at DLI and I mentored a failing classmate into passing.
>>35075214a lot of the world speaks english. almost every country has some form of english baked into their educational system. and well educated business professionals all speak english, they teach it in college too
>>35075146interest isnt necessarily the best predictor of success. when i studied at DLI all of the failing students had grandiose ideas about learning their respective language, meanwhile the best performers had a clear quantitive motive behind them, i.e money.
>>35080865Okay so what you're saying is that it's unnecessary to learn Chinese for Singapore, got it
>>35074313>ESPECIALLY not mainland China.Why not?
>>35080872>money.I thought learning Chinese isn't that useful in this day and age?
>>35081873We have this program in the military where we get paid more depending on our language scores.>>35081864Correct. I've known people that have worked overseas in Singapore. They can't speak Chinese
>>35082036Interesting, thank you!
>>35068364You should consider that you can learn to be a speaker for others, i.e. look around where you live and see what languages are there and become a speaker of the ones you don't know. You're focusing on the lens of the benefit for you rather than the benefit of you for others, then figuring out what language most people need an English translator or communicator for.
>>35088180Probably Chinese or Indian
