Language, do you speak it?

[Suu]

Right now, I'm a lit major. But I plan to do programs in history and philosphy as well.

I've been told German is easy, and I've been thinking about taking French. Latin would be a sure fire winner, but it's not offered where I'm at right now.

So, I guess it's a toss-up between French and German... But aren't the French really snooty about thier language?

D-Cup did a lot of work with French. I personally have not taken it.

URI offers Latin, but if you're meeting your 2 consecutive semester requirement for school, go with something you can easily continue with in the summer or next fall at URI if you won't be at CCRI. I know we have French and German.

[Suu]

Canadian is pretty easy to learn.

Canadian is a disease, not a language! 

[Cramulus]

latin is super useful because it boosts your English vocabulary. but it is a very difficult language to learn.


Spanish is probably the most useful, if only to understand what the people at the bodega are saying about you.

[Phox]

You should not ask me such a question.  

But if you want any actually useful language: German, Spanish, or French ought to be among your top choices. German is the easiest IMO, because it's linguistically close to English. French is very difficult because of the pronunciation and lack thereof.

If you want a language that is relatively easy to learn, contextually useful, and probably won't require an oral exam: Latin.

Bullshit. I had oral exams in Latin.

However, if you do take Latin, you can probably Rosetta Stone any Romance Language and pick it up twice as fast.

I never had oral exams.

We had COMPETITIONS. 

Well, come to think of it, I know of schools that did that. I did not go to one such as that, though.

[Cuddlefish]

aren't the French really snooty about thier language?

Your rite, their really picky about how yuo speak there language.

owowowowowow

Thanks, now I have head-explody...

[Whatever]

Right now, I'm a lit major. But I plan to do programs in history and philosphy as well.

I've been told German is easy, and I've been thinking about taking French. Latin would be a sure fire winner, but it's not offered where I'm at right now.

So, I guess it's a toss-up between French and German... But aren't the French really snooty about thier language?

 Well they will make terrible fun of you if you mangle something too badly.  However, 20 years ago when I did my version of the "grand tour", I found that French was as commonly spoken as English in a lot of European countries.  

[Phox]

latin is super useful because it boosts your English vocabulary. but it is a very difficult language to learn.

I disagree. It's inflected, but it's not terribly more difficult than Spanish.

[Cuddlefish]

latin is super useful because it boosts your English vocabulary. but it is a very difficult language to learn.


Spanish is probably the most useful, if only to understand what the people at the bodega are saying about you.

Agreed on both accounts. However, I have a personal... erm... we'll call it a "dislike," for the spanish language. Hearing someone speak spanish is like fingernails on a chalk board for me...

[LMNO]

aren't the French really snooty about thier language?

Your rite, their really picky about how yuo speak there language.

owowowowowow

Thanks, now I have head-explody...

That was an incredibly difficult sentence to write.

[Suu]

latin is super useful because it boosts your English vocabulary. but it is a very difficult language to learn.


Spanish is probably the most useful, if only to understand what the people at the bodega are saying about you.

Agreed on both accounts. However, I have a personal... erm... we'll call it a "dislike," for the spanish language. Hearing someone speak spanish is like fingernails on a chalk board for me...

Then try Italian or Portuguese, they sound better and are very similar.

But yes, French is the 2nd most spoken language in Europe. Learning that and English are almost required. Plus, you can go to Quebec and quack your head off with those freaks...and if you fuck up, they're less likely to bite your head off than actual French people will.

[Phox]

latin is super useful because it boosts your English vocabulary. but it is a very difficult language to learn.


Spanish is probably the most useful, if only to understand what the people at the bodega are saying about you.

Agreed on both accounts. However, I have a personal... erm... we'll call it a "dislike," for the spanish language. Hearing someone speak spanish is like fingernails on a chalk board for me...

Then try Italian or Portuguese, they sound better and are very similar.

But yes, French is the 2nd most spoken language in Europe. Learning that and English are almost required. Plus, you can go to Quebec and quack your head off with those freaks...and if you fuck up, they're less likely to bite your head off than actual French people will.

But if you use Quebecois colloquialisms, "real" French people will bite your head off. 

[Cramulus]

latin is super useful because it boosts your English vocabulary. but it is a very difficult language to learn.

I disagree. It's inflected, but it's not terribly more difficult than Spanish.

No way! I had two years of Spanish, three years of Latin, and one year of German. I'd say German was the easiest, then Spanish, then Latin.

Latin has more genders, a, SOV sentence structure that is alien to English speakers, and inflects nouns and adjectives (in addition to verbs).

[Phox]

latin is super useful because it boosts your English vocabulary. but it is a very difficult language to learn.

I disagree. It's inflected, but it's not terribly more difficult than Spanish.

No way! I had two years of Spanish, three years of Latin, and one year of German. I'd say German was the easiest, then Spanish, then Latin.

Latin has more genders, a, SOV sentence structure that is alien to English speakers, and inflects nouns and adjectives (in addition to verbs).

Spanish has genders and inflects nouns to a degree (and so does English, for that matter).

And not to blow your mind, but the SOV sentence structure is just a suggestion, not a hard and fast rule. It gets tossed by the wayside by real Latin all the time. But once you understand the inflectional system, and get past the SVO structure hangup, it's really not hard.

[Kurt Christ]

Learn Welsh.

[Phox]

Learn Welsh.

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Seriously though, no. Don't learn Welsh.