Which Language should I learn besides Japanese?

Kyusaku said:

Like, Hindi? Or Bengali?

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Tamil ownz them both. :buttrock:

Learn something useful.. that is, Chinese, German, or French.

Since you're learning Japanese.. skip Chinese, it'll likely just confuse you and if you're in a business conversation with a Japanese gentleman and drop some Chinese on him.. or vice versa.. well, you probably just blew the deal.

German or French would both be equally useful, but since you know a bit of French already, or are at least familiar with the pronunciations...

French it is.

Sooo... why isn't Spanish an option? Like I said, throughout life I've found and seen this one be the absolute most useful.

Go for Chinese because it's economy is on the rise and it's goin' nowhere but up. Learning Chinese (more likely learning Mandarin more than Cantonese) would probably get you into many high paying business jobs in the near future as a translator or somethin'.

J-Caizer said:

Sooo... why isn't Spanish an option? Like I said, throughout life I've found and seen this one be the absolute most useful.

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I dunno why.. but I have to admit it was very hard pronounce back when I tried it at college. I usually like to pronounce languages in it's accent, and I really sound awful when I'm speaking Spanish in my own English accent. I dunno, I just sound a bit cheesy or something.. Back when I used to live in Germany I spoke German with a German accent, so I guess I'm a bit used to the German accent.

Rising Sun Ranger said:

Wow!! I spent most of my childhood living in Germany, and you just told me my German sucks!!

Sehr Vielen Dank!!

BTW, no I didn't translate this with Google, I typed it in myself.

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Considering you misspelled ist and capitalized name... you really might want to brush up on your German. Shouldn't that be just, "Vielen dank!" if you meant "thanks alot"? One thing is for sure, I certainly don't miss my German (or Spanish) classes. :laugh:

Mikazuki said:

Considering you misspelled ist and capitalized name... you really might want to brush up on your German. Shouldn't that be just, "Vielen dank!" if you meant "thanks alot"? One thing is for sure, I certainly don't miss my German (or Spanish) classes. :laugh:

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Well, you were right on the part where I mispellt ist, I think that was just a slight typo (I forgot the "T").

Yeah, if I could remember correctly my dad once said German has a slightly different system to English, which would use capital letters differently, there are "Namenworter", "Wieworter", "Tuworter", etc.. (sorry I didn't put the umlauted "O" in, my keyboard is British and just right now I'm too tired to use that program with different characters.. ), and some of them would have a reason for starting with a capital letter..

For example, in a German sentence, some words would like have a capital letter in the middle of a sentence, because these words are like names of objects (Namenworter), things you are doing (Tuworter), and what things are like (Wieworter).

In a basic English sentense it would look sorta like this (unless it mentions people's names)..

"I have to go to work tomorrow"

and in German it would look like this..

"I Have to Go to Work Tomorrow"
"Ich Muss Morgen nach Arbeit zu Gehen"

Ich/I = Namenwort
Muss/Have to = Wiewort (I think)
Morgen/Tomorrow = Not sure if that's a Namenwort or a Wiewort..
Arbeit/Work = Namenwort (but Arbeiten is a Wiewort)
Gehen/Go = Tuwort



..and sometimes I keep forgetting to use this system.. :disappoin

But hey!! I guess I'm better at speaking German than I am at writing it!! :anime:

Mind if I use the opportunity to brush up on my crappy German? Do I remember my lessons correctly if I state that in German, every noun has a capital first letter?

kyo28 said:

Mind if I use the opportunity to brush up on my crappy German? Do I remember my lessons correctly if I state that in German, every noun has a capital first letter?

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Er... I think so..

Most useful: Most likely Chinese for economic purposes, globalization, etc.
Second most useful: Spanish - but this is pretty easy to pick up and it can't hurt you.

Most difficult for non-asian speakers: Korean - pronunciation is a biotch and a half as the alphabet depends on phonetics and pronunciation.

Still, it's not as difficult as Chinese - although, it depends on whether you want to just write/read or converse in it. There are simplified forms of Chinese both for writing and speaking. Reading literary chinese though, the kanji, hanmun - they're the same thing - is much easier than speaking for most, but it's still a challenge.

French: has the nice advantage of being what we'd call "the international" language since it's the sister language of the UN. You wouldn't be doing yourself any harm in learning it.

Most feasible for you: German - if you're already familiar with it, chances are brushing up on it won't take too long.