Ever Wanted to Learn a "Niche" Language?

[Leyawiin]

I'm talking about a relatively small language primarily spoken in one or two countries. I've always wanted to learn Afrikaans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans

Have an interest in South Africa - seems like a really interesting place from a human history perspective plus it looks to be very beautiful. I've read that Afrikaans is probably the easiest language for an English speaker to learn as well.

Runner up would be one of the Scandinavian languages like Danish or Norwegian.

 

[lxskllr]

Irish Gaelic. A Scandinavian language would be cool too.

 

[Leyawiin]

Irish Gaelic.

Good one!

 

[Ken g6]

XSLT.

Oh, you meant spoken languages?

 

[Oyeve]

I'm talking about a relatively small language primarily spoken in one or two countries. I've always wanted to learn Afrikaans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans

Have an interest in South Africa - seems like a really interesting place from a human history perspective plus it looks to be very beautiful. I've read that Afrikaans is probably the easiest language for an English speaker to learn as well.

Runner up would be one of the Scandinavian languages like Danish or Norwegian.

This has got to be one of the worst guttural languages ever. Why would anyone want to speak this.

 

[nakedfrog]

XSLT.

Oh, you meant spoken languages?

I hate XSLT so very, very much.

 

[Kaido]

Esperanto!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

 

[PingviN]

Swedish

Knocked it out of the park

 

[ctbaars]

German
It is argued that English is a Scandinavian language.

 

[rga]

I almost went to university to learn (among other things) latin. That's considered a niche language now, isn't it? Ultimately I got recalled from lay-off, and never learned anything at university.

 

[Newbian]

 

[Oyeve]

Aramaic.

 

[Rakehellion]

I'm talking about a relatively small language primarily spoken in one or two countries.

Like Chinese?

 

[MongGrel]

Not really.

I imagine I could pop back into Hawaii and still understand local pidgin there, but I'd be rusty I imagine.

Most people would have no idea half of what they are saying.

Took me awhile to even speak with my father-in-law there at the time, but I learned.

Was a cool guy, too bad his step daughter was such a screw up

 

[zinfamous]

What about one of those funny languages that twins teach other?

 

[tynopik]

British

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Italian. There's pretty much no use for it outside of Italy.

French too unless I go to Quebec or Haiti.

I love the languages but damn I could have spent 6 years in Spanish instead.

 

[pete6032]

I'm talking about a relatively small language primarily spoken in one or two countries. I've always wanted to learn Afrikaans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans

Have an interest in South Africa - seems like a really interesting place from a human history perspective plus it looks to be very beautiful. I've read that Afrikaans is probably the easiest language for an English speaker to learn as well.

Runner up would be one of the Scandinavian languages like Danish or Norwegian.

Afrikaans has a stigma to it associated with former slavers and current hillbillies. And yes, SA is beautiful.

If you ever have a chance to go, you should check out the Afrikaans language monument
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans_Language_Monument

 

[GagHalfrunt]

That.

Nothing scores chicks like being able to speak Klingon.

 

[zinfamous]

Italian. There's pretty much no use for it outside of Italy.

French too unless I go to Quebec or Haiti.

I love the languages but damn I could have spent 6 years in Spanish instead.

Oh shit, I actually forgot that I could speak Italian for ~1 year.

 

[glenn1]

Hungarian seems like it would be cool to learn - it's like they're trolling Europe by using a non Indo-European language family.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Oh shit, I actually forgot that I could speak Italian for ~1 year.

Yeah I lived in Italy for about a year and was relatively fluent by the end. Then came back to US and forgot all of it. Can barely put together a sentence now.

Same with French. Studied it for 5 years, was fluent when I was staying in Paris, now I don't remember a thing.

 

[brianmanahan]

i learned prolog and it's awesome

 

[Midwayman]

I took some Swahili in college.

 

[Leyawiin]

Afrikaans has a stigma to it associated with former slavers and current hillbillies. And yes, SA is beautiful.

If you ever have a chance to go, you should check out the Afrikaans language monument
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans_Language_Monument

Yeah, I can understand that. My pharmacist is a really nice lady from Cape Town. She and her husband have that accent like from District 9. Knowing them is probably what sparked my interest.