Charmonium
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Ancient Egyptian or Babylonian. Only problem with Egyptian is that you wouldn't be able to speak it since like Hebrew, they only wrote in consonants.
Oh shit, I actually forgot that I could speak Italian for ~1 year.
If it were humanly possible, I'd quite seriously love to be able to speak every human language there is (not to mention non-human "languages", though even in my wildest fantasies, I like to remain at least vaguely realistic.) While I wouldn't give an eye or my right arm to be able to do it, it would probably be my first of 3 wishes if I ever ran into a lamp-dwelling djinn.I'm talking about a relatively small language primarily spoken in one or two countries.
By all means, but I've known a couple of South Africans fairly well and, to my ear anyway, it's really nothing special. To me it just sounds like Yet Another Anglo-Saxon language... more specifically, almost exactly like the Dutch it sprang from, only a tad lighter on the gutterals. There are a couple of basic grammatical differences, but otherwise it didn't change all that much from the original, linguistically-speaking...I've always wanted to learn Afrikaans:
Again, by all means. I don't personally have a great interest in them, but I will offer my opinion, for what it's worth, that Swedish has always struck me as the easiest of 'em for native English speaker to learn, at least to read and write. At least once you've learned how the letters are pronounced and so can sound it out in your head, if not out loud. At first glance, it doesn't look much like it, but sounded out on a word-by-word basis, it's surprisingly English-like...Runner up would be one of the Scandinavian languages like Danish or Norwegian.
Dutch is what I'd pick too, mainly because there is so much video content available with Dutch subs that it would be easy to practice whenever you wanted and still have fun.Something native to northern Europe, like Dutch. I can't be bothered to learn a language where it isn't spoken though, I'd need to move there first.
There are a lot more French speaking countries than you realize.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.
That.
Nothing scores chicks like being able to speak Klingon.
That is definitely a fictional language. It has to violate some natural law to have so many words with only consonants.Welsh!
Farsi so, I can go to work for Blackwater and earn the big bucks.
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.
I rely on the wife for Italian and French.
She has never been really fluent in either, but she grew up in an Italian family in NY and knows quite a bit, I've picked up some over time that way.
She can usually get the gist of a conversation at least.
i did the pimsleur farsi. dang things didn't even teach you all the days of the week.
French really won't do you much good on a daily basis in Haiti. Only the more/most educated, "upper class" Haitians speak it at all, and many of even them don't speak it in ordinary conversation. And given local history there, a lot of Haitians that don't fit the above categories tend to pretend to not understand French at all unless they absolutely need to, even when they can in fact do so, at least to some extent...French too unless I go to Quebec or Haiti
There are a lot more French speaking countries than you realize.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_territorial_entities_where_French_is_an_official_language