What language should I take this fall?

[Summitdrinker]

take russian, chinese, or arabic..maybe Japanese.....................

why learn the language of two washed up countries

 

[TanisHalfElven]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRomantic
yeah... I've never really seen too many similarities in Spanish and French. Sadly, the U doesn't offer Romanian. (personally, I'd love to learn Lithuanian. I've been taught to read it and have been told I read it well, I just don't understand it.) I don't understand how Romanian was forgotten as it wasn't an option for me to take...

learn greek.
or Japanese for all the anime.

 

[HardcoreRomantic]

The reason I'm trying to choose between these two is because they are the only two that have open seats in class times that I have open. The rest are all offered during classes that I need to take for my major. This would just be my "fun" class.

 

[Fritzo]

Take neither and do what I did. Say you're bi-lingual and your second language is something like Warumungu (choose any obscure African or Austrailian language). Then just make stuff up if they ask you to speak it.

 

[sierrita]

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
German.

They already mopped the floor with the frogs in 2 WWs.

Uh, the French were on the winning side in both those wars, Einstein.

 

[ebaycj]

If you want to stay here in america, learning spanish would be most useful (I guess I'm assuming you have a decent comprehension / mastery of the english language, if not, learn that first).

 

[Daverino]

From a business world perspective, French. It is spoken more widely internationally. Truth is that German is only spoken in Germany, Austria and parts of Switzerland, for the most part. The vast majority of people in those countries will also speak English. While the same is true for Francophone countries, there are more of them and they tend to appreciate more if you speak their language. In my experience, Germans, especially younger ones, are more ambivalent about speaking English than French speakers, especially Quebecois.

Spanish, Chinese and Japanese, in that order, are still more useful than either French or German.

 

[HardcoreRomantic]

As much as I'd like to learn French, I think I'm going to end up taking German, mostly because it meets everday (hearing it everyday as opposed to twice a week makes it much easier to pick up). Again, I know neither of these is really as "useful" as a few other languages, these are really just my only two options since I'm registering so late.

 

[Summitdrinker]

Originally posted by: sierrita

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
German.

They already mopped the floor with the frogs in 2 WWs.

Uh, the French were on the winning side in both those wars, Einstein.

well.............did the germans mob the floor in WW1, ?????????????????
not really from what I always learned the french were holding there own in WW1, and that the USA didn't need to join in, which helped lead to not wanting to get into ww2


what about the 1000 years before WW1? france was top dog, german wasn't much of powerhouse at all, actually they were weak

 

[thecrecarc]

Take german, if u say it fast and loud u sound like hitler

 

[Capt Caveman]

German

 

[paulney]

Another vote for German language.

Ich spreche Deutsch nur ein Bischen

 

[paulney]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Take french. It will be much easier since you already have some spanish.

Ich habe Deutsch von zwei Jahre im Universitat gelehrnt.
Ich kann Deutsch spreche nicht.

Fixed (I hope!)

 

[Summitdrinker]

stoopnigals

 

[nageov3t]

hated french. all the accents (like, accents on letters, not how to pronounce things) always messed me up

 

[Daverino]

Originally posted by: paulney

Originally posted by: spidey07
Take french. It will be much easier since you already have some spanish.

Ich habe Deutsch von zwei Jahre im Universitat gelehrnt.
Ich kann Deutsch spreche nicht.

Fixed (I hope!)

Ich kann Deutsch nicht sprechen?

 

[paulney]

Originally posted by: Daverino

Originally posted by: paulney

Originally posted by: spidey07
Take french. It will be much easier since you already have some spanish.

Ich habe Deutsch von zwei Jahre im Universitat gelehrnt.
Ich kann Deutsch spreche nicht.

Fixed (I hope!)

Ich kann Deutsch nicht sprechen?

I think either way works.
Edit: that should have been 'sprechen' of course, you are right.

 

[imported_Lothar]

Ich bin ein Berliner.

 

[0roo0roo]

being able to pull off a great hitler impression beats a fey frenchman one.

 

[KoolDrew]

German. :thumbsup: