<p>Both the UN and NATO are undergoing serious consideration to make Tuvaluan the official language of both organizations. Closer to home, the US Congress realizes the current controversy over making either English or Spanish official languages, and Tuvaluan may very well be the compromise.</p>
<p>A very valuable tongue for the world-wise student.</p>
<p>Icelandic/Finnish/Russian.</p>
<p>Not really a new language, more of a dialect, but try learning how to speak Creole! We went to Belize and most of the natives spoke Belizean Creole and it sounded amazing!</p>
<p>^Creole isn’t a language, it’s just a general term for languages that consist of a mix of mostly-intact words from other languages.</p>
<p>For example, Haitian Creole is what you get when slaves mix their own languages with the French and English of their masters.</p>
<p>^yeah I’m aware, there’s Louisiana Creole too, isn’t there? But it’s still difficult too understand, at least I think so. Yeah, to clarify, its a pidgin language, a mix of two, but it has a lot of english, but it’s in a completely different dialect.</p>
<p>Mandarin Chinese, C++, Java, Spanish…and Russian. I wish I could. I’m probably not going to be able to learn all of them (maybe two?). I wish I had a brain that could memorize and learn everything D:</p>
<p>Dutch. You’ll have the distinction of being one of twelve nonnatives who speak the language.</p>
<p>Go with something useful, not cool.
English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, and Russian.</p>
<p>Portuguese or French wouldn’t be bad either.</p>
<p>Japanese, Hindi/Urdu (which are mutually intelligible) , Indonesian, or German would be significantly lower on the list, but are still better than languages like Italian or Iranian…which, with all due respect, are just not that useful outside Italy and Iran respectively.</p>
<p>Mandarin and Arabic would be the most useful, but as someone who speaks conversational Arabic I warn you it is an incredibly difficult language to learn. I picked up Spanish pretty easily while living in Argentina for a few months as a kid, but even after a month in Amman Arabic still was mostly unintelligible to me. I’ve gotten better since then, and it is a fun language to speak (it isn’t as hard to pronounce as say, Russian) and will be useful in business, policy, gov., etc. in the coming years.</p>
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I know, I was just telling a bunch of people, “Yeah, guys, there’s totally a language called Iranian.”</p>
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<p>Yeah, it’s spoken by a certain breed of cats.</p>
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Yeah, those big hairy light ones… uh… Farsi! Yeah, that’s it, Farsi cats.</p>
<p>Farsi cats it is! They converse with some of those who speak Thai, as well.</p>
<p>And those who speak Jewish–oh, I mean Israeli.</p>
<p>Latin! Ancient Greek!</p>
<p>Where would I be able to learn or teach myself Tuvaluan or Arabic? Thanks for all the opinions guys, keep them coming!</p>
<p>I always thought Russian would be fun to learn/ speak. Probably because of Nikolai in the COD games…</p>
<p>^ I heard Russian is INCREDIBLY hard to pick up, along with mandarin…too hard on my brain</p>
<p>Don’t learn French, Futurama confirmed it’s going to be a dead language.</p>
<p>Wait, what languages do you already know?</p>
<p>@quomodo</p>
<p>I am fluent in American English, Korean, and Polish and can speak basic conversational Spanish…still learning that one haha :)</p>