Cool languages to learn

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<p>Russian’s actually considerably easier than French, IMHO. It’s so much cleaner and systematic.</p>

<p>I think Mandarin’s easier than French too, for that matter.</p>

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<p>What are you interested in, any specific region? Chinese, Latin, German, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Hawiian, Sanskrit…etc</p>

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<p>You do realize he was kidding about Tuvaluan? It has only 17000 speakers.</p>

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<p>@kcjchdreamer</p>

<p>Not really, maybe a European language? I’m not really looking for a specific category or anything</p>

<p>@oranged00d</p>

<p>If he was, then oh well. It came up a few times on this thread- I actually looked it up and it sounds interesting but like you said it’s not common so I dunno where I’d ever learn it hahaha.</p>

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<p>French is mad easy. I’ve been thinking about taking some Mandarin- writing is difficult, but I’m told the grammar is far less complicated than in Latin-based or Germanic Languages. Plus, i’m decent at the pronunciation part of french, so maybe pitch tones wouldn’t be too hard? </p>

<p>OH, as far as cool useless languages go- Icelandic is somewhat similar to Old English and sounds really cool.</p>

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<p>@Izzy</p>

<p>Yeah I heard French isn’t too complicated and it would be easier (?) because I know the basic rules of Spanish, etc</p>

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<p>Mandarin grammar is indeed very easy. For one, no verb conjugation, FTW.</p>

<p>French always gave me trouble. I just can’t juggle the seventeen-or-however-many tenses it has. I’m learning Akkadian right now; done with Old Babylonian, and I believe I’m moving onto Standard Babylonian next quarter. It’s absolutely *wonderful<a href=“…%20and%20easier%20than%20French,%20but%20at%20this%20rate,%20I%20suspect%20French%20simply%20doesn’t%20jive%20well%20with%20my%20brain”>/i</a>, so if you’re looking into random languages that are utterly useless … :D</p>

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ok, I’m sorry… I forgot it was called Farsi (which I did know, i swear), please forgive my ignorant self… It’s not like the Demonym for someone from Iran isn’t Iranian.</p>

<p>You got the idea. I know you’re completely incapable of making mistakes yourself.</p>

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<p>I’ve always wanted to learn Arabic… Russian and any of the Scandinavian languages are pretty cool, too.</p>

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<p>I did the Rosetta stone level one of russian. It wasn’t too hard, definitely easier than french. The only tricky part was learning the Cyrillic alphabet, but that only took a day or so.</p>

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Also called Persian, hence the cat jokes. Though, technically, there are multiple Iranian languages.</p>

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Hey, if I ever say I want to speak Indian or Native American or Saudi Arabian, feel free to make jokes.</p>

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Lesson One: Te fea toku vaka?</p>

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<p>@BillyMc</p>

<p>Ne fai pefea ne ai?</p>

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<p>The Tuvaluan Language.</p>

<p>[YouTube</a> - Tuvaluan Fatele Remixes (Takasi & Starcheal)](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>

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<p>Samoan. Or Chamorro.</p>

<p>…Or Tuvaluan.</p>

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<p>Actually, it’s called the Persian language. The Arabics label the Persian language “Farsi.”</p>

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<p>Espa</p>

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[quote=konayuki]
Espa</p>

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<p>Hahaha, I see what you did there. But in all honesty, knowing those helps. A lot.</p>

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Not that I’m going to dispute what you’ve said, but the Iranian people I’ve spoken to (which are a sizable amount, although I won’t say I’ve had a lot of experience with them) all use Persian and Farsi interchangeably.</p>

<p>Not all of them are Muslim either, if that makes any difference.</p>