<p>17000??? Was there a population boom? Gosh, didn’t know when it surged so high…</p>
<p>and Swim17, mowisz ty po polsku?! Nnikt na tej stronie posługuje się językiem polskim …</p>
<p>Go for Tuvaluan it shouldn’t be too hard their alphabet only has 16 letters and you get to say cool stuff like Kāfai e tō te vaiua kā 'siu tātou.
(If it rains we shall get wet.) or Ne faka’tū nē lātou olotou fale i te taisala.
(They erected their houses in the swamp)</p>
<p>Bump!
Right now I am debating between Arabic, French, or Swahili.</p>
<p>Any suggestions between those 3 languages?</p>
<p>ja mowie po polsku :)</p>
<p>Jak sie czujesz?</p>
<p>The Navajo language</p>
<p>لا تسمعوا لهؤلاء الأميركيين غبي.</p>
<p>Don’t forget the Na’vi language! (;</p>
<p>1)I want to learn Latin in college.
2)Maybe greek? if I can manage it, but latin? Definitely.
3)maybe japanese too, but it’s too hard, and I can only choose one b/w latin and japanese. Problem is if I do latin, there’s very little possibility I’ll remember it for long since I won’t actually get a chance to speak it much, and after doing Sanskrit and not retaining most of it for a long term period since nobody speaks it anyway, I think study abroad where you’re forced to speak in the tongue makes you more comfortable and fluent. But I feel that learning Japanse would basically serve the purpose of letting me watch anime in the native tongue. What use is that? :rolleyes:
4) French? It’s a beautiful language and widely used, so it’ll probably be useful?
5) Urdu!</p>
<p>But I really want to do latin. The roots (of latin and greek) are common with many other languages, and it’ll make learning other subsequent languages easier.</p>
<p>learn Swahili!!! It is surprisingly easy, and its really fun. Plus, it is useful in most of sub-saharan africa, which is an amazing part of the world to visit.</p>
<p>Learn Latin!!! Ancient Greek seems pretty impressive; Persian, Swahilli for sure; I’d chose also Finnish, Swedish or something else from North Europe and don’t forget about Polish! It’s the 2nd most difficult language to learn, but believe me it’s beautiful, you have thousands of ways to express yourself and I just love it;)</p>
<p>Portuguese > all
Amen</p>
<p>p.s.: make sure it’s Brazilian Portuguese. Portugal’s Portuguese accent sucks.</p>
<p>If you don’t know chinese, you need to. It’s very important for your career in fact, as China continues to dominate the world economy, and being hired or not may depend on being able to speak Chinese. I’m serious.</p>
<p>I’m learning Ancient Greek right now… Very interesting.</p>
<p>I would totally take the advice of someone who isn’t even literate enough to know that it’s “farsi,” not “Iranian.” </p>
<p>In my opinion, take a rare language. Stop going for the trite French, Spanish, German, etc. It’ll add diversity to your application, too.</p>
<p>Chaimex, I’m not attacking you. I saw your appology and respect your mistake. My post is toward everyone else who has made that mistake on this thread.</p>
<p>Just to clarify, the language is “Farsi,” and the people and cultural are “Persian.”</p>
<p>I’m learning Japanese now and it rocks. I’d like to learn Arabic but I’m pretty sure it’s impossible so French is next on the list (in college of course).</p>
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<p>norwegian is cool to learn</p>
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<p>I don’t want to learn a language to “add diversity to my application.” I want to learn one I know I’ll grow to love and that I’m genuinely interested in, be it because of its literature, its people, or something else.</p>
<p>I will never learn all of these (though I am quite set on learning at least the first three), but if I had the time, I’d learn:
- German
- Russian
- Arabic
- Greek, Hebrew
- Irish, Welsh
- Dutch, Icelandic, Romanian, Swedish</p>
<p>I already know one Germanic and two Romance languages (which is why I should want to study Portuguese or Italian, but they don’t interest me much), so hopefully each new language will just seem easier to learn.</p>