<p>Hey...does anyone know what the "easiest" foreign language to enroll in among latin, spanish, or french?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Spanish by far IMHO</p>
<p>eh...i'd say latin is def. the most difficult because of the lack of practical opportunities to get extra practice. French and Spanish are equally difficult to me, because they present difficulties in differant areas.</p>
<p>Spanish is easiest, and it has the most practical application in our world. I mean, unless you plan on spending time in Canada or France, when will you use French? And I don't think I have to say anything about Spanish speakers in America ;)</p>
<p>Well, China is rapidly becoming a more necessary and applicable language. But it is much, much, much more difficult to learn Chinese than to learn Spanish</p>
<p>After taking a year of Chinese I can say its not impossible to learn, but does require almost double effort due to characters. Grammar patterns, etc are reasonable at least.</p>
<p>Do they offer First Year Chinese I during second semester?</p>
<p>If you speak Chinese, you can communicate with 1/5 of entire world population. With English and Chinese, you can talk to half of the people in the world. Plus if you take your time to learn the Chinese characters, you will be able to read half of the Japanese. How cool is that!</p>
<p>Awesomeness...but I'll only speak to that many people because I'll be learning traditional, not simplified...I refuse to submit to the Chinese government.</p>
<p>Yea, obviously you don't know Chinese. Only the writing is simplified, not the spoken language. It's not like the mainlanders skip words when they talk. I know you're from Taiwan but why are you so against the Chinese government? It isn't like there's anything you can do about it. Afterall, if you've ever been to the mainland, it's not as bad as you think. Don't make yourself sound like an ignorant foreigner.</p>
<p>I meant that I'll be speaking to that many people, but not writing to that many people. I'm more anti-communist than against the Chinese government (which is...who knows what anymore) and it's not the place or the people I'm against.</p>
<p>O, gotcha, didn't read your whole thing carefully. Thats understandable. The communist gov't is definitely the biggest drawback of China. If China had a democratic gov't and more open trade policy, it could be the next Korea or even Japan.</p>
<p>the next korea or japan? its already better than both.</p>
<p>Latin is easiest for me because there is no spoken component and I have auditory processing problems. For most normal people, it is going to be Spanish.</p>
<p>Sorry…this is a bit off-topic but can we just stop calling the Chinese government communist? Because they are not. They are a pretty capitalist nation. The major difference is that the Chinese government is compromised of just one political party, making the government inherently more authoritarian. And at this point I wouldn’t be making fun the Chinese government. Just look at their GDP growth rate for the past five years. Their government might curtail civil-liberties every now and then but it is for the most part, competent. </p>
<p>The different factions of the US on the other hand can’t cooperate enough to fix the debt crisis. Instead, both parties are happy just trying to screw each other, leaving all of us screwed in the process. At the very least, the Chinese doesn’t have nutjob leaders like in the GOP who think they can cut taxes, continue with the same level of military spending and social security benefits, and still reduce the deficit. The Democrats may be useless (maybe not all the time like when Clinton was President), but the Republicans are for the most part “■■■■■■■■”. </p>
<p>I’m not advocating that the US should become a single-party state like China, but we need to stop taking shots at the Chinese government just because it’s cool to do so.</p>
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Care to share what that party is? No? Okay I will. It’s the Communist Party of China. Since Infinit felt the need to spew out his/her mostly false, uninformed opinion, I will correct the first major mistake. The Chinese govt, outside of the big cities, runs a by the books Maoist regime. Communist. The major cities in the southeast (Shanghai, Beijing, etc.) are Special Economic Zones that are little capitalist boosts to their economy. The majority of the 1.3 billion residents of China do, however, live in rural areas that are all undeniably communist. Infinit you are wrong. And btw I’m liberal so you can’t bash me for my politics either.</p>
<p>Names mean little in politics. Just because it’s the communist party, doesn’t necessarily make it communist. Technically the state is known as the People’s Republic of China, but that doesn’t make it a republic.</p>
<p>On the other point about the rural sections of China, perhaps I am misinformed but I had read somewhere in a Forbes article that farmers are allowed to sell their crop instead of handing it out to a collective. I’ll admit I haven’t looked into it much, but if what Forbes is saying is true, then it seems like a pretty capitalist system.</p>
<p>yes it has a capitalist economy ruled by communists. Its really only the top 10% that actually live like westerners, everyone else slaves away…</p>
<p>communism is the rotten, ugly, sore of the world that has been the cause of millions of deaths and suffering. **** communism and **** the people who support it. communism doesn’t work - the funny thing is that communists will never admit that fact.</p>