<p>German because Germany is extremely relevant nowadays.
Spanish because it’s so close to Portuguese that it’d be easy for me.
French because UN uses it and I want to study International Relations.</p>
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<p>I’m currently learning Chinese in school. I really want to learn Arabic, French, Spanish, Hebrew, and German.</p>
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<p>@Animefan1998 and @Magicial I hate how watching subs makes you unintentionally develop the most random vocabulary based on which words are most frequently spoken…</p>
<p>@LAMuniv I watch without subs.</p>
<p>Get on my level</p>
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WHUT</p>
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<p>proc? canadian is different?</p>
<p>i guess i’m the only person rooting for czech.</p>
<p>Spanish (for obvious reasons)—I can read it okay but writing and speaking…Ehhhh.
German (my ancestors—plus I want to visit Germany)
Polish (same as above)</p>
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<p>I wish I could understand Russian/Ukrainian because all the Russians and Ukrainians at my school talk crap in their language and I just wanna know what they’re saying lol </p>
<p>Matlab, C, Verilog, possibly Java. They meet foreign language requirements for engineers!</p>
<p>More proficiency in Spanish, which I’m learning at school right now. Plus I live in CA haha</p>
<p>My first language, Chinese (Mandarin). I want to be able to communicate with my relatives in China (and my mom - she always tells me that she could teach me more if I could speak Chinese better). I speak at about the level of a 5-year-old…</p>
<p>Korean for the kpop (and kdramas). I’ve picked up some random vocab from the music and variety shows, but the numbering systems are confusing and the honorifics/formalities are too much to think about at once xD</p>
<p>Latin: my friend takes Latin at her school, and she always talks about how amazing it is, how much more varied and colorful the vocabulary is in Latin than in English, how there are myriads of Latin expressions that have no comparable English translations. English is such a boring language, now that I think about it.</p>
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<p>Interesting - I think English is the most fascinating language I’ve studied - watching and learning how it evolves and has evolved over time, and just the incredible history behind it… I love it. 10 times more interesting than Ancient Greek or Latin were for me.</p>
<p>[On an unrelated note: I tried to learn Korean for a week because of Kpop - if you haven’t already, check it out. It has an alphabet, unlike Chinese and Japanese, and is another really neat language, IMO.]</p>
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<p>@LAMuniv Japanese has a sort of alphabet. Two of them, actually xD But they use characters as well. The alphabet was kind of hard when I started learning, but that’s because of how some letters are pronounced differently depending if they’re at the beginning or end of the block and what letter came before. Kind of like English lol</p>
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<p>@LosingCrayon I guess I should have specified, but Korean’s alphabet is more of a standard “English” type alphabet, and doesn’t have any characters. I tried to learn Japanese for like a day because of anime, so I have an extremely basic idea of how their language works :)</p>
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<p>@LAMuniv Ooh I was talking about the Korean alphabet with the weird pronunciation xD But you’re definitely more experienced than me in Korean, so I’m just gonna stop talking :P</p>
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<p>Lol probably not, I kinda just read some Wiki articles for a week haha ^.^</p>
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<p>@LAMuniv Well I mean I learned Hangul (I forgot it now) and learned how to say hello and thank you xD That’s it… In Japanese I forget almost every Kanji right after I learn it, and I’m starting to forget most of Hiragana and Katakana.</p>
<p>@LAMuniv I know how to read in Korean (albeit very slowly haha), but I don’t really know what the stuff I’m reading means. I know generally the sentence structure and levels of formality, as well as the honorifics one would expect to pick up through kpop and kdramas (oppa, noona, hyung, unni, sunbae/hoobae, the like). But now I’m trying to focus more on learning Chinese - it’s my native language, after all (with EXO-M/SJ-M as additional motivation haha)</p>
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<p>I started Japanese in Japanese school in 6th grade and Chinese in regular school in 7th. For me the two languages provide some sort of symbiosis as both use Kanji (I hate those damn Kanji) so anything I learn in Japanese helps in Chinese. However, Japanese uses the more traditional Kanji and Chinese uses (mostly) simplified ones, so it is difficult at times to keep them straight. </p>
<p>Ex: Japanese 馬 (horse)
Chinese 马 (horse)</p>
<p>Chinese also uses the former character, but the latter is more commonly used.</p>
<p>well I’m not so behind. </p>
<p>everyone, jak se máš?</p>
<p>I mean How are you? :D</p>
<p>I wish my grandma spoke to me in Tagalog when I was a baby, that way I’d be able to speak it like a native speaker along with English by now 
Oh, and it would be really cool to be able to speak to my Filipino friend at school like some kind of “secret language” lol xD</p>
<p>I also want to learn Japanese (not because of anime lol), because of my piano teacher. I started taking lessons from her over a year ago, but I honestly can’t remember anything lol. I won’t be taking the JLPT until next year (unless I actually start studying, but like that would happen…) I started watching anime after I started taking lessons. But when people find out I’m learning Japanese they’re like, “Oh, so you’re Japanese?” and it’s really awkward cause I’m not… But then again most people think Japan is like inside of China or something so whatever xD</p>
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