<p>So first let me start this off by saying that I'm NOT learning a new language to impress colleges. Recently, I've gotten all the languages that I've been studying up to a B2 level (French, German, and Spanish), and for French I'm bordering somewhere on a C1, so I'm basically fluent by now. My Norwegian isn't as great, but I'm putting it on hold for a while. Now that I've gotten to this stage I don't have to study, but rather just practice them. So, I've decided I want to start self-studying yet another language, but this time I want it to be in a different script.</p>
<p>Now, I don't have any particular feelings for any languages that aren't European (I like European languages because I like connecting with my family's past and now that I'm getting German citizenship it's important) and I don't care to do anything for practical reasons (hence why I'm considering Mongolian, Georgian, and Bulgarian). However, I don't have any interest in one over the other, so my decision is becoming extremely difficult. Today I had a thought that maybe what could help me would be something sort of practical: which will be the most helpful for college.</p>
<p>So, here's the question: of the languages that use a different script, which do you guys think would be the most impressive for a college to see on an app? I've been considering Chinese, Japanese, Sanskrit, Georgian, Bulgarian, Russian (I already know Cyrillic so that's a plus I guess), and Farsi, but I'm open to other suggestions. I've even started thinking about taking up a language in the Latin alphabet as long as it's African. Do you think colleges would be more impressed by a language that's generally considered hard like Chinese or Japanese, or would they be more impressed by a rarer language like Georgian, Sanskrit, or something crazy like Bantu?</p>
<p>First your language skills are amazing! And to answer your question how about latin which would make you stand out or if you don’t like sea languages theirs Japanese, Russian, Swedish, Hebrew or Arabic would look really good. Good luck!</p>
<p>I think right now I’m leaning the most towards Japanese or Chinese. Do you think there’s any preference by colleges towards either of those? Or even society in general I suppose, since I guess the “impressive factor” can carry over to my working career when I’m looking for jobs.</p>
<p>You might also consider your post-college plans, tentative though they may be. Would one of your choices aid future job propects or graduate studies in an area of interest to you?</p>
<p>Oops - didn’t carefully read your last post, Norge. Often more important than the “impressive factor” is the “utility factor.” Fluency in Mandarin or Japanese is a very helpful skill to have, but IMO fluency is the important word here. But then you said practicality wasn’t too important, so I guess whatever floats your boat. Enjoy your learning!</p>
<p>My SAT scores are pretty high (for English at least, maybe not math), and the SAT doesn’t really measure how well you speak English anyway.</p>
<p>Moreover, I have higher and more important goals than getting perfect SAT scores. Like I said, I’m not doing this to get into college, but just seeing if that could factor into it since I’m equally interested in all these languages and thus have trouble deciding between them.</p>