<p>Spanish. I live in Southern California, so it would extremely useful.</p>
<p>Iām a Chinese student. I know a little about Japanese. I think Japanese is a little more complex than Chinese in oral language. You should always make some changes in your words to show your respect to the person who you are talking to (if necessary) or youāll be regarded as impolite. In China, such changes are much less than in Japan.</p>
<p>Iām currently studying/learning French. French is such a beautiful language and for me, as I already know English and Spanish, itās a breeze. Itās a mix of both Languages and without knowing anything in French I could understand the context and be able to translate it into both English and Spanish. Classes are rather easy and I will like to be able to speak it as itās really the only thing I really have to learn, well yeah and write in. I also want to learn:</p>
<p>Italian
Tagalog (Maybe)
Portuguese
Japanese
Chinese
German(Maybe, itās really becoming a useless language)</p>
<p>I also want to Learn Languages which have been lost to major populations like the Aztec Language.</p>
<p>My main goals are Italian and French. I want to Master the Romance Languages and I WILL! XP</p>
<p>There are so many Romance languages that donāt get any publicity. To truly say youāve mastered them, youād have to know Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, Galician, Aragonese, Piedmont, and probably a few others I donāt know about. Of course, some of those are just the baby-talk versions of major languages, but theyāre just different enough so that theyāre not always mutually intelligible.</p>
<p>Well german is out of the question, itāll probably become on the most useless languages in the business world. Ha, Iāve heard of foreign exchange students from germany who criticize their own language in the respect that not even they are using it anymore.</p>
<p>French. It sounds lovely and I just like it. </p>
<p>Also, Spanish. Iām learning it, but I want to be fluent. My family is Hispanic soā¦I should know it.</p>
<p>Hmmmm It really makes me iffy when I hear of Hispanics who donāt know Spanish or rather refuse to learn it because they are in America. People learn your native language especially of your parents speak it. GOD! TLM youāre the exception. At least youāre making an effort! X{</p>
<p>^Well, for many Hispanics I know, their parents donāt speak Spanish either. Or if their parents ever did speak Spanish, they started forgetting it when they entered school, and only used it occasionally. </p>
<p>As for people who refuse to learn it because theyāre in the US, Iāve never really understood that.</p>
<p>Thankfully Iāve retained my first language rather well. In fact I have higher comprehension in the Spanish language as opposed to English. I do have some cousins though who are the type of people Iām referring to that have Spanish speaking parents and they themselves donāt speak Spanish well or not at all.</p>
<p>Iām in the process of learning Spanish now. Been going at it for about a year and Iām just getting to the point where I can read newspapers decently (with a dictionary of course) and Iām hoping to be fluent by the end of next summer.</p>
<p>After Spanish the priorities are:
German
French
Italian (maybe)
Russian (maybe)</p>
<p>I just wanna learn Chinese,draw their words,somewhatā¦</p>
<p>Spanish ā In my opinion, itās the most useful!</p>
<p>lol draw their wordsā¦</p>
<p>seriously, chinese isnāt actually that hard. </p>
<p>speaking wise itās easy, because thereās only like a hundred thousand words in total (thereās over a billion in english) and the average chinese person only knows about 3000-4000 words (70,000-100,000 in english) so it shouldnāt be so hard</p>
<p>Writing is a bit more complicated, but donāt get intimidated by the looks, chinese words are made of radicals and strokes, much like english letters. Except theyāre arranged left to right or top to bottom.</p>
<p>username - tones kill it for many non-natives.</p>
<p>well at least itās not like canto where thereās 219293920329 tones</p>
<p>I dunno, but I find that all the white people who learned chinese can pronounce the tones quite well.</p>
<p>I think that itās incredibly difficult to take up a new language. Well, starting one isnāt that difficult but continuing it and attaining a level of proficiency that would serve a purpose career-wise requires an incredible amount of effort. I speak English, Arabic, Korean, and Spanish but I find that if I donāt converse in one of them for several months, my abilities start to severely deteriorate. That is why I am trying my best to think in a different language everyday, which I find really useful! It takes some effort to do this since you have to monitor your thoughts and control them but it works for me! 
I did spend two semesters trying to learn Japanese as I simply assumed it would be a piece of cake since I already know Korean, but I found that it was incredibly hard since the language incorporates so many Chinese characters. 
Now im considering taking up French but weāll see how that goes~</p>
<p>If you already know English and Spanish, French is a complete breeze. </p>
<p>I agree that learning a language takes unbelievable effort. Iām quite proficient in Spanish for only having studied for four years in high school, but my knowledge of it still has big gaping holes. Iām really at the point now where Iād either have to spend a few months living in a Spanish-speaking environment, or study advanced grammar intensively to get any better. I donāt like it when I reach a language plateau.</p>
<p>No. Thereās another way. Listen to spanish radio/television whenever you can.</p>
<p>That was how I learned english when I first came here; my parents were very busy and did not enroll me in school, so I stayed home everyday watching TV</p>
<p>Well, I do that, but that still isnāt really enough practice. It also doesnāt help that telenovelas fail to capture my attention for longer than two minutes. So I usually just stick to the news.</p>
<p>I do think itās fun to read news stories online in English, and then read about the same events on the Spanish news sites. The difference in perspectives is intriguing.</p>
<p>One day Iām thinking of learning languages as a hobby. I donāt want to do anything professional with it, I just think itād be fun to do. I loved my American Sign Language classes in high school when it was just learning the language and conversing in it. I hated the pressure of tests. Iām so sad no colleges offer it. </p>
<p>I would love to learn, roughly in order of interest:
ASL
Japanese
Korean
Arabic
Persian
Russian
Thai
Ancient Greek
Vietnamese
German
Cantonese
Mandarin</p>