If you were able to learn 1 other language.

Originally posted by Liberator
Pffft, thats a load of pish.

i really dont know what language i would want to learn.. i want to speak german, and like some one said some arabic based language then i want to learn japanese and chinese

Itaian because then I would be able to understand what my grandmother and my father are saying when they speak it.

Can't decide between spanish (had it in school but I completely suck at it), japanese and chinese (mandarin)

I'm taking Russian next semester. Mainly out of curiosity, boredom and the need for an easy A.

Originally posted by AbnormalButSane
I'm taking Russian next semester. Mainly out of curiosity, boredom and the need for an easy A.

Why is Russian an easy A? Are the standards very low or do you have previous experience?

Originally posted by AbnormalButSane
I'm taking Russian next semester. Mainly out of curiosity, boredom and the need for an easy A.

Russian is one of the hardest languages to learn for English speakers - obviously not impossible, far from it.

Unless you are very familiar with type of grammatical cases in Russian - nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, locative, ablative (which sort of unifies instrumental and locative), Russian is NOT an easy A.

Usage of these is difficult since the verb and noun change depending on the grammatical case.

But, like Bardock said, maybe standard is very low and speaking in infinitive is accepted as ''knowing Russian'' or you already speak it well and have knowledge of Cyrillic.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Why is Russian an easy A? Are the standards very low or do you have previous experience?

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Russian is one of the hardest languages to learn for English speakers - obviously not impossible, far from it.

Unless you are very familiar with type of grammatical cases in Russian - nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, locative, ablative (which sort of unifies instrumental and locative), Russian is NOT an easy A.

Usage of these is difficult since the verb and noun change depending on the grammatical case.

But, like Bardock said, maybe standard is very low and speaking in infinitive is accepted as ''knowing Russian'' or you already speak it well and have knowledge of Cyrillic.

Low standards in the foreign language department. That and I know Cyrillic.

Originally posted by AbnormalButSane
Low standards in the foreign language department. That and I know Cyrillic.

If you know Cyrillic, you're at least half way to learning a lot of other languages - score of Asian languages, some Iranian languages, European languages as well and some Chinese languages use this alphabet.
Europeans and West Asians have a lot of the same words, but the more east you go, the harder it becomes - but obviously you can still recognise certain letters.
I also know Cyrillic.

Yes, my friend who studies Russian informed me that it would be in my best interest to go ahead and learn it before the class.

So I learned it last semester. Plus all those math classes helped with the Greek-derived letters.

Let me guess...everyone wants to learn desu?

Latin for me.

Has Latin been said yet?hella ninja'd Because, well, Latin. It would help some for various scientific disciplines (although the most important ones, Medicine and Dinosaur Medicine, disgust me) but mostly it would be hella valuable if I ever get sent back in time. (Greek would also fit this criteria.)

I've studied Latin for 5 years, and to me it was mostly a big waste of time. I guess it did make me think more about grammar, which might have helped with other languages.

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I think arab is next for me. I love the sounds.

Spanish, even more so since about 15 minutes ago

Well i speak 5 languages already:

english (native)
mirpuri
punjabi
urdu
hindi

But if it were any other languages to speak then it would have to be portugese

I've learned a spot of German. I think it'd be neat to know Russian or Arabic.

does knowing spanish and russian count?

Originally posted by DamienB
does knowing spanish and russian count?

No, because this is about what you want to learn in the future not what you already know. Didst you not know Spanish and Russian they would of course count as potential languages.