I want to learn a European language. Could you guys suggest one that is 1) relatively easy to learn for an English speaker who doesn't currently speak any other languages and 2) contains interesting literature that could eventually be consumed
I was thinking about German but the country is so fucking cucked now that I'm not sure I could commit to it.
Any romance language. Spanish is very close to English if you want easymode.
French or Italian are both good.
I don't necessarily want a super-easy to learn language, I just don't want to commit to something very difficult to learn like Hungarian or Finnish.
Don't take random faggots on the internets advice.
There are sone that are more useful and some that are easier, but that's not important.
What langauge do YOU want to learn, regardless of anything else?
English is a notoriously irregular language. Spanish is one of the most robotic romance languages.
Why is this good? So you can learn the structure of the language and wh it is different from English. Once you know one Romance language, you can begin to understand many of the rest because you understand the underlying structure.
Spanish and German are probably the best to know.
>Inb4 Arabic
The main thing is something that you find interesting so that you'll take the time practicing. German is good, because if you know German and English, both germanic languages, you can piece together danish, dutch, norwegian, and swedish fairly simply.
If you're from DOWN UNDA I'm not sure what to tell you to learn besides fucking gook tongues for practical applicability, so you're in the situation where you can pick what you like.
T. Burger who speaks English, Dutch, German and Japanese
Learn a language that has many speakers.
Meme languages with less then a 100 million native speakers are simply not worth your time.
There are many beautiful languages out there, but simply not enough that makes it worthwhile.
Especially jobwise asian languages, russian or spanish or even arabic prove to be good when looking for a job. Translator or callcenter always gets you a job somewhere.
French is the easiest to learn for English speakers. If you like the country-side, food and art, it's the way to go. It's only the Parisians that may be rude to tourists, but they're cucks anyway so who gives a shit, real France is in the country-side. Btw most of the islands off the coast of Australia like Fiji and New Caledonia are all French speaking, which can make your tropical holiday even better, plus Jap girls get wetter than a Mexicans back when they hear it. If you're into that.
italian is pretty easy
Spanish or French can be useful in a lot of countries
Russian is a language too hard for peasants, so I would not recommend.
learn english you kangaroo
anything west of poland is useless
if you're unironically thinking of learning german or french learn arabic instead
But I want Russian pussy
Learn Korean, it's super easy. You can put it to good use once you get invaded by the norks aswell. You can learn the alphabet in about an hour or two, and theres plenty of entertaining content like shows, movies and variety TV to learn from.
It used to be one of the top three if you wanted to work in US intelligence. But they stopped caring a long time ago.
>muh russian hackers
top fucking kek
German is very easy to learn if you're an English speaker. A lot of the world's best literature is written in German so you'll have plenty of use out of it too.
english is pretty easy
>English is a Germanic language
That's a meme. It looks and sounds nothing like any Continental Germanic speak.
But it helps with the other Germanic languages, espeically once you understand agglutenation.
German is easy for English speakers. Its basically ye olde English words spoken with Yodas word order and pronounced like you're angry about something
Linguistically speaking, Norwegian is the easiest language for an English speaker to learn. Most assume it would either be Dutch or German, but this is false because verb conjugation is easier in Norwegian (it's even more simple than the other two major Scandinavian languages: Swedish and Danish)
As far as literature, I'm completely ignorant of anything of note produced by Norwegian authors, so I can't help you there.
French used to be lingua franca of not only Europe, but most of the planet, for a good few hundred years. It was the language of science, international affairs, diplomacy, and was the main medium of instruction in most schools outside of Europe (For example, in the Ottoman Empire, you'd hear more French being spoken in the street than Turkish as all the minorities, as well as the native Ottomans, used French as their lingua franca).
This was true until relatively recently, after the end of the second World War when the United States became a superpower and English was given the prestige status. To give you an idea of how quickly the planet shifted from French to English, in 1948, most European diplomatic corps were entirely Francophone, but by 1950, they were replaced by Anglophones.
French literature is rich and massive in scope, I can't even begin to do it justice here and there are many works that were only translated to French (remember, French was the global lingua franca, if you wanted your work to be read by the rest of the world, you only needed to translate it to French), so there's a trove of works that have never and will never be translated to English that you can read if you become literate in French.
For ease and for the novelty of being fluent in a European language, Norwegian would be the easiest route to go, as for actual usefulness (French is spoken in forty countries, Norwegian is only spoken in Norway) and literature, French would hands-down be the best option.
t. Linguist
Portuguese is easy enough to learn desu.
Latin and Italian
french cus africa is the next frontier
Expense just got too high with feminization and nigerization of army and the whole muttistan.
HENRIK IBSEN - Norwegian - one of the greatest writers of all time. Arguably the finest playwright since Shakespeare. Practically invented modern theater, along with Strindberg and George Bernard Shaw.
The Nietzsche of chinstraps
ibsen is eevrywhere in american colleges
Learn Irish if you want to fucking suffer
Damn straight.
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Danish.
This guy knows what's up.
Japanese
The language itself isn't that difficult. It's the script that's fucked up
French has a kinda hard grammar but has a lot of common vocabulary with english, dutch is really close to english, spanish is really different but super easy to learn, german is hard, slavic language even more. Italian seems cool too, but I don't speak it so I couldn't tell you much.
He said european, senpai
Learn Portuguese. Then it's extremely easy to pick up other Romance languages.
Arabic
France and Spain are more cucked there is even statistics about racemixing on this.
Portuguese is really weird though. I would rather recommend spanish.
german and germanic languages
Russian
In french every word that ends in -ion is the same as in Engish eg Masturbation
that'd be true of learning any romance language though.
English is NOT a Germanic language. It uses English words. The underlying structure is Brythonic (p-Celtic).
English is essentially a descendant of a form of pidgin developed by native Britons.
Imagine you go on holiday to France. You take an English-French dictionary with you. You know nothing of French language, so all you do when you translate is replace each word in an English sentence without it's French counterpart. This is what English is to a Germanic language. (It's also evidence of the fact that Britons far outnumber those of Anglo-Saxon ancestry in England).
Finnish. Features:
- Straightforward declension-based grammar.
- Simple phonetic spelling in the Latin alphabet: one letter is one sound. None of this nonsense like Russian where there is a separate letter for 'Ja', Spanish where 'ch' and 'll' are letters, Serbian which is Russian AND Spanish, or that Indo-European thing where people laugh at you whenever you misgender the furniture, French where half the letters are silent, Danish which is basically German with a French accent, or Polish where you have to remember the difference between L and Ł.
- Everyone here speaks English too so it's easy for them to explain things when-not-if you fuck up.
Alternatively, learn Occitan. It's basically just easy-mode French with a lot of Spanish influence, so you'll be readily understood throughout the entire Francophone AND Spanish spheres of influence. Sort of a super-Portuguese.
>learning a random language you won't speak daily
Enjoy your failure lol
I didn't say that English is a Germanic language. I just said that I'd like to learn a European language, preferably one that isn't on par with East Asian language in terms of difficulty like Hungarian.
Romanian is easy but literature might be a problem, i find German language more easy than Norwegian, French is garbage, Russian is ok. Rest is Meme tier.
*I meant to say "it uses Germanic words" rather than English. And even this is an over-simplification. It includes a vast number of words imported from French, for example.
Learn chinese you fucking abo cunt. Your country is going to chinkified anyway. Fuck your liberal ass country, have fun with LGBT, gun control, chinks and african migrants ruining your country of former rejects from Britain.
>french is garbage
At least more than 10 millions people speak it, town rapist.
What does our language sound like to non speakers? And I mean portuguese, not whatever they speak in brazil
10 millions is nothing. Because of your cuckerry i was forced to learn it in school. Worst time of my life in school was learning French.
Also, finnish is the most beautiful language. It's like nordic italian spoken by elves, shit's crazy good
If you want to learn a language while you yourself are English speaker, than go for a popular computer language. No need to waste your time learning other languages when whole world uses English already.
Learn Latvian
Sveiks mans draugs es tev varu ieteikt iemācīties Latviešu valodu jo tā satur labu literatūru, un ir ļoti interesanta.Daudzi bijušie
latviešu nacisti devās uz Austrāliju tāpēc paldies es tev saku par to.
kek
I remember the first time I heard Portuguese being spoken in person, I thought it was some Slavic language, I never would have guessed it was a Romance language.
I've heard this is why Spanish-speakers in Spain refer to Catalan-speakers as "Polacos" (Polish) because to them, Catalan sounds Slavic.
bulgarian aka russian with less fucked up grammar
it's also insanely dificult
it makes russian and danish look easy by comparison
he prob ment 100 million desu
I'd go with french or spanish. all the other languages are a waste of time desu
Even that number doesn't make you says wow so many people. For all my 28 years i only heard 3 people speak French here and 1 when i visited Bucharest.
German
I'm not too sure if verb conjugation is easier in Norwegian than the other scandinavian languages, its pretty much the same to my knowledge. Either way, Norwegian is a meme; there is no such thing as Norwegian, its just bastardized Danish. No one in Norway speaks alike, you can encounter extreme differences almost as close as farm areas. If you want to read, sure, you'll get Danish for free and Swedish fairly easy, but you wont ever be able to understand unless you live here for many years.
Italian and Spanish are piss easy, German is okay, but under no situation should you choose french.
Choose Greek if you have the balls for it :^). If random alb*nian roaches can reach a point where even they can semi-understand and string together a couple of sentences, what does that say about you?
well its literally english everywhere which he alrdy knows, the next best is french which is spoken in some other countries. wat else is there to speak in europe?
French is actually easier than Italian, imo
Danish is easy to learn. It's only certain pronunciation that's hard to pick up - particularly distinction between vowels (u, y, o, and a, e, ae) and the letter d. Just learn Norwegian and any Dane will understand you. Fuck Swedes though.
French grammar is akin to the ramblings of a madman. Rules with exceptions upon exceptions upon exceptions.
>Finnish
but I don't think OP wants to spend 10 years to learn it.
Latin.
Arabic.
A native Norwegian wouldn't notice it too much, but there is more complexity in Swedish and Danish concerning plurals, conjugation, and vowel sounds. Are they still easy to learn for an English speaker? Absolutely, but the facts are the facts, Norwegian is the easiest out of the three even if all three are basically on the same level of difficulty. Also, based on every study conducted on the topic, Norwegians have an easier time understanding Swedish and Danish than the other way around (for both Swedes and Danes).
Mutual intelligibility with different accents/dialects is a problem with almost every language, that isn't unique to Norwegian and there's relatively little anyone can do about it when even native speakers have trouble getting over these differences in pronunciation and accent.
why not french? i could communicate with all the refugees from africa
Well, since you already know english, the other languages that are very useful and have lots of literature and interesting stuff are german, french, and spanish. If we add ease as a criterion, french and spanish stick out because it should be very easy for an english speaker to learn any romance language.
This. Those E exceptions and other bullshit is just retarded as fuck. Just fucking remove it from the word if its silent. French grammar needs a fucking rework.
>misgender the furniture
I laughed, and my table was triggered.
did you really just come to pol to ask this ?
learn spanish boi
its fucking easy
I mean, I'd have come to Sup Forums anyway
Learn russian, it's really not that hard, it's just burgers who are scared of different alphabet and say that it's hard.
Learn wapiri or arrente
You retards realize you are responding to a 14 year old who is being told he has to are a “language” in High School? A “language” is the most useless thing an American can be forced to learn. It ain’t like we can practice it on the next goddam block. If we are going to continue to force kids in the US to “learn a language” it should be Canadian. FFS. I ended up “learning” 2 languages. 2 years of SPanish in HS and 4 semesters of French in college. What the fuck good did it do me? I made As in every bit of it, I have NEVER spoken either to ANYONE. They are both stupid. They use flowery verb tenses in ridicululous ways to make people seem to be “better” when most of them live in huts with dirt fucking floors.
>“learn a language” it should be Canadian
Canadians speak English and/or French.
I hope this is a troll post.
Why is no one shilling Chinese for this young Australian man? Itll be good to speak the language of your future overlords because youll get good, well paying jobs like translator and 'white monkey jobs'.p
Do you have any examples when it comes to Danish/Swedish being more complex than Norwegian? I am genuinely interested.
And we're not just talking accents and dialects in terms of pronunciation and some words. Norwegian dialects can differ extremely when it comes to grammar, words being completely different so much that whole sentances will be different. There are norwegian dialects with dative case and similar traits from old norse if you just get rural enough. Sure, its not unique to Norwegian. But Norwegian is, without any doubt, among more comprehensive examples.
because he said european
Canadian can be very hard for some of us. It requires a whole no way to say “about”. I hear it is easi9er if you are from Minnesota.
Arigato sensei user-sama
>kalt on der Kob
I learned German years ago. Difficult grammar in my opinion but it's fun to speak. Currently learning french for work, which is easy. I'd say learn a romance language because it makes it easier to learn the rest of them as they have similar words and grammar. Makes you very employable as well if you're career minded.
Latin
This
Can confirm. Went north, didn’t understand shit. Understand german better than some of the different dialects in the north, and I’ve never studied any german.
DO NOT just learn a language because it has many speakers. I have learned several languages for this reason, and each and every single one of them has left me depressed at the end of it. A good example of that would be my personal experience learning Mandarin. After having spent many years on it, I have grown to hate the language from the bottom of my heart. It isn't a healthy approach. Instead go for something that appeals to you personally, otherwise you will end up regretting your decision immensely, and you will not even want to use the language you have spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours on. I really mean this. Trace back your family roots, learn the native language of a friend, go learn the language of a people that fascinate you. Numbers are irrelevant to you as an individual. You will never talk to the entire population of a (large) nation, nor would you even want to. Take it from someone who now speaks 6 different languages. Best of luck, OP.