Languages you are happy/regretted you tried to learn:
I am happy I learned English. It's the most valuable skill I've ever learned.
I am happy I learned German. It's amazing how much technical teaching material there is in German that you can't find in English. I also like going to Germany for cheap döners.
I regret trying to learn Japanese. The people are socially awkward, it's too far away and too expensive for me to bother going there often, and after getting bored with manga and anime there really wasn't anything about the culture that interested me. You also get a far less return on investment when learning japanese. 500 hours of learning spanish or french will get you much farther in terms of speaking abilities than 1000 hours of japanese.
I started to learn Swedish but Sup Forums and Sup Forums ruined that country for me Also started to learn Russian and i really liked it but it was too complicated, i might pay for a teacher to teach me when i finish college And i'm learning portuguese right now, i might actually learn this one since it's pretty easy and i like the language
Aiden Ortiz
I spent 5 years learning Spanish in school but because everyone else learns English I never have to bother using any other language other than my native one
Feels good man
Angel Wilson
I tried to learn spanish and regretted not finishing it I know some french but don't really know where to continue to finish it properly/reach fluency
Bentley Hall
>been living in Canada for 3 years >steel speak english like a retard
rreeeee
Matthew Rodriguez
Don't listen to Sup Forums and Sup Forums bro. As long as you stay out of Malmö you're fine. Sweden is comfy as fuck.
Angel Jackson
Literally the same as the other Britposters. Just not enough of a reason for me to learn another language
Julian Sullivan
amazon.fr - buy some books and read them. That's how I gained fluency in german.
John Bailey
I don't regret learning any of the languages I have learned or studied.
I didn't really learn Spanish on purpose though so it gives me some weird feels, I'm decent at it for someone who never studied Spanish but I suck at it compared to natives or people who put alot of study into it. I don't feel super compelled to improve it but I also don't like leaving it at the level it is.
I'm pretty happy I learned Esperanto. Took very little effort and has resulted in alot of fun for me, wasn't expecting to get much out of it but I ended up loving it to be quite honest
Dominic Phillips
I honestly regret learning English
Ryder Roberts
>I started to learn Swedish but Sup Forums and Sup Forums ruined that country for me >I stopped learning a new skill because a bunch of memeing retards
Thomas Gutierrez
What do you do with your spanish? I am compelled to learn it, but besides maybe visiting a couple of spanish speaking countries there no motivation in it for me
Jason Nelson
polish, most beautiful language I've learned
Easton Bell
>tfw ameridumb and only know english and broken spanish Feels bad
Christopher Campbell
This is were we see which empire won and which lost. Anyways, spanish will always be 2nd or 3rd most important language.
I dont regret learning english. Thats the only way i could have met my gf.
Robert Robinson
t. el polaco
Xavier Richardson
>want to learn a new language >buy a ton of materials >never learn story of my life
Zachary Rogers
As in, grammar books for learning the language?
Nicholas Rivera
Don't fool him. The memes aren't really exaggerated. Sweden is a nightmare with the feminizm culture and all the stuff, except maybe few länen. t. A guy who's in love with Swedish, have been to Sweden and plans to live there.
I'm happy i know Swedish. I like that i can understand all the Scandi languages. It's the same with Russian. I know Czech and Russian so i can understand a lot from the other Slavic languages. Feels powerful man, like i can understand the whole Europe except German. That's my next goal so i'm going for it. I hope it's not that hard since German in some meaning close to Russian by grammar and such.
Lucas Cox
Honestly I just use it everyday at work. I live in California in a Spanish-speaking community, the kind of place where a sizeable portion of the people walk up to me at work and start speaking Spanish immediately instead of English. So like 90% of my Spanish use is just me helping people at work, translating their questions for the other staff, etc., and the remaining 10% is random stuff like talking to friends in a combo of Spanish and English, watching movies/youtube, reading books, etc. Nothing actually very useful or interesting.
>there no motivation in it for me
The only thing I can think of that is truly motivating for me when it comes to Spanish is the literature. Both Spain and Latin America have some awesome /lit/. My level makes reading literary classics and high brow works kind of difficult for me but I can understand them if I focus and have a dictionary, and poetry is fairly accesible to me, and it's all very enjoyable and worth it imo.
But I don't read much these days.
Leo Flores
Can't think of any languages I regret learning/trying to learn. Even the ones I failed still taught me a little bit about grammar and vocabulary.
Andrew Garcia
German actually much closer to Swedish than to Russian. Also you've got to learn a Latin language to be able to speak in any EU country
Charles Garcia
>I live in California >Leaf
I don't believe your lies!
Cooper Wilson
I regret learning Spanish. I went to Spain and everyone just bows down to us Brits anyway I feel like a conqueror when I holiday on Spain.
This must be how Americans feel when they go to Mexico
Elijah Fisher
The important thing is that we (UK, France, Spain) all won. We are all the best countries in the world in terms of conquering everyone else and inventing loads of things.
Liam Jackson
I regret that I tried to learn Ossetian which is supposed to be my native language. Three years of trying to learn useless language in which everyone refuses to talk with me because of my strong accent, so they laugh every time I try to do it. Should have spent this time on something more useful.
I wish no one will know that feeling when you have no language you consider your native.
Luis Bell
The leaf keeps appearing on my posts for some reason even though I'm in Cali right now, but anyway you must realize it's possible for a Californian to physically be in Canada while still being from California
Cameron Roberts
>I spent 5 years learning Spanish in school but because everyone else learns English I never have to bother using any other language other than my native one
Literally me, I still can't speak Spanish
Lincoln Bailey
Of course it's closer. It's the same language group. But hey, German has gendered objects so as Russian, German has cases so as Russian. Swedish is really close to English by the rules and pronounce. German and Russian have a reputation of a harsh sounding languages.
Ayden Murphy
I can't string a single sentence together despite literally 1000's of hours spent learning.
Angel Lewis
yah but France and the UK all have a lot of Germanic legacy
English language belongs to Germanic family and as far as know have a lot of Germanic haplogroups just as the French do
also Russians managed to get 1/8 of the Planet land and 8th spoken langugage when they started from being just a small Slavic tribe without any civilization just ~1800 years ago
Robert Thomas
I dont want to be rude because i know you are meming, but brits are not well seen in Spain because you mostly come to drink and have fun, something that seems that you cant have in your beautiful rainy country.
But thats only in the cheapest places of Spain like Benidorm or Magaluf. In Ibiza everyone is drugged so it doesnt really count.
But all the brits i knew in Madrid were all great people. And very humble.
Grayson Rodriguez
>I regret that I tried to learn Ossetian which is supposed to be my native language. Did your ancestors speak it, or did you speak it at a young age and forget it?
Hudson Richardson
Yeah alright then Canada whatever you say
Aiden Russell
How is this possible?
Try to say somethig right now I want to see what you mean by this
Alexander Flores
Thank's man. I do love to read, and I do it a lot. So maybe I should give learning Spanish a try. I also like their women, and soccer.
Nicholas Miller
Maybe you are just retards. Maybe.
Jason Sanders
The UK is the best country if we talk about technical progress. But keep that in mind that a lot of countries contributed to the progress. Not being patriotic.
Luis Sanchez
>soccer
Is this what globalism looks like? Cmon man you are Norwegian.
Brody Collins
I think so. Either that, or they didnt really learn. But maybe looked over some grammar and vocabulary for 10 minutes every few days
Cooper Baker
>soccer Please, do not. You're european.
Liam Murphy
> German and Russian have a reputation of a harsh sounding languages but russian is strongly palatalised
Michael Thompson
>The UK is the best country if we talk about technical progress nah they are barely in top 15 in the list imho
Dylan Bell
I'm white, and went to a Mandarin immersion elementary/middle school, and continue to learn it on my own today. Honestly, it's probably the best decision my parents made for me.
Camden Sanders
Yes, but he is american. I did not want to cause any misunderstanding.
Austin Bell
I know
Most see Brits as trash drunks but wants the money to they pretend to care. Especially in Malaga and Canaria
Lincoln Anderson
DON'T
LEARN
CHINESE
Landon Garcia
Germans would rate Russian as much harsher language than German, you're free to ask. For us it's obviously not like that, we hear German as cooler version of Russian, and as a harsh language speakers we usually like that kind of languages.
Isaac Murphy
My parents knew it but prefered to communicate mostly in Russian. I spoke it in young age becuase of my grandparents's efforts, but forgot it once I went to school, as all learning was in Russian.
Blake Murphy
what for me german sounds as clanking of tank tracks
anyway russian has objectively more palatalised sounds than german
Wyatt Harris
Same scenario with all the minority languages in Russia. Russian supplants it, because Russian in Eastern Europe is the same as English in the world. It's actually bad, because Russian is dying, i mean the amount of speakers decreases with every year.
I just got my spanish to a level I'm comfortable with and am about to start learning mandarin, try and stop me
Daniel Carter
Learning Latin is next.
Angel Hill
not all of us are like that, but yea I guess they do give the rest of us a less than perfect reputation. we just cant get enough of spain
Nolan Ross
Hola mi nombre es user y yo me gusta peros, porque no hablo espanol
yo no puedo remember how to hablo in future tense Linguistic classes are pretty inept if they let me keep advancing for 5 years without truly learning
I even had an actual teacher from Spain in my last year before I quit, she said my written spanish was quite good and looked sad I wanted to quit
Jose Ross
Damn, that sucks. I hope you can still relearn it.
Noah Hughes
i love the spanish language and also dont regret learning english. i tried to learn arabic and it was a total waste of time
Isaac Gonzalez
thing is you actually have to use a language to learn it. i learned spanish by going to ecuador for three months and taking classes there. no one spoke any german or english so i was forced to learn spanish really fast because trying to order lunch in a restaurant/ meeting people and women without speaking a word of their language is really annoying
Carson Anderson
Learn Jap to read animu and shit, and same as OP. Trying to learn French or German, don't have any chance as everyone on business level use English here, even from those countries. Boo hoo.
Sebastian Powell
Why
Jayden Jones
can't choose between french and german. German is cool, but french i think will help me to be more prosperous with the ladies. Actually, i am learning german for some reason...
Julian Reed
>I also like going to Germany for cheap döners.
Jaxon Diaz
Learned Finnish and worked as a financial translator in Helsinki
Learned Russian to watch Russian TV shows
Learning Indonesian because Indonesian gf
Henry Miller
I almost went all in with French, holy shit, dodged a bullet there.
Carter Robinson
What's the problem with Malmö?
Connor Cox
>Learning Indonesian because Indonesian gf Poor sod. Easy language, though.
Chase Johnson
definitely don't regret learning french, it's the spiritual brother language to english and makes you appreciate anglo culture even more. lots of extra opportunites if you work in science / engineering. french women are great, french men are total faggots but often interesting.
Chase Bell
also the best black metal is french, FIGHT ME
Jason Campbell
I would like to do something like this because it'd be such great motivation, but I don't have any money.
Jordan Smith
Well the shitty neighborhoods have gangs, criminals, drug sellers etc.
Benjamin Bennett
>liking Peste Noire
Nathan Reed
if you don't like dueil angoisseus get out of europe and give your spot to an aspirational argentinian or something
Isaiah Sullivan
>2016 >Esperanto
Confirmed for Cultural Marxist.
Brandon Collins
I'm happy I learned English. it gives me lots of great experience and it makes other languages easy to learn. Learning French is also pretty fun, I realized learning French gets me many vocabularies of English actually.
Jack Scott
Why not Italian? Best sounding language in Europe for me.