Learning second language?

If so why?
I'm learning danish, it hard as dicks but at least they have letters you can recognize.

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German as a third language.
>how else will I communicate with the German Arab States

Unless you have reason to use it regularly it's pretty difficult to retain it.

Story behind image?

You already speak the only language that matters.

That's a pretty funny image comment.

Japanese b/c weebshit. I'm interested in Dutch, but even Dutch people don't talk in Dutch.

>it hard as dicks but at least they have letters you can recognize

There are very few non-arabic alphabetical languages with learning material out there anyway. Also why Danish? There's a reason Scandinavians can all speak English.

I want to learn Russian because I think it sounds really neet but I'm struggling with fundamental pronunciation and will probably give up because of it.

Learn hebrew, my man. They has new lessons on Duolingo.

Thread from /his/. Ye old picture is finnish soldier executing russian spy.

Silly Spaniard, no one wil speak german langage in Germany in 20 years

Russian spy

Finn executor

Winter war

わたしは日本語を勉強するよ
It's going shit.
>Why
Because it's fun, also useful so I don't have to wait for translations on weeb shit, and I'm a filthy race mixer of the best kind.

Depends if you need it.
I learned portugese and english and never had to use it seriously, only on youtube, Sup Forums and stuff like this.

Finnish soldier executing a soviet soldier during the winter war, and the soviet guy doesn't seem to care at all.

There's no reason to really learn any other languages unless it's for a specific job. English is all that's important. I'm learning German because of my ancestry father's ancestry and I want to learn Latvian because of my Mother's. At this point it's about culture preservation.

Thx lads

what a strange war

Married a foreign girl.

Her family doesn't speak English, her friends don't like using English when they are with her and if there are kids they will be raised with it.

I've found that just making slavic sounding noises for an hour or two a day is enough to train it up. I used to do it in the car on the way to work. Just going "GBLYEA" over and over. Once you can do the throat-sound that's in like half of their words, you'll be fine.

Let me guess, your wife is Russian.

Japanese through weebshit. Starting taking lessons at one point but that fell through for various reasons.

Would also like to learn more German since I was taught it in school. I got pretty far with it on Duolingo but I'm incredibly uncommitted.

I'm learning French, German and Esperanto. Just for the hell of it.

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I'm learning Japanese because there's money to be made off it.

How did you guess that?

No It's the rolling of their P that I cannot do. My tongue just refuses to move like that.

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>second language

Weaklings. I speak German, Latvian & English on a first language level, Russian well, have basic understanding and speaking ability in Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Slovakian, Czech, Polish & a bunch of other Slavic ones. Also dabble with Latin, Japanese and French, but that's just separate phrases for now.

そうだよそうだよw

>Arabic

You mean Latin?

Japanese.

>why
Because there's no (good) place to do Chinese where I live, and Japanese is interesting in its own right even if it isn't my first choice.

Because Russians alone is stupid enough to hate English language.

>our alphabet doesn't have enough vowels
>here's an idea!
>let's create 5 special letters...
>and use them as completely identically pronounced duplicates of consonants!!!!!

Japanese is still worse, but what the fuck, Hebrew?

>I want to learn slavshit
end yourself

Het Nederlands bc I like their country

Danish because Greenland uses it as a second language and English a third. I've studied German then dutch for a while very similar (I wonder y).
Ain't u the bees knees. So when are u gonna leave Germany and put them to use?

That's a thing you acquire over a long period of time and continuous exposure, once upon a time i had a huge problem pronouncing english (mainly british english) words, it's been a long ass road but now i manage to even pick up parts of the accent. Same with non slavs and russian.

JOP piggu go homu.

I don't know what to answer, but I thing that Hebrew is magnificent language. It sounds like the language G-d would speak.

Weeb, I see absolutely zero point in learning any boring euro languages.

>being this much of weebshit to learn dying language from opposite side of world. atleast learn chinese cucks. china is superior to japan in every way

Man, why would you ever want to learn danish? Everybody in Scandinavia who isn't an old fart can speak English well. They're not far behind us in English proficiency and we're at the top.

Is it because of vikings or some shit like that? Because if so you should go for Icelandic instead.

>2nd language
step up nigga, it's common to speak 4 or 5 languages here
on topic you'd be wiser to learn russian or chinkspeak, you can assemble LEGOs without knowing a word of danish

Are you a professional language guy, or was that all in spare time? I know some people with 4+ languages they're good at, but they're all classics or linguistics specialists.

>Japanese is still worse
Japan had the potential to be the best language ever, but then they assigned more than one meaning to one picture

I'm learning Hebrew so I can visit Israel one day.

> thing
think of course
Based Sweden!

Except Japanese sounds like a language while Chinese sounds like a faulty faucet or gargling bird
And Japanese isn't from a country of degenerate ass pained dog skinners.

I want to go to greenland, mostly cuz it looks comfy I know a lot of German and Spanish is easy but I never use it.

>he doesn't speak glorious Romanian
Why even live ?

Italian is top language
Nobody uses it, still top
inb4 h8

>but then they assigned more than one meaning to one picture
You think having, what, 20,000+ pictures would be a good idea?

Or are you dumb enough to think that because a kanji represents multiple concepts, it's any more difficult to learn? Because there are thousands of English words that have multiple meanings, how are you supposed to tell "I beat my wife" apart from "I beat my wife in a race"?

I can speak French and know a bit of Russian. Absolutely worthless.

WEE WEE BLYAD SUKA
OO ROO SHEE OO BRAL PAPALI CHERT BONJOUR SACHREBLUE
All I know from either

Russian because they are based. Plus it is a beautiful language.

ANGLO/SLAV MASTERRACES btw

At some point, yes, it's just i'm past the learning curve of "it's hopeless i'll never understand this", would be a shame to let it go and chinese has obviously a lot of characters in common, to the point i can sometimes more or less make some sense out of chinese.

I think there are easily 20k+ in existence, just not in common use.

I love how French sounds, but can't actually make any of those sounds with my mouth.

Continuation War desu lad

France needs to get its shut together for me to try to learn that again, I really like it along with German because English takes so much from both.
Get better France

>>I think there are easily 20k+ in existence, just not in common use.
Maybe if you go by Chinese standards. Japanese kanji are only officially recognised up to the 6k mark, and passing the kanken that tests you on them puts you above 99.999% of people in the country.

Realistic figures are around 2-2.5k for your average normie, and 3-3.5k for literary buffs.

currently trying to learn Italian as my 4th.
Latin languages are pretty simple and have the same sentence architecture for the most part also same alphabet.

I want to learn Japanese. Friend of mine has been learning Chinese for awhile and it got me interested in the east Asian languages.Anyone know a good place to start? Are those language sites worth a shit?
I've read it's simple to pick up and speak conversationally but very tough to learn to read and write. I'm not a mango/animals guy but I've always been intrigued by Japan's history.
Maybe this would be a better thread for Sup Forums than Sup Forums.

Italian is definitely in the running for best sounding language.

>tfw raised trilingual

I learned Italian for muh heritage and can't find a strong enough reason to learn anything else

Been learning German on and off for years - lived there for a few years to. Started learning Spanish a couple of years ago and spent 4 months in Catalonia last year.

Not great at speaking either one. Can read Spanish quite well although that's no great boast - it's a pretty easy language to become literate in. Very weak at speaking it though. Quite enjoy speaking German although I'm far from fluent I can just about hold a drunken conversation.

>can speak 4 languages
>still starving to death
Sheeeeeeit

She isn't Russian, but another kid of Slav.

Her parents never learned English because they grew up in communism and her friends learned it at school but forgot most of it.

They tend to like it more when I attempt to speak their language when they are all speaking it than forcing them to speak English, so I do that. If they were like Germans where they immediately switch to English, I would have no need.

>Realistic figures are around 2-2.5k for your average normie, and 3-3.5k for literary buffs
That makes the language seem a lot easier, now. Obviously that's like 50k vocab, but getting the stroke order down for a few thousand Kanji seems easy enough, just time consuming.

At the moment i dont see a reason to learn any language besides english and maybe spamish.no other languages are really relevant in my eyes.

If you're interested in history, it's not worth it. The amount of work you'll have to put in for something that's really a passing interest is absurd.

Learn French or Russian, they're much easier and you'll be able to sate the same urges.

More like 20-30k vocab. Stroke orders aren't very useful, but you can learn the majority fairly quickly if you really want to because there are general patterns and only a few hundred radicals.

I'm also thinking about learning Danish. What do you use for learning? And why is it hard? From my perspective it's practically right in between English and German, and maybe a bit closer to English.

Ex-muzzie friend of mine knows 9. I guess you guys just don't take it for granted, can write for shot tho.

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I've started to learn about 3 languages by now, but dropped each soon after starting. I can bable like a small child in each, but I can't hold a conversation for shit. I just can't get the motivation to study long enough. I just get bored.

is probably right about it not being worth it for you, but you can decide that for yourself.

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That's Sup Forums's daily Japanese thread's cornucopia of resources. Lotta good things in there.

Danish is a lot more germanic/Norse than what I'm used to. I wanna visit greenland, don't know how expensive home are tho.

I'm leaning towards French for my third language. Already started studying it a bit. Although I already understand 80% Portugues naturally...

French is difficult but similar enough, their culture is really outstanding and also as a Catholic and a Reactionary French is literally a god-tier country, so yeah that, French. I also have a thing for Mairon Le Pen.

>Anyone know a good place to start?
Sup Forums has a daily Japanese thread /djt/ with a wiki giving a pretty refined path to learning the language. The guys there are also pretty helpful too.

>I'm not a mango/animals guy
Unless you can get a teacher, a lot of Japanese comes from reading and more reading. You might have to contend with manga unless you can find a replacement.

>At the moment i dont see a reason to learn any language besides english and maybe spamish.no other languages are really relevant in my eyes.

Yah. You get boring bastards going "We should all be learning Mandarin!!!1" without taking the time to consider that learning Mandarin (While a great achievement and undoubtedly useful) is simply not possible for most people. On the other hand learning English or Spanish is a realistic prospect.

I'd love to (in theory) learn an Asian language but I know I simply don't have the time or motivation to put in the higher amount of required effort to reach a useful level of fluency. However I do know that I can reach a useful level of fluency in German or Spanish in a reasonable amount of time. You can also learn to read these languages quite quickly whereas Asian languages have batshit crazy hieroglyphic writing systems which even educated native speakers struggle with.

Ment for you. fuck

I'm learning Japanese because I'm a fucking weab and I want to play games and shit that haven't been localised or that have been localised poorly. Shit is tough.

Seeing as you already have both English and German I expect you'd find it very easy. Biggest problem I'd expect with Danish (as with Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch) is getting speakers to use it with you rather than simply switching to English.

Biggest trouble I had trying to practice German was Germans nodding they understood when I spoke to them, but immediately switching to English - and English is obviously far more widespread in Denmark than it is in Germany!

Not a linguist or translator, no. I'm an engineer. Knowing languages is just useful.

Eastern Romance languages are some of the most horrid ones in the world.

Det er godt at hore burger!

Well, English picked up a lot of French vocabulary during the middle ages. That would probably help you when learning a language like Spanish.

People in Greenland might even be speaking English, through NATO bases and trade with Canada. I could be wrong, though.

Wired weeboo

Mandarin!

There's news and literature in Japan, too. I'm not good enough to understand jack of it yet, but I like to listen to news articles on NHK News Web Easy. One of my goals is to be able to read Almost Transparent Blue untranslated.

Oh, yes. Sorry, we do that. It's trying to be polite, and maybe also showing off that you speak English.
That Danes speak English well is understandable once you know that they don't dub movies or TV series. They use subtitles instead. I partly learned English by watching subtitled TV shows on Dutch TV. At first you read, but by and by you find your way into understanding it.

Unfortunately Dutch TV can no longer be received here and German TV dubs e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g. The only way to get foreign sounds here is illegal downloading or buying the DVDs and set the audio to original sound.

Learn swedish instead desu
Everyone speaks english in israel and you can get by speaking arabic as well.

Tak :)
Learning the main ones that conquered others seems like a good idea. English, spanish, then islands or countries that have other ones. Idk, but feel like euro language is good rn.

Im surprised anything good comes out of Sup Forums these days. Thanks for the info guys, it really helps. I definitely wouldn't have looked there.
I figured I'll end up reading a bunch of kids' mangoes for awhile but that'd be fine with me to get a base understanding going.
Thanks again.

German and Italian

Now that moot is gone, can't you ask Hiroshi or whatshisname to give you back your ö?

>mfw all these burgers having trouble with pronounciation of european languages

Feels good to come from a country where the language covers most of the weird sounds.

I am learning Spanish because you need to know it where I live, as well as Dutch and Italian because they are my ancestral languages. My grandparents can speak them. Spanish and Italian are really easy but Dutch is deceptively hard.

>Oh, yes. Sorry, we do that. It's trying to be polite, and maybe also showing off that you speak English.

Yah I totally understood - last thing you want is some random asshole butchering your language when you know you can straight to the point in English.

I did often get better treatment for making the effort to speak it though - most Brits couldn't even manage the basics "Ich heisse...", "Ich moechte.." etc and there were a few times I got let into bars and clubs while colleagues got blanked or turned away cos they did the whole Ugly Arrogant Anglo thing.

Still would have been nice to reach proper fluency but only guys I know who managed that were ones who ended up living with/marrying German girls.

speaking german english french fluent. currently learning italian and farsi on a b2 niveau
its fun!

I had some Spanish in school, but I didn't really try to learn it. I figure that would be the most important second language for living in the states.