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[1373138304] Useful languages?

Anonymous Sat 06 Jul 2013 23:18:00 No.58753 View View Reply Original Report

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So I already know spanish and some english, but I NEED to learn another language. I was thinking in german, but after investigating a little, I came to the conclusion it is not useful at all. I heard french is good, but I don't like it that much, so, any suggestions?

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jul 2013 01:06:00 No.58754 Report

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You already know english, the most useful language in the planet, right now, is the international language right now.
You want to speak to some random Russian guy, English my friend!.
Learn some Japanese it will help you if you are a gamer or anime fan.
Chinese for some business, they say is the new emerging economy
Korean to eat some cats, really they have a heavy industry.
thats all all the other languages are useless.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Jul 2013 11:44:00 No.58852 Report

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>>2

wot

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Anonymous Thu 18 Jul 2013 12:12:00 No.58853 Report

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>>3
ENGLISH!

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Anonymous Thu 18 Jul 2013 19:23:00 No.58854 Report

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English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish.

That's about it.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Jul 2013 02:46:00 No.58855 Report

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The languages involved in vast (now mostly historical) colonial empires are not surprisingly going to be the most useful. Although, I still would suggest learning "less useful" languages anyway.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Jul 2013 07:49:00 No.58856 Report

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Mandarin, with China rising to the top at all.
Portuguese because Brazil also looks promising. However, I think Spanish would be more useful at this point.
French will help you communicate with plenty of African countries.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Jul 2013 12:38:00 No.58857 Report

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>>2

I'd say you need English and the languages of your nation.

The rest is optional based on interests be it economical or cultural.

Learning a language for the sake of learning a language is kind of useless. In my opinion there are many superior options to achieve personal development.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Jul 2013 13:10:00 No.58858 Report

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>>7
French hahahahahahahahaha!

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Anonymous Fri 19 Jul 2013 13:12:00 No.58859 Report

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1.-English
2.-Japanese
3.-Chinese
4.-Korean
5.-Spanish
6.-Some middle east languages if you are americunt (the militia needs you)

all the other languages are fucking useless

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Anonymous Fri 19 Jul 2013 15:13:00 No.58860 Report

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>>9
>>10

Useless is subjective.

Like most inhabitants of a Western country Japanese and Korean are useless for me.

French is the most useful language to learn where I live followed by German, only then English.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Jul 2013 15:17:00 No.58861 Report

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>>11

Oh and you don't need Chinese either really.

muh rising economy bullshit

It's just somewhat less useless than the other Asian languages.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Jul 2013 20:53:00 No.58862 Report

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>>11
English is the universal language like it or not.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Jul 2013 09:26:00 No.58880 Report

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Fuck your universal language. This is the internet, not the labor market.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Jul 2013 10:04:00 No.58882 Report

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>>14
Then again you are communicating with me a guy from Chile in english.
SO FUCK YOU RETARD!

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Anonymous Fri 26 Jul 2013 22:36:00 No.58916 Report

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The language of love

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Anonymous Sat 07 Sep 2013 22:28:00 No.59332 Report

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Learn something while you make up your mind. Chances are you'll stick with it and realise that its apparent relevancy it's not the most important thing after all.
I chose a random language because I knew there wouldn't be vacancies for me to take English or French classes, and now I've been learning that language for 3 years. It's far from being a relevant language outside its country but hey, now I speak 3 languages, I've met many awesome people because of that and I could move to that country without problems.
Learning languages is an awesome source of joy.

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Anonymous Sun 08 Sep 2013 08:04:00 No.59334 Report

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>>16
Fuck you WESTERNBOO!

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Anonymous Sun 08 Sep 2013 11:26:00 No.59336 Report

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Can only aggre with 17, Language as a whole and as well as the digital language, but that is another topic entirely.

Language is a great, and it should be, no matter where you are.
Can aswell relate to your question, but take what you find to be the most usefull or the most interessting, the worst thin you can do is to take something that you are not a fond of learning.

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Anonymous Thu 12 Sep 2013 02:09:00 No.59356 Report

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>>19
another westernboo failure

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Anonymous Tue 17 Sep 2013 19:36:00 No.59401 Report

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Useful/Practical:
Spanish, French, German, Japanese
(widespread, general business, diplomacy, culture, geographic diversity, historically important, cultural ties)

Important/Influential:
Russian, Arab, Mandarin
(politics, specific businesses, diplomacy, culture)

Relevant:
Portuguese
(historical importance, growing influence, number of speakers)

Less important: Italian, Hindi,
(not there yet / not there anymore)

Pick from the first two categories according to taste.

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Anonymous Thu 14 Nov 2013 20:51:00 No.59857 Report

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BUMP

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Anonymous Thu 14 Nov 2013 21:55:00 No.59859 Report

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I would definitely study some Mandarin/Chinese, it's the most used language in the world.

If it were me I would go with Japanese. I studied 3 years of Japanese and it's working alright, but there's a fuckton of Kanji, so it's hard to study sometimes.

But really it's just what you are going to do in life. Business purposes, you should do Chinese/Japanese

for fun would definitely be Spanish/Russian/German

anything else is meh.

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Anonymous Wed 27 Nov 2013 13:22:00 No.59960 Report

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I'd have to go with one European language, one Asian language, and one Slav language. And English
French, Japanese, Russian seems a great combo

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Anonymous Wed 27 Nov 2013 18:06:00 No.59965 Report

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>>24
>implying a Slav language isn't an European language

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Anonymous Thu 28 Nov 2013 02:06:00 No.59966 Report

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>>25
shut up you muslim scum

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Anonymous Thu 28 Nov 2013 10:29:00 No.59968 Report

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>>25
Yeah! Fuck muslims!

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Anonymous Thu 28 Nov 2013 12:31:00 No.59969 Report

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Anonymous Thu 28 Nov 2013 16:41:00 No.59970 Report

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Anonymous Sat 01 Feb 2014 11:43:00 No.60478 Report

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http://www.sheldrake.org/research/animal-powers/testing-a-language-using-a-parrot-for-telepathy

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Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 13:50:00 No.60570 Report

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You have no excuse not to know at least some Spanish & French. These are very close languages, being good at one gives a good start for the other, and they're both extremely relevant, no matter how much people like to say that South America isn't relevant or French is useless.

Then, I dunno. German, Japanese, Arab, I guess.

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