I know how to speak English (obviously, haha), Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese. So, one other than those! I don't really know which to choose, I love languages and kind of want a challenge but I don't want the language to be impossibly hard to learn! Thanks!
2006-07-31 10:17:29 · 19 answers · asked by John 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Well, I think you're due a non-romance language challenge.
The obvious options would be Mandarin, Hindi, Arabic...
Hindi, being an Indo-european language of the same superfamily if not same family as the European languages you already know would definitely be the easiest...
The grammar makes sense from a romance point of view and it's quite fun to learn.
2006-07-31 10:36:03 · answer #1 · answered by the last ninja 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was going to suggest the Iraqi lanquage of Arabic or why not Greek? I hear is is very different from ours by the way they can form senteces. The can put the noun at the beginning or the end or in the middle and the sentece comes out meaning the same.
And they can do the same with verbs. And I hear that verbs have a whole different meaning in Greek.
2006-07-31 17:24:27 · answer #2 · answered by helpme1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arabic is a great language to learn, and it's a very rich language with many nice words just try it I bet if you can learn that many languages then you can definately learn Arabic faster-PLUS there are some words I know in Spanish that are similar in Arabic, so your knowledge of many languages can benefit you in learning Arabic A LOT-Good Luck!!! = P
2006-07-31 20:53:14 · answer #3 · answered by Allahu Akbar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try a language written in the Devanagari script, i.e. Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, or one of Hindi's 244 dialects. You will have to learn the alphabet, which is kind of complicated and then you will have to learn the language. Thats what I am doing now. Greek is a little too easy to learn, as a LOT of our wordsd come frome there where as fewer words come from Hindi.
2006-07-31 17:46:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Esperanto, and Arabic would be good too although its much different from the languages you know (the alphabet)but the basic grammar is something like french.and Farsi too lots of great poets they've got!
by the way how did you get to learn all these langs ?
2006-07-31 18:03:15 · answer #5 · answered by nicky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Romanian. It is not much different than the Romance languages, Spanish and Italian.
2006-07-31 17:21:58 · answer #6 · answered by regerugged 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Italian and French
2006-08-02 12:35:42 · answer #7 · answered by Irene N 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Branch off of the Romantic or Germanic languages and go for something like Chinese (will be very important in the future).
2006-07-31 17:27:11 · answer #8 · answered by Kelli 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Hindi.
Its different , still you will find it strangely familiar.
If one does not that upper line joining characters for beauty and neatness , many characters are not that different than Roman letters.
Its script , Nagari, is based on phonetics and is easy to learn.
2006-08-02 01:21:03 · answer #9 · answered by Karma 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u can choose arabic 2 understand what the lebnanese people say or abric(israel) 2 understand what the israelian soldiers say when they attack lebnon
2006-07-31 17:30:13 · answer #10 · answered by pharoah yaser 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋