What foreign language do you speak?

Question

and learning of which f.l. would you recommend?

besides English!

Answer 1

I speak Portuguese, my mother tongue, English, French, Spanish and Russian. I think learning Spanish is highly recommendable because Latin America and Spain are going to become more powerful with time, so learning Spanish is not a waste of time. Chinese is also a very important language to learn as they are already an important international economy but it is very difficult, which may make people shy away from it.

Answer 2

This native New Yorker speaks Cantonese Chinese, understands some Mandarin, speaks some French, speaks some Spanish, some Italian, knows some Japanese. I recommend learning French since it's such a lovely sounding language. However, Spanish is easiest to learn and not a complex language in terms of nouns and verbs. Asian languages are very difficult and so is German.

Answer 3

I speak English, French, German, Portuguese. I can get by in Spanish.

Recommend? Guess it depends if it is going to be for fun or for work. And where you live.

Spanish is becoming increasingly important in the US, and gives you access to South America (except Brazil) and Spain. It is the second most spoken language in the world, by native speakers, behind Mandarin Chinese.

Now if you're looking at being competitive in tomorrow's labour market, you should learn Mandarin Chinese (885 million speakers), or Hindi (one of India's dialects, 182m speakers), Portuguese (170 million speakers most of them in Brazil), Russian (170 million speakers).

At the end of the day, English has 322 million native speakers, and much more importantly an estimated 1 billion total speakers. Which is why many native English speakers tend to be uninterested by foreign languages, whereas the Swedes, or Dutch, or Danes, or Swiss, have little choice but to learn a few at once.

Enjoy your studies.

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Answer 4

English, French, Spanish, Italian!!!

Answer 5

I speak English as a foreign language. I recommend u Turkish to learn (it's my native language). It's easy to learn and if u're interested in Middle East, it's the easiest language that u need :-)

Answer 6

English is a foreign language to me. I am currently learning Norwegian.
Any to recommend? Any. Really. Just take a tour... and you might fall in love with some part of its culture or something... and you'll find it rewarding.

Answer 7

English - I'm French. I'm thinking about learning Spanish again (I was pretty good after high school) cos I want to travel through South America.

Answer 8

Dutch (not actually a foreign language for me), English (which is a foreign language for me), French, Spanish, German, Luxembourgish, Indonesian.

I would recommend Arabic.

Answer 9

I took Latin. Other foreign languages I speak include Russian, Urdu (Hindi), Punjabi, and Arabic.

When I took Latin in high school, I thought it was a pretty big waste. I really regretted my decision, but I think it was because of my idiot teacher. Now, Latin does seem to help, especially since I'm thinking of going into medicine.

Answer 10

Cantonese, Mandarin, Italian, Computer language