I am considering learning another foreign language, which one should it be?

Question

I speak spanish and french and I want to leran another language. I am interested in chinese and japanese but fear they woudl be hard. have considered german. what is best adjunct language to learn and why? muito obrigada

I also am really intersted in chinese medicine and martial arts and would like to possibly go to china

Answer 1

you should learn german, its a lovely language and will help you get around in europe. its not as hard as chiense o japanese but it is more useful than portuguese and more of a challenge!

Answer 2

Well, you have a head start on Portuguese (<>), so why don't you take that one on. Should be easy after Spanish and French. The other related languages are Italian and Rumanian. That would complete the "romance languages", or those that descended from Latin.

I've always thought that we should all be learning at least one Asian language, and I think Mandarin would be the best. Japanese is certainly an important business language in Asia, but to be honest, the dominant business language in Asia is English. That may not last long. China is on the rise.

Answer 3

I speak Spanish and French a little, and German better than either of the other two. German's a really fun language, and I like it a lot. If I had it to do again, though, I'd go for an Asian language. I think Chinese is going to become more and more useful. Give it a shot! Sometimes the hardest things are the most rewarding.

Answer 4

I depends where you live. But judging the development of the world economy, I should say, Chinese is the next important language to learn.
Yes, it is harder to learn Chinese than other languages because they are written differently from other languages which use Latin characters or the alphabet. But if you have the patience and endurance, it is worth the effort. The difficulty lies only in its writing, but the grammar is very simple, and the pronounciation is also not as complicated as French or English. The pronounciation of the letters in Pinyin, or Latinized writing of the Chines language are very much like Spanish, because the vowels are pronounce like "a-e-i-o-u" in Spanish, not like in English or French..

So "How are you" in Chinese is "Ni hao ma?" just like any Spaniards will read it, or like the English words: "Knee how mah?" The answer is "Wo hen hao", I am very well. is like reading he English words: "War hunt how". Except for "xiexie",meaning "thank you" or "merci beaucoup", as you can see is very simple and is pronounced: like the English words:
"share share".

Answer 5

Well you got to take in consideration which languages would be useful to learn, I would recommend learning Japanese because the Japanese cultural is evolving business wise in the United States. But from what I've understood japanese isn't a really hard language to learn.

Answer 6

Esperanto.

Then you have the world in which to use it, instead of just a few locations.
In a few months I'm going to Germany to stay with an Esperanto speaking family, and I'm working on a similar trip to New Zealand the next year.

Not bad for three months of language instruction I'd say.

Answer 7

What does your heart tell you? I speak Spanish and English. I once spoke German, but have forgotten it from lack of use. I desire tremendously to learn French. I'm following my heart. I think you should do the same.

Answer 8

And what does Spanish ought to do with Tagalog? lol Spanish will support you with neolatin languages (French, Portuguese, Italian, and many others), English will support with Germanic ones (Swedish, Dutch), Finnish with uralic ones (hungarian, estonian), Russian with slavic ones (slovenian, slovak, czech)

Answer 9

If you start by learning Chinese..it will be much easier for you to learn Japanese...why? Chinese is harder than Japanese...In speaking and writing..but more easier in grammar

Answer 10

I think Chinese may be your best bet. In the Us there is a huge chinese speaking population, and it's looking as if it's ther best bet for the future as well.