What is the Best language?

Question

I come from a multi-ethnic family with roots in the U.S, Europe and Latin America. Because of this, I am fortunate that I speak English, German, and Spanish fluently (I'm working on French). If the purpose of all languages is to convey a specific thought effectively, what is the best language in terms of descriptive words, ease of pronunciation and learning, written text, and its ability to convey specific ideas.

Answer 1

I was born and raised in Germany, so my mother tongue is German. I learned English and French at school and tried to teach myself Spanish, Italian and lately, Japanese as well.

In terms of learning, I had the easiest time with English and the hardest with Italian and Japanese. English is very straight forward compared to the other languages I know of. The number of articles like "the" and "a" is limited, for example, so there are no confusions, unlike German and most other Western languages.

English is also pretty easy to pronounce, but I think it depends on what your mother tongue is. For most Germans, it might actually be easier to pronounce Spanish or Italian.

In terms of grammar, English, Spanish, Italian and german are very similar. Japanese, however, is very different and that's probably the reason I have a hard time with it. But as I usually do when learning about a new language's grammar, I try to find the "patterns" behind it and found that Japanese, to a logical mind, actually makes a lot more sense than the other languages once you see the pattern and understand it. I haven't spent time on it for some time now, so I'm a little rusty again, but if I remember right the following sentences or parts of it can all be expressed in one and the same sentence in Japanese:

This is my house. This is your house. This is his house. There is a house. This house belongs to me. My house. Your house.

It might seem confusing to hear one sentence that can have many meanings, but in Japanese the context usually explains the meaning. When in doubt, you can add clarifying words.

To make a long story short, I think it's hard to judge what the best language is. It greatly depends on what your mother tongue is, because every child is capable to learn any language and be able to speak it fluently, to express himself and convey ideas.

Answer 2

Well!!! A classical language, is a language with a literature that's classical— i.e., it will have to be historical, it will have to be an unbiased culture that arose ordinarily on its possess, now not as an offshoot of an extra culture, and it have got to have a enormous and enormously wealthy frame of historical literature. How Tamil is classical? Claims involving the "Primary Classicality of Tamil": a million. Lemurian foundation two. Phonological simplicity three. Catholicity . four. Tamulic substratum of the Aryan household of languages. five. Morphological purity and primitiveness . 6. The presence of the phrases ‘amma’ and ‘appa’ in just about all nice languages in a few sort or different. 7. Absence of Nominative case-termination . eight. Separability and importance of all affixes . nine. Absence of morphological gender 10. Absence of arbitrary phrases eleven. Traceability of Tamil to its very foundation. 12. Logical and normal order of phrases . thirteen. Absence of twin quantity . 14. Originality and normal progress . 15. Highest order of the classicality . Classical Languages in India: a million. Tamil two. Sanskrit three. Kannada four . Telugu Classical Languages on this planet (instead of Indian): a million. Sumerian two. Egyptian three. Babylonian four. Hebrew five. Chinese 6. Greek 7. Latin * Though the primary 3 languages exitsed together with all 7, most effective the latter four together with Tamil and Sanskrit are known as as Worlds Classical languages

Answer 3

French

Answer 4

I have difficulties accepting your premise that "the purpose of all languages is to convey a specific thought effectively". Language has many other purposes, such as social and heuristic ones.

Answer 5

Ich denke, die beste Sprache ist englisch, weil man sich damit fast überall verständlich machen kann. Es ist wesentlich leichter zu lernen als Französisch und mit Sicherheit leichter als deutsch. Zu Spanisch kann ich nichts sagen....

I think the best language is english, it is understood nearly from over the world. It's easier to learn than french und surely easier than german. About spanish I can't say anything...

I hope my english is not too worse ;-))

Answer 6

If you grow with certain language in certain culture you will absorb it deep into your soul. You will always think that yours is the best because it is what you are, what you learned to be. So the English speakers will praise English the Swedes will praise Swedish etc…. Language like any other thing has its advantages and its shortcomings.
If we talk about communications, computers, internet, short wave radio, international travel and anything which has to do with international information exchange, no doubt English is the best. Its simplicity makes possible for everybody to learn it and use it. But if you want to spell out your emotions no hay otro idioma come Espanol. En que otro puedes expresar tu tristesa, tu alegria, tu orguyo o tu sufrimiento tanto come en el idioma de la alma. Idioma de miles de miles de canciones que nunca no fueron traducidas porque no se puede. Idioma de dobles sentidos y de amor. Idioma de las revoluciones y de la pas.

En general no hay como los idiomas latinos cuando hablamos de amor. El Italiano con su ricesa de expresiones o el Frances con la elegancia y bellesa elevada. Pero si quieres desecharse de tu coraje, da gibt es keine bessere Sprache wie Deutsch. Hier kann man stundenlang schimpfen und fluchen ohne sich zu wiederholen. Aber nich nur das. Eine der besten Prosabuecher sind in diese Sprache geschrieben. Wo kannst du ein Satz, der eine Seite lang ist, lessen. Welche andere wird dich so lange in Spannung halten, bis do das letzte Wort in dem Satz gelesen hast.
Also, kannst du echt sagen welche Sprache die beste ist? Not really. They all are part of our human heritage and we have to do everything possible to preserve them all.
To speak another language is to possess another soul.

Answer 7

Its English.
I like English, French and Urdu.

Answer 8

Modern English, it has phrases and words from many other languages. There is almost no concept that English doesn't have a word for.

Answer 9

My favorite language is Esperanto. I love the dream behind it, to promote world peace through everyone speaking the same neutral second language. I also love the fact that learning Esperanto has allowed me to speak to people from all over the world, from many different cultures, without falling prey to the world's opinion of US citizens at large, that we expect everyone to learn English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

Answer 10

spanish is probably the richest language as it allows to convey thoughts in the most effective way.