If I want to live in Europe one day, which language would be best to learn?

Question

I am currently learning Spanish and kinda French and Czech. I have been learning Spanish for the longest, but have always wanted to learn French, but now like Czech the most right now. Ok, so then the problem is where do I want to live and which will i used the most. What do you suggest i do? I feel like i have to keep with Spanish and like reject the other languages, even though I want to learn them, maybe even more than Spanish. Do you think it would be possible to learn all of them? What should i do? Thanks!!!

Answer 1

English, Spanish, French and Italian are all Romance languages derived from Latin. Learning English and another romance language would help because the only thing that will allow you to be fluent in any language is to liev with people who speak the language. Spanish would be appropriate for Spain, but from what I know, Spanish isn't as popular in Europe as say English and French and German.

Answer 2

If you have Czech, which is very rare outside the Czech Republic or Slovakia, you should go there. Both German and French are more common as a lingua franca in Europe. English is popular to a degree but people will get fed up with you if you don't use their language, or even attempt to use it. If you go with Spanish don't try and use it in Portugal, you will get a very frosty reception. And certain regions of Spain have their own languages. Catalunya, Valenica, the Basque Region and Galicia all have their own languages and many people in Catalunya speak only Catalan and not Castillian which is what you would have been taught.

Answer 3

If you want to *live* in a Country, in Europe or elsewhere you must learn that Country language, plain simple. Even if you decide to live in Country where lot of people can speak English (northern ones, like Denmark) after some times you may feel uncomfortable, first or later; if you learn French, you can use it in France, part of Switzerland and part of Belgium; if you learn German, you can use it in Germany, Austria and 65-70% of Switzerland; Spanish in Spain, Italian in Italy and part of Switzerland; although learning Spanish may result for you easier to eventually learn Italian and vice versa. Portuguese is more similar to Spanish than to Italian.
The same about Danish, Swedish, Norwegian.
So, making a decision on your topic before deciding where to live seems more a matter of chance...

Answer 4

This is a difficult question to answer because there are a few dozen countries in Europe. In Western Europe, you can easily speak just English. The locals won't be impressed but they generally speak English well. The French are reluctant to speak English, although they all can. In a lot of Eastern Europe, German and even Russian might be useful.

What country are you thinking of moving to?

Answer 5

Most valuable, in most cases French, comfortably when you consider that folks who talk or have a well command of French are in most cases the least more likely to have troubled to gain knowledge of English. Knowledge of English is so preferred amongst knowledgeable folks within the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, and probably additionally within the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary that you'll in most cases get via with out studying the neighborhood language, no less than as a vacationer; residing there would no longer be really so effortless. Most more commonly spoken? If you imply spoken or understood via the biggest quantity of Europeans, then Russian (no longer simplest in Russia however via the ones born earlier than approximately 1970, via Ret the previous Warsaw Pact international locations). Outside Russia, then German (even though political prejudice makes a few folks unwilling to confess they comprehend it). If you do particularly imply "so much more commonly spoken", then I feel it could be the language of essentially the most garullous of European countries, which it could be exciting to degree. I could guess at the Italians! Which nation is so much open to immigrants? It was once Sweden, however I could feel it's now Norway, however of direction Switzerland is some distance and away essentially the most welcoming of the filthy wealthy, with Britain in most cases no longer some distance in the back of (so long as your epidermis is white, however even then particularly wealthy Arabs have little drawback in entering into) Spanish is meant to have essentially the most audio system international, however a lot of these are within the Americas, even though the numbers are inflated via legitimate counting of local Americans who're "intended" to talk Spanish simply when you consider that it's the administrative language in their nation.

Answer 6

In Western Europe, If you speak English German and French. You're done.
The best place to learn: Holland.

Answer 7

If you wanna live in West Europe, I suggest English, in East Europe there are also some countries in which German would be more useful...

Answer 8

Spanish it's easiest

Answer 9

European.