What's your favorite language? It doesn't have to be your native language.?

Answer 1

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 2

Esperanto, absolutely!
My kids and I are learning it. We practice it every day, and believe it or not, Esperanto represents the best chance for the survival of the multitude of dying languages since it's purpose is to forestall the monopoly of any one National tongue to the disadvantage of another.
Consider if you will, Esperanto is an easily learnt AUXILIARY language. This means that myself and that German, Japanese or Korean fellow over there needn't sink a lot of time and effort into learning each others mother tongues if they don't wish, where whose ever tongue we settle to communicate in will hold the advantage in any discussions; since the likelihood of having a mastery of the second language will be remote at best. Each partner has exerted a similar effort in order to communicate; a linguisticly neutral hand shake if you will. Yet we are still free to talk in our mother tongues when and where we choose.
Further, I am now in a position to visit just about every country in the world and with the help of my new found Esperanto speaking friend (2 million plus) learn of his / her culture and language. This second facet is possible because in learning Esperanto I now have a firmer grip on linguistic principles. I will provide a link below on the benefits of learning tertiary languages after Esperanto.
However, if it is Culture you desire, then you've no need to look much further than the Internet. In music there are Folk, Jazz, Opera, Rock, Hip Hop, Rap, childrens' songs, etc. In literature there is multinational translations plus original works. The yearly Esperanto Congresses are a play ground for young and old alike for interaction.
The error it seems that most people make, is the assumption that a focus on one area or language will detract from other areas. Although it may be true to a point, it is extremely unlikely to effect an area to the point of destruction. There are simply too many people in the world to allow that to happen. None of this precludes learning another language.
Conversely, nobody would feel forced to learn it, especially if they've no desire to leave their comfort zone.
The fact is that like it or not, it's use is expanding exponentially. The last educated guess puts the number of functionally fluent speakers at 2 million plus and another 2,000 native speakers (those that were born to an Esperanto household; yes they exist).
Yet many feel almost threatened by it, which is the last intention of the Esperantistoj (ehs-pehr-ahn-TEES-toy). It is simply a tool to allow those that might otherwise struggle to learn a new language, the option of expanding their horizons.
Finally, there is currently $600 million plus a year being spent on translation services at the UN, and a similar amount in the EU, because no one nationality wants to loose the prestige of owning one of the 'working' languages in each of those institutions. This a huge waste of resources that might otherwise go to feeding and housing those less fortunate. A single working language, easily learnt (less than a year to become fluent) would certainly go along way towards that goal. The Universal Esperanto Asociation (UEA) currently holds observer status (class B) at the UN and UNESCO. So there is some movement towards this goal.
Research and draw your own conclusions.

Ĝis!

Answer 3

I can talk many languages. See? Salve Annong Konichiwa Hola Hi Bonjour (I can do a pair extra, too!) My favourite language even though, might have got to be Latin on account that it is the root for most often the whole thing. Oh and incidentally, I recognise plenty of humans consider that if whatever ends with the suffix "us" it is Latin. Actually, "us" is ONLY a masculine suffix. Like so much languages, the female suffix is "a". Example: Julius:boys identify Julia: Girls identify Oh and here is a a laugh truth: If a person named Julius in historic Rome acquired married and had a son, his identify would be any boys identify. If the couple had a woman, her identify might have got to be Julia (Moral: The daughter constantly took her identify from the daddy changing the masculine suffix with a female suffix). I'm sorry if this transient lecture bored you, however I simply love Latin! Well, vale for now! (Vale is Latin for well bye. It's suggested wo-lay.)

Answer 4

Even though English is my native langauge, I still really like it. I like the way trhat words come together, and how they contridict, the way words are formed and related to other words. If used correcltly, english can be a beautiful language.

Another language I love is Chinese. IT is very hard, yet I still love learning it. Besides always learning new things, some words make so much sense, and people are impressed when they know that you know it.

Funny how to two hardest languages are my favorite.

Answer 5

Besides my native language, English, I really like Spanish.

Answer 6

Portuguese! Not just because it's my native language, but for several other reasons: it looks like were singing when we're speaking, it has some very easy structures, but also complicated verbal times, like Personal Infinitive, it as common sounds, similar to Spanish ones, but other sounds that don't exist in Spanish. People who speak Spanish think they can understand us easily, but they can't, especially European Portuguese (my language)! And its the 5th/6th most spoken language in the world. Apart from it, I like English, Mandarin and Russian

Answer 7

Italian!!!It's not my native language,as I happen to be greek,but I study in Italy and just love their language(and their country,as well!)

Answer 8

That's right it's not my native language ,because I prefer French.It sounds so good to me & it's the 2nd -3rd world language& for me as I'm sudying Phonetics & Linguistics -I think- it's liguistics is quite hard which is good for me...I like to learn hard things to be unique....lol

Answer 9

Well, spanish, a bit, not only because it is my native, but because some people can't speak spanish right and its fun correcting theier errors. On second hand, I prefer japanese because its awesome and it might be difficult to learn, but hey! at leats you can read all the manga earlier.

Answer 10

I like the versatility and diversity of English but I love the sound of French. And it's fun to speak.