Which language?

Question

Hi,
I've asked this before but I now have a new dilemma. Uni is only 5 months away and I still don't know which language to do.
I am definitely doing German because well, I just love it and I already know how to speak / write / read it. But I don't know whether to do Polish, Italian or French along with it.

All have advantages but when I decide I want to do one, I always change my mind. I'm interested in learning all of them and therefore it's why my decision is so hard. Can you tell me your reasons / opinions of what you think would be the better option? Maybe you're Italian, French or Polish and could shine some light on your culture? I'm just looking for some advice and I'd be very grateful!

sorry, I will be using my languages for my career, but also because I enjoy it

and yeh I live in the UK

Answer 1

First question: Are you learning languages for career reasons or just the intellectual challenge or the fun you could be having?
I suggest your spending some time writing down your answer and why. As you think about your reasons, you might find that your plan and your journey become clearer.

For fun or business travel, I'd choose French first: it'll get you to more places (Carribean, Southeast Asia, Louisiana, Quebec, north Africa, for starters).

For movies, a slight tip to the French over Italian, simply because of the sheer volume of French movies over Italian. In fairness, there are plenty of excellent ones in either language, and then there are great ones like Rififi (1955, dir Jules Dassin) which is mostly in French, but has some Italian, too. Imagine watching without having to read subtitles!

Music and stage: Opera: Italian

Polish, if you want the challenges of an eastern European language, including all the spelling issues. This language might be more marketable if you plan to become an interpreter. Also, if you are a 20th century historian: think of the roles Poland played when I mention just 2 cities: Warsaw and Gdansk.

Answer 2

As someone who knows all three languages, I would choose Polish, simply because loads of people already study French and Italian and Polish would probably therefore stand you in better stead. I'm not sure where you live but if you are in the UK Polish is definitely an emerging language in terms of usefulness.

Answer 3

French is widely spoken in business after English and Spanish. More people speak French than Polish or Italian.

Answer 4

Well!!! A classical language, is a language with a literature that's classical— i.e., it must be historic, it must be an unbiased culture that arose ordinarily on its possess, now not as an offshoot of a different culture, and it have got to have a significant and particularly wealthy frame of historic literature. How Tamil is classical? Claims related to the "Primary Classicality of Tamil": one million. Lemurian starting place 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 nearly all quality languages in a few type 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 starting place. 12. Logical and typical order of phrases . thirteen. Absence of twin quantity . 14. Originality and typical progress . 15. Highest order of the classicality . Classical Languages in India: one million. Tamil two. Sanskrit three. Kannada four . Telugu Classical Languages on the earth (as opposed to Indian): one million. Sumerian two. Egyptian three. Babylonian four. Hebrew five. Chinese 6. Greek 7. Latin * Though the primary 3 languages exitsed along side all 7, most effective the latter four along side Tamil and Sanskrit are known as as Worlds Classical languages

Answer 5

uh.. I'm just saying this cause i'm half italian.
Cause of the culture.. i mean come on!.. italian is a great lanuage.. like music to my ears. lol
Art was practically born there..
Michele Angelo, Da Vinci.. and so many more.
then don't forget Galileo and Da Vinci. I can go on and on..
Plus, it is a latin language.. so you'll find many words similar to english ones .
It would be great to go to Italy one day and speak italian to them hotties (Hey, I'M happy i know italian lol)..
Plus, italian people are great (depending where you are of course).. but generally speaking they're warm and blablabla..
ok back to your question..
Italian isn't that hard to learn either.. its not like german..
I speak german, german is kinda hard.. (italians find it easier than english though.. --thats what i heard--)
anyways..
if you wanna learn italian make sure you know how to role your 'r's otherwise they might kick ya outta class honey!
;) hehe
have fun..
German is an awesome language btw.. good on you!..
So happy I know german and italian.. definitely 2 out of many great languages..
Russian kicks *** too!.. i wanna learn it one day

Answer 6

Spanish is probably gonna be the most useful language, and therefore your have better chances of actually becoming fluent in it someday, and probably reducing the ammount of time it takes to learn it well.

Answer 7

what exactly would you be using the new language for?traveling,your future job?if it is for fun i´d go 4 italian.for business french-more international,used in more countries.
i´m now trying to learn german and i find it so difficult!such long long words,the pronunciation soo complicated!
good luck

Answer 8

do polish, it is very simple.

and polish is becoming a very widely used language

Answer 9

best is sanskrit language which is complete language and mother of so many languages.

Answer 10

learn English is gd enough