Japanese ,
Spanish ,
Russian ,
italian
Korean
or Arabic
2007-10-20 02:21:40 · 11 answers · asked by AUNTY 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
I have no particular preference.
I have studied, Gujarati, English, Marathi, Hindi, French, German, Persian and Spanish.
Some of them I have know like they were my native tongue.
However I consider them as an instrument to convey what I wish to convey. So I do not have a particular liking for any language. I studied them because I needed to study them, or I needed to use them.
But I will answer your other Q? on this subject.
2007-10-21 02:04:54 · answer #1 · answered by minootoo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As I speak none of these, I am going by sound only - I like some Spanish dialects and Japanese . . . . followed by Italian, Korean, Arabic and Russian. Though that might change if I were exposed more to some of the lesser rated ones.
2007-10-20 02:26:44 · answer #2 · answered by The Corinthian 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
English should not be the most widely spoken. Well, at least that's my opinion. Am I saying there are a lot of better languages? No. However, English is too unpredictable. There are many weird verb changes, the vowels aren't pronounced the same ever, and almost every letter is silent in one way shape or form. I'm not a fan of French either though. I'm a bit of a fan of German or Italian, but English, though I know the history, I am not a fan of.
By the way, I am a native speaker of English.
I think it's a bland language, there's no romance in it, and we have changed it too much from what it origionally was.
2007-10-20 03:26:07 · answer #3 · answered by ambani 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Vocabulary: Languages that share similar vocabulary are often considered easier to learn. Japanese contains many loanwords from English, but this is not the same thing as having authentically similar vocabulary related to the languages being, um, related. The vast majority of Japanese vocabulary sounds nothing at all like any words you already know. This makes memorization of vocabulary much harder.
- Writing system. Japanese has a very simple phonetic (speech sound) system and a very straightforward way to "spell" words that makes it almost impossible to misspell or mispronounce a word. HOWEVER, they ALSO have over 2,000 "kanji" that one must know to be literate, and no text for adults is written in the easy simple phonetic alphabets, it's written with the super complicated kanji. Each kanji is a "pictogram" that is an extremely abstract picture of a concept. Each kanji has multiple pronunciations and meanings, which you must guess from the context or the other kanji it appears with in combination words. It takes Japanese students all of compulsory education (through highschool) to learn all of these kanji, and THEY already know the meanings of the spoken words in Japanese. YOU must learn the meaning and pronunciation in addition to the crazy complicated lines.
2007-10-20 02:29:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Spanish then Italian
2007-10-20 02:31:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The only one I've had a go at learning is Arabic. It is so different from English that I did struggle with it, but seeing as I have never attempted to learn the others I'll go with Arabic
2007-10-20 03:09:11 · answer #6 · answered by JanJan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Japanese is often pointed to as the most difficult language for English speakers to learn. This is because it differs from English on several significant scales
2007-10-20 02:24:55 · answer #7 · answered by Washington 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Esperanto
2007-10-20 02:41:21 · answer #8 · answered by Heights! 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They all sound foreign to me. if you understood Arabic you could make big bucks with one of many government agencies. Have enough trouble with English.
2007-10-20 02:36:51 · answer #9 · answered by Mister2-15-2 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
italian
2007-10-21 03:24:24 · answer #10 · answered by Shreyo G 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋