Each have something i like and something i do not like. Japanese is a simple language in-terms of pitch, but has many unusual kanji to learn. Chinese is simple gramatically and has no real conjugations, but has over 10,000 kanji. French has lots of latin roots, but is annoying as hell to pronounce. Which one should i learn? This is just for recreation and not necessarily for daily life use.
2007-11-13 14:28:29 · 14 answers · asked by uscroxx619 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I suggest you take whichever one you like the most or feel most interested in.
**Personally, if you are learning one of these languages just for recreation, I would say Japanese or Chinese. --maybe more on the Japanese side. It's a really fun language to learn and you never get tired of it. The kanji is actually quite fun when you get into it. ^^
2007-11-13 16:31:03 · answer #1 · answered by GMatten 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am Australian and did not know any french before moving to France, I picked it up bit by bit and yes it is hard to pronounce. I promise you though there will be a moment when you have a 'pronunciation breakthrough' hahah and fall in love with the language (well any language that you learn). I think french also because it is very similar to other European languages such as Italian and Spanish and if you are learning it recreation ally then one day you may want to learn another language. learning french would hence pave the way to learning two or three more quite easily.
Either way have fun and congrats for doing something different!!
2007-11-13 14:44:10 · answer #2 · answered by sorry_that_id_has_been_taken 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Learning Japanese will let you understand some manga and anime, if you like that at all. Plus learning katakana is easy, practically all the words are from English!
French is a beautiful language, and it uses the same alphabet as English.
Chinese is definitely the hardest of the three, but worthwhile.
Choose whichever you like to imagine yourself speaking.
2007-11-15 10:22:27 · answer #3 · answered by Sara 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
French. They're all 3 hard to learn, and they're all 3 hard to learn to pronounce. The french pronunciation gets a little easier with time though, and once you get the flow of it, it's pretty easy. French is spoken in more places than the other 2 languages, and it's just so beautiful.
2007-11-13 14:37:26 · answer #4 · answered by Iris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Learn all 3! I've learned 3 language at one time before without any trouble. It actually made it easier in a way.
2007-11-13 14:36:48 · answer #5 · answered by andy c 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I learn Japanese for recreation. There are so much anime and manga available in the Internet.
2007-11-14 05:42:53 · answer #6 · answered by Shenz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chinese normally needs only 3000 or 4000 in daily life...
Japanese only 2000
and there are mostly the same in both of these langauges...
also vocabulary is similar
French pronountiation is not so crazy....
is regular....
you can learn all three !
2007-11-14 03:41:34 · answer #7 · answered by ケチャッパー 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suggest you learn Chinese. Because Chinese is become more and more popular nowadays, with China more and more influential in the world and we surrounded by Chinese goods. Check this site http://www.hellomandarin.com to learn Chinese. I hope it help you a lot.
2007-11-14 16:18:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you learn Japanese kanji, you have, by default, learned to read traditional (but not simplified) Chinese.
Take Japanese.
2007-11-13 14:35:56 · answer #9 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you should learn Japanese it has no real accent and has less letters to write for 1 sentence like this 1 would be about 7 letters long.my dad my sis my mom says Japanese and so do my cousins aunts uncles and my grandpa and grandma says french
2007-11-13 15:28:05 · answer #10 · answered by benny gecko 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋