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If you decided to devote the time to it, what language would you learn?

Italian

I have some rudimentary experience with the language having taken a few classes, but it would be great to be able to go see my distant family in Atripalda (in the mountains east of Naples near Avellino) and speak fluently with them in their own language.

Of course, they'd probably all want to practice their English...

Spanish. Just out of practicality. Was nearly fluent for a while as I had a girlfriend from Chihuahua for a number of years and English was not her strong suit. Of course you tend to lose it if you don't use it, and I've lost most of it.

Spanish...I took 5 years of it in school and was progressing to the point where i was getting maybe not fluent but I could hold my own in most conversations. but now i can only really read Spanish well...my conversational abilities are toast.

Farsi.

I would love to communicate with my inlaws in their native tongue and be able to hold my own/show respect for Persian culture when I finally take that trip to Iran.

I'd be able to help out my father in-law as well. Actually planning on taking classes once I take my subspecialty boards.

French. I read it for my work but I never really learned it. I can get around but I can't converse or watch movies without reading subtitles. I'm now actively dedicating time to it.

English.

Alieberman wrote:English.

Si.

Longhorned wrote:French. I read it for my work but I never really learned it. I can get around but I can't converse or watch movies without reading subtitles. I'm now actively dedicating time to it.

This is my number two, LH

Japanese
Latin
Russian
Spanish

in that order.

I took one semester of Japanese in college. It was brutal.

More evidence that I'm a racist is that I couldn't practice Japanese without shouting it while punching and kicking at the air.

Chicat wrote:I took one semester of Japanese in college. It was brutal.

That's what everyone says, that it's incredibly hard to learn, and even harder to learn how to write it. But still, if I could, that would be the first one on my list.

Longhorned wrote:More evidence that I'm a racist is that I couldn't practice Japanese without shouting it while punching and kicking at the air.

Same for me with German, but without the punching/kicking, and more of a finger jabbing with ramrod straight posture sort of thing.

German. I took one semester in college but that was it and I have lost most of it

Chicat wrote:

Longhorned wrote:More evidence that I'm a racist is that I couldn't practice Japanese without shouting it while punching and kicking at the air.

Same for me with German, but without the punching/kicking, and more of a finger jabbing with ramrod straight posture sort of thing.

No joke, same here. When I was at the Goethe Institut in Freiburg my German friends were truly offended, and then only eventually decided it was funny.

Longhorned wrote:

Chicat wrote:

Longhorned wrote:More evidence that I'm a racist is that I couldn't practice Japanese without shouting it while punching and kicking at the air.

Same for me with German, but without the punching/kicking, and more of a finger jabbing with ramrod straight posture sort of thing.

No joke, same here. When I was at the Goethe Institut in Freiburg my German friends were truly offended, and then only eventually decided it was funny.

On one of Tool's albums there is an interlude with a guy screaming a chocolate chip cookie recipe in German like he was addressing a political rally and it is possibly the scariest shit you've ever heard.

Ant. Because I want to be able to talk to our new overlords about not having to toil in their underground sugarcaves.

I think German is a beautiful sounding language when spoken by Swiss and German babes.

Ja.

CalStateTempe wrote:I think German is a beautiful sounding language when spoken by Swiss and German babes.

Ja.

Spanish, because:

ASUCatFan wrote:Spanish, because:

According to that pic, there's a 100% chance of a storm en mis pantalones.

I hadn't been paying attention in my high school Spanish class, and my vocabulary was pretty confused.

The teacher asked me in Spanish, "What do you like to do at parties?"

Fashioning myself as a romantic Latino man, I said, "I like to dance with beautiful women."

The teacher paused. Switching to English, she said, "You like to ride fat women?"

Longhorned wrote:I hadn't been paying attention in my high school Spanish class, and my vocabulary was pretty confused.

The teacher asked me in Spanish, "What do you like to do at parties?"

Fashioning myself as a romantic Latino man, I said, "I like to dance with beautiful women."

The teacher paused. Switching to English, she said, "You like to ride fat women?"

Well....did you like to ride fat women?

PieceOfMeat wrote:

Longhorned wrote:I hadn't been paying attention in my high school Spanish class, and my vocabulary was pretty confused.

The teacher asked me in Spanish, "What do you like to do at parties?"

Fashioning myself as a romantic Latino man, I said, "I like to dance with beautiful women."

The teacher paused. Switching to English, she said, "You like to ride fat women?"

Well....did you like to ride fat women?

Maybe twice a week tops. Tops.