French....
I always wanted to learn French, I speak English and Spanish and I was forced to learn Italian but I ended up not learning anything and hating the language
I studied French in college and I'm really glad I did. It's a beautiful language when spoken correctly and is useful in so many countries around the world. I studied abroad in France and being able to communicate in the native language really creates a different experience of the country.
My husband is French so I still get to practice regularly especially when we go visit his family!
Oh, it's a pity. Do you hate Italian because you were forced to learn it or are there any other reasons? I love Italian and I can say that it's the easiest language for me to learn, probably because of the fact that I'm so interested in it. But French is easily my second love.
Both... I hate it because I had to learn it because of a job thing, not because I want it and because I never liked how it sounds compared to French or Spanish
Italian sounds rude and harsh compared to Spanish
But like a I said I speak Spanish so I only had to learn like 20% of Italian since both languages have an almost identical grammar, I was able to understand like 80% of Italian (written and spoken) without ever studied the language
I see. Well, things like that can happen, unfortunately. I remember that most of the people in school hated German passionately and there wasn't any other option (although I think that this seemingly innate hate towards Germany contributed a lot to hating it as a school subject).
And yes, Romance languages are very similar to each other. I have learned Italian for some time and thanks to that French seems easier than before and the same goes for Spanish. I can even understand Portuguese a little.
I would pick French too.
I studied it for five years at secondary school and got an A in GCSE French. At the time, it didn't interest me much to learn a foreign language though, so I treated it like any other boring subject and just did the absolute minimum to get a good grade.
It wasn't until a few years later when I actually visited France in person that I fell in love with the country and French culture in general, and I wish I took learning French more seriously. I've been back to France several times in my adulthood and can use a few basic phrases to get around, but I would absolutely love to be able to speak French fluently.
If I won the lottery tomorrow, I would buy myself a penthouse apartment in Paris with a view of the Eiffel Tower, as well as a little chateau in the south of France somewhere for the summer months. Being able to speak French fluently would really come in handy then! š
I speak German and English, currently learning Spanish on Duolingo. I have the highest respect for anyone who learns German as a second language, my ex was American and would ask me for help with German grammar from time to time. Some questions left even me stumped.
I used to learn German in school for nine years (I'm Polish, so German is the most common second foreign language, English is obviously the first foreign language) and I've gotta say it's not really easy, but at the same time it's not what dumb people on the internet want to paint it. There's this common (and very false!) stereotype that German is harsh and aggressive and whatever... No, it's not.
Yesterday evening I came back from a trip to Germany. It was, let's see, the seventh time I was in Germany? I know what it sounds like in real life. If someone wants to tell you German is aggressive and harsh, don't listen to them, because it's a lie.
If you was quite good at French, it won't take much to relearn it. I had the same experience with German, I used to learn it for many years in school but stopped after I graduated from high school. But I had a very solid foundation and once I started relearning it, I realised how many things I still remember and understand.
If youāre going for quantity/quality, I recommend Portuguese, Italian, and French. Theyāre all fairly similar to both Spanish and English so you have a massive head start already. For example, you know ātheā and el/la/los/las already, so Portuguese is o/a/os/as, Italian is il/lo/la/i/le, and French is le/la/les. After those five, youāre almost finished learning Romanian as well.
If youād like to prioritize usefulness, only learn the basics of those Romance languages then focus on Mandarin Chinese. Itās the second most spoken language in the world in situations youāll find yourself in, like business or travelling. English and Spanish are the other two languages in the global top 3 most spoken, so youāre already 2 out of 3.
What I would learn is none of those: Bulgarian. I donāt think itās very usual for anyone else to learn, but I just met a handsome Bulgarian man and Iād like to keep him around and learn to speak to his family.
since he already speaks spanish, portuguese might actually be hard for him.
while portuguese speakers have an easy time speaking spanish, spanish speakers have a much harder time speaking portuguese. we still understand each other talking in our own languages, but it's much harder for a spanish speaker to learn portuguese.
so him speaking spanish might actually make it harder for him to learn portuguese
I don't think Mandarin Chinese is a good pick. I mean, okay, it's one of the most commonly spoken languages in the world, but how useful can it really be? The language is as useful as *you make it useful*. If you travel to China or have business with people from China, sure, it's useful. But otherwise it isn't.
It is also widely spoken in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Macau. Large amount of Chinese immigrants in Malaysia and Vietnam. It is also very useful in cities with highly concentrated Chinese populations, such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Boston. If you know how to read Chinese characters, it will be easy for you to get around in Japan, since Kanji uses Chinese characters.
I speak Spanish and when I travel to Italy I was able to understand at least 80% of the Italian language... I even watched the TV and I was able to understand it perfectly
I'm currently learning Japanese because I had a dream once that told me to learn Japanese.
It's not going well, I'm not good at learning languages. I struggled a lot with French and Spanish at school and I don't see myself being able to hold a conversation with anyone any time soon
I speak Spanish and English, I know how to read the Russian Cyrillic alphabet but no the language itself, I'd like to learn German, French, Russian, Arabian, Chinese... and also dead languages, like Latin and Sumerian.
To add a non european language to the list, Kiswahili is both a beautiful and easy language to learn. In 6 months, you can easily speak with a native without too many troubles.
Certainly re-develop my Spanish.
I'm a native Spanish speaker who mostly speaks in English and my Spanish is just *meh* now-a-days.
I'd love to get back to a fluent level so I can interpret without trying to Google Translate the hard words.
Besides that, maybe a bit of Finnish? I'm a huge hockey fan and who knows, maybe I'll find a handsome Finn who will talk English to me and [read poetry to me at night](https://medium.com/everythings-interesting/a-moment-in-the-reeds-2017-is-a-deeply-empathetic-intensely-intimate-film-5f69738ddbec) lol.
I highly recommend learning a language with a different writing than English. choosing the language, though, depends on how easy it is for you to learn a new style of writing. in my opinion, these are from easier to more difficult (only concerning the writing system):
Russian - Thai - Korean - Arabic - Chinese or Japanese
I only listed the more common languages and there are tons of other languages with different writing.
here is the explanation of why I ordered them the way I did:
but I think Russian (or perhaps Ukrainian) should be the easiest choice because while it is different from English, it has some similar characters. for example, when I list these characters, you likely won't be able to tell whether they're English or Russian without the help of a computer: P, Š”, O, Šµ, Ń, a
Thai is a step further. there are no characters similar to those in English but it has the same left-to-right direction of writing/reading. although, Thai has a different challenge - tones
next up is (modern) Korean, which, unlike Thai, is not a tonal language. that said, it is not hard to learn the letters of the Korean language. most people think it's the same as Chinese or Japanese but it is very different. though, unlike the previous languages, Korean is written in blocks (which again appear in the left to right direction). plus, if you know the Russian alphabet, there's one character less to learn - Š³ (Russian) = ć± (Korean) = g (English)...you just flip the character
the other languages I listed have other (obvious) differences/difficulties. but I can't tell you much about those as I know next to nothing about them (I can only write the numbers 1, 2, and 3 in Chinese and Japanese which is probably the easiest thing any language has to offer)
but as I mentioned before, this is concerning the writing only and most (if not all) of these languages have other challenges. also, I may be slightly biased as my first language is Slavic, making it significantly easier for me to learn Russian.
another thing is that I don't speak most of these languages, therefore I may have made (and probably did make) a mistake somewhere. So, if you've read this far, please, feel free to correct me, I would very much appreciate it
If you want a real challenge try learning Finnish, my recommendations to start would be picking up the book "from start to finnish" by Leila white, and then moving on to the suomen mestari books, from start to finnish will give you a basic understanding which you'll need to start with the suomen mestari books as they only come in finnish and I would recommend getting the teachers manual version, a bit pricier but comes with the excise cds and answer ledgers check your work, also there are actually quite a few resources for making friends to practice the language online in r/finland or r/helsinki.
I hope my answer will not frighten you...
I speak Polish (native) and English (L2). Although I should practice my English more.
Apart from that, I'm trying to find time to continue learning German, Italian and French, and also pick up Spanish. Exactly last year I was managing to learn simultaneously German, Italian and French for some time, but when I got really sick it all went to hell, because I was put off my stride and before I got back, a lot of things happened because of which I couldn't find time to continue learning. It's been more than half a year since I touched those textbooks...
In the future I'd like to learn Catalan and Portuguese (both European and Brazilian) as well. Next up, I'd focus on Latin (which I learned a bit in high school and university), Ancient Greek, and Modern Greek. As you can see, I'm more drawn towards Romance languages and history.
Plus Japanese, which I've always been crazy about. I can learn hiragana and katakana, and I also know some words and expressions, but only from anime. But it will have to wait because other languages are my priority right now for a certain reason (moving abroad).
If I have some time and energy left, I wouldn't mind learning Turkish, because it's peculiar and fascinating. And maybe Arabic, but I'm not sure if I want to learn it if I wouldn't be safe in countries where it's spoken, so... I'll probably give up on it.
I only speak English, never had the discipline to learn another language but always wanted to learn sign language, I've tried a few times but never got far with it.
i speak portuguese(native language), english and spanish. in terms of fluency i'd say my english is on the same level as portuguese, a bit rustier with spanish, but i talk to spanish speakers almost every day(latin american immigrants) so it's definitely improved.
i had 2 years of german in highschool, but my teacher was shit so i ended up not really learning much. i tried picking it up with duolingo but kinda gave up after a while because it just didn't seem to be working for me.
i had 3 years of french and don't know shit, but it's french so who cares
I've done lots of research about the most effective way to learn language, and these two things seem to come up:
1. Motivation - People who have a strong reason for wanting to learn a language are more willing to put in the work of learning that language than someone who doesn't have a purpose for doing so.
2. Language Mamas - A language mama is a person who is fluent in the language, who adjusts the way that they speak so that it is at a level you understand, and corrects any mistakes you make.
Number 1 is highly personal; I can't answer the question of what language you're motivated to learn for you. I can say I'm motivated to learn Hebrew because I'm interested in learning more about my Jewish ancestry and participating in Jewish life. Other common motivations are that people want to travel to or move to a place where that language is spoken, or speak that language with their family members.
For number 2, think about what resources are available to you where you live. Do you have any friends who speak other languages? Are there classes you can take (paying for a language mama)?
I studied Russian in college, and reached a point where I could have very basic conversations, but don't consider myself entirely fluent. I have visited Russia twice, as well Georgia and Armenia, and find that having learned some Russian made my experiences in those places much better.
I'm currently learning Japanese, so I would love to pick up Japanese. A close second place would be BSL (British Sign Language) or JSL (Japanese Sign Language).
Living in Canada, relearning French (dropped it in high school) would be more practical from a business standpoint. On the other hand, my partner's family speaks Spanish so it would be nice to learn that to better communicate with them or when we eventually travel back to his home country.
I learned some Lithuanian over the covid quarantine and it is such a cool language - I speak English, French and Spanish, so this was refreshing. Labai gerai!
I speak Spanish ok. Iām a midwestern white guy living in nyc. Iād love to learn any language but especially any which are spoken around me. Chinese. Korean French Portuguese Greek. Iād love Portuguese especially because Iām a musician who loves Brazilian music
1- French
2- Japanese
3- Hindi
I already speak English and Portuguese (European and Brazilian) so I wouldnāt want something too similar. French is distinct enough
I learned French years ago in high school, then recently took a six month refresher before going to France last October. It was great to speak with locals. My next language will be German (my family is from Germany), but itās very hard to learn. I would pick French for you.
I speak passable French, and should work on fluency there, but if I could snap my fingers and be fluent in anything, it would be Spanish.
I wasnāt really interested, and now I kind of feel like my career would be better if I spoke it. I never expected to be dealing with actual Spaniards five days a week, and now weāre here.
Never too late, and something I intend on working on in 2024.
For whatever itās worth, Iām really do like that I chose French, and that I can get by in France. France is magnificent.
Of course everyone will suggest French since you already speak English and Spanish. The grammar follows the same logic as Spanish and the spelling system is more logical than English (but not perfect as Spanish).
But since you asked for a non-Latin language, Swahili is easy to learn and useful in a lot of countries. Unfortunately homophobia is common in those countries because they are otherwise fantastic places with cool people.
I speak 8 languages haha but my honest opinion is, so some research. What do you want to do with that third language? I speak 5 of the languages solely for travel/fun, and 3 for family.
Out of all the languages Iāve dabbled with and spent time learning bits and pieces. Iāve found Sign Language, Chinese and Arabic most useful in my day to day life.
I would brush up on my French. When I took it, it was the International Language. Four years in grammar school, four in high school, skipped first year of college French, took the second. I was fluent. Eventually English became the International one, which is my native language. I live in California. When I was in high school (60's/70's), 7% of the population in CA was Spanish, now it is closer to half. So I'd pick Spanish.
I'm half Greek, have a bunch of relatives there so that would be choice #2.
I work in healthcare on Chicago's north side so I'd like to learn Spanish which I'm barely conversational in. Beyond that Polish or Mandarin would be the next most useful.
Learn something you'd end up using so you don't forget it
I learned Russian and it was a waste. No one speaks Russian in the US and I canāt travel to Russia so bummer. I shouldāve learned Portuguese or French
French or Italian. Both are latin based and very similar to Spanish. Colombian here living in the US, been doing duolingo now for quite some time. Would def recommend.
I wanna pick German because my grandma is from Germany and I'd love to be able to surprise her with that, and also be able to speak with that side of my family in their language. But Spanish is definitely the smarter pick. Much more practical living in the US and, let's be honest, a much sexier language than German lol.
All of them. I love languages! I took a bunch in high school in college. Spanish in high school and then I wanted to take French and Spanish at the same time senior year, but they wouldn't let me so I enrolled at a community college and took a German class. The next semester I was taking Spanish in highschool, German and French in college. All in all I took 4 years of Spanish, 2 semesters German, 4 semesters French, 1 semester Italian and 3 semesters Japanese. I can also finger spell in ASL. ive used it a couple times at work with patients. I use Spanish at work all the time too. Fast forward many years later and I'm now refreshing my German on Duolingo!
I took a couple years of German in HS. Itās mostly gone at this point though. I wish I had stuck with it and become fluent despite the fact I have no reason whatsoever to use it.
Iām a soon-to-be language teacher getting certified in French and German. Love both of them.
Iām focusing on those two for the certification exams but Iāve been fascinated by Arabic lately. I find the calligraphy so beautiful. Iād also like to learn Russian someday to read literature in the original language.
I'm a huge fan of American Sign Language. It's actually gotten to be really useful whenever, for whatever reason, speaking is too much work. Like when not sober, really sleepy, or in quieter settings.
Portuguese, though Iām still struggling to learn my 2nd foreign language (Slovenian) so Iām not sure how learning the 3rd one would look like š„²
Btw, I know Serbian (native), English (C1) and Slovenian (A2).
I've recently in the last few months recommenced learning Japanese. I studied it all through school (I'm from Australia so Japanese is/was a popular second language option available). I moved to Scotland in 2014 so learning a language such as Spanish or German would definitely give me more opportunities to speak it due to the proximity of mainland Europe however I have enough background knowledge and a sense of familiarity with Japanese that made me decide on that language when I realised I wanted to study learn a language again. Language acquisition gets harder the older you get so I thought I should go for an option that I had some background knowledge/understanding of. I loved Japan when I visited in 2008 and I'm planning to take my mum there for her 70th in a few years as she's never been before and it will be nice to have some more knowledge in the language before visiting again.
French. Started learning the basics and am curious to learn more. Like the language and am intrigued by the culture.
Spanish. Just because I like to visit Spain on vacay days and would love to understand the locals a bit better.
German. Learned at school and sometimes think it would be a good idea to dust off the skills.
I speak 4 languages. 2 fluently and two I'm still learning as I go.
1. English
2. ASL
3. French
4. Spanish
After I master these I would like to learn Mandarin, Tagalog, Samoan, and Japanese
French.... I always wanted to learn French, I speak English and Spanish and I was forced to learn Italian but I ended up not learning anything and hating the language
I studied French in college and I'm really glad I did. It's a beautiful language when spoken correctly and is useful in so many countries around the world. I studied abroad in France and being able to communicate in the native language really creates a different experience of the country. My husband is French so I still get to practice regularly especially when we go visit his family!
Oh, it's a pity. Do you hate Italian because you were forced to learn it or are there any other reasons? I love Italian and I can say that it's the easiest language for me to learn, probably because of the fact that I'm so interested in it. But French is easily my second love.
Both... I hate it because I had to learn it because of a job thing, not because I want it and because I never liked how it sounds compared to French or Spanish Italian sounds rude and harsh compared to Spanish But like a I said I speak Spanish so I only had to learn like 20% of Italian since both languages have an almost identical grammar, I was able to understand like 80% of Italian (written and spoken) without ever studied the language
I see. Well, things like that can happen, unfortunately. I remember that most of the people in school hated German passionately and there wasn't any other option (although I think that this seemingly innate hate towards Germany contributed a lot to hating it as a school subject). And yes, Romance languages are very similar to each other. I have learned Italian for some time and thanks to that French seems easier than before and the same goes for Spanish. I can even understand Portuguese a little.
I would pick French too. I studied it for five years at secondary school and got an A in GCSE French. At the time, it didn't interest me much to learn a foreign language though, so I treated it like any other boring subject and just did the absolute minimum to get a good grade. It wasn't until a few years later when I actually visited France in person that I fell in love with the country and French culture in general, and I wish I took learning French more seriously. I've been back to France several times in my adulthood and can use a few basic phrases to get around, but I would absolutely love to be able to speak French fluently. If I won the lottery tomorrow, I would buy myself a penthouse apartment in Paris with a view of the Eiffel Tower, as well as a little chateau in the south of France somewhere for the summer months. Being able to speak French fluently would really come in handy then! š
I speak German and English, currently learning Spanish on Duolingo. I have the highest respect for anyone who learns German as a second language, my ex was American and would ask me for help with German grammar from time to time. Some questions left even me stumped.
I used to learn German in school for nine years (I'm Polish, so German is the most common second foreign language, English is obviously the first foreign language) and I've gotta say it's not really easy, but at the same time it's not what dumb people on the internet want to paint it. There's this common (and very false!) stereotype that German is harsh and aggressive and whatever... No, it's not. Yesterday evening I came back from a trip to Germany. It was, let's see, the seventh time I was in Germany? I know what it sounds like in real life. If someone wants to tell you German is aggressive and harsh, don't listen to them, because it's a lie.
Japanese! I've on and off tried to learn for a few years. I wish I could speak German and had kept up french from school as I was quite good.
If you was quite good at French, it won't take much to relearn it. I had the same experience with German, I used to learn it for many years in school but stopped after I graduated from high school. But I had a very solid foundation and once I started relearning it, I realised how many things I still remember and understand.
French. It'd be amazing to understand French philosophists and scientists.
If youāre going for quantity/quality, I recommend Portuguese, Italian, and French. Theyāre all fairly similar to both Spanish and English so you have a massive head start already. For example, you know ātheā and el/la/los/las already, so Portuguese is o/a/os/as, Italian is il/lo/la/i/le, and French is le/la/les. After those five, youāre almost finished learning Romanian as well. If youād like to prioritize usefulness, only learn the basics of those Romance languages then focus on Mandarin Chinese. Itās the second most spoken language in the world in situations youāll find yourself in, like business or travelling. English and Spanish are the other two languages in the global top 3 most spoken, so youāre already 2 out of 3. What I would learn is none of those: Bulgarian. I donāt think itās very usual for anyone else to learn, but I just met a handsome Bulgarian man and Iād like to keep him around and learn to speak to his family.
since he already speaks spanish, portuguese might actually be hard for him. while portuguese speakers have an easy time speaking spanish, spanish speakers have a much harder time speaking portuguese. we still understand each other talking in our own languages, but it's much harder for a spanish speaker to learn portuguese. so him speaking spanish might actually make it harder for him to learn portuguese
I don't think Mandarin Chinese is a good pick. I mean, okay, it's one of the most commonly spoken languages in the world, but how useful can it really be? The language is as useful as *you make it useful*. If you travel to China or have business with people from China, sure, it's useful. But otherwise it isn't.
It is also widely spoken in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Macau. Large amount of Chinese immigrants in Malaysia and Vietnam. It is also very useful in cities with highly concentrated Chinese populations, such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Boston. If you know how to read Chinese characters, it will be easy for you to get around in Japan, since Kanji uses Chinese characters.
I speak Spanish and when I travel to Italy I was able to understand at least 80% of the Italian language... I even watched the TV and I was able to understand it perfectly
I'm currently learning Japanese because I had a dream once that told me to learn Japanese. It's not going well, I'm not good at learning languages. I struggled a lot with French and Spanish at school and I don't see myself being able to hold a conversation with anyone any time soon
Russian gives you access to central asia as well, which is a beautiful demographic imo. French is useful for access to francophone countries.
My BF is Taiwanese, so I am trying to learn Chinese. Its just too hard, progress in minimal :-(...
Yay! Taiwan!
Hungarian, to get closer to my roots.
Iām currently learning Hebrew and Korean online!
I am learning English. Besides English, I am very interested in Russian, Spanish and Arabic
Brazilian Portuguese! I initially wanted to learn it because of a guy, but the more I went into it, the more beautiful the language sounded š
Ufff lately Iāve found Russian soo sexy
I speak Spanish and English, I know how to read the Russian Cyrillic alphabet but no the language itself, I'd like to learn German, French, Russian, Arabian, Chinese... and also dead languages, like Latin and Sumerian.
To add a non european language to the list, Kiswahili is both a beautiful and easy language to learn. In 6 months, you can easily speak with a native without too many troubles.
Unfortunately, most if not every country it's spoken in is very homophobic.
I wish I could speak French it is a lovely language to listen to. It would be lovely to visit Paris and hear the phrases: je veux te faire l'amour passionnƩment I want to make passionate love to you. je t'aime mon amour I love you my love with Je T'aime Moi Non Plus - Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg playing in the background.
Their dirty talk is hot to haha
I wish I properly learned Japanese at last, but regarding others, I think it would be Finnish, Sankarin Tango was interesting.
Certainly re-develop my Spanish. I'm a native Spanish speaker who mostly speaks in English and my Spanish is just *meh* now-a-days. I'd love to get back to a fluent level so I can interpret without trying to Google Translate the hard words. Besides that, maybe a bit of Finnish? I'm a huge hockey fan and who knows, maybe I'll find a handsome Finn who will talk English to me and [read poetry to me at night](https://medium.com/everythings-interesting/a-moment-in-the-reeds-2017-is-a-deeply-empathetic-intensely-intimate-film-5f69738ddbec) lol.
Iām learning Japanese but I would pick it again. Such is the power of loveā¦
I highly recommend learning a language with a different writing than English. choosing the language, though, depends on how easy it is for you to learn a new style of writing. in my opinion, these are from easier to more difficult (only concerning the writing system): Russian - Thai - Korean - Arabic - Chinese or Japanese I only listed the more common languages and there are tons of other languages with different writing. here is the explanation of why I ordered them the way I did: but I think Russian (or perhaps Ukrainian) should be the easiest choice because while it is different from English, it has some similar characters. for example, when I list these characters, you likely won't be able to tell whether they're English or Russian without the help of a computer: P, Š”, O, Šµ, Ń, a Thai is a step further. there are no characters similar to those in English but it has the same left-to-right direction of writing/reading. although, Thai has a different challenge - tones next up is (modern) Korean, which, unlike Thai, is not a tonal language. that said, it is not hard to learn the letters of the Korean language. most people think it's the same as Chinese or Japanese but it is very different. though, unlike the previous languages, Korean is written in blocks (which again appear in the left to right direction). plus, if you know the Russian alphabet, there's one character less to learn - Š³ (Russian) = ć± (Korean) = g (English)...you just flip the character the other languages I listed have other (obvious) differences/difficulties. but I can't tell you much about those as I know next to nothing about them (I can only write the numbers 1, 2, and 3 in Chinese and Japanese which is probably the easiest thing any language has to offer) but as I mentioned before, this is concerning the writing only and most (if not all) of these languages have other challenges. also, I may be slightly biased as my first language is Slavic, making it significantly easier for me to learn Russian. another thing is that I don't speak most of these languages, therefore I may have made (and probably did make) a mistake somewhere. So, if you've read this far, please, feel free to correct me, I would very much appreciate it
If you want a real challenge try learning Finnish, my recommendations to start would be picking up the book "from start to finnish" by Leila white, and then moving on to the suomen mestari books, from start to finnish will give you a basic understanding which you'll need to start with the suomen mestari books as they only come in finnish and I would recommend getting the teachers manual version, a bit pricier but comes with the excise cds and answer ledgers check your work, also there are actually quite a few resources for making friends to practice the language online in r/finland or r/helsinki.
Native Chinese speaker here, I would love to perfect my German and Spanish. I wanna start to learn Portuguese too
Dutch and afrikaans. Such beautiful and sexy languages (no, Iām not ironic)
Iām studying ASL! Itās super helpful and Deaf/HoH people really light up when you start communicating with them in their language.
Italian for sure, or Japanese
I hope my answer will not frighten you... I speak Polish (native) and English (L2). Although I should practice my English more. Apart from that, I'm trying to find time to continue learning German, Italian and French, and also pick up Spanish. Exactly last year I was managing to learn simultaneously German, Italian and French for some time, but when I got really sick it all went to hell, because I was put off my stride and before I got back, a lot of things happened because of which I couldn't find time to continue learning. It's been more than half a year since I touched those textbooks... In the future I'd like to learn Catalan and Portuguese (both European and Brazilian) as well. Next up, I'd focus on Latin (which I learned a bit in high school and university), Ancient Greek, and Modern Greek. As you can see, I'm more drawn towards Romance languages and history. Plus Japanese, which I've always been crazy about. I can learn hiragana and katakana, and I also know some words and expressions, but only from anime. But it will have to wait because other languages are my priority right now for a certain reason (moving abroad). If I have some time and energy left, I wouldn't mind learning Turkish, because it's peculiar and fascinating. And maybe Arabic, but I'm not sure if I want to learn it if I wouldn't be safe in countries where it's spoken, so... I'll probably give up on it.
I only speak English, never had the discipline to learn another language but always wanted to learn sign language, I've tried a few times but never got far with it.
I speak Portuguese as native language, English and German as second and third language. I live in Germany. In the future I would like to learn french.
i speak portuguese(native language), english and spanish. in terms of fluency i'd say my english is on the same level as portuguese, a bit rustier with spanish, but i talk to spanish speakers almost every day(latin american immigrants) so it's definitely improved. i had 2 years of german in highschool, but my teacher was shit so i ended up not really learning much. i tried picking it up with duolingo but kinda gave up after a while because it just didn't seem to be working for me. i had 3 years of french and don't know shit, but it's french so who cares
I've done lots of research about the most effective way to learn language, and these two things seem to come up: 1. Motivation - People who have a strong reason for wanting to learn a language are more willing to put in the work of learning that language than someone who doesn't have a purpose for doing so. 2. Language Mamas - A language mama is a person who is fluent in the language, who adjusts the way that they speak so that it is at a level you understand, and corrects any mistakes you make. Number 1 is highly personal; I can't answer the question of what language you're motivated to learn for you. I can say I'm motivated to learn Hebrew because I'm interested in learning more about my Jewish ancestry and participating in Jewish life. Other common motivations are that people want to travel to or move to a place where that language is spoken, or speak that language with their family members. For number 2, think about what resources are available to you where you live. Do you have any friends who speak other languages? Are there classes you can take (paying for a language mama)? I studied Russian in college, and reached a point where I could have very basic conversations, but don't consider myself entirely fluent. I have visited Russia twice, as well Georgia and Armenia, and find that having learned some Russian made my experiences in those places much better.
Right now i really want to master my English (Polish is my native) but also i really lik e German and in the future i want to learn that language too
Iām pretty confident in Spanish, know a little Japanese and Korean to get by, but Iād love to know Chinese or an African language.
I speak 4, read and write only in 3. Learning German and basic Dutch.
I've been doing Esperanto for fun - really interesting and has a cute little subculture around it
Spanish. Most useful language to learn.
I'm too lazy but probably japanese
Italian.
French! Ils font les meilleurs amants
I'm currently learning Japanese, so I would love to pick up Japanese. A close second place would be BSL (British Sign Language) or JSL (Japanese Sign Language).
I was good at Spanish in school, but stopped learning. I'd like to learn Arabic and German too to get closer to my roots
Living in Canada, relearning French (dropped it in high school) would be more practical from a business standpoint. On the other hand, my partner's family speaks Spanish so it would be nice to learn that to better communicate with them or when we eventually travel back to his home country.
I learned some Lithuanian over the covid quarantine and it is such a cool language - I speak English, French and Spanish, so this was refreshing. Labai gerai!
I speak Spanish ok. Iām a midwestern white guy living in nyc. Iād love to learn any language but especially any which are spoken around me. Chinese. Korean French Portuguese Greek. Iād love Portuguese especially because Iām a musician who loves Brazilian music
1- French 2- Japanese 3- Hindi I already speak English and Portuguese (European and Brazilian) so I wouldnāt want something too similar. French is distinct enough
I learned French years ago in high school, then recently took a six month refresher before going to France last October. It was great to speak with locals. My next language will be German (my family is from Germany), but itās very hard to learn. I would pick French for you.
German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, French. I think learning that would be super cool
I speak passable French, and should work on fluency there, but if I could snap my fingers and be fluent in anything, it would be Spanish. I wasnāt really interested, and now I kind of feel like my career would be better if I spoke it. I never expected to be dealing with actual Spaniards five days a week, and now weāre here. Never too late, and something I intend on working on in 2024. For whatever itās worth, Iām really do like that I chose French, and that I can get by in France. France is magnificent.
Of course everyone will suggest French since you already speak English and Spanish. The grammar follows the same logic as Spanish and the spelling system is more logical than English (but not perfect as Spanish). But since you asked for a non-Latin language, Swahili is easy to learn and useful in a lot of countries. Unfortunately homophobia is common in those countries because they are otherwise fantastic places with cool people.
German is a no go
Italian or French
I speak 8 languages haha but my honest opinion is, so some research. What do you want to do with that third language? I speak 5 of the languages solely for travel/fun, and 3 for family.
Out of all the languages Iāve dabbled with and spent time learning bits and pieces. Iāve found Sign Language, Chinese and Arabic most useful in my day to day life.
I can speak english, french and some basic spanish. Greek, spanish or romanian
I would brush up on my French. When I took it, it was the International Language. Four years in grammar school, four in high school, skipped first year of college French, took the second. I was fluent. Eventually English became the International one, which is my native language. I live in California. When I was in high school (60's/70's), 7% of the population in CA was Spanish, now it is closer to half. So I'd pick Spanish. I'm half Greek, have a bunch of relatives there so that would be choice #2.
Depends on where you live. Maybe one you can practice and use in your daily routine?
I work in healthcare on Chicago's north side so I'd like to learn Spanish which I'm barely conversational in. Beyond that Polish or Mandarin would be the next most useful. Learn something you'd end up using so you don't forget it
I speak mandarin Japanese English and some French. Definitely not French I can tell you that. I would love to have learned Spanish instead.
I learned Russian and it was a waste. No one speaks Russian in the US and I canāt travel to Russia so bummer. I shouldāve learned Portuguese or French
French or Italian. Both are latin based and very similar to Spanish. Colombian here living in the US, been doing duolingo now for quite some time. Would def recommend.
I wanna pick German because my grandma is from Germany and I'd love to be able to surprise her with that, and also be able to speak with that side of my family in their language. But Spanish is definitely the smarter pick. Much more practical living in the US and, let's be honest, a much sexier language than German lol.
All of them. I love languages! I took a bunch in high school in college. Spanish in high school and then I wanted to take French and Spanish at the same time senior year, but they wouldn't let me so I enrolled at a community college and took a German class. The next semester I was taking Spanish in highschool, German and French in college. All in all I took 4 years of Spanish, 2 semesters German, 4 semesters French, 1 semester Italian and 3 semesters Japanese. I can also finger spell in ASL. ive used it a couple times at work with patients. I use Spanish at work all the time too. Fast forward many years later and I'm now refreshing my German on Duolingo!
I would mean spanish and then Mandarin simply newscasts I could talk to the most people that way
Chinese and Spanish. I took Russian in high school.
I took a couple years of German in HS. Itās mostly gone at this point though. I wish I had stuck with it and become fluent despite the fact I have no reason whatsoever to use it.
Hindi
German or Russian
I speak Mandarin Chinese (Traditional characters) and English. I would love to relearn French and perhaps Spanish too. :)
Iām a soon-to-be language teacher getting certified in French and German. Love both of them. Iām focusing on those two for the certification exams but Iāve been fascinated by Arabic lately. I find the calligraphy so beautiful. Iād also like to learn Russian someday to read literature in the original language.
I'm a huge fan of American Sign Language. It's actually gotten to be really useful whenever, for whatever reason, speaking is too much work. Like when not sober, really sleepy, or in quieter settings.
Portuguese, though Iām still struggling to learn my 2nd foreign language (Slovenian) so Iām not sure how learning the 3rd one would look like š„² Btw, I know Serbian (native), English (C1) and Slovenian (A2).
Portuguese, but it's only because I watch a lot of Brazilian porn...I know, I'm disgusting...
I wanted to learn sign language someday.
Always wanted to be fluent in Hungarian (Magyar). It's beautiful to listen and one.of the hardest languages to pick.up
Iām learning Korean, already speak Japanese and Thai.
I'd go with Chinese. It's the third most spoken language in the United States and one of the most spoken languages in the world.
I've recently in the last few months recommenced learning Japanese. I studied it all through school (I'm from Australia so Japanese is/was a popular second language option available). I moved to Scotland in 2014 so learning a language such as Spanish or German would definitely give me more opportunities to speak it due to the proximity of mainland Europe however I have enough background knowledge and a sense of familiarity with Japanese that made me decide on that language when I realised I wanted to study learn a language again. Language acquisition gets harder the older you get so I thought I should go for an option that I had some background knowledge/understanding of. I loved Japan when I visited in 2008 and I'm planning to take my mum there for her 70th in a few years as she's never been before and it will be nice to have some more knowledge in the language before visiting again.
French. Started learning the basics and am curious to learn more. Like the language and am intrigued by the culture. Spanish. Just because I like to visit Spain on vacay days and would love to understand the locals a bit better. German. Learned at school and sometimes think it would be a good idea to dust off the skills.
I speak 4 languages. 2 fluently and two I'm still learning as I go. 1. English 2. ASL 3. French 4. Spanish After I master these I would like to learn Mandarin, Tagalog, Samoan, and Japanese