new learning language

[mr_byte31]

Hi all
its summer now
I am planning to learn a new language
I think about French or German
But I don't know wich one should I select
I think a language can help me in work or study
any advice??

[Parmin]

Yes, learning languages are good, but human languages are always changing
and the lasting ones are usually due to the economic holding of the country the language belong to.
At this moment, Chinese may be a good language to learn if you want a further advances in near future.


But, me, these are the languages I want to learn
C, C++ , C#
Java
Gamelan
or any other newer variety are good too.. 

[mr_byte31]

i know more than 12 programing languages  (thats enough)
time to talk to people not to machines

[yoda]

Hi,
It depends a bit on where you are from, certainly French is a marvelous "music like" language (to me) but German might give you more access to technical articles on the Net.
Why dont you start with both of them and decide later which one suits you the best?
Good luck, (from Holland).

[mr_byte31]

I am from Egypt
nice to meet u
French is really hard in pronounciation some silent and pronounced at the same time
learning French and German at the same time is a waste of money

[0815achim]

Hi
I think which language you would like to learn depends on why you would learn it.
If you would use it for your businens i think at the moment chinese is a good choice.
For traveling around the world i think spanish is a realy good language.

By the way, i am from germany.

[SFx]

I am from Russia.
After learning English, I think that chinese is next language. but speaking on chinese is vary difficult)))

[mr_byte31]

The following is a list of these languages in terms of the number of countries where each is spoken.  The number that follows is the total number of countries that use that language (from Weber, 1997):

   1. English (115)
   2. French (35)
   3. Arabic (24)
   4. Spanish (20)
   5. Russian (16)
   6. German (9)
   7. Mandarin (5)
   8. Portuguese (5)
   9. Hindi/Urdu (2)
  10. Bengali (1)
  11. Japanese (1)


chinese is 1 country also

I think french and arabic is good
I can speak arabic very well because i am from Egypt :-)
I wanna learn a new langauge so i can have a better job and travel to it
France and Germany are very powerful countries in field of Science
I don't know which one is still ecouraging emigration to it (specially arab)?!!!

[mr_byte31]

I am satsified now with German
Do any body have a good data to begin from it ?

[FriskyFerret]

Many responses completely miss the point of learning a second language. Comparing how many people speak this language or that language should not be a major consideration. Considering the number of technical people (geeks, dweebs, and weenies) on this forum with a very narrow concentration in engineering subjects it is understandable that the decision process takes that reasoning track.

Here is the advice I have given to friends and coworkers in the past when asked what language I suggest for their young child to learn. It's utterly simple: Latin for males and French for females. Neither will ever fail a child as a second language.

Adults are different. Important questions you should ask yourself: Do I like the way the language sounds? Is is musical to my ears? Is the culture it comes from interesting to me? Somewhere down the list of criteria, maybe #70 or #80, should be how useful it is or how many others speak it in the world.

If you want something exotic, sample American Indian Navajo, Dakota, or New Testament Greek.

[mr_byte31]

sample American Indian Navajo, Dakota, or New Testament Greek.??! who are they
anyway
I feel that german pronouncation is much better than French
what i know that germany give a lot of scholarships all over the world it may reach 1,8 Million oppertunity.
I want to have a scholarship abroad so I can complete my studies in a popular University
does this make sense???

[DreamCat]

I also like the Germans, but I think I have no chance talk with them, not included in the network.

[mr_byte31]

the most important thing to learn a language is to practice it as much as possible and this is my problem

[anishjp]

Hi,

How about learning Italian?...

[mr_byte31]

i think you are the only one who speak Italian here
italy is unique it speaks Italian and it is the only country that speaks this language

[Manuel]

I think Italian and Spanish are the most "complete" languages.
M!

[mr_byte31]

how do you define "complete"??
nothing complete those days

[DreamCat]

what dose "complete" means?

[Roka]

Hi Guys!

I'm newbie here. I am from Hungary.
Those who are speak any indoeuropean language have some common point of view about the word around us.
French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian are post-latin languages.
I know they have many differencies but mainly they have one root.
There are many slavic languages Russian, Polish, Slovakian, Czech, Serb-Croatian, Bolgarian etc.
They have their own point of view.
If somebody wants to learn complately different language, try some from the Ural-Altaic or Finno-Ugric branch.
Turkish, Tatar, Kazakh, Hungarian, Mongol, Finnish, Estonian etc.
My brain works in hungarian... i dream in hungarian but i speak a little english, russian, german.
Nowadays i started to learn turkish, very interesting and it has many similarities to hungarian.
Some boost (advertisement) for hungarian language:
The Irish noble-prize winner writer, George Bernard Shaw said:
"After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions."
 

[mr_byte31]

thanks all for the help and advice
finally i started .................. Japanese
why?
coz most of the time i watch anime
i like Japanese drama
i learn it for fun
but really it seems difficult

[yoda]

finally i started .................. Japanese

Let's see where you are over one year, if you're serious at all.
Don't forget to improve your English anyway..

[Parmin]

運学習日本語良い