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kionite231 ,

Learn Arabic. I have started learning it too.

BiggestBulb ,
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I've been learning Norwegian Bokmål and it's pretty interesting seeing all the words that it and English have in common (as well as their differences).

Also, Toki Pona as others have mentioned. Might seem like a joke language at first, but the community is really vibrant and kind. You can make some real, meaningful connections through it. Plus, it takes maybe a weekend to get good at Toki Pona.

BlanK0 ,

Latin is very interesting, gives you the ability to read the original untranslated works of famous Roman historical figures and also helps you with nomenclature in science ( like for biology, medicine, etc)

yokonzo ,

I say French, it’s a much more commonly spoken language than most people in the US realize, if you look at your food or chemical labels, you often see it’s the second used language followed by spanish

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Learning a European language, especially from a country that had colonised other countries will be useful. French and English, for the most part. Learning a romance language will also help if you were to touch Latin someday

I’d learn Mandarin next since there’s a lot of speakers and Asia is a fun place. Japanese after that if I have the time. That would be my personal journey if I ever learn any other languages, but we’ll see

VanHalbgott OP ,

Hmm, Mandarin…maybe I could.

Killian: I’M THE MANDARIN!

Blaze ,

Small shout out to !languagelearning

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

Learn toki pona. Takes only a few days and pays off immensely.

Saigonauticon ,

I’ve always thought that learning the native language of a developing country would be a huge asset. Very few people do so, and outsourcing has a huge cost differential, so it opens up unusual career moves to capture that growth.

Hilariously, 12 year old me suggested this on the “what 3rd language would you like to learn” form in high school and somehow got in trouble for it. I guess they thought I was joking. Perhaps the joke was on them though, I immigrated to Vietnam and own a (small) tech company now.

idiomaddict ,

You should send the school a postcard

Saigonauticon ,

That would be funny, although I think it may have been closed down and converted to some other purpose. It was a vast concrete sarcophagus of a building. No windows or proper heating. Weird cardboard dividers for walls, so all classrooms could hear all nearby classrooms. Bizarre skywells on the upper floors with no cages or guard rails.

It was really a building suitable for any purpose except a school :D

BeigeAgenda ,
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Japanese, get the most out of your anime and manga!

PlexSheep ,
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Learning Japanese since about a year now. This language is so beautiful. It’s also a ton of work.

I can really recommend jpop to, I’ve been hearing jpop almost Mon stop since a while now.

That feeling when you understand the cryptic hieroglyphics that are kanji, and stumble upon native material which can actually be read. It’s just something else.

For me, where as English is something written on a napkin, Japanese is a carefully drawn picture (kanji) on a fine letter.

It’s also great if you like slapping words together to make new ones (I’m a German, so of course I like that)

BeigeAgenda ,
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One thing I noticed while watching anime is German loan words.

intensely_human ,

Watashi no vergangenheit

PlexSheep ,
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Yeah, for some reason, they like to steal our words. I think it’s cut how they butcher German and English, but it can be hard to understand if you know those languages better than Japanese.

trashgirlfriend ,

I am absolutely awful at Japanese but the feeling of your brain automatically reading kanji is really weird lol

xmunk ,

Catalan! It’s a wonderful language.

Blaze ,

I still hope that lemmy.cat will come back one day.

random_character_a ,
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Klingon!

tkk13909 ,

I found Esperanto to be pretty fun to learn. It only took me a couple months to get reasonably good with it so if you’re looking for a language that’s pretty easy and has a fun community then Esperanto is a good option.

Sunforged ,

I just watched this video on toki pona. Really interesting in how it’s easy to learn but the difficulty comes from trying to communicate complex ideas.

tkk13909 ,

s/difficulty/impossibly/g

stoy ,

Swede here, at school I learned both English and Spanish, I consider myself to be Swedish/English bilingual, but even after six years of proper in-school Spanish classes I have only a brief surface level knowledge of the language, it is about 20 years since I last took classes in Spanish, and I never used it outside of class.

My English however, I have used that daily for the last 20+ years, both at work and at home, over the years I have learned common expressions and slang, and have been told several times that I speak excellent English.

My point is that I would recommend prioritizing learning one or at most two languages outside of your native language, but learning them well, rather than trying to cram in as many languages as possible.

One thing that has served me well however, is understanding pronunciation of foreign names, pronouncing other people’s names properly when other’s wont bother to will grant you a lot of respect and help you work together.

d00phy ,

Can’t agree with this enough! This is not exactly what you’re talking about, but similar: I (in US) work with people all over the world, and I’ve found that folks not from my home country are more likely to call me by an abbreviated version of my name instead of the name I introduced myself as. Like if I said, “Hi, my name is Michael.” They will almost always call me “Mike.” Annoys the crap out of me. Because of this, I try to make it a point to ask if I’m not sure how to properly pronounce a person’s name.

karashta ,

Latin. I would have suggested it before you started learning two Romance languages.

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