Novicane
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I'm thinking French or German.  10/29/2007 11:11:32 AM
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parsonsb
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german 10/29/2007 11:12:02 AM |
elduderino
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que? 10/29/2007 11:12:07 AM |
FykalJpn
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french is easier 10/29/2007 11:32:52 AM |
mytwocents
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french. cause I could help you. on a serious note, I can't tell you how much easier french woulda been for me in school had the internetz been around 10/29/2007 11:33:47 AM |
ThePeter
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French i would think is much more usable, you can use it in Canada (eh?) and i'm sure a few other places. 10/29/2007 11:37:26 AM |
TenaciousC
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German would be fun (and easier), but French would be more useful 10/29/2007 11:42:58 AM |
Yoshiemaster
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farsi (persian) 10/29/2007 12:08:38 PM |
TroopofEchos
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I took 4 years of french... total waste of time, although I'm still glad i did
german would be fun too 10/29/2007 12:11:17 PM |
chembob
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Latin 10/29/2007 1:09:12 PM |
Lewizzle
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Klingon. 10/29/2007 1:15:11 PM |
ssclark
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russian 10/29/2007 1:18:02 PM |
ambrosia1231
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I've had fun in German, but I think I'm gonna take arabic or japanese next.
maybe hindi 10/29/2007 2:03:14 PM |
Walter
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novicane no habla espanol 10/29/2007 2:06:09 PM |
jbtilley
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| Quote : | | "french is easier" |
But then, according to native speakers, you would never be pronouncing things right - no matter how good you got.10/29/2007 2:14:29 PM |
FykalJpn
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Number of secondary speakers:
French (190 million)
English (150 million)
Russian (125 million)
Portuguese (28 million)
Arabic (21 million)
Spanish (20 million)
Chinese (20 million)
German (9 million)
Japanese (8 million)
Number of native speakers:
Mandarin Chinese (1.1 billion)
English (330 million)
Spanish (300 million)
Hindi/Urdu (250 million)
Arabic (200 million)
Bengali (185 million)
Portuguese (160 million)
Russian (160 million)
Japanese (125 million)
German (100 million)
Punjabi (90 million)
Javanese (80 million)
French (75 million)
Most influential based on number of primary speakers, number of secondary speakers, number and population of countries where used, number of major fields using the language internationally, economic power of countries using the languages, and socio-literary prestige:
English (37)
French (23)
Spanish (20)
Russian (16)
Arabic (14)
Chinese (13)
German (12)
Japanese (10)
Portuguese (10)
Hindi/Urdu (9)
[Edited on October 29, 2007 at 2:26 PM. Reason : ^most people really don't pronounce them properly]
[Edited on October 29, 2007 at 2:30 PM. Reason : ^4 unless you're willing to commit several years to russian, don't bother] 10/29/2007 2:23:11 PM |
