Mandarin, but it’s not going to happen unless I spend a significant amount of time there. I tried to take classes in college, but the schedule didn’t work out. I’ve used some online sources like LiveMocha and ChinesePod, but I have been too lazy to learn more than a few words and phrases. If I lose my current job and fail to land another right away, I may take the first flight to Shanghai and take a class there.
What the hell, man? What a Eurocentric group of languages. I’m almost offended.
“Something spoken in China” : Mandorin or Cantonese.
“Something spoken in India”: Hindi, Telegu, Tamil, Malyali. Out of all of these admittedly I’d only expect you to know Hindi, but India has something like 14 languages and 700 different dialects.
How about Hebrew? Japanese? Arabic?
I refuse to even answer the question. :mad:
Ugh. I made the mistake of taking a quarter of Russian (allegedly “through Pushkin,” in college. “На берегу пустынных волн. Стоял Он, дум великих полн, И вдаль глядел. Пред ним широко. Река неслася; бедный челн…”).
On the other hand, Nabokov is alleged to have replied, when asked the favorite of the languages he spoke: “English to my mind, French to my ear, and Russian to my heart.” Or something like that. It was in Strong Opinions.
I will trade you my French for your Spanish. I once worked with these Catalans, and every time they would tell me about going to “Sahn Frahn-THEETH-co,” I would just melt.*
- Yes, I know there is a separate Catalan language
More than one of those, to be sure, plus Irish Gaelic and Hawaiian.
Charles V supposedly said “I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse” or some variation on that.
I picked “Portuguese,” because … well, I have never heard a Brazilian man I didn’t want to hear more from.
I have tried to learn French so many times, I am just exhausted. Forget it.
Cherokee.
It’s pretty tough to learn on your own, though.
Also want to learn Polish.
Don’t see how Korean didn’t make the poll.
I won’t be able to learn Korean, but I’d like to wake up one day being able to speak and understand it.
I speak english and some spanish. My brother’s wife is french, so his whole family speaks french. I’d like to learn persian and portuguese as well. I love me some brazilian jazz. Sung, I find portuguese sexier any other language.
I know some Spanish and French, but would prefer to work on improving those before I take on something else.
Scroll to the bottom of this page, there is a link to on-line classes in Cherokee.
I’d like to learn Welsh. It’s so different from English, but once you get the pronunciations down I don’t think it’s too difficult. I took a semester of Irish in college that I really enjoyed.