If you could learn one language ...

[Happiness Stan]

Old Norse

 

[alecstilleyedye]

icelandic (so i can sing along to the sykurmolarnir properly ), or italian so as to enjoy the giro d'italia coverage on the net which is far superior to british eurosport…

 

[XmisterIS]

It's a 'schoen' too

Thank you, Aunty Pedantic Helen!

 

[Cubist]

German's easy once you have gripped the grammar.

+1. It's so regular that once you have learnt a framework around the grammar, all you need to do is broaden your vocab.

I speak good german (used to be near-fluent) and have learnt Italian, though really struggled with it. My school French comes flooding back every year......
I did Russian for a term at school and got absolutely nowhere with it!
If I were to choose a language to learn now it would be Urdu.

 

[Campfire]

German's easy once you have gripped the grammar.

Yes, some parts of the grammar are easy but when you get to what we sometimes have had to do like - 'Umformung', a phrase is underlined and you have to re-form it given another word. I'm absolutely **ap at it! I think it's one of the requirements of the Oberstufe Pruefung to be able to do that. I was ok at writing reviews of 3 books we had to do but as the thought of Umformung makes me quake in my boots, I changed classes to one of same level but more FUN! At my age that level of exam will hardly enhance my career opportunities as I retired last year!

 

[Campfire]

XMINSTERIS, I do the same!

 

[Speicher]

I did French and Spanish up to A level, and also learnt German.

I once had the dubious honour of translating from German into French and back again. A German gentleman wanted to converse with a Spanish lady, he could not speak Spanish, her only other language was French. It was a conversation about learning languages.

Before I started I thought, this will be impossible, but surprisingly it wasn't.

 

[slowmotion]

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The language of love...and Cornish..

 

[dellzeqq]

Arabic - the job opportunities are endless..... also MI5/6 are desperate for arabic speakers...along with a few others

Persian would probably be more useful nowadays.

discretion would be even better....

 

[kettle]

G'day
Try Australian.
My wife is Australain and I am learning away self taught.

Struth.

fair dinkim you might say.

 

[The Jogger]

French for me - pipe dream is to move there one day

+1
or move to the highlands but with my NI accent I should get by ok!

 

[GaryA]

Piraha.....then I might be able to expand my sense of the world through humming, singing and whistling, something representational language has taken from us.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

My French is ok but could be better.

I can speak it quite well it's just understanding what the reply is!

 

[NickM]

Maori, as long as MsM learns it too.

There's a good chance that anybody I don't want to converse with can't understand it.

Speaking of which... MsM's 6-year-old grandson announced the other day that he and his friend Thomas were inventing their own language

 

[XmisterIS]

I would love to learn to insult people fluently in Shakespearean English!

Clicky: http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html