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What language should I learn?
Mandarin 1 (10%)
Russian 2 (20%)
French 4 (40%)
Other (please say!) 3 (30%)
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I want to learn another language!
Topic Started: Oct 21 2015, 06:01 PM (154 Views)
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I was thinking of learning one of the following:

- Mandarin (to look good on resumes particularly for investment jobs)
- French (very useful, especially in Canada which is officially bilingual)
- Russian (fairly useful, Russian itself is quite widespread but this would be mainly to further my studies of Russian history)

Any suggestions or tips? :)
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learn Mandarin. We'll all be speaking it after ww3
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Mandarin (at an adequate level) may be too much effort, especially for something that you're doing in your spare time.

Russian!
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That's not what happened in Fallout! As an aside, I did not do well in French in school and find the grammar extremely annoying :(

@Fratt: Isn't Russian extremely hard too though?
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NES ~ I find you so irresistible | Bestias ~ You are a goddess
Salaxalans ~ RACH FOR NS QUEEN | Cpt Carrot ~ Can you get any more awesome? <3| It's always easy to be cheerful around you <3
Calvin Coolidge ~ Rach for NS Queen! \o/
Trinn ~ You're already super sexy and that can't really be outdone
Helle ~ EVERYONE wants to be like you <3 | Guys wanna be with you, and girls wanna be you :3
Praetor ~ Who needs 1500 WA nations when you have Solorni
Ninn ~ hi i just wanted to say that you are a literal goddess
Bran ~ Who doesn't want to be with Rach? She's fun, funny, an absolute delight and she has mountains of love to give to a cruel world. | Every inch of you is perfect <3
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It should be much easier than Mandarin because it's non-tonal.
I guess getting used to the alphabet could be annoying, but I don't know how hard it actually is.
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Frattastan
Oct 21 2015, 06:14 PM
It should be much easier than Mandarin because it's non-tonal.
I guess getting used to the alphabet could be annoying, but I don't know how hard it actually is.
I thought Mandarin was non-tonal though as well though? At least compared to Cantonese which is apparently quite a bit harder.

Me either lol. But Russian writing does look super cool!
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Salaxalans ~ RACH FOR NS QUEEN | Cpt Carrot ~ Can you get any more awesome? <3| It's always easy to be cheerful around you <3
Calvin Coolidge ~ Rach for NS Queen! \o/
Trinn ~ You're already super sexy and that can't really be outdone
Helle ~ EVERYONE wants to be like you <3 | Guys wanna be with you, and girls wanna be you :3
Praetor ~ Who needs 1500 WA nations when you have Solorni
Ninn ~ hi i just wanted to say that you are a literal goddess
Bran ~ Who doesn't want to be with Rach? She's fun, funny, an absolute delight and she has mountains of love to give to a cruel world. | Every inch of you is perfect <3
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Mandarin is a tonal language.
It would be amazing to know it, but it seems like a pain to learn. At least with Russian you can understand what's going on. :P
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French definitely
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Mandarin has four tones and Cantonese has 9. Ive had asian girlfriends before so I know my stuff
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German is a good language to learn.
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Russian so you can play EU CS:GO and piss off all the other Europeans by shouting 'cyka blyat'

But seriously French
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Oct 22 2015, 07:25 AM
Russian so you can play EU CS:GO and piss off all the other Europeans by shouting 'cyka blyat'

But seriously French
The grammar is killer though :(
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NES ~ I find you so irresistible | Bestias ~ You are a goddess
Salaxalans ~ RACH FOR NS QUEEN | Cpt Carrot ~ Can you get any more awesome? <3| It's always easy to be cheerful around you <3
Calvin Coolidge ~ Rach for NS Queen! \o/
Trinn ~ You're already super sexy and that can't really be outdone
Helle ~ EVERYONE wants to be like you <3 | Guys wanna be with you, and girls wanna be you :3
Praetor ~ Who needs 1500 WA nations when you have Solorni
Ninn ~ hi i just wanted to say that you are a literal goddess
Bran ~ Who doesn't want to be with Rach? She's fun, funny, an absolute delight and she has mountains of love to give to a cruel world. | Every inch of you is perfect <3
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It depends on how much time you have. Since you're busy with school, I'd say mandarin is out. If you think you have enough time, I'd go with Russian, but I think French is the safest option.
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I speak Indonesian, which is very useful for an Australian. Many military and diplomatic officials speak it.

other than that, I'd love to learn arabic. Very hard to learn though.
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This article said that no language is hard to learn, they just take a lot of time... lol :P
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NES ~ I find you so irresistible | Bestias ~ You are a goddess
Salaxalans ~ RACH FOR NS QUEEN | Cpt Carrot ~ Can you get any more awesome? <3| It's always easy to be cheerful around you <3
Calvin Coolidge ~ Rach for NS Queen! \o/
Trinn ~ You're already super sexy and that can't really be outdone
Helle ~ EVERYONE wants to be like you <3 | Guys wanna be with you, and girls wanna be you :3
Praetor ~ Who needs 1500 WA nations when you have Solorni
Ninn ~ hi i just wanted to say that you are a literal goddess
Bran ~ Who doesn't want to be with Rach? She's fun, funny, an absolute delight and she has mountains of love to give to a cruel world. | Every inch of you is perfect <3
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oh yeah mcm brought up a good one, Arabic is a good language to learn. Once we're living under the caliphate it will be good to know what are rulers are saying.
Normally I would be "oh no, the economy", but if it puts tweedle dum out of business, I'm happy -Bran Triune
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Sometimes you worry me Max :P
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NES ~ I find you so irresistible | Bestias ~ You are a goddess
Salaxalans ~ RACH FOR NS QUEEN | Cpt Carrot ~ Can you get any more awesome? <3| It's always easy to be cheerful around you <3
Calvin Coolidge ~ Rach for NS Queen! \o/
Trinn ~ You're already super sexy and that can't really be outdone
Helle ~ EVERYONE wants to be like you <3 | Guys wanna be with you, and girls wanna be you :3
Praetor ~ Who needs 1500 WA nations when you have Solorni
Ninn ~ hi i just wanted to say that you are a literal goddess
Bran ~ Who doesn't want to be with Rach? She's fun, funny, an absolute delight and she has mountains of love to give to a cruel world. | Every inch of you is perfect <3
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For me,grammar is the easiest part of French :p
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Oct 22 2015, 12:08 PM
For me,grammar is the easiest part of French :p
Are you a Romance language speaker? In that case it makes sense. :P
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The grammar isn't too difficult, the most difficult part of the grammar (for me at least) is the conjugation. There's so many different endings for irregular verbs, and all the -er verbs have different endings depending on whether you use je (I), tu (you), il (he), elle (she), on (I've forgotten), nous (we), vous (you plural), ils (them male) and elles (them female).
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But my English good ready all :(
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NES ~ I find you so irresistible | Bestias ~ You are a goddess
Salaxalans ~ RACH FOR NS QUEEN | Cpt Carrot ~ Can you get any more awesome? <3| It's always easy to be cheerful around you <3
Calvin Coolidge ~ Rach for NS Queen! \o/
Trinn ~ You're already super sexy and that can't really be outdone
Helle ~ EVERYONE wants to be like you <3 | Guys wanna be with you, and girls wanna be you :3
Praetor ~ Who needs 1500 WA nations when you have Solorni
Ninn ~ hi i just wanted to say that you are a literal goddess
Bran ~ Who doesn't want to be with Rach? She's fun, funny, an absolute delight and she has mountains of love to give to a cruel world. | Every inch of you is perfect <3
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But my English good ready all :(
I'm sure one could always find a use for an English tutor ;)
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Oct 22 2015, 12:08 PM
For me,grammar is the easiest part of French :p
Are you a Romance language speaker? In that case it makes sense. :P
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I need to learn English to stop using Google Translator :/
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Here is a quick easy guide to english grammar for you Rach
Edited by Kajan 2.0, Oct 23 2015, 05:28 PM.
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