English, French, German, Italian. Those are the languages I've been learning. I speak Portuguese, tried to learn Spanish, but i mixed it up all the time. But i think those are the most important .
Very nice! That's a good selection that'll allow you to communicate with most of Europe, I'd say! :) So far I haven't learned Portuguese at all, but maybe some when in the future. I had the same issue with mixing up Spanish and Italian especially. Still struggling with that.
My list would be definitely include Arabic, Latin, and Hebrew. The last two would maybe be Russian and Chinese, or maybe French and Spanish or maybe Persian and Urdu. I feel like these had in the most impact in history of humanity.
Uuuh Latin and Hebrew! Also, super interesting ones! I really like your choice. It's great to read literature in its original language, which is why I can emphasize with what you've written.
Japanese(or korean) (They have best east asian movies, anime), French (or Spanish) , Malay ( uses English alphabet so it is easy to master) , Sign language ( communication by sight at a distance is just cool), Arabic ( most beautiful script, that can be made into artworks). If i can add one more skill (not language) it will be lip reading.
Yes Japanese is also awesome… Malay I have never looked into, to be honest. There are so many Asiatic languages and I have no idea :). About the sign language, I also thought! I don't know how difficult it is to learn, but it might be also pretty useful, and it's something super different. I fully agree with Arabic having a super beautiful script! Lip-reading haha! That's like a superhero or secret detective skill! Nice one! : )
I was expecting you to mention Italian right away since that’s the language I remember you studying the most, but considering your region and the impact you could have with languages like Arabic and Turkish (not to mention the difficulty-level of those languages!) I really like the choices you came up with. :) For me, it would certainly be Urdu first (family connections, beautiful poetry, and very few language-learning materials available), then Mandarin Chinese (most beautiful writing in the world), French and Spanish (yes they are “easy,” but so useful to read and to travel!), and finally one not very useful language: Ancient Greek, which I have tried to learn twice over but it defeated me both times! Am I crazy for wanting to save German and Latin to learn on my own for fun? I find I really like studying languages with cases. :)
Hey Elizabeth! Nice to read from you :). Yes, Italian would be super cool to have that mastered, but I really enjoy learning and improving it, so I don't see too much value in skipping that part :D. Urdu is also fascinating. Haven't really had a look so far, but I got one colleague at work who speaks it, and it's always interesting to listen to her and get to know more the culture. Would you consider Mandarin Chinese being more beautiful than Japanese, for example? I also really admire the Georgian script! I agree to be able to interact completely fluent in French and Spanish like on a native level, that's something worth aspiring. I can imagine that those old languages, which doesn't really get spoken like old Greek or also Latin, can be a huge challenge! But they are also super interesting, because of the history and to see the connections to our languages now. Haha, then you are a rare exception I guess with those cases :D. Many people hate them, but I also like how different the languages are and the challenges they bring, and then of course to overcome them.
@@DustinSchermaul Japanese looks nice too, but I have to admit that I prefer Chinese because each character of Chinese is not just a sound or a letter, but like a little work of art, with so much opportunity for artistic expression. Most Chinese characters are made of multiple parts, with some parts indicating sound and some expressing the meaning, and sometimes those meanings can be really poetic. Like for example, the character for “good” is the symbol for a woman and the symbol for a child placed next to one another, and the character for “spring” shows a newly growing plant above the symbol for the sun. The character for “love” shows the symbol for a heart, along with other symbols that can have many different interpretations, including something like “walking slowly together, hand in hand.” Japanese has three scripts, two of which are phonetic, and one of which is only Chinese characters, which take hundreds of extra hours to learn to read. The Japanese can easily write their whole language with just the phonetic scripts, and they could probably save lots of time and effort if they abandoned the Chinese part. I think the reason they don’t is simply that they find the Chinese characters pleasing. When I was 14, I took Chinese as my language class at school, somewhat by accident. I still remember the day our teacher showed us a centuries-old calligraphic scroll written by a man who was grieving the death of his son. The brush strokes were so full of emotion, the way the characters sloped, spread, and dripped across the page, all those meanings there in those symbols and the way he wrote them, I could feel his heartache, even without understanding all the words. It’s something I think is harder to achieve with just ABC or other phonetic scripts. It touches our hearts differently to see the symbols within the words, like seeing the deep down meanings behind what we’re saying on the surface. Ever since I saw that scroll, I’ve always felt Chinese was beautiful, even a little romantic. So, I am a bit biased. :) I had to look up Georgian script, I’d never seen that before! It looks so magical, it reminds me a bit of the Elvish script in the Lord of the Rings. Arabic (especially Nastaliq) and Hebrew are really pretty too. Now that I think of it, I can’t actually think of a script I don’t like!
Thank you so much! That I really didn't know about Chinese and Japanese. How you describe it, it sounds really like true art. A bit like the Egyptians did it with the hieroglyphs, right? There is no better reason to learn a language, than because of the emotional connection we have with it. I can imagine that it really touched you… Especially considering that it has happened way before our time and still those emotions of the man grieving were visible… Wow! Yes, so I tripped over the Georgian script, when tasting their wine at a Georgian wine bar in the last city I've lived it… They are also supposed to be the birthplace of wine. It looks so ancient and yes magical! I couldn't have described it better :). Each language and each script has their own history and their own beauty. I also never came across anything where I would say, wow, this is ugly.@@Elizabeth-ei7ne
English, French, German, Italian.
Those are the languages I've been learning.
I speak Portuguese, tried to learn Spanish, but i mixed it up all the time.
But i think those are the most important .
Very nice! That's a good selection that'll allow you to communicate with most of Europe, I'd say! :) So far I haven't learned Portuguese at all, but maybe some when in the future. I had the same issue with mixing up Spanish and Italian especially. Still struggling with that.
My list would be definitely include Arabic, Latin, and Hebrew. The last two would maybe be Russian and Chinese, or maybe French and Spanish or maybe Persian and Urdu.
I feel like these had in the most impact in history of humanity.
Uuuh Latin and Hebrew! Also, super interesting ones! I really like your choice. It's great to read literature in its original language, which is why I can emphasize with what you've written.
"Baklava alabilir miyim?" is the cheat code :)
Haha yes I saved that one! Need to come up with a baklava conversation script! :D
Spanish, French, Egyptian Arabic, Russian, Mandarin.
Nice choices! That will definitely unlock a huge amount of NPC's all around the world :D.
@@DustinSchermaul Thanks! That's exactly why I picked those....
English, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese
We got lots of overlap! Nice choice :).
Japanese(or korean) (They have best east asian movies, anime),
French (or Spanish) ,
Malay ( uses English alphabet so it is easy to master) ,
Sign language ( communication by sight at a distance is just cool),
Arabic ( most beautiful script, that can be made into artworks).
If i can add one more skill (not language) it will be lip reading.
Yes Japanese is also awesome…
Malay I have never looked into, to be honest. There are so many Asiatic languages and I have no idea :).
About the sign language, I also thought! I don't know how difficult it is to learn, but it might be also pretty useful, and it's something super different.
I fully agree with Arabic having a super beautiful script!
Lip-reading haha! That's like a superhero or secret detective skill! Nice one! : )
I was expecting you to mention Italian right away since that’s the language I remember you studying the most, but considering your region and the impact you could have with languages like Arabic and Turkish (not to mention the difficulty-level of those languages!) I really like the choices you came up with. :)
For me, it would certainly be Urdu first (family connections, beautiful poetry, and very few language-learning materials available), then Mandarin Chinese (most beautiful writing in the world), French and Spanish (yes they are “easy,” but so useful to read and to travel!), and finally one not very useful language: Ancient Greek, which I have tried to learn twice over but it defeated me both times! Am I crazy for wanting to save German and Latin to learn on my own for fun? I find I really like studying languages with cases. :)
Hey Elizabeth! Nice to read from you :). Yes, Italian would be super cool to have that mastered, but I really enjoy learning and improving it, so I don't see too much value in skipping that part :D.
Urdu is also fascinating. Haven't really had a look so far, but I got one colleague at work who speaks it, and it's always interesting to listen to her and get to know more the culture. Would you consider Mandarin Chinese being more beautiful than Japanese, for example? I also really admire the Georgian script! I agree to be able to interact completely fluent in French and Spanish like on a native level, that's something worth aspiring. I can imagine that those old languages, which doesn't really get spoken like old Greek or also Latin, can be a huge challenge! But they are also super interesting, because of the history and to see the connections to our languages now.
Haha, then you are a rare exception I guess with those cases :D. Many people hate them, but I also like how different the languages are and the challenges they bring, and then of course to overcome them.
@@DustinSchermaul Japanese looks nice too, but I have to admit that I prefer Chinese because each character of Chinese is not just a sound or a letter, but like a little work of art, with so much opportunity for artistic expression. Most Chinese characters are made of multiple parts, with some parts indicating sound and some expressing the meaning, and sometimes those meanings can be really poetic. Like for example, the character for “good” is the symbol for a woman and the symbol for a child placed next to one another, and the character for “spring” shows a newly growing plant above the symbol for the sun. The character for “love” shows the symbol for a heart, along with other symbols that can have many different interpretations, including something like “walking slowly together, hand in hand.” Japanese has three scripts, two of which are phonetic, and one of which is only Chinese characters, which take hundreds of extra hours to learn to read. The Japanese can easily write their whole language with just the phonetic scripts, and they could probably save lots of time and effort if they abandoned the Chinese part. I think the reason they don’t is simply that they find the Chinese characters pleasing.
When I was 14, I took Chinese as my language class at school, somewhat by accident. I still remember the day our teacher showed us a centuries-old calligraphic scroll written by a man who was grieving the death of his son. The brush strokes were so full of emotion, the way the characters sloped, spread, and dripped across the page, all those meanings there in those symbols and the way he wrote them, I could feel his heartache, even without understanding all the words. It’s something I think is harder to achieve with just ABC or other phonetic scripts. It touches our hearts differently to see the symbols within the words, like seeing the deep down meanings behind what we’re saying on the surface. Ever since I saw that scroll, I’ve always felt Chinese was beautiful, even a little romantic. So, I am a bit biased. :)
I had to look up Georgian script, I’d never seen that before! It looks so magical, it reminds me a bit of the Elvish script in the Lord of the Rings. Arabic (especially Nastaliq) and Hebrew are really pretty too. Now that I think of it, I can’t actually think of a script I don’t like!
Thank you so much! That I really didn't know about Chinese and Japanese. How you describe it, it sounds really like true art. A bit like the Egyptians did it with the hieroglyphs, right?
There is no better reason to learn a language, than because of the emotional connection we have with it. I can imagine that it really touched you… Especially considering that it has happened way before our time and still those emotions of the man grieving were visible… Wow!
Yes, so I tripped over the Georgian script, when tasting their wine at a Georgian wine bar in the last city I've lived it… They are also supposed to be the birthplace of wine. It looks so ancient and yes magical! I couldn't have described it better :).
Each language and each script has their own history and their own beauty. I also never came across anything where I would say, wow, this is ugly.@@Elizabeth-ei7ne
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic and Chinese.
Portuguese is also super cool! Brazilian or European then?