Help me choose a foreign language!

[horriblyjollyjinx]

Um, what? Maybe because it is the FOURTH most spoken language in the world (behind Chinese, English and Hindi)??? German isn't even in the top 10..........

so? that has nothing to do with anything. I wouldn't want to live in any country where they speak spanish.

[englandmj7]

so? that has nothing to do with anything. I wouldn't want to live in any country where they speak spanish.

heh he. Well, the poster's question wasn't necessarily "where would Horriblyjolly" want to live, but I understand your quip. Either way, for practical reasons, taking a language that is spoken by a large percent of the world's population is usually an excellent career move......that is why it was recommended. Not to mention that the "fashion scene" which the poster mentions being interested in, is no more prevalent in Germany than it is in Spain or even S. America for that matter (not to mention one has hot, tanned, armpits-shaven, raven-haired women....I will let you guess which one)........

[sybaritical]

Actually, scratch my earlier suggestion.

Mandarin?

Puh.

Fucking learn Jive.

[mizanation]

no one has spoken jive in the last 30 years. except a few white people from the suburbs who were a little late in the game.

[sybaritical]

I was joking.

Lighten up.

[mizanation]

I was joking.

Lighten up.

oh, i'm sorry, i completely thought you were serious when you suggested that he learn jive!

btw, if you can't detect the sarcasm, translation: i was joking too. ;-)

[artificialsky]

people who take japanese classes for a while all have this weird thing where they have to do this whole "DON'T LEARN JAPANESE, IT'S TOO HARD. WAY HARDER THAN YOU THINK!" routine to anyone with even a passing interest in learning a bit of japanese.

i don't get it.

some kind of indirect self-ego-stroke?

[sybaritical]

oh, i'm sorry, i completely thought you were serious when you suggested that he learn jive!

btw, if you can't detect the sarcasm, translation: i was joking too. ;-)

No problem ... I wondered cos it was out of sorts, but I'm never that good at 5

whatever-it-was in the AM ....

[mizanation]

people who take japanese classes for a while all have this weird thing where they have to do this whole "DON'T LEARN JAPANESE, IT'S TOO HARD. WAY HARDER THAN YOU THINK!" routine to anyone with even a passing interest in learning a bit of japanese.

i don't get it.

some kind of indirect self-ego-stroke?

yeah, it could be!

but on the real, i'm so glad a lot of my american friends speak japanese, even though it was very hard for them to learn it. when i don't know how to express something in english, i'll usually have a good way of saying it in japanese. it's also great when you don't want other people to know what you are talking about.

people who speak japanese really understand japanese culture more than people who have lived in japan a long time but do not speak it. so much of the culture is embedded in the language, like a code.

so, i highly recommend japanese. it actually is quite handy.

[steven]

england i like your avatar..

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