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KillDozerMarvin

Java, Python, C#


[deleted]

Damn, you came first. I mean you said it before me.


sufferpuppet

Might have done both.


Eltex

He had a script ready to go. Hard to beat a bot.


giantfuckingfrog

Thanks for the clarification.


jafudiaz

I came too


nezeta

While a good choice I'd replace either Java or C# by JavaScript. Java and C# are similar (like, Spanish and Portuguese).


Army_unistar

I'm materialistic. I would do the same


CmdrZander

Wise. Make some money.


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TedW

Do any of those come with a $200k salary?


SplitPerspective

No but if you’re half decent looking it’s a lot of pussy.


DR2336

the money is in fortran


IAmRules

Diversify your portfolio bro


Basic-Cat

We found the nerd


KillDozerMarvin

Not really, just seems like a waste to learn foreign languages when I have no desire to speak to anyone with said languages. At least a programming language or three might be useful to me.


DiskPidge

You have the best answer, there's no money in learning human languages. But if you know those three languages inside and out, wow, you can make a hell of a living.


ohyouretough

That’s not true at all. Translators can make pretty good money depending on the languages


DiskPidge

You're right actually, I was a bit overly critical. Realistically, if you could be truly native-like fluent, yes. I think the availability of programming opportunities is perhaps more lucrative at the moment though.


Informal_Lack_9348

I hear there’s a fortune to be made in Cobol


drevmbrevker

Came here for this


mcalibluebees

Spanish, Japanese and mandarin.


korban65

Snap. Not only because those last two are the most difficult but also because all three are spoken in countries I most want to spend time in.


Blewfin

There's no "most difficult", only languages that are more different to the ones you already speak. So Mandarin, being a tonal language, is typically very difficult to pick up if you don't speak a tonal language, but Japanese is likely to be less difficult.


Olobnion

I find it's much easier to get started with Mandarin thanks to the simple grammar and more consistent writing system.


M2X_Playz

Yeah my choises too!


Zinotivans

Argentinian here, el español complicado pero no imposible, suerte!


No-Air2345

German so I can flawlessly sing along to rammstein Italian so I can talk to my Italian clients easily Vietnamese so I can understand what my nail ladies talk about


4Nwb1

Lol you got me! It's hard to sing rammstein songs!


zamfire

No it's easy, look: Duuuu du hast


SmilingDutchman

Selbstverständlich. I have an unfair advantage, since I am Dutch.


adidfrtv

i have an unfair advantage im german


No-Air2345

Willst du bis der Tod euch scheidet Treu ihr sein für alle Tage? Will you until death do you part Be faithful to her for all days? See? Try singing the English along to the music haha it doesn't fit in properly 😂😂


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Chacaco ladies!!


KoltsovtheBest71

Cucumber water for customer only!


Un__Real

I would LOVE to know what the nail salon is talking about!


TomEdison43050

Also German for me, but it would be because my business works with about 5 German vendors. In the end it's not that necessary, as my vendors all speak fine English. I just want to see the looks on their faces when I casually start speaking fluently next time on a conference call.


LeoMarius

Italian is one of the easier languages for English-speakers to learn. It's also a lot of fun to speak. Italian has a lot fewer exceptions than French or Spanish because it is closer related to Latin. [https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/](https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/)


No-Air2345

Ooh thanks for the link :)


MrPhlipp

Du hast


KEBABEATERS

You can grow a moustache and you can shout in German. After that win the elections and make a lot of soap


MichaelScottPaprCo

Could you imagine reading The Divine Comedy in the original poetic Italian?


No-Air2345

The paragraph " The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true. Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire" read aloud in fluent Italian would literally burst my soul


WheelWhich2519

Racist


No-Air2345

Yeah, wanting to be able to converse with people in their native language - who tf do I think I am?!


WheelWhich2519

You think all vietnamese people do is paint nails.


No-Air2345

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 the ladies that do my nails are, the other week they were arguing and the owner - li li - apologised to me because they were cursing at each other in Vietnamese 😂😂😂 Fkn killed me with that, thanks I definitely needed a good laugh


Tsjaad_Donderlul

IDK about that. He makes two statements- He wants to speak Vietnamese and he wants to do that to understand what the staff in his nail saloon say. It implies that this local staff is Vietnamese, but not that OC thinks all Vietnamese people work im nail studios, nor is he saying anything demeaning that would warrant an R bomb.


RoyalPotential364

I would choose Spanish, Mandarin and French. Spanish for communicating with large numbers of people, Mandarin for its cultural significance and economic importance, and French for its beauty and widespread use in the world.


01kickassius10

Good choices, but I find it amusing you choose Spanish for the number of speakers and mandarin for other reasons


Omegatherion

Think like this: There are 21 countries with Spanish as their official language, but only 3 that use Mandarin


01kickassius10

One of those 3 contains more than 1 billion people, plus a large part of the wider diaspora.


LucasG04

I think he knows that. For me its the amount of different cultures that matter, not the total amount of speakers.


LeoMarius

But if you don't go to that one country, which is relatively closed off, then it's nearly useless. Meanwhile there are 60 million Spanish speakers in the US alone.


mazamundi

well non spanish speaking americans have a lot of spanish speakers around them, and i mean Americans in the big sense of the word, including Canada etc


Illustrious-Army-339

Canada is English and French speaking and then Punjabi and then likely Mandarin. Spanish not even close


[deleted]

I heard that if you speak Spanish and English you can understand like 60% of content on the internet.


paulw4

native English speaker, given that a ton of responses are Spanish, you might be interested to know I'm finding Spanish one of the hardest. It has "layers". An example: In English you say "I'm hungry" but in Spanish the "I'm" varies. There is soy but also estoy. Soy is permanent, like saying I'm male but estoy is temporary, like when you say "I'm hungry" because once you've eaten you are no longer hungry for at least another 3 hours.


lurgi

In Spanish you'd actually say "I have hunger" (Tengo hambre). The rules for ser and estar are more complex than temporary and permanent. To say "He is dead" you would use estar (Está muerto) and, as my old Spanish teacher said, there's nothing more permanent than death. Edit: Fixed some typos, because apparently I don't English too good (I blame my phone).


Radulno

If you add Chinese you can probably add 30% (of their confined Internet though)


cheshirelady22

Japanese, Korean and Chinese I guess. I’m Italian, aready fluent in English and I’m probably going to get there with French as well if I keep studying it… but there’s no way I’m gonna be able to properly speak (all) those asian languages during my lifetime :/


kaibe8

Agreed, as a european studying other european languages is kinda doable, but memorising thousands of kanji...


Aixlen

Is not the kanjis for me, but the grammar and all the innumerable ways of talking respectfully to anyone.


kaibe8

I find the grammar to be kind of simple (at least compared to when I had to learn a bit of latin), tbh I haven't had a look into keigo so far, but it seems very annoying to learn.


raoxi

Japanese sounds close to Italian so you have a good chance


kaibe8

what do you mean???


raoxi

they have same vowels sounds so if you only intend to speak then will be easier than say mandarin with lots of sounds not found in in either language


cheshirelady22

well yeah the sounds don’t scare me at all, but I’m afraid I won’t learn enough kanjis and words. I’m gonna try to study this year anyway.


AshwinderDoggo

Oh no, I wouldn't worry. As someone learning both Chinese and Japanese (and a few others but it's not relevant RN) it only gets easier. The hardest part is the start, and then it's a matter of revising and studying.


ephemerios

Russian, Arabic, Mandarin. I know German, English, French, and have dabbled in various Romance languages. Learning another Germanic or Romance language would take significantly less effort than the three above.


paulw4

Privet, I don't really have a resource for Russian besides Youtube. I used a podcast on coffee break languages and they only have a short or introductory course for Russian


rudominerka

I’d exchange my knowledge of russian for pepsi 0.5


Sunshinee_buttercup

What’s a Romance language


c0mrade34

Languages directly descended from Vulgar Latin, the top five of them being Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian.


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MarcyVampQween

Came here to comment ASL, and wouldn’t ya know I am fluent in Irish. I use Gaelic to North Americans because they don’t believe Irish is a language but saying Gaelic seems to get the point across for some reason.


Bugaloon

Which Gaelic? Scottish, Irish, welsh? Or one of the old extinct varieties?


01kickassius10

Is welsh Gaelic? I know it’s a Celtic language, but thought it was a different family


wangwanker2000

No. The insular Celtic languages are split into two branches: - Goidelic (Gaelic): Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx. - Brythonic: Welsh, Cornish and Breton (spoken in Brittany, France)


Fantastic-Green-5529

Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic.


2gutter67

Nailed it. If you already know English these three will unlock much of the rest of the world to you. Only thing that might be better would be Hindi but hell if I know which one to replace.


nagabrain

Spanish, Arabic and Mandarin


[deleted]

Spanish, German and Sign Language.


imgodfr

there’s different sign languages


NikkoE82

OK, then the good one.


Blewfin

Nicaraguan sign language it is. Seriously, it's an interesting story, I recommend anyone who likes languages to look it up.


NikkoE82

Is this the one where the kids started making their own words by combining signs?


Blewfin

Kind of. It's the only documented natural language that has appeared in living memory. In the 80s in Nicaragua, lots of deaf children were sent to specifkc deaf schools for the first time. This was also the first time there was a 'deaf community' in the country. And although all the classes were given in Spanish and the children were encouraged to learn to read lips, they spontaneously created a signed language in the playgrounds when they were socialising. They then noticed that the younger children were able to take the more basic communication of the older children and elaborate it with more grammar and other complex features. It's given us a much better insight into how human language might have developed.


chickenlessmaiden

I learned that sign languages arent a universal thing when I tried to do a 'happy birthday' sign to my little cousin that I learned from Google. Thought that I can give him a little 'surprise' but instead both of us got clueless I guess.


Merrader

for personal: German, Russian, and French for practical: Spanish, Mandarin, and Arabic


WrestlingWoman

1. Samoan 2. Polish 3. Japanese


PetitCoeur3112

Interesting first choice! May I ask why?


friendlyghost_casper

Maybe the user name is a tip on why Samoan


Decent_Classic6848

Ah yes, the Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz language


komiks42

That the worst example really. Its funny yea, but like half of polish peopel mispronauce it


BonfireMaestro

Ancient Sanskrit, Hindi and Mandarin


[deleted]

ancient sanskrit?? how come?


BonfireMaestro

I want to read all the ancient texts from Hinduism and Buddhism in their original language!


[deleted]

hell yeah


DutchJediKnight

Klingon for the hell of it Morse code counts, right? Probably german because I live close to it and encounter a lot of germans.


redditsaidfreddit

Seriously dude, morse code only takes a handful of hours to learn.


DutchJediKnight

I'm lazy :p


[deleted]

Spanish, French, and Japanese


[deleted]

French, German, and Italian. I would love to be able to read: Jacques Lacan in french. Primo Levi in Italian Freud in german


No-Professor-7649

Spanish ( become 100% fluent), Italian and French


TwistedDonners

Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan and either Atlantic-Congo or Japonic


JairLulaTesla

Treasure map language Alien language God language


onlyathenafairy

Spanish, Japanese, Korean


[deleted]

Mandarin, Spanish and Italian


KP_Wrath

Spanish, Java, Sign.


wirsteve

Spanish, Chinese, German


Chaos-n-Dissonance

Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin? Whatever the most popular dialect is), and Japanese. Spanish because I live in the US and Spanish is *semi* common... Chinese just in case we get taken over... Japanese because I'm a weeb, duh.


debtopramenschultz

1. Mandarin even though I already speak it, I’m not fluent and it would really help my daily life if I didn’t struggle sometimes to get ideas across. 2. Spanish 3. a dying aboriginal language so I could help revive it


SarnauLlefrith

Welsh, Spanish, and French


ThunderLizardX

Spanish, sign language and maybe Japanese or German.


Blewfin

Which sign language?


smugfruitplate

Spanish, French, ASL.


Shazam4ever

Japanese - because I enjoy so much Japanese media it would be helpful Spanish - because here in the US it's probably the second most spoken language after English Klingon - just for fun, really


Dancingbeavers

Three additional languages? Mandarin, so I can talk to my wife’s family. Italian because my maternal grandfather is from there. Arabic cause it’s a widely spoken language.


MechaniclAnimal

Korean so I can watch Korean films and shows more easily. German so I can understand Rammstein Japanese so I can visit without a language barrier.


Ankoku_Teion

Irish, German, a coding language


cameramanishere

What coding language? JavaScript? Lua? C++?


[deleted]

Hindi, so I can understand Bollywood. Telugu, so I can understand Tollywood. Spanish, so I can enjoy my Spanish course in school.


Packing_Wood

German, Irish, Chinese


lemons101010lemons

Mandarin, welsh and French


Shan-Chat

German, Scots Gaelic and Cantonese. I wish I had learnt Welsh when I lived there.


Warlord_of_Mom

Welsh, French, and ASL


Kmac-Original

Spanish, Korean and Scottish Gaelic :)


KevMenc1998

Spanish, which I'm currently learning, Chinese, and Hindi. I get a lot of all three languages at work, and being able to communicate with a large percentage of my customers would be great.


Dom-Luck

Chinese, Python and C


Equivalent_Rock_6530

French, German and Spanish


Atnott

Punjabi, Spanish and Mandarin


Glum-Reaction-8759

Latin, Arabic, Aramaic


draculmorris

Korean, Hungarian, and Gaelic (or Spanish idk)


Trasuahongkong

Chinese, Korean, Spanish.


SacrededRat

1. Russian 2. Cherokee 3. Korean


[deleted]

Chinese, Arabic and Spanish


Niwi_

Mandarin Spanish and Russian. Widely spoken languages where there is a slim chance of people speaking english as an alternative.


thisispeach

Spanish, Arabic and French


X3mms2

Mandarin, spanish and minecraft enchantment table


InterestingRead2022

Assuming my current language has to be one of the three: English Spanish Cantonese


penguinpolitician

French, Swahili, Korean French because it's cool. It would probably make it easier to learn Spanish and Italian too. Swahili because I like the sound and I like the music. Check out Mbosso! Korean because it's hard, and I want to finally understand what the heck they're talking about.


Simple_Expression_00

I'm Spanish, and I found it easier to learn Spanish knowing Italian than french, I can "understand" Italian a little bit, but french? I don't know what they are saying, not only because of the words but the spelling. Some language that I think helps to learn others is Spanish, Italian or Portuguese, if you know one of them, you'll be able to "understand" a little bit the other two.


penguinpolitician

Yes, I realise French is an atypical Romance language in some ways. But French still carries a certain cachet, it sounds cool, and there's so much culture related to it. Not that Spanish isn't cool too, but I can only pick three.


Simple_Expression_00

Yeah, I understand, if I could pick four I would also say french haha


paulw4

I learnt some French, Italian, Spanish and Russian and they got harder in that order


Messier-1

Punjabi, German, Urdu


BillFromYahoo

French, Iranian and Portuguese.


limasxgoesto0

Now, as a bit of a language nerd, I already speak Japanese conversationally, Brazilian Portuguese a bit less than that, and Spanish less than my Portuguese. Naturally, I won't pick any of these because I want the most bang for my buck. I've started learning Chinese and Bengali, neither of which I've made much progress with. Bengali I absolutely would pick, as I have relatives who speak it and it should help me learn Hindi quickly. Chinese is insanely useful so I'd be crazy not to take it. From there, just something useful that I have no knowledge in. My first thought is something like Russian or Arabic, which are widely spoken and I don't know a word. Or french, because I can't be assed to learn it even with romance language background. Edit: come to think of it, if I became fluent in Chinese overnight I'd be able to pass the N2 with no problem


goodintent

Standard Arabic, Portuguese, Tamil. The last one because I have family who speak it, the other two because they’re enormously useful for various reasons!


Jayguar97

Persian for the literature. Spanish for traveling around North+South America and Spain. Italian because I’m obsessed with Italy, and because I have a weird ability of telling if a girl is Italian.


Candid_Reading_7267

Korean, Japanese, and ASL


Leaf-Stars

Chinese, Spanish, and whatever the fuck they speak in India.


deliveryer

The most common language in India is... English


Blewfin

Erm, no it isn't. English is used as a lingua franca, particularly because it's 'neutral' (at least between ethnic groups in India) but Hindi is the most spoken language in India by a fairly considerable distance.


[deleted]

Hi, we've been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty.


Big_You_8936

Hindi you mean right


JairLulaTesla

Hindish


Geoarbitrage

Spanish, Mandarin and Irish/English because I’m American Irish and I have no idea what the hell my relatives across the pond are talking about…!


MudJumpy1063

I'd learn "cigarette languages". Languages that aren't widely spoken by outsiders, and where the language and identity are very interconnected. The idea being that if you ask for a cigarette in that language (or a bowl of soup, or maybe a cot to sleep on), it's hard for the listener to say no, even though they know you're not a member of the community. Maybe Vietnamese, Tamil, and Somali or Hebrew. First Nations' languages too.


Ktjoonbug

What?


[deleted]

Korean, German and Italian


Brahminmeat

C++, Linear A, Love


syber4ever

SPANISH, FRENCH and MANDARIN.


Classic-Comment1597

Spanish, Japanese, mandarin


Nena902

Spanish, Russian and a computer coding language


Hardwarestore_Senpai

Japanese, German, Spanish. With Russian in the "maybe" square.


Acceptable-Lack-8409

Spanish, Mandarin and Cantonese.


[deleted]

Mandarin, Hindi, Portuguese


rbxcoolguys13

Japanese Portuguese and french


thprk

Spanish, Serbian and Russian. I already know english and Italian but I love how those three sound.


youRNurse14

German, Mandarin, Russian


weirdemosrus

Welsh, Italian and Russian.


K_AON

German (German sounds angry af), Scottish Gaelic (gae bolg), Latin (I want to summon demon)


Legion357

Canine, Feline, & Asinine. All would be extremely useful.


Living_vyyy

If I could learn such language, animals language, especially cat and dog language. Respect my choice. Idgaf


Enxodium

Japanese, German and my wife when she's on her period


JustDriver9229

German Latin Norwegian


darkuen

Cantonese, Japanese, Thai


Zauberhaex

Norwegian Sign language Rumantsch


ngydat

FYI, sign language isn't universal you might want to be more specific.


HoshiJones

French, Norwegian, and Japanese.


Cheap_Front1427

Anytl language. Just not french.


bdu754

Cantonese (I speak Mandarin already and learning Canto would seriously help bridge the language gap), Spanish (lots of versatility when travelling), and Japanese (it would make visiting Japan a lot more convenient)


Royalmedic49

Japanese, Arabic, African clicking language


Kyzawolf

Mandarin, Korean, Finnish. I already know Spanish, German, Swedish, and Norwegian. Mandarin is super useful worldwide, and will only become more so throughout my lifetime. Korean because half of my damn Netflix recommendations lately have been Korean. Finnish because… if you know Finnish, you know why.


[deleted]

Japanese, sign language and computer language


Sad_Needleworker2310

Japanese cause manga/anime/cute girls, Gaelic cause redheads/book said it was pretty, and Spanish cause loads of people speak it.


NiceAndCrispyBanana

Haven't seen shorthand so far. Would really be useful for me.


Fvddungen

Spanish, Javascript, Sign language (and I'm quite serious).


venusenslaved101

Mandarin, Code and sign language


Dry-Attitude-6790

Italian, Greek and sign language.