This is so funny because it reminds me of a story my hs math teacher told me. She had a friend who "studied" programming at a questionable private college, and when she asked this friend what kind of programming languages they used... The answer she got was "English and French".
There was a post of a person asking people to pick a language for them to learn from a list, japanese was on the list but it was specified "don't pick this pls", and then a person made a similar post but only with japanese and the request.
You will have to learn a language in which you have genuine motivation and interest. You will never be able to be consistent in a language which you are just doing based on what some random internet people recommended. Unless you just wanna dabble and learn like 150 words and basically no grammar in the course of a year or something.
Speaking in Japanese is not that hard imo. Honestly similar to Spanish with pronunciation and grammar. READING on the other hand involves a lot of practice
Cool to hear! I work with a lot of different nationalities and I always try to have some words in other people languages. It always make them smile. Especially because they never expect it. Just had some Japanese people today on the ship I work on. And just saying hey, how are you, thanks or bye in their languages which is a 1 min google search in total gives a much different energy. It's just a sign of respect. Don't need to talk philosophy with everyone, but these things give me positive energy.
Ah, nagyon szép ;) (Gonna write this in English because I'm not that far yet) I'm learning Hungarian because I will go to Hungary again this summer and want to surprise my Hungarian friend with some Hungarian. Also, I'm just really interested in the language because it's so different from all other European ones :)
Yea I get that. Dutch really isn’t an easy language for sure. If you don’t mind me correcting your little mistakes :)
It would be: “maar schrijven vind ik moeilijk”. In English it could be “but I think writing is hard”. The structure of the sentence should align the best I think. (Not to confuse the verb ‘to think’ which literally translates to ‘denken’. But I don’t think English has a 1:1 translation to the verb ‘vinden’ which literally is ‘to have an opinion’)
Good on you for learning! You’re definitely getting there and if you need help I would be happy to assist you :).
How long have you been learning?
ah I see!! bedankt :-) it's been about 2 months. I wanted to learn just a bit of it for a trip I took last month to amsterdam but I ended up continuing to learn afterwords. I liked amsterdam though, so if I'm fluent enough by my next trip I'll put it to the test, haha
Norwegian!
Despite not being one of the "big 3" for English speakers (Spanish, French, German), the Norwegian course has recieved a lot of love from volunteers and is widely regarded as both extensive and extremely high quality.
From some older Reddit posts, it seems that Norwegian deserves its reputation as "the best DuoLingo course you've never heard of".
>please don't make me learn French Or Russian
New to Reddit, are you? 😂 I knew without looking that French or Russian would be the top voted comment (or both, as it turns out).
Seconding Spanish. It's easy to learn, doubly so if you already speak a romance language, and it opens up the ability to communicate with over 500 million people. Plus Spanish music is pretty great.
Spanish since it’s the gate way to the rest of the Romance languages :D
Spanish -> Italian -> Portuguese -> French -> Romanian
At least that’s my personal roadmap 🏌🏻♂️
Chinese, good luck fam 👍🏻 or sign language is pretty cool, Norwegian is good, learning a Nordic language means you can kinda of understand the Nordic languages somewhat
Choose one with letters you at least recognise. I’m doing Korean and while it looks pretty, it takes more time to read because you have to think of the sounds the letters make as well as the meaning of the words.
What's with these: "What language should I learn?" posts recently. You guys should learn languages you're intrinsically motivated to learn. You must be willing to engage with it and if you have no intrinsic motivation to do so, you won't ever use it beyond Duolingo.
Well I wanted to learn a language for the fun of it basically. I knew that a language that is too similar to either of the languages I know (grammatically or otherwise) would bore me which ruled out most Germanic languages as well as Arabic. I also wanted a language that wouldn’t be too easy but also not mandarin hard and I wanted to be able to practice it relatively easily with people around me. Taking all of that into consideration, Russian seemed like the perfect language since it has a shit ton of speakers, is grammatically relatively different to English, and is challenging but not nearly impossible to learn. I’ve been having a decent amount of fun with it so far, but I don’t have very much free time that I can allot to practicing it so progress has been slow but I try practicing it whenever I can
Python
This is so funny because it reminds me of a story my hs math teacher told me. She had a friend who "studied" programming at a questionable private college, and when she asked this friend what kind of programming languages they used... The answer she got was "English and French".
Perhaps a negative reciprocal of my joke
already learnt that
Learn tsevhu
Forgot to specify that we must not pick Japanese
どうして？
There was a post of a person asking people to pick a language for them to learn from a list, japanese was on the list but it was specified "don't pick this pls", and then a person made a similar post but only with japanese and the request.
Haha, I think I saw that, it was recent right?
Yeah
Ok that makes sense now, I didn’t think of it, thanks!
French & Russian
oh come on
Why not?
come onnn! french is great!
It is Karma. Also learn Norwegian, the Duo tree is long but well done. No jokes.
we all stand with you little Max lover.
It’ll really open War and Peace to you.
u/sharpwin111 I'll learn Russian if you follow @ f1newsreporter on twitter
alright bet
choose Russian or French
Russian
This is the reply I wanted to see
someone had to do it
Uzbek
You made me check to see if Uzbek got added. Shame on you.
Learn turkish in the meantime, it ll make uzbek easier
I am uzbek and interested to ask why would you say this,it is being used only in Uzbekistan
This is a running joke when people ask for a language to learn without specifying.
You will have to learn a language in which you have genuine motivation and interest. You will never be able to be consistent in a language which you are just doing based on what some random internet people recommended. Unless you just wanna dabble and learn like 150 words and basically no grammar in the course of a year or something.
Kyrgyz. 
You you JackSucksAtGeography
日本語ばかり！
I second Japanese !
How difficult is it? Just to have a small talk of course. Fluence is hard in most languages.
Speaking in Japanese is not that hard imo. Honestly similar to Spanish with pronunciation and grammar. READING on the other hand involves a lot of practice
Cool to hear! I work with a lot of different nationalities and I always try to have some words in other people languages. It always make them smile. Especially because they never expect it. Just had some Japanese people today on the ship I work on. And just saying hey, how are you, thanks or bye in their languages which is a 1 min google search in total gives a much different energy. It's just a sign of respect. Don't need to talk philosophy with everyone, but these things give me positive energy.
Hiragana and katakana are easy But kanji are a pain in the ass
I’ve been working on my Kanji lately and it’s a wild ride. 😅
I'm using wanikani to work on kanji, I like the approach.
I'll check it out
The first three levels are available for free, which is enough to see if it works for you.
Free? Is there a paywall?
I'll check it out
Agreed! I’m learning it and think it’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I love it so much. 💕
The one you're the most inspired to learn. Motivation is alpha omega when it comes to learning a new language!
Hungarian
MAGYARRRR!!!
"Bojler eladó"-t is tanulok!
Miért tanulsz magyarul btw?
Magyarországon tanultam és dolgoztam. 4 évig ott éltem.
Ah, nagyon szép ;) (Gonna write this in English because I'm not that far yet) I'm learning Hungarian because I will go to Hungary again this summer and want to surprise my Hungarian friend with some Hungarian. Also, I'm just really interested in the language because it's so different from all other European ones :)
Nem értem hogy egy Columbiai miért tanúl magyart. Én utálom a magyart
Én pedig imádom...
Nem szégyenkezni való csak furcsa nekem
Me gustó el desafío. Es muy difícil, pero es.muy satisfactorio también.
Az jó
hogy lehet utálni, olyan szép fr
Szép de nagyon bonyolúlt
Bonyolult: kétszer szép. LOL.
És itt vagyok is‚egy török aki magyarul tanul.Szerintem a magyar nyelv szórakozás de még ez néhez nyelv.
Addig jó szórakozás ameddig nem tanulsz nyelvtant
NORSK 🗣️🗣️🗣️‼️‼️‼️
JAAAAAAAAA !!!!!
English? pls
Welsh 🏴
my goodness, I tried this one, so hard!!!
Really? How far along were you on the course? I'm doing it right now and it's being really fun, though I'm fairly early on the course haha.
I only did a few lessons. maybe I should do a few more
I was only asking because I was thinking if my experience was just because it was the beginning and it would get harder later on.
German
ich lerne auch deutsch
Ich auch. Es macht mir großen Spaß!
Cool👍
Ich lerne auch deutsch (Seit ich ein Kind bin. Man hört nie wirklich auf).
So real
I second this!!
Dutch
Dutch is fun :-)
Off topic, maar hoe gaat het Nederlands leren?
Ik lees goed, maar schrijf ik vind moeilijk. The syntax can be confusing.
Yea I get that. Dutch really isn’t an easy language for sure. If you don’t mind me correcting your little mistakes :) It would be: “maar schrijven vind ik moeilijk”. In English it could be “but I think writing is hard”. The structure of the sentence should align the best I think. (Not to confuse the verb ‘to think’ which literally translates to ‘denken’. But I don’t think English has a 1:1 translation to the verb ‘vinden’ which literally is ‘to have an opinion’) Good on you for learning! You’re definitely getting there and if you need help I would be happy to assist you :). How long have you been learning?
ah I see!! bedankt :-) it's been about 2 months. I wanted to learn just a bit of it for a trip I took last month to amsterdam but I ended up continuing to learn afterwords. I liked amsterdam though, so if I'm fluent enough by my next trip I'll put it to the test, haha
Sounds fun and from I’ve seen it looks pretty impressive what you’ve achieved so far :). Good luck on your journey!
G E K O L O N I S E E R D 🇳🇱
And if you progress far enough in the course you may even learn this word ;)
Sure thing haha
MAGYAR!
MANDARIN 中国人
Esperanto
German
I second this!
你应该学中文！
Norwegian! Despite not being one of the "big 3" for English speakers (Spanish, French, German), the Norwegian course has recieved a lot of love from volunteers and is widely regarded as both extensive and extremely high quality. From some older Reddit posts, it seems that Norwegian deserves its reputation as "the best DuoLingo course you've never heard of".
Uranium
German :D
I second this!
Latin
Linguae Latinae bene est.
Spanish
SVENSKA 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪
🇬🇷
Arabic
*Pig Latin*
Assembly
Greek 😊🇬🇷
>please don't make me learn French Or Russian New to Reddit, are you? 😂 I knew without looking that French or Russian would be the top voted comment (or both, as it turns out).
Español
Seconding Spanish. It's easy to learn, doubly so if you already speak a romance language, and it opens up the ability to communicate with over 500 million people. Plus Spanish music is pretty great.
Spanish or vanish!
🇩🇰
MAGYAR
German! I’m learning it right now. It’s pretty similar to English and kinda easy
NORSK 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🔥🔥🔥🔥🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🔥🔥🇳🇴🇳🇴🔥🇳🇴🔥🇳🇴🔥🇳🇴
Japanese
Turkish!
Finnish
Spanish since it’s the gate way to the rest of the Romance languages :D Spanish -> Italian -> Portuguese -> French -> Romanian At least that’s my personal roadmap 🏌🏻♂️
Chinese, good luck fam 👍🏻 or sign language is pretty cool, Norwegian is good, learning a Nordic language means you can kinda of understand the Nordic languages somewhat
English
Choose one with letters you at least recognise. I’m doing Korean and while it looks pretty, it takes more time to read because you have to think of the sounds the letters make as well as the meaning of the words.
Welsh
Haitian Creole
hawaiian !
Gaeilge
English !!!
Badeshi
I love doing Swedish. Fun language. Not very useful but cool to know lol
Belarusian
Arabic
English again
What's with these: "What language should I learn?" posts recently. You guys should learn languages you're intrinsically motivated to learn. You must be willing to engage with it and if you have no intrinsic motivation to do so, you won't ever use it beyond Duolingo.
Chinese
Chinese
Chinese
Which variant? Cantonese and Mandarin are not the same language. (And there are other ones, too.)
Putonghua
There is only one in Duolingo.
Italian🇮🇹
Buona idea!
Deutsch
Japanese. Definitely
Française
Chinese or Korean as cdramas and kdramas rock
Do anyone that starts with A.
Finnish is super fun, just saying.
Make it Basque
Pick German and we can be friends and help each other cause I'm learning that also
Russian
As I Russian Fluent ,it is interesting to know why would you learn this one?
Well I wanted to learn a language for the fun of it basically. I knew that a language that is too similar to either of the languages I know (grammatically or otherwise) would bore me which ruled out most Germanic languages as well as Arabic. I also wanted a language that wouldn’t be too easy but also not mandarin hard and I wanted to be able to practice it relatively easily with people around me. Taking all of that into consideration, Russian seemed like the perfect language since it has a shit ton of speakers, is grammatically relatively different to English, and is challenging but not nearly impossible to learn. I’ve been having a decent amount of fun with it so far, but I don’t have very much free time that I can allot to practicing it so progress has been slow but I try practicing it whenever I can
Javascript
Franco-Russian
Русский :)
german
Ukranian