What language should I learn?

Question

I want to learn a foreign language but don’t know what to pick. I am a novice at languages and therefore don’t want to study something excessively difficult. At the same time I want to learn a useful language that could help with employment or is widely spoken. I am a native English speaker. And talented...

Answer 1

You should learn Chinese...it is the top spoken language in the world. I’ve taken French and Spanish which was easy but Chinese is next on my list.

Answer 2

Reasons;
!. It has to be useful to you.
2.You will have to fall in love with it and spend a lot of time learning it.
In Europe Russian,English,French and German are good choices.
In Canada Frech is a good choice,
In the U.S, Spanish would be.

Answer 3

That depends on where you live.

Europe : French or German

North-America : Spanish or French

South-America : Spanish or Portuguese

Africa : French

Oceania or Asia : Mandarin Chinese

Answer 4

Easiest and best to start with is Esperanto ( wikipedia Propaedeutic_value_of_esperanto ).

What kind of employment? Google "critical languages"

Answer 5

Besides English, French and Spanish are the two most common languages spoken worldwide. Or sign language is an option also.

Answer 6

If you are American the most useful second language you can learn is Spanish. Depending on where you live that could be Chinese but that is 10x harder.

Answer 7

ASL is shockingly easy

Answer 8

Spanish. I was surprised how helpful it was reading signs in Italy and also communicating with Portuguese speakers.