Language?

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Original post by Kendrik Lamar

I'd recommend Spanish!

Yeah, I definitely have the best knowledge of grammar for Spanish out of my choices, but my problem with that is that I'm terrified of speaking it, as I have a horrific accent (I can't roll my 'r's
:frown:

), but thank you for the advice anyway 😎

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Original post by k1234j

British Sign Language would look really good on your CV for employers as it shows you are committed to learn something yourself ! But all the options would look good on your CV!

Hope this helps! :smile:

Haha, I've always wanted to learn it but I'd definitely have to go to classes for that. Still worth it though, I think :biggrin:

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Original post by nomophobia

Just learn the language that yiu feel most passionate about/most want to learn.

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Thank you, that's actually great advice. I think I'm going to research them all better then decide :shrug:

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username2324315

Spanish will be the easiest for you :smile:

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Original post by Inexorably

Ditto^ Gonna really struggle if you haven't got the passion.

Yeah, I think with learning languages it really is all about motivation! Thank for the advice ;D

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Original post by george_c00per

Spanish will be the easiest for you :smile:

You are probably right, and I love studying it but my problem is just speaking it! :s-smilie:

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Caius Filimon

Russian is a rather widely spoken language. Likewise, you could get plenty of work in many Russian speaking nations as a translator as I'd guess you're a native speaker of English. Although the pay might not be the best =P Most Western nations already have plenty of people who know how to speak Russian (due to migration).

Although, well, once Russia gets over the sanctions, I'm pretty sure that its economy would start booming again, especially if the government turns to immigration to plug in its demographic issues. So Russian would be useful in that occasion.

French is not terribly useful although still a 'prestigious' language. Quite a few African nations have French as a rather popular language in their countries. Africa might be witness to considerable economic development in the coming decades so you could have quite a few opportunities from knowing French if that were to happen. I just know that French has been a very, very difficult language for me to learn, despite my native language being a Latin one.

German is not terribly useful as it's not very widely spoken, although Germany is still an economic giant and I think it's a 'prestigious' language to know too. Perhaps easier for a Brit than French too. Although not an easy language objectively.

Spanish is spoken very widely and South America is still sort of booming economically, and it might continue to do so for a while = opportunities. Besides, you can quite easily build on top of that to learn Portuguese and Italian, so that would be really quite nice.

I'd overall recommend Mandarin, despite it being, I suspect, horribly difficult to learn, at least as long as you don't live in an area where mostly only Mandarin is spoken. Also, Cantonese would be kind of a waste of time if you're going to expend that sort of effort learning a language; Mandarin is the more widely spoken from what I remember.

I would DEFINITELY recommend learning a programming language! It would infinitely broaden your horizons and pretty much every possible employer will like seeing that. So if learning Mandarin or Spanish might not be what you'd necessarily want/like to do, definitely try a programming language.

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BrianMcEgg

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Learn the language you feel most passionate about.

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Original post by Caius Filimon

Russian is a rather widely spoken language. Likewise, you could get plenty of work in many Russian speaking nations as a translator as I'd guess you're a native speaker of English. Although the pay might not be the best =P Most Western nations already have plenty of people who know how to speak Russian (due to migration).

Although, well, once Russia gets over the sanctions, I'm pretty sure that its economy would start booming again, especially if the government turns to immigration to plug in its demographic issues. So Russian would be useful in that occasion.

French is not terribly useful although still a 'prestigious' language. Quite a few African nations have French as a rather popular language in their countries. Africa might be witness to considerable economic development in the coming decades so you could have quite a few opportunities from knowing French if that were to happen. I just know that French has been a very, very difficult language for me to learn, despite my native language being a Latin one.

German is not terribly useful as it's not very widely spoken, although Germany is still an economic giant and I think it's a 'prestigious' language to know too. Perhaps easier for a Brit than French too. Although not an easy language objectively.

Spanish is spoken very widely and South America is still sort of booming economically, and it might continue to do so for a while = opportunities. Besides, you can quite easily build on top of that to learn Portuguese and Italian, so that would be really quite nice.

I'd overall recommend Mandarin, despite it being, I suspect, horribly difficult to learn, at least as long as you don't live in an area where mostly only Mandarin is spoken. Also, Cantonese would be kind of a waste of time if you're going to expend that sort of effort learning a language; Mandarin is the more widely spoken from what I remember.

I would DEFINITELY recommend learning a programming language! It would infinitely broaden your horizons and pretty much every possible employer will like seeing that. So if learning Mandarin or Spanish might not be what you'd necessarily want/like to do, definitely try a programming language.

Yeah, I'm a native English speaker :smile:

The only reason I was truly considering French was because I have French relatives and quite a few of my family members have it as a second language.
Yeah, I think I've read somewhere that German and Afrikaans are the easiest languages for British people to learn, but the grammar makes me wince!
Spanish is a definite contender, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to rule out Mandarin. It's widely spoken, but I have no particular passion for it at the moment, although it's definitely something to consider in the future :smile:

And yeah, I'm thinking about learning HTML and then Python, because odds are if I do a Biology degree it will come in useful somewhere down the line :biggrin:

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Original post by BrianMcEgg

Learn the language you feel most passionate about.

I will 💪

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nomophobia

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Also, if you're just looking for an easy language, Esperanto is the easiest.

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outgoingpopcorn

From that list I've done German and French for GCSE. I really enjoyed both of them but I preferred German.Most people I know prefer French and find it easier. So I would look at what languages you know already and find something similar to that. Also maybe look at which of the cultures interests you the most.

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Original post by nomophobia

Also, if you're just looking for an easy language, Esperanto is the easiest.

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Cool! I'll look into that as well, then

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Original post by niv1234

From that list I've done German and French for GCSE. I really enjoyed both of them but I preferred German.Most people I know prefer French and find it easier. So I would look at what languages you know already and find something similar to that. Also maybe look at which of the cultures interests you the most.

Actually, my new school offers Italian classes, so do you think knowing a little French would help with that?

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outgoingpopcorn