Language Students, do you have a 'favourite language'?

i study french and russian and i prefer russian, its so much cooler

Really? And where are you from?

England

Yes but the real question is, which do you prefer, Latin or Greek?

As for myself, I don't know, I know crap loads of "dead" languages and quite a few modern ones - mainly for research or familial reasons, I'm quite antisocial.

In terms of ancient...it has to be either Sanskrit or Greek, though I used to be in love with Tocharian's verbal system.

Modern...well German and I never really got on, I mean its useful to read but my spoken accent is quite bad. Italian is fun to reel off swear words in a rapid manner. Greek is probably the one I speak the most so I'm tempted to say that. On the other hand, I was recently in France and I had a lot of unexpected fun speaking in French, which I did not suspect.

I'm about to learn some Mandarin, I'll let you guys know how that works out.

I'm Italian and I really love my language and Italian literature! I think it's really amazing! Although, if I have to be honest, I think that the grammar is quite difficult at school I study German, English and Spanish! I love English and Spanish but I really hate German! :/
My mother knows French so I study also it with her and I think it's a really lovely language!
My best friend studies Japanese at uni and she usually teaches me some words/phrases in Japanese it's really interesting!!


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I study Spanish, German and English at A-Level and I'm in the same boat as you. I feel I have to try to enjoy German, probably because it's not as easy for me as Spanish is. I quite like Italian, as it happens... I took a GCSE in it. Everyone always says Spanish and German is a strange combo but I quite like it as a combination, it's just so different.

Studied to AS: French, German.
to A2: German.
at uni: Italian.

I adore German. I like French. Don't care about Italian.

In fact, my favourite language is Brazilian Portuguese. I study it, but not at school or university.

"No-one's going to mention Portuguese are they?" And boom, someone mentions Brazilian Portuguese.

New aspiring linguist here! I do both German and Spanish AS and will be doing both for A2, hopefully leading to dual honours at Uni. I've been doing Spanish since year 7 and German since year 8 (in year 7 only I did Latin) so technically I've been doing Spanish for longer, but I was fast tracked for GCSE and we spent most of year 11 only learning casually so in that time my German sort of caught up.

I think for most of the last five years I've preferred German but it's been pretty on-and-off. Since starting sixth form, however, I almost certainly prefer it. We have a lot more intensive learning time because there's only 4 in the class compared to 19 () in Spanish. I also prefer the grammar in German, as it's a lot less fluid than Spanish so the rules are easier to remember! That said I do love a lot of aspects of Spanish and I think I'm the only one in my class who really enjoys using the subjunctive!

See, I do both Spanish and German at AS (I started Spanish in Year 7 and German in Year 10) and I really much prefer Spanish. German's much more satisfying to write, but it's so nasty and horrible to speak. I much prefer Spanish's flow and pronunciation, plus it's much easier to speak (probably because I've done Spanish for longer)

German's much more satisfying to write, but it's so nasty and horrible to speak.