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I really want to learn a language but I can not decide between French and German. I have learn both in the passed when i was at high school, although i didn't do them passed year 10. I also can bearably speak or understand a word as I've now completely forgotten, so as for which one i'm best at it doesn't really matter. It will be pretty much a blank slate for each. I also tried to think which one was the easiest for me at school or rather more importantly which i enjoyed most but tbh i didnt at the time take school let a lone languages seriously. I was the all social little work kind.
However now, at the age of 20, I am about to do my first year at university studying economic. I want to dedicate to learning a language for several reasons. Firstly learning a language to a high standard is a great skill to have and much be a very educating process in terms of improving your ability to learn but also to see thing from a different perspective.
Also beside the want to achieve personal goals of educational success, learn a language is heavily promoted for being a great advantage for competitiveness in the jobs market which is always useful.
Also I'm someone who has a issues which saying in the same place and most definitely will work aboard in my life time. Even a better pay pack won't tempt me from doing so! Which this fact its quite obvious that a second language will be of some uses.
Why can i decide? well i'm not even sure about that...
I had basic lessons on some other language's such as Chinese and enjoyed them very much but I want to do, at least to start which, i european language. French and German are clearly the dominate two, even with German falling by the year its still i player.
I really like Germany as a country and not so much france but dont exactly have a reason to hate it. France is a bigger language and is used in Canada which i love! More than the UK tbh. But there something i just like about Germany,and Ive never been, which is one of the thing that scaring me, why do i like it? firstly i think there a slight political thing in it and also I no so many people who've worked and lived there and go regularly (3x a year+). They all love it! and none of them can even speak German! yea they can ask for a beer in german but will even laugh about the fact they just rely on the germans to be able to speak English.
What do you think guys? have any of yous had the same kind of situation?
Note: I also just remembered this which my be useful to others in my position.
German is vocabulary simlar to many other northern european languages, making it easier in the future to learn the likes of danish, dutch and so on.
German 100%
Dutch 75%
Swedish 60%
Danish 60%
Norwegian 60%
English 40%
Russian 10%