If you could instantly learn a language and only knew english, what would it be?

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#1 seals44
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Say you only knew the English language. If you could instantly learn any language in the world, what would you want to speak? Also, please give a lot of reason as to why you would want that particular language.

For me it is Japanese. I'm working on learning it right now actually. One reason I'd want to learn it instantely is it is some much more difficult that other languages! Culrturaly though, I love many things about Japan. Their technology (Akihabara anybody?). I also just love the atmosphere that Japnese architecture and the like conveys. Their foods also awsome! How about you?

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#2 Severed_Hand
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Norwegian. i want to go to Norway.
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#3 SpidersRMe
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Latin, because wishing would make it so much easier.
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#4 delol
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Say you only knew the English language. If you could instantly learn any language in the world, what would you want to speak? Also, please give a lot of reason as to why you would want that particular language.

For me it is Japanese. I'm working on learning it right now actually. One reason I'd want to learn it instantely is it is some much more difficult that other languages! Culrturaly though, I love many things about Japan. Their technology (Akihabara anybody?). I also just love the atmosphere that Japnese architecture and the like conveys. Their foods also awsome! How about you?

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Spanish (not the Mexican one but the Spanish )
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I think I just made no sense.
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#6 Lostboy1224
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Spanish, I don't want to learn it but it would be more useful then all the others here in America. But I am lazy and don't feel like learning another one.
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#7 LJS9502_basic
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German. Seems interesting.

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#8 ff7fan2
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Spanish. It would help a lot in Spanish cIass...
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Arabic.
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#10 CRS98
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Spanish, simply just because.
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#11 mentalabc123
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Spanish, one of the more useful languages.
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#12 hockey73
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Japanese, because my moms relatives all speak it, as does she. I was thinking spanish, but i've taken it for 5 years now, I can just keep going with that and eventually I hope to become fluent in it.
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#13 esbastica
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German. Seems interesting.

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this,then spanish or italian ..meh

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#14 freshgman
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chinese. your bound to run in to them
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#15 Utd4lyf
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Espanol or Francais (well properly).
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#16 Star_Wars117
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Chinese,Russian or German
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Swedish.
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Latin, I'm a very devote Catholic, probably a future priest, and nothing Beats a Latin Mass, it's very Awesome and Amazing, I wish I could speak Latin.
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#19 II-FBIsniper-II
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Spainish because it would be the most useful. (and would help out on spanish homework)
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#20 deactivated-5901ac91d8e33
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French...that would get me an A++ on my exams.

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#21 seals44
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Latin, I'm a very devote Catholic, probably a future priest, and nothing Beats a Latin Mass, it's very Awesome and Amazing, I wish I could speak Latin. ferrari2001

Awsome answer! Congrats and good luck!

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#22 MrEnvelope
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Spainish because it would be the most useful. (and would help out on spanish homework)II-FBIsniper-II

Buenas tardes companero de juego mancha..... Anyways, I would like to learn German....

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Norwegian. i want to go to Norway.Severed_Hand

Same here, just so, I could get into the metal scene

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French. I despise the spanish language yet I'm forced to learn it (illegals).
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#25 barcx17
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French. I despise the spanish language yet I'm forced to learn it (illegals).CruxisXIII

Just curious, but what's there to despise about it?

oh and I would learn Italian.

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[QUOTE="CruxisXIII"]French. I despise the spanish language yet I'm forced to learn it (illegals).barcx17

What's there to despise about it?

oh and I would learn Italian.

I hate the sound of the language and the words. I just don't like the way it sounds and the pronounciation of the words. French = better
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Ancient Hebrew.

I'd personally find it very interesting to read most of the Bible in it's original form.

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#28 barcx17
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[QUOTE="barcx17"]

[QUOTE="CruxisXIII"]French. I despise the spanish language yet I'm forced to learn it (illegals).CruxisXIII

What's there to despise about it?

oh and I would learn Italian.

I hate the sound of the language and the words. I just don't like the way it sounds and the pronounciation of the words. French = better

I feel that way about French :P but to each his own.

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#29 NSR34GTR
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german id like to go there one day without the language barrier
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#30 SeanUD1
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Italian fa sho'.
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#31 MeanQuestion
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Hindi (to start an outsourcing software company)

Japanese (to understand all that crazy japanese media)

or

Croatian (to impress my croatian friends)

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#32 iHeartCali
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My native language Tagalog (understand it but speak very little), Spanish, and a common European language.
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#33 Androvinus
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Spanish, that way nothing can stand between me and chicas from Venezuela
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I would say German.
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#35 swgrl84
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Depends on the situation - Spanish would probably be the most useful in everyday life, German because I have German roots but don't know how to speak a word of it, or French because I know a lot of people who can speak it.
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#36 _LiquidFlame_
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Polish so I could communicate with my mom's side of the family in Poland. :)

Or Spanish so I could skip global language classes. :P

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Chinese, I'd get the big bucks.
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#38 karriston
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Esperanto. BEcause it's so useful : |
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Russian, because it seems like a cool language, and I've heard it's pretty hard to learn.
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Polish, so I can talk with my girlfriend about things in front of parents. :P

Or german just so I could ace every german test in school.
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#41 gasmaskman
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Russian, German, or Japanese.

Don't ask why. Well, Japanese I can explain, because I want to go there. It's not an anime thing, or a video game thing, it's just that I want to go to Japan and be able to easily get around.

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#42 rb2610
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Either German (although I hated it when I did it for GCSE, but it would be great if I instantly learned it instead) Japanese (because its cool) or Indian (not sure which language though, but I have many Indian relatives)
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Japanese. Imported games.
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Spanish cause thats what I am taking.
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My native language is Persian and i know English. i would like to learn french and Korean.

reasons.: French,it is the most important language after English for communication,also is Spanish but i'm not interested to lean that.

Korean,I'm going to work in Korea after a couple of years,maybe 5 years later and in this 5 years i can learn Korean very well.

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French because it's one of the toughest to learn imo.
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Spanish so I could communicate with my bf in his language. :D
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Spanish
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Say you only knew the English language. If you could instantly learn any language in the world, what would you want to speak? Also, please give a lot of reason as to why you would want that particular language.

For me it is Japanese. I'm working on learning it right now actually. One reason I'd want to learn it instantely is it is some much more difficult that other languages! Culrturaly though, I love many things about Japan. Their technology (Akihabara anybody?). I also just love the atmosphere that Japnese architecture and the like conveys. Their foods also awsome! How about you?

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Jesus....how did I know that this was going to be a weeaboo launchpad topic? :roll:

I live in Japan and I like it here, but I don't have this unhealthy obsession with the place and those that do will come down hard when the honeymoon is over.