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/int/, if you could instantly become fluent in any language,
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/int/, if you could instantly become fluent in any language, what would it be?

Hardmode: no japanese or chinese
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Russian
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>>56455071
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>>56455071
>>56455204
I can already see where this is going.
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Japanese, very practical and useful language
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>>56455005
Aramaic prolly
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>>56455005
Estonian
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>>56455005
German so that I can speak with family members that speak German
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>>56455005
Spanish
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>english at the top (although in all honesty, it deserves to be there)

Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) – French Prime Minister
“English is just badly pronounced French.”
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>>56455005
Irish
No fucking joke.
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Norwegian or Estonian.
Need qt estonian militia gf.
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>>56456048
Cén chaoi 'Bhfuil tú?
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>>56455429
weeb

also Italian
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>>56455979
>(1841-1929)

Back when France was still relevant.
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Farsi. Good literature, technically counts as learning three languages, and it sounds beautiful. The only problem is if I tried to do total immersion at any point in my life I would probably get put on the terrorist watch list. Also, it would be good if the language I knew was a good alternative to the U.S. if it becomes Sweden 2.0.
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>>56456629
Good thing we took you down with us then :^).
Twas a grand sacrifice for us, but I'm certain the world will revel in it, because we finally have freed it from Anglo scheming.
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Russian
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>>56455005

>English
>American Flag
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>>56456903
God bless :^)
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>>56455005
Polish/Italian because I'm already learning a different useful language and muh heritage
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>>56456704
>Twas
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>>56455005
Dutch
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I'm learning French right now due to cultural reasons and the fact that their is a small French-speaking minority in my state. Wish I can get the pronunciation right, that always seems to fuck me
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>>56457367
Maine? I always hear about French Canadians here, apparently we have a ton of them yet I've never heard anyone speak French.
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>>56455071
This
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German, so I could bully them
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>>56455005
French of course all other languages are barbaric babbling
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>>56455005
Easy-mode: 中文。
China is the second largest economy in the world and it has more native speakers than any other language. And I've been to China and enjoyed my time there.

Hard-mode: Italian.
I already speak English and German, so speaking Italian would mean that I'm able to speak all three relevant EU-languages. And that is nice.
Russian and Spanish are not so relevant to me because I don't want to visit Russia or Zika-land.
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German. I don't think I'll ever learn it at this rate.
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Portuguese or Spanish
I love you Iberia ;≥;
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>>56457473
Or somewhere else?
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>>56457473
No Louisiana. That Cajun speak breh.
J'habite en Nouvelle-Orléans
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>>56457855
>italy
>relevant
>not french
you did this to hurt me didn't you
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>>56455005
Finnish so I can ascend to the next level of autistic meme-oriented lifestyle
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Russian
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>>56456676
> technically counts as learning three languages
Only by people who consider Farsi, Dari, and Tajik to be different languages (which the US government does, evidently).

>The only problem is if I tried to do total immersion at any point in my life I would probably get put on the terrorist watch list.
I know a few people who studied Persian in Tajikistan.
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>>56458222
No, I honestly don't feel like French is particularly relevant. But I guess it's mostly down to personal preference. Neither language is relevant on a global scale.
If you like quiche and airplanes you should learn French, and if you like pizza and cars/motorcycles you should learn Italian. Italy makes better movies, too, in my opinion. And the country is a more interesting travel destination.
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Swedish/norweigan or german, probably the 2nd one.
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>>56456676
good answer
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>>56458491
France has a better economy and a lot of colonies and ex-colonies.
The colonies (french polynesia, reunion etc) are good travel destinations and the ex-colonies (mainly in west-africa) are developping at a steady pace.
But i think Italy has a bigger diaspora.
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Russian.
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Some pre-historic proto-language so I could help linguistic research tBh families
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French.
I already speak English and German to some degree, but I don't think I'll ever be able to speak proper French with a nice accent.
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>>56456704
>freed it from anglo scheming
Last I looked the yanks were doing a pretty good job of ruining everything

Also why an American flag OP? You didn't put a Mexican flag for Spain now did you?
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>>56455005
I'd go for Classical Tibetan or Sanskrit
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Kashubian
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>>56457367
>that their is

learn your language first, bru
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I can already speak both English and Spanish fluently, so i'd say Finnish
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Vietnamese
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>>56455005
Arabic.

I don't like, I don't want to learn it or speak it. But it'll probably be the most useful to me, so if I can skip the agony of learning something you hate and just "know" it, it's probably the best choice.
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Italian (muh heritage), Arabic (arab speaking world is extremely large and it gives some of the best bang for your buck in terms of instantly learning a language), or Hebrew so I can become a Jew.
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>>56455005
>English with the American flag
>Some limeys get pissed because of it
lol

I never see a Canadian flag representing English unless whatever you're looking at was made by a Canadian.

>>56455979
French really cucked the brits back then lmao
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>>56455005
>american flag
>english
this triggers the britbong, thanks Denmark
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English ;_;
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German
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>>56455005
fixed for japanese Hardmode: no english or chinese

arabic for sure. the translator is always wanted by various companies. it makes fucking money.
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>>56455005
Spanish
Or Russian
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>>56458149
I'm curious about the french spoken in your state, it must be far from France's french.
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Silesian
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German.
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French because we're still massive cucks for them. Like Sweden to some cannibal african tribe but even more.
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>>56456676
Arabic would be better as most farsi works are already translated and adapted to arabic plus the other arabic lit
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German
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>>56455005
please change Korean flag.
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>>56455868
For what purpose, pa que sirbe este pinche idioma.
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>>56457140
Literally why.
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>>56455005
Irish isnt a fucking language, its a goddamn handicap!
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>>56455005
The only difference between france and spain is that france has the better neighbor.
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>>56455005
My grandma was a jew, and I am currently planning to commit Aliyah so I guess hebrew for me
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German would be neat but I already know some German, and it's not that difficult a language, so it'd be a bit of a waste.

Russian I guess would be good, it's a very relevant language and not so easy to learn.

Estonian and/or Finnish would be good because muh Estophilia and Fennophilia.

Otherwise I would just go for Japanese because muh anime.
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Thai, because of child prostitutes.
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>>56455005
Japanese. Then I could just import all my vidya
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>>56455005
arabic
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Korean.
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한국어를 배워요~ :)
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>>56455005
Finnish for dem job opportunities and more importantly, dank memes.
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>>56462396
Meh am used to the American flag being there, guess it has the most native speakers but by that logic the flag for Portuguese should be Brazil
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>>56456704
>he says.... In english
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Arabic for nasheeds
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I heard that Danish is so damn hard that not even Danes can speak it properly. Is that true?

OP's question: German
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>>56455005
>English
>American flag

T R I G G E R E D

also russian
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>>56467984
>but by that logic the flag for Portuguese should be Brazil
Sometimes it is!
Honestly, I don't remember the last time I saw Portugal as the flag for Portuguese on something.

I imagine the British flag is more common in European stuff, anyway.
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PORTUGAL FLAG
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>>56468769
>>56467984
It's literally never portugal's flag. Brasil everytime. This is odd.
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>>56468948
That's what we call a cultural victory.
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>>56468948
>>56468769
usually its cut in half, half of the flag is portugal and the other half is brazil
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>>56469096
I have never see that in my entire life lol
>>56468980
yep, we also had a reform in the language a couple years ago(it's in full effect starting this year) that made portugal adapt to a bunch of our rules lol brasilian linguists control the language basically
also wikipedia is a good example, it's all in pt-br
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French.

Second choice goes to any Scandi language.
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>>56455005
>japanese
>farsi
>russian
>german
>italian
>french
kek
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French or Russian. Both beautiful languages
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I want to learn Finnish and I would speak it every time I suck down an energy drink and also funpost on Ylilauta.
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>>56462635
Russian ;_;
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>>56469398
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I'd say Mandarin if that was allowed so I could make learning Japanese a fair bit easier and then have east-Asian power.

Without those probably French as its the most relevant language for a brit overall
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Mandarin, because it's the most alien but most useful foreign language that's difficult to learn
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>>56462635
for me its Russian

wanna practice together?
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>>56455005
Brazilian language
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>>56455005
Welsh or Russian.
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>>56469635
t-thanks
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