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German or french: Which language should i learn first?
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German or french: Which language should i learn first?
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german is retarded to learn and speak

at least french will get you laid
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>>60745801
German if you want to work
French if you want to fuck
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>>60745801
french since more countries speak it, and it's soo much similar to english so it will be a little bit easier
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>>60745842
Why do you say that?
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Learn Arabic instead. No one speaks French in France anymore anyway.
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>>60745906
Bonsoir ami rital, c'est assez Français pour toi, ça, copain ?
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>>60745801
french if you are gay and want to fuck gays
german if you are gay and want to get fucked by syrians
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>>60745947
>tfw I understood that sentence perfectly without need for translation

Fucking lexical similarity.
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>>60745987
Wait...do syrians fuck you?
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I find German more logical but English is my native language, for romancefags it's a tough language

Also I learn Norwegian
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>>60746002
You understand the word "rital" ? :^)

>>60746047
meh

It's a cool language
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>>60746096
Is it true that french people don't like english speakers?
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>>60746096
Yes I did, crapaud.
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>>60746129
No

why should I dislike an American, an Aussie or a leaf ?
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>>60745801
french, because diplomacy, culture, science and number of speakers
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>>60745906
Italy in charge of banter x)
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>>60745801
>learn first

Well, if you are going to learn both anyways I would recommend to learn German first. Maybe you can learn fast enough to put it into use before there is not Germany anymore.
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You already know English and Portuguese. French will be a cakewalk for you
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>>60746337
Don't you dislike English people?
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Deutsch is recht schwer desu
enorme Flektionen, kompilzierte Adjektive...
What do you think of?
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>>60746454
What do you think?
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>>60746435
meme answer : huuuuuuuuuur yea they out eternal rival england first french colony hahaha plantagenêts were french just like the normans hahahaha

serious answer : nah, I like them
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>>60746488
I think..........
German is certainly difficult, but I found it's totally interesting.
as you know, German is quite close to English, so easy to learn, at the biginning

I like classic Musik so much, deshalb I've learned it.
Why did you have an interest in two languages?
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>>60745801

German of course.
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>>60746726
I want to learn a new language,.
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>>60746836
https://pt.duolingo.com/course/de/pt/Aprenda-Alem%C3%A3o-Online
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>>60746047
>logical
>arbitrary genders assigned to every object and more random than Romance/Slavic genders
>drastically different syntax (SOV) for subordinate clauses for no reason
>two digit numbers pronounced in reverse
>wildly varying dialects that are gibberish to the standard
I like German but the Ordnung is a lie.
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but Portugese and French belong to Romance Languages jo
I reccomend French
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>>60747319
Based Japan is here again
Also can you please send a vocaroo of you speaking French ,for scientific purpose only
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>>60747520
>Speaking French
omg I cannot speak
I can German desu
die deutsche Sprache
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German sounds fun to yell in
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>>60747713
Come on it will be fun
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>>60747144
That's what you get when you are the country of poets and philosophers while the standard High German is developed.

Hanky panky rules instead of good ol "I must unite all umlauts under one banner" autism.

>>60745801
>learn first
So, you want to learn both in the end?

Honestly, it depends on which one you need more immediately.

I studied Spanish for a year, because I was watching Breaking Bad and wanted to understand those Mexicans firsthandedly.
>tfw last season the foreign moments were mostly in German
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English.
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>>60745801
learn French, it'll be easier for you as a Portukek speaker
then go for German when you have some language learning experience
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>>60747784
> "I must unite all umlauts under one banner"

KEK
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>>60747144
But there's nothing wrong with local dialects. It spices things up a bit. Just the fact that a bread roll has varying names depending on your region is pretty cool.

OP, you'll have an easier time with French obviously, far more similar. Then again, German might be interesting since there are still a few German enclaves in Brazil from what I've heard, maybe it'll allow you to See them from a different Perspective, delve into the culture some more?
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>>60747784
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>>60745906
>implying it's not the reverse

The reason we got so fucked is basically because all of africa speak french.
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>>60747784
What dialect is the true expression of German autism then? The allemanic dialects use the umlauts more often for plurals and preserved a proper subjunctive, yes? They also took the Lautverschiebung all the way out of pure ocd. But that's in Switzerland.
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None.
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Learn welsh :3 join the master race
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>>60751563
t. Muhammad
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learn english
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>>60746129
What they don't like is when people come to their country and don't even bother trying to word simple phrases in French.
>Excusez-moi, je ne parle pas francais. Parlez-vous anglais?
is mostly enough and the French are suddenly the nicest people ever.
>Excuse me, I don't speak French. Do you speak English.
will just make them act like they don't understand and walk away.
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>>60752412
this x1000
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>>60752496
>>60752412
Even if i speak incorrectly?
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arabic so you can communicate in both countries equally well
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>>60747144
slavic genders are not random, they are easy to grasp most of the time just by the sound of the word

feminine nouns mostly end with -a, and the rest are mostly masculine, neutrum nouns end in -e or -e
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>>60752784
yes, because what is important is the fact that you are trying, it's just about respect
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>>60753015
That's what I said, read it again. German genders are often weird and unpredictable with some fleeting patterns to follow while the Romance and Slavic languages have pretty consistent patterns with the word suffixes mapping to genders.
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>>60752882
Serbian, so you can get bombed by nato.
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>>60745801
Both will be useful in Europe, but outside Europe, french is more useful.
But who cares about that if you already speak english.
The best would be to speak both of course.
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Does german people dislike people who only speak english in their country?
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serbian so we can bomb your house
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>>60753541

Not according to the cliché though it's not unlikely.
It's mostly a French thing to expect foreigners coming to our country to at least try to say 3 basic survival sentences in our tongue.
It's linked to our history, French always competed with English to be the world's "lingua franca", both languages have been used as a mean of colonionalism and are "imperialistic languages" (i.e. the otehrs are expected to learn it, not the other way around).
So yeah, trying to speak French is a mark of respect when you come here.
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>>60753541
don't expect every german you meet to be able to speak english
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>>60746002
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>>60757889
Lonely alien Basque, sitting there away from the others.

Neat map
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>german
>spoken only in some countries in Europe

>french
>spoken around the world

it's clear which you should choose
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>>60745801
I'm taking French courses because for my head it makes so much more sense and I want to live in Francophone city.
Also it helps to learn other languages because latin and shit.
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German since if you can speak German and English you can basically speak Dutch and Flemish and Danish and Austrian desu
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>>60745801
Dunno, I learned french for 7 years in school. It's pretty difficult, especially because it's one of those languages where you don't speak the words like they are written.
And German, well it's my mother tongue, so I don't know how difficult it is to learn.

>>60745906
So original. I haven't heard this joke for the 100034th time.
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>>60758319
>Dutch and Flemish and Danish and Austrian

Austrian I believe and Dutch when it's written, but Danish and Flemish?

Choose German OP, but I only say that because i cannot into french pronunciation
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>>60745801
Dutch
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>>60758578
Flemish is Dutch dumb cunt
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>>60758319
>Austrian
U wot m8? They speak (an ugly hillbilly dialect of) German, you know?
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>>60758578
If by Austrian he means the dialect there then not even that. I believe it's too divergent to be understandable but they speak regular German too.

Definitely not Danish
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>>60757889
>>60758079

Please help me I can't for the life of me find basque there
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>>60759516
Eus for Euskara, the language endonym. It's on the left by Romance and connected to Spanish, Galician and one other place.
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