1. What LANGUAGEs does /pol/ speak and....
2. What LANGUAGE(s) will prevail by 2100
There are currently ~7000 languages in common use globally but this is expected to drop by 90% by 2100
>>55574552
I speak:
English (native/primary)
French (basic conversations)
German (enough to get by as a tourist)
Russian (as German)
>>55574552
I reckon English, Spanish and Chinese will prevail - Arabic might get traction but they are increasingly backwards looking and will prob eradicate themselves as a concept - thus nobody will bother to speak to them as equals.
I know English and somewhat enough French to have a basic conversation.
My wife however knows English, Spanish, Dutch, some German, some Chinese, and some Japanese. I don't know how she can keep track of so much.
>>55575424
and what for 2100?
>>55575592
English, Russian, Chinese and Spanish. The other languages will be unimportant. I still think that English won't achieve complete dominance and people would still speak national languages.
>>55574552
Dutch - native
English - native
French - fluent
German - conversational
Russian - basic
1. Spanish, English
2. Spanish, English
U UOT M8 BOI THAT A GIF SO I EXPECTED SOME ANIMATION AS A CONCATENATED SERIE OF SINGLE FRAMES GIVING SOME SENSICAL FUN OR WHATEVER BUT U ARE THE '"ETERNAL ANGLO'" BRIDE OF SATAN, LEADING THE GOLD PRICE - DAILY - FROM '" The City '" A QUADRANGULAR SHITHOLE OF DEGENERACY.
>gif
YOU LICK JEWES ARSES EVERY FRIGGING SHABBATH, GOY
>co.uk
>>55574552
I speak English and Spanish fluently. I've been trying to get into German but we know that language won't last so I might as well be studying Chinese and Russian.
>>55574552
1. Russian (native), English (shitty level)
2. English
>>55575817
>U UOT M8 BOI THAT A GIF SO I EXPECTED SOME ANIMATION AS A CONCATENATED SERIE OF SINGLE FRAMES GIVING SOME SENSICAL FUN OR WHATEVER BUT U ARE THE '"ETERNAL ANGLO'" BRIDE OF SATAN, LEADING THE GOLD PRICE - DAILY - FROM '" The City '" A QUADRANGULAR SHITHOLE OF DEGENERACY.
??? did u say u spoke english?
>>55574552
Swedish, finnish and english. Basic german, can get by but not really have a discussion.
With swedish also comes norwegian fluently but they are so similar it does not count.
Danish if read. Their pronounciation is so retarded it is impossible to understand when they speak.
Not knowing atleast an extra language is pretty degenerate imo. desu senpai
>>55574552
Dutch
French
Slovak
English
Chinese
get rekt
>>55574552
Romanian - native
Italian - I didn't learned it but it's pretty similar to romanian
English - medium
German - Can make conversations spontaneously but i need to review a little to remember the grammar & some advanced elements. (High School level basically)
Korean - I know the pronunciation but trying to read fluently .
Oh and.....
2. What LANGUAGE(s) will prevail by 2100.
Probably english. Can see arabic rising too but i think english is too intertwined with popular culture to be pushed down.
>>55575935
I studied chinese for a year and never got past pleasantries...
I got a Russky waifu and can just about manage on my own in moscow now when i visit.
Russian is easier, women hotter, i'd focus on this first
1. English-native
German-fluent
Japanese- leaning slowly
2. Russian and Spanish
>>55576409
ooooOOOOooooOOOooh... in the presence of a genius!
>>55576409
Not bad garlicbro.
How much does Slovak help you understand other slavic languages like Polish and so on ?
>>55574552
Latin and English
>>55576409
not arabic? I thought it was belgium's first language now?
>>55576586
when you say 'latin' do you just mean that you can communicate in texas, nm, socal and arizona or are you genuinely a unicorn? (a cultured, educated american).
>>55574552
English
Able to read enough basic Spanish to understand most signs
>What languages will prevail by 2100
ENGLISH
Urban slang
Spanish
Chinese and Japanese
A few european languages but will mostly be used as conversational spoken word
We don't even have America to thank but the English Empire for spreading this wonderful tongue in which we speak and write.
>>55576602
It is, he is just being an intolerant nazi and pretending not to know it. He will be put in jail soon on the charges of cultural unsensitivity stay calm.
>>55575817
total... fucking.... autism
>>55576818
>Able to read enough basic Spanish to understand most signs
oh pls, i can do that in twenty languages
>>55576818
I worked in india for 9 months once and they used to say that the only things they thank us for til today are the railroads and the language (they have 50+ regional languages, nobody cares about hindi so theres 700m + english native speakers not officially recognised there too)
>>55574552
I'll use the European GER system to put my profiency levels into perspective. These are the levels, starting from total beginner to native speaker: A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2
>German C2
>Englisch C2
>Croatian C2
>French B1/B2
>Japanese B1/B2
>Russian A1~B1 (just startet, so I don't have any actual certificate, but it's easy for me b/c of croatian)
>>55576939
here, here ;-)
doesn't really count I reckon i can do that in every latin and cyrillic language, gotta b 40 of those - I'd imagine 20 is an underestimate actually
>>55574552
Hungarian - native
Romanian - was born there, left as an adult
German - from very early childhood, but let it fell into disuse for 25 years, so now have a sophisticated accent and a meager active vocabulary
Engllish - well, you can see it
Languages I was taught but they did not catch:
French - the school abandoned it after a few years but I know enough to read tech books
Latin - meh. Had to help my children with their Latin homework recently, discovered how much knowledge have I lost.
Russian - meh squared, can read basic stuff
Languages I taught myself or am just winging it based on known languages:
Italian - can read and understand spoken language based on Romanian and Latin, as the Romanian anon said above, but also from having worked there for a while. BTW Italian AAappears to be closer to Romanian than Romanian to Italian; knowing Italian doesn't help so much in decyphering Romanian as vice versa
Portuguese - same story. Interestingly, Spanish is much harder to decypher.
Pali - I'm sort of a sympathyzer of Theravada, that's why. Fucking weird language, tho.
>>55577067
>and they used to say that the only things they thank us for til today are the railroads and the language
You must have inhaled a lot of poo particles and started hallucinating if you actually believe that ?
>>55576939
... meant to say; that's if u grew up in Yugo w. cyrillic
>>55576939
I don't really care for it tbhfam
English is the world language. Is it good to know multiple languages. yes
But I know English and thats leaps and bounds ahead of everyone
>>55577067
Rule Britannia
>>55577188
germanbro - croatian won't help til u get cyrillic down unless you're studying that too?
>>55577208
DANG!
Maybe we have a winner?
And question 2?
العربية
>>55577236
I did see a LOT of poo....
I was swimming on a beach in Kerela in some downtime for a week, then I woke up early and saw like 500+ fishermen shitting in the sea at dawn.. then i realised the beach and sea were COVERED in shit
-was horrid!
>>55577249
i read cyrillic fluently... i didn't really count the languages (20), my point was that anybody can read signs, i can read basic japanese signs like exit or entrance, no big deal, every half intelligent person can comprehend any language on that level within a day or two... speaking a language, well, that's something else..
>>55577307
<fistbump bro>
>>55577330
I can read cyrillic with no problem, croatian and serbian are basically just two dialects of the same language with serbian using cyrillic
>>55574552
Croatian
English
Italian
Latin
English, with some Gaelic and Spanish.
Never really into Latin languages 2bh. Only did Spanish cause of School.
>>55577574
>croatian and serbian are basically just two dialects of the same language
don't ever tell them that tho lol.
yeah, if u have serbian and cyrillic then russkie aint gonna be a biggie druggie
>>55574552
Franch and Chinese will prevail. Idk about Spanish.
I speak english, some Spanish and a little Chinese.
I want to learn nip so I don't have to wait 500 years to get a localization on video games.
>>55577713
they all know that
>>55577678
we (in the UK) aint taught shit, perhaps rightly so. After waterloo it was clear that our colonialism was going to win - thus the language.
The Spanish had some longstanding penetration but we'd already made sure the Caribbean was ours thus they'd have to also have to contend with us.
Surprised you got some Gaelic, I take it you're a Highlandbro then?
>>55574552
1. English/Urdu
2.English/Spanish in the US. Arabic in Europe unfortnately
>לא לדעת את השפה של העם הנבחר של אלוהים
אתה הומואים כנראה אפילו לא שולטים בעולם להיות כנה משפחה
>>55577713
>don't ever tell them that tho lol.
yeah my late grandpa would propaply smack me for saying that, but it's true.
Serbian and Croatian are closer to each other than for example Bavarian dialects are to standard German. Or Swabian, can't understand those fuckers at all.
>>55574552
Serb - native
English - very good but i speak it with the most stereotypical accent ever
French - barely, if i'd try to speak it i'd sound like a nutjob
>What LANGUAGE will prevail by 2100
For all intents and purposes, all of them. The ~6300 that will go extinct are pretty much all some jungle mumbo-jumbo in Oceania, South America and Southeast Asia
>>55574552
1. Only English because American
2. English, Spanish, Chinese for sure.
French, Russian, and Japanese will be important but less so than the first three.
Which do you think will prevail between Chinese and Spanish?
this reminds me of old antimoon, eh
>>55577762
Only reason I'd learn nip is to understand wtf senpai, desu and all of the other shitspeak on 4chan means - and unlock the baffling reasons the cartoons are all in different weird category names.
hentai? futa? manga? wtf - just rank it from "normal" to "seek fucking therapy"
>>55576417
>Italian - I didn't learned it but it's pretty similar to romanian
No.
Fuck off, gipsy.
>>55578029
>Serbian and Croatian are closer to each other than for example Bavarian
'Serbian' and 'Croatian' are the same language. The difference is like between British and American English. (i.e., mostly a few pointless spelling rules.)
>>55578088
Chinese is really ugly and really hard to learn. I doubt it will catch on.
>>55578146
search 'rabu rabu nyan nyan' on urban dictionary
>>55578234
>the same language
yes
there's more, repeat, much, much more difference between croatian dialects than croatian and serbian (montenegrin and bosnian ftm) in fact the language is called BCS by western linguists
>>55578088
>Which do you think will prevail between Chinese and Spanish?
Yeah that's an interesting one, I'd also group Russian in there - remember that all of the ex-soviet states are 2ndary russkies and russia is making crazy pacts allover to bring them together again under a union.
I'd say theyre all going to be regionally significant. Spanish in the americas prob. all the way up to San Fran being 1st lang Spanish/same depth on east coast.
Russkie across the CIS/Ex Commies and Chinese all over APAC.
But english will be the predominant 2nd language globally.
>>55578173
I thought that'd get a comeback!! Was news to me too
>>55574552
German native
English quite fluent I'd say
Korean Level TOPIK 4 (High intermediate)
Basic french and spanish
Starting with Russian now
>>55578234
look here
>>55577574
>>55578300
>'rabu rabu nyan nyan'
... fucking seriously..... that island nation is really far away from the mental mainland.
>>55578040
>Serb - native
just to lower the tone
>>55578673
When I finally realised I had made headway in russian was when I realised PECTOPAH was 'restoran' and knew why.. easy from then on in ;-)
>>55579118
TOPPEHT did it for me ;-)
English (Native/Primary)
Polish (Native)
Learning Russian
>English: native
>Spanish: barely functional spanish II
the American dream
>>55579893
Wez sie zajeb debilna kurwo
>>55576463
Thanks for the advice Giles, good luck with your waifu, m8.
Monitoring this thread
>>55574552
So.. BASICALLY:
Everyone on /pol/ is learning RUSSIAN?!!!
>>55579983
you're welcome Chad
>>55574552
>1. What LANGUAGEs does /pol/ speak
English
>2. What LANGUAGE(s) will prevail by 2100
A combination of redneck, inner city slang, and valley girl.
>>55574552
1. English, Spanish, German, Arabic, Russian, Mandarin, Hebrew, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Farsi, Egyptian Arabic, Greek
2. Arabic in Europe and Spanish in America
>>55574552
>Spanish
by now like a native and some times even better than the natives
>Bulgarian
like a native
>English
B2
>Catalan
a little bit trashy at writing but in general term good
I think to start learning russian in a near future, because bulgarian and russian have a lot in common and some friends told me than in more or less a year I will be able to speak to speak it at good level
>>55580436
Speaking this many languages is baffling to me, but maybe some people are just wired for it better.
English and German. I grew up in a German community and discovered that our dialect is very different sounding from German-Germans though.
>>55574552
I speak swedish and english fluently
I can have a simple conversation in german and order food, ask for directions and such in spanish
Most countries who have a fixed national language will remain in 2100. For example, swedish, dutch, latvian and such will most likely remain. It would be more doubtful if the romani language would remain.
>Tfw bilingual master race
>Needing to learn other languages because no one speaks your country's language
>>55581648
>traveling abroad and eating at mcdonalds
>>55574552
I speak
English
French
Ithkuil
>>55578173
ulalļ êpael Romans
>>55574552
all languages are equally difficult and have equal expressive power.
English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish
>>55577400
q2: I'd bet on Spanish taking over English around that time, a natural extension from having taken over the USA. Chinese will stay mostly confined to China, Arabic will fade and Russian was never a contender. Just my 2c.
>>55580436
well done for googling "languages" princess
>>55582993
kek
>>55583054
>Ithkuil
no.... u don't
>>55584254
no... they don't
>>55575679
>>55575684
>>55575935
>>55577188
>>55578673
>>55579893
so basically everyone is learning RUSSIAN?
