Most useful languages:

you should know the 3 languages:
1) your native language
2) English
3) Japanese to watch anime
others ones are useless.

>Italian

Is not useful at all.

Spanish >> French >>>>> Italian

Salam habibi

What's up and what's down? And have you been around? Are you feeling alright?

Russian is completely useless. No one in Eastern Europe speaks it anymore and I doubt there are many Central Asian speakers left either.

How cucked am I when I already 2 of those?

That's why it's the last one.
Portuguese and Italian are meme languages, pretty useless, but they're VERY easy to learn if you already know Spanish and French.

>tfw Arabic and English bilingual
>tfw not Mandarin and English masterrace

Portugal has Brazil

Italy has....? San Marino

*know

>Portuguese is a free language if you know spanish

Its the same as saying if you know german than dutch is a free launguage, its beyond ignorance.

Latin americans playing videogames together have a hard time comunicating because they cant understand a single word of spoken portuguese (ive been told several times it sounds slavic)

I'm attempting to learn Spanish now. I'm worried if I moved onto Italian or Portoguese I may get confused because they are so similar.

English and Spanish?

Dunno why do you guys still learn Spanish, consider French is dead here after the Frogs left.

Portuguese*

>maltese (ez gateway to arabic)
I have never found an italian vompany other than in italy, the odd italian pizza shop in germany where i could order was the best where i could use it outside of italy.

no more useless than German or French

You could watch American gangster movies and not need the subtitles when they are having a meeting.

>Thoughts?
Arabic/farsi/mandarin are good languages to make money. For example, in my country there is a lack of specialists in Iran economy and it is possible to make huge money in this sphere. Especially if you are working for government or industrial/infrastructure/military corporations.

How old are you, little naive guy?

We have so many words borrowed from spanish so it doesn't really hurt to make an effort to learn. You're right though, Spanish is almost dead here, too, only about 2% of the people here speak Spanish.

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Written material is mutually intelligible, the pronunciation is different.
It's like learning French when you already know Italian and English. You just have to learn the new pronunciation.

If you know Portuguese, you can make a lot of money working in Angola if you apply for any white collar tier jobs connected to stuff like civil construction or administration

>little naive guy
I don't know what's up with Russians on Cred Forums. 99% of them are self-hating and grumpy.
You should be proud of you own country.

>German
it's useless, all Germs speak english

Most of them are SJWs scum.

Here's the official point system.

English (native)- 10 pts
English (fluent)- 8 pts
English (intermediate) - 5 pts
English (conversational) - 3 pts

Spanish, French (fluent) - 5 pts
Spanish, French (intermediate) - 3 pts

German, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin (fluent) - 3 pts

Portuguese, Italian, Japanese - 1 pt

Add up your score.

By the way.

15+ god tier
10-15 average
Below 10 retard tier

I got 18 pts

I know a fair amount of French. The only thing I would have to practice in order to become fluent is grammar and vocabulary. However I'm learning Japanese because I'm as likely to go to Japan as I am to France, which is not very.

10pts English
+
5pts Spanish + 3pts French
+
1pts Portuguese +1pts Italian
=
20pts

What a shame

>portuguese
>free language if you speak spanish
Should I tell him guys?

What the fuck does it even mean for a language to be 'useful'?
It's useful to know the language of a country in which you live/work/have partners in. Everything else is useless in a practical sense. English is enough get by in 99.9999999999999999999999% situations involving anything international or cultural - all relevant literature was translated. No, your anime books aren't relevant. You can learn chinese but then you'd have to talk with chinese people and who wants that.
I'd love to learn spanish some day, mexicans seem like fun as fuck people to be around

Pretty much this.

However I think english should be dropped for Esperanto as lingua franca. Because a lingua franca needs to be cultured and sophisticated.

I can't even say this well in english without sounding dumb. It's a shame.

Who the fuch is going to go to Switzerland or Québec ?

>10

I think it's the language that moves more money. In that case is.

1.English
(power gap)
2. Spanish
3. Chinese
4. Arabic
5. French
6. Portuguese
7. German
8. Russian
9. Japanese

(Power gap)
National Languages.

Btw that's a very dynamic stuff. Portuguese was higher ranked imo when Brazil was still a promise. Learning Chinese was a dumb choise 20 years ago, and know it's more useful learning Korean than Italian.

what about dutch

Usually States with shit education or low budgets or experience stick to the colonial tongue as the main language across all levels of education.

>I don't know what's up with Russians on Cred Forums. 99% of them are self-hating and grumpy.
The main problem is that in Russia there is a little, but very active minority of russophobes. It is a relic of USSR-time, when such persons were among establishment.

>Italian
>useful

Maybe to avoid getting ripped off by tourist traps. Useless language, even for getting laid. A few words might impress foreign girls though who romanticize Shitaly.

Actual useful language:

Romanian (easy to learn [similar to latin languages with some slavic influence] and no one else understands a fucking thing you're saying or what language you're saying it in, so it's like having your own IRL personal private channel)

>Arabic

Why would that be considered valuable? To protect yourself from rapefugees? Maybe if you work for an oil company.

I actually very much agree with OP and I like his pre region rationale. Chinese and Arabic are only worth it if you will spend a considerable amount of your life immersed in those cultures/regions.

English, French and Spanish pretty much have you covered all over the world.

>his language is useful

;_;

/thread

>spanish
covered what? trash called latin america and spain? rofl

so useful if you plan on spend your life with garbage

They dom't want to live and work in uncomfy Néerlandophone area.

>not learning 5 different languages at the same time

It's spoken in most fromer Soviet countries that don't know English.

Trust me, most people in central asia go to college in Russia, and many conduct their primary eductaion in Russian.

Specifically, I know that in Tajikistan many people, at least in the capital region, know Russian as well as they know Takjiki. Also, all the moives they watch are Russian, further improving the populaces fluency in Russian.

lmfao, level 1 and 2, good luck with that
duolingo is shit, you can finish the tree without knowing how to put a sentence together
also
>norwegian
>italian
lmfao

>Duolingo
>Learning
Choose one

>French
vocaroo.com/i/s1kCGn07ryN6

TU ES EXCUSÉ.

mandarin is above german and russian

Don't talk to that hohol, he will tell you cool story that russian language is dying, our country is mordor etc.
>Tajikistan
Bad example, it is the poorest country in Central Asia. A lot of people there just don't have any TV to whatch movie, lol. Thought, they usually speak russian a little bit.

You can learn Spanish, French, German, Russian, Portuguese and Italian in the time you would have spent learning Mandarin.
And you won't even have to communicate with Chinese people!
Learning Mandarin is retarded.
Hundreds of millions of native Mandarin speakers are learning English, and tens of millions of gooks are already fluent in English.
imgur.com/lrNHGbS

I would if I could

why is portugese, italian, and russian even up there, OP

I just spoke to some people who were in Tajikistan's capital for a year, and anoyne that goes to school knows Russian. Half of the schools are Russian-medium. I don't know about the rest of the country, though.

Butthurt monkey

#5 was 'Spanish' you illiterate Italian

see

Yeah, shouldn't have put Portuguese and Italian there.
Russia is okay though.

>duolingo
>learning anything

>so useful if you plan on spend your life with garbage

now now monkeyfriend, we are talking about spanish not portuguese

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Angola... so exciting...

respect me i'm 3% fluent fuckers

me dá trocados tudo que tiveres foda-se

I got 70% fluent in English in my first try
And I learnt english mostly from Cred Forums

Theres already been an objective language list

Global + Lingua Franca

English

World Languages

Spanish, French

Strong Regional languages with wide influence

Mandarin, Russian

Strong Regional Languages

German, Japanese

Meme countries

Portuguese

Well, Tajikistan's immigrants are some kind of russian meme. There is even a humorous TV show about them (pic related). And IRL they do everything to prove their reputation of clowns from medieval East.

Fuck. Foreign languages are useless. Everything gets translated to English anyway. I've wasted too much time on them. At least people are impressed when they find out I am polyglot.

-Italian (Mother tongue, use it every day)
1. English (The only useful language)
2. Spanish (I'm FLUENT but I never use it, useless language)
3. French (Almost fluent, maybe B2, can understand everything, written or spoken, but can't write an essay. Never use it)
4. German (Can understand everything, have some difficulties with cases. Never use. And my company works with Germans)
5. Russian (Can understand everything. My gf is Russian, when I speak to her in Russian she replies in Italian, fuck this shit)
- Portuguese (Can understand everything but I can only reply in Spanguese. Doesn't matter, wouldn't use it anyway.)

FML.

Learning Mandarin would not take longer than learning German or Russian. Its grammar is relatively simple though, the tones are taugh

Fluent in english, native in french, good in italian. 14 pts.

Mandarin is worthless honestly.

Japanese or even Korean, would be more worth it imo

I speak french (native), english (of course), italian (because it's beautiful), russian (because cracked video games are in russian), and esperanto (for entertainment). I speak only relevant languages :)

This about esperanto. And it's so much easier to speak than english (my accent is kinda terrible in english).

>romanian
The language of the shittiest country in the world. Better learn esperanto or a built in language (conlang, I think it's called)

10 points - I speak and write English like a native
+
3 points - Spanish intermediate
+
3 points - French intermediate
+
1 point - Portuguese
=
17 points

You're not native, -2. You're in the average tier.

As a Brit I think its pretty clear

French or German, just by locality and job demand. I rate French higher because it helps with Italian/Spanish and is a nicer place to holiday.

After that its pretty much just personal preference.

I'd say the best

Spanish (If you care about Latin America, or like to go to Spain, quite easy)
Japanese (If you like Anime and Japanese culture, good holiday destination)
Italian (If you like going to Italy and speaking the nicest sounding language)
Russian (cool history and some use for it)

If you are delusional

Mandarin

youtube.com/watch?v=qIj_o0PMEkw

У мeня y oднoгo accoциaции пopнo co вceм нeмeцким?
lol
the scat meme is strong everywhere

>A гдe дoмoгaющиecя дo них apaбы?
>B Гepмaнии eщё ocтaлиcь нeмцы? Taм вpoдe тoлькo тypки и apaбы yжe дaвнo...
Russians are based as fuck.

In Russia "german porn" is some kind of meme: in soviet times most porn videos came from FRG.

The one in the middle is fucking sexy, the other two suck but Jesus Christ I would totally break her holes.

based russia

13 reporting in

lol

なぜ日本語を学んだの
絶対にダメだよ

>esperanto
>relevant

Op zich wel een mooie taal, maar nutteloos buiten Nederland en Belgie. Je zou nog Afrikaans mee kunnen tellen maar, in Zuid Afrika sprekt ook bijna iedereen Engels. Misschien helpt het mij wel als ik bij een Nederlandse bedrijf wil werken :D

youtube.com/watch?v=Et3vFtPqj8g

I've got a French friend who speaks English pretty well but we always talk in Esperanto instead, he can express himself way better and his accent doesn't get in the way

ho saluton

mi ne scias ĉu vi estas la alia afiŝinto al kiu mi ĵus respondis...

youtube.com/watch?v=6amCG2KHlRg

youtube.com/watch?v=Y_LhRw5bWx8&

youtube.com/watch?v=EOQ0ZY8h1RE

youtube.com/watch?v=R07T-0v8ybU

youtube.com/watch?v=vViIHVyM5iM

Russian music is God Tier.

Is Esperanto equal for all though? How about people who don't speak a indo-euroepan mother toungue?

whites (see: not dagos) that can speak and read MSA fluently are like gold dust lad

mena is the next region after china desu, especially for brits (no bully)

these are actually the most important languages for Europeans

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Obv.
Chinese is a meme though.
YOU HAVE to go China to use it.

Russian is a meme too but the girls and the music are good.

Esperanto's not equal for all. The question you asked it pretty widely acknolwedged among Esperanto speakers, although non-speakers get left out of the discussions on it so only see the shitty outdated "muh easiest most neutral language" advertisement stuff. It makes a decent pan-european language.

IMO the best thing that Esperanto is doing right now is showing what can be done via a constructed language. Being the most 'successful'constructed language so far, and (as far as I know), the only one with native speakers, it's an interesting experiment on display. The only thing I can think of as comparable to it is modern Hebrew or maybe various sign languages that have been developed. So it's kind of cool to have Esperanto as a test run for what a better designed IAL could potentially achieve. Personally I just speak it for fun though so none of that is very important to me just kind of interesting.

My non indo european language speaking friends have told me that Esperanto is easier for them than English, though. They said it was harder to learn for them than for their IE language speaking friends but they reached fluency much faster than they would have in a different indo european language.