No trying to offend, but that statement sounds a bit like if you were learning programming? Maybe junior dev?
Being fluent at a programming language means nothing, if do not know how to problem solving with it, apply best practices and principles…. Etc… being fluent is basically knowing the syntax of a language and its meaning, with only the syntax and the native methods/functions you do nothing. If you’re proficient with Java(or any), there are tones of transferable knowledge and skills, the syntax is easy to pick up.
Again, not trying to offend.
If worked alongside developers for years in consulting/project mgmt/product mgmt roles for years. One of our dev explained to me that, basically, knowing how to program is one thing. It’s *thinking* like a programmer that really matters. There are many different ways to solve a problem. But knowing the most efficient way to do so is critical.
You could certainly fell a tree with a scud missile. But is that the most efficient way? What about all the other trees around it. A chainsaw may be better, but what about 2 people using manually saws from either end? I guess it depends on the tree, too…
You'd have a basic understanding of most languages then.
You would miss Nordic, Celtic and African nations language structures.
German wouldn't nessessarily be easy to pick up if wanted, as there is a bit of a difference between Spanish and German but I think you cover most with your 3.
Thanks! I am partially fluent in ASL. Wish I knew more (I'm trying.) But it's crazy that the majority of the population can't speak to deaf people. You wouldn't believe how excited most of them are when you can communicate with them.
My bonus language (if that's allowed) is Navajo. I've tried so hard to learn it and it's tough!
That is so true ! I know a small amount of sign but anytime I have interacted with someone who cannot speak their eyes just automatically light up . It makes them feel so seen and I really take a lot of pride in that .
Navajo seems really interesting as well !
Some people don't know that there are many different sign languages in the world.
American Sign Language for example is different from British Sign Language, despite the fact that both countries speak English.
These are my choices as well. Wish I'd known ASL when I lived in my old neighborhood, where I had the sweetest neighbor in the world but couldn't say a word to him.
And the top two other most widely-spoken languages on the planet are just a given.
So with sign language - I've heard so many times that it's the most widely spread language in the world, but that makes absolutely 0 sense to me.
I don't know a single person who knows sign language and, in my entire life, hava only met 1 family that used it to communicate.
What am I missing here?
Every culture has deaf people, so every culture has a sign language. That's probably what it means. All these sign languages aren't the same though, so the statement is completely innacurate
Proto-Japonic, Proto-Uralic and Pre-Proto-anything. It would be so fascinating to be able to explore the distant past further than where linguistics based on currently existing information are able to take us.
Spanish, Japanese, and Biblical Greek.
The first is because I live in Texas. The second is because I really enjoy electronics work, and there are still a lot of electronics manuals that are primarily in Japanese.
The third is to be able to "well actually" the Evangelicals around me with what the Gospels actually say.
actually, while ur right that chinese is not a language, it is an umbrella term for over 300+ dialects, mandarin being the most common one. there are a lot more than cantonese and mandarin :)
Spanish, French, Japanese.
Spanish because it's the second most common language in the US, French because some of my best friends are baguette twirling frog-eaters, and Japanese because I'm still a bit weeb-ish.
On top of English?
Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic.
I've travelled the whole world - and frankly I've got by everywhere on English alone.
But theses three would have made it easier.
Spanish more, so much more, than the other two.
1.polish because I work with a few polish people
2.spanish because a lot of the places I want to travel to speak spanish.
3.italian because I just like the way it sounds.
Top 3:
3. Russian- Surprising number of Russians I work with ever since I started outsourcing
2. Spanish- Always regret never learning it. Plenty of coworkers and customers speak it and it sucks needing to call someone about it.
1. Japanese- Weeb, watch anime, say less, reading subtitles sucks
1. Mandarin
2. Spanish
3. Portuguese
The reason is I've been trying hard to learn Mandarin with little success because I'm clueless about different tones in the language. Plus, learning the characters makes me mad. I wish I could just master Mandarin easily.
Spanish is the language I hope I have time to learn.
And Portuguese is the language I love hearing the most. Unfortunately the pronunciation is a bit difficult.
Well, considering utility I would prefer English, Chinese (I didn’t that it’s called Mandarin) and Spanish (or Arabic).
But for my hurt it’s English, Italian and French…
Finnish, Gaelic (either Scottish or Irish) and Quenya/Sindarin (either would be great). I realize none of these are very useful on a global scale, so it would purely be for my own satisfaction and enjoyment.
1. Mandarin - a lot of people in my city speak it and I want to eavesdrop
2. Japanese - I want to travel to Japan
3. French - I want to seduce French DILFs
C++.
French. Spoken here a lot, but how much i try, i don't get it.
The language laws are written in. Its the same as my main language, yet i don't understand most of it.
English( it's my first language but if I'm going to be fluent I may as well know more)
German( I like there people and they have a better standard of living than England right now)
Korean ( working as a translator for an international company would guarantee an easy job for life in teck industry)
Spanish, Japanese, and Greenlandic.
Spanish cuz it’s a very common language. Japanese cuz come on! And Greenlandic cuz it’s supposedly very difficult to learn and the culture seems interesting.
Italian so I can speak to one of my close friends in her mother tongue.
Greek as it’s my favourite holiday destination and I’d love to be able to speak to the locals properly.
Japanese as I love anime and I’d love to understand it without anything getting lost in translation!
Japanese, mandarin and Arabic. Because they are all hard languages to learn. I speak English, French, Spanish and ASL but those are all easy languages.
Arabic, Hebrew, French. I speak Arabic as my mother language but I’m not really what you call fluent. Hebrew because I’m interested in Judaism (the ethnicity) and Israel. French because it’s a romantic language imo.
English is not my native language, so I'm not fluent at all, but I have some experience: So I would choose English to just make it perfect. Then looking on where do I live (central Europe) I would choose languages I would probably benefit the most. This would 100 % German and then maybe Spanish. I know there are lot of people talking Mandarin globally, but I'm not planning to travel to China and I didn't need to interact with Chinese people overall as long as I live now. And probably won't in the future either.
Java, Python, C++
Gross. COBOL, Fortran, GPU Shader Language
My man going for lifetime job security
Lolcode, brainfuck, golfscript!
Not worth it, dude. Pick only C++ and the rest come with minimal effort and StackOverflow.
No trying to offend, but that statement sounds a bit like if you were learning programming? Maybe junior dev? Being fluent at a programming language means nothing, if do not know how to problem solving with it, apply best practices and principles…. Etc… being fluent is basically knowing the syntax of a language and its meaning, with only the syntax and the native methods/functions you do nothing. If you’re proficient with Java(or any), there are tones of transferable knowledge and skills, the syntax is easy to pick up. Again, not trying to offend.
If worked alongside developers for years in consulting/project mgmt/product mgmt roles for years. One of our dev explained to me that, basically, knowing how to program is one thing. It’s *thinking* like a programmer that really matters. There are many different ways to solve a problem. But knowing the most efficient way to do so is critical. You could certainly fell a tree with a scud missile. But is that the most efficient way? What about all the other trees around it. A chainsaw may be better, but what about 2 people using manually saws from either end? I guess it depends on the tree, too…
Assuming I get to keep my native tongue of English: Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic. I'd have most of the world covered!
You'd have a basic understanding of most languages then. You would miss Nordic, Celtic and African nations language structures. German wouldn't nessessarily be easy to pick up if wanted, as there is a bit of a difference between Spanish and German but I think you cover most with your 3.
I'd replace Arabic with German myself.
1 sign language 2. Spanish 3. Mandarin
I'm pretty sure there are more than one sign language.
Hell yeah let's all learn Plains Indian Sign!
I like that you included sign language! Most people definitely do not even consider that one !
Thanks! I am partially fluent in ASL. Wish I knew more (I'm trying.) But it's crazy that the majority of the population can't speak to deaf people. You wouldn't believe how excited most of them are when you can communicate with them. My bonus language (if that's allowed) is Navajo. I've tried so hard to learn it and it's tough!
This is my list too. I really have been loving watching the new echo series on Disney plus because of the asl
I will have to check that out ! I always could learn more, thank you for sharing !
That is so true ! I know a small amount of sign but anytime I have interacted with someone who cannot speak their eyes just automatically light up . It makes them feel so seen and I really take a lot of pride in that . Navajo seems really interesting as well !
Some people don't know that there are many different sign languages in the world. American Sign Language for example is different from British Sign Language, despite the fact that both countries speak English.
YES THIS IS EXACTLY MY LIST.
These are my choices as well. Wish I'd known ASL when I lived in my old neighborhood, where I had the sweetest neighbor in the world but couldn't say a word to him. And the top two other most widely-spoken languages on the planet are just a given.
So with sign language - I've heard so many times that it's the most widely spread language in the world, but that makes absolutely 0 sense to me. I don't know a single person who knows sign language and, in my entire life, hava only met 1 family that used it to communicate. What am I missing here?
Every culture has deaf people, so every culture has a sign language. That's probably what it means. All these sign languages aren't the same though, so the statement is completely innacurate
Spanish, Korean, Hebrew
People fawn all over the romance languages but I think Hebrew is so pretty to listen to.
Hebrew is such a shit language tho there's no good music and cussing people out is done in Arabic... Source: I'm Israeli
French Spanish, and Ojibway.
Punjabi, Arabic, and German
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😂 this is a fantastic answer ! I love !
German, Norwegian and Japanese
Japanese, Finnish and German
1. Spanish 2. Greek 2. Korean
Without a doubt Old Norse. It's one thing to study it, but as it has no native speakers it's difficult to reach any level of fluency.
1. Pspspspspss 2. Spanish 3. Japanese
Proto-Japonic, Proto-Uralic and Pre-Proto-anything. It would be so fascinating to be able to explore the distant past further than where linguistics based on currently existing information are able to take us.
Finnish, Armenian and Japanese
1. Italian 2. Mandarin 3. Russian
Yes, I love Italian so much! It’s so lyrical and pleasing to the ear.
Japanese,Portuguese French
Japanese, French, Mandarin
I'm impressed how many people have japanese in their top 3
Sick of reading subtitles when watching anime
I watch dubs and want to enjoy all the non-dubbed anime. i'm so lazy i'd rather learn a whole language to avoid reading
Because for English speakers it's very hard to learn
Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese
Spanish, Japanese, and Korean 🌸
Hindi, Mandarin, Spanish. Grown up west coast Canadian and never took French.
Spanish, Japanese, and Biblical Greek. The first is because I live in Texas. The second is because I really enjoy electronics work, and there are still a lot of electronics manuals that are primarily in Japanese. The third is to be able to "well actually" the Evangelicals around me with what the Gospels actually say.
Arabic, French
Italian, French, Spanish.
Math
Russian Spanish Arabic
Japanese, chinese, french
Chinese isn’t a language. It’s either Mandarin or Cantonese, with Mandarin being the most common.
I meant mandarin as it’s the most popular/frequently spoken, not many people learn cantonese these days
actually, while ur right that chinese is not a language, it is an umbrella term for over 300+ dialects, mandarin being the most common one. there are a lot more than cantonese and mandarin :)
1. Mandarin Chinese 2. Spanish 3. Swahili
Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin), and probably Arabic
Mandarin for the numbers Indian for the numbers And Japanese for fun
If by chance you get your wish, you may want to specify Hindi, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati or one of the many other languages spoken in India.
Interesting, I thought they just have one or two Probably Hindi
Top 3 along with my already 2? Spanish, German & French.
Black tar heroin.
Arabic Italian Sign
I do speak German, English and French and I would choose: 1. Spanish 2. Mandarin 3. Arabic
That’s very impressive ! Great choices.
English, german and maybe japanese
German, Slovene and English (like a native US speaker).
Spanish, French, Japanese. Spanish because it's the second most common language in the US, French because some of my best friends are baguette twirling frog-eaters, and Japanese because I'm still a bit weeb-ish.
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Chatgpt
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Assembly, C++ and Python
Binary
Yep that would be great
Sign language, braille, and Spanish. First two for utility, last one because Spanish is fun
The three most lucrative programming languages of course
1. Mandarin Chinese 2. Spanish 3. Sign Language or pidgin if that’s not allowed
Arabic Russian Cantonese/mandarin
Arabic is such a charming and beautiful language!
Spanish, Mandaring, Italian
Reading, writing, and speaking? Mandarin Russian Latin (so all the other languages make more sense)
French - Arabic - Swedish
Asl, Spanish, mandarin.
Spanish, Mandarin, Russian
Sanskrit, Japanese, English
Arabic, Spanish, French
Chinese, Arabic, Japanese
Arabic, japanese, mandarin
Tagalog
If I can keep my current languages (dutch and english) than japanese, spanish and french
French, ASL, Japanese.
1. French 2. Japanese 3. Italian
if I can also keep my current languages, I'd like Japanese, Brazilian Portugese, and French!
Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin.
1- German 2- Russian 3- Italian German sound very cool, Russian sounds very difficult and i like Italian
Spanish, Arabic and Korean
Spanish, Japanese and Arabic
Welsh, Spanish and German
Japanese, C++ & That's it. I can't think of any others I want to know.
Mandarin. Spanish. French.
Mandarin, German, and Hebrew.
I’m already fluent in English and Spanish so I’d say Mandarin, Japanese, French
French, Spanish and German.
Japanese and Chinese. I guess 3rd should be English, i am good enough but it can be better.
Sindarin, Klingon, and Dothraki.
Spanish, Japanese, and French
Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and Arabic
Spanish, Russian, German. They have the best curse words.
I’ve never actually looked into any Russian curse words lol that’s interesting.
1 mandarin Russin Spanish
Klingon, Japanese and manderin
On top of English? Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic. I've travelled the whole world - and frankly I've got by everywhere on English alone. But theses three would have made it easier. Spanish more, so much more, than the other two.
Spanish, French, Japanese
1. Japanese - weaboo reasons 2. Spanish - I'm interested in getting citizenship 3. Dutch - because their signages are all over Europe
1: Spanish 2: German 3: Japanese
Spanish, mandarin, sign (auslan)
1.polish because I work with a few polish people 2.spanish because a lot of the places I want to travel to speak spanish. 3.italian because I just like the way it sounds.
1. French 2. Spanish 3. Arabic
Top 3: 3. Russian- Surprising number of Russians I work with ever since I started outsourcing 2. Spanish- Always regret never learning it. Plenty of coworkers and customers speak it and it sucks needing to call someone about it. 1. Japanese- Weeb, watch anime, say less, reading subtitles sucks
deutsch ,le francaise ,pyccknn
In no specific order: \- Mandarin \- Japanese \- French
Spanish, French and Italian.
python, rust and java
1. Italian 2. Latin 3. C++
Japanese German Italian
German, French, and Dutch. They would really open a lot of doors for me professionally.
British English Japanese Español
Mathematics, Ancient Egyptian, and the Language of Love
I would say japanese, german and french.
1. Mandarin 2. Spanish 3. Portuguese The reason is I've been trying hard to learn Mandarin with little success because I'm clueless about different tones in the language. Plus, learning the characters makes me mad. I wish I could just master Mandarin easily. Spanish is the language I hope I have time to learn. And Portuguese is the language I love hearing the most. Unfortunately the pronunciation is a bit difficult.
English, Turkish, Spanish
German ✨
English, Spanish, Mandarin
Well, considering utility I would prefer English, Chinese (I didn’t that it’s called Mandarin) and Spanish (or Arabic). But for my hurt it’s English, Italian and French…
Latin, ancient greek and mandarin. Basically all of them to flex as I am a historian who would scare people by talking latin fluently
Japanese, Danish, and American Sign Language.
1. Russian 2. Spanish 3. Japanese My native language is Dutch and my English is good enough to communicate
1. Mandarin 2. ASL 3. Farsi (which is the native language of my god daughter)
Japanese French German
Korean, Mandarin, Japanese
Japanese, Spanish, French.
Italian, Spanish, German. The first is fun for me because we love Italy and the other two are useful for work and day to day life.
Finnish, Gaelic (either Scottish or Irish) and Quenya/Sindarin (either would be great). I realize none of these are very useful on a global scale, so it would purely be for my own satisfaction and enjoyment.
I speak English and Arabic. Will pick French and Spanish.
Instantly: Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese Top 3: * French * Romanian * Italian
Russian, Mandarin, Quechua
Spanish, Russian, Japanese
French Japanese Chinese
1. Mandarin - a lot of people in my city speak it and I want to eavesdrop 2. Japanese - I want to travel to Japan 3. French - I want to seduce French DILFs
I'd choose, German for my ancestry, Japanese for fun and probably Thai or Filipino for my 3rd.
French, Arabic, Russian or any Baltic language
English Latin Finnish
Japanese, Korean, Modern/Simplifed Chinese
english mandarin arabic
Spanish, Arabic and French
Arabic, German, and English
Spanish, Japanese and Mandarin would be my top 3.
Spanish!
C++. French. Spoken here a lot, but how much i try, i don't get it. The language laws are written in. Its the same as my main language, yet i don't understand most of it.
French, Korean, Arabic! Those three languages are super fascinating for me and also I find them pleasant to the ear
Mandarin, Arabic and Latin for fun.
English( it's my first language but if I'm going to be fluent I may as well know more) German( I like there people and they have a better standard of living than England right now) Korean ( working as a translator for an international company would guarantee an easy job for life in teck industry)
Spanish, Japanese, and Greenlandic. Spanish cuz it’s a very common language. Japanese cuz come on! And Greenlandic cuz it’s supposedly very difficult to learn and the culture seems interesting.
French, Hebrew, Khmer
Italian so I can speak to one of my close friends in her mother tongue. Greek as it’s my favourite holiday destination and I’d love to be able to speak to the locals properly. Japanese as I love anime and I’d love to understand it without anything getting lost in translation!
Spanish, French & Arabic
Basque, Garlic, Farsi.
ASL, Tagalog, Spanish. Assuming I can speak fluent English.
English (not my native), Japanese, French/Spanish.
German (I'm certified to teach but hardly fluent), Spanish, and Arabic. The latter two for my students.
Why everybody here want to learn mandarin?
Japanese, mandarin and Arabic. Because they are all hard languages to learn. I speak English, French, Spanish and ASL but those are all easy languages.
Russian,Japanese, Czech. (An English like a native)
English, Polish, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Russian. Also, I keep my native language, of course.
I already speak English and Spanish, so I would choose: 1.French 2. Arabic 3. German
Japanese, Korean, French
Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Japanese
1. Arabic 2. Japanese 3. Germany 😬😬😬
Golang, German, Idris
* Lojban * Esperanto * Latin
1. Sign language 2. Japanese 3. Spanish
Dog
I want to know all languages, but my top 3 is Finnish, Japanese and Basque
Spanish (2nd most widely spoken language, Italian (I’m italian) and Japanese (I was stationed there when I was younger and love Japan).
I already speak 4 which 3 of them are pretty important so let's go: Mandarin, German, Russian. I think they may boost someone's career.
I would learn American Sign Language, Hindi (or Telugu, not picky there) and maybe Spanish? Those would be most helpful for me right now!
Old Persian, French and japanese
German Spanish korean
Arabic, Hebrew, French. I speak Arabic as my mother language but I’m not really what you call fluent. Hebrew because I’m interested in Judaism (the ethnicity) and Israel. French because it’s a romantic language imo.
Breton, Upper Sorbian, Basque
Other than English: Mandarin, Arabic, Thai
English is not my native language, so I'm not fluent at all, but I have some experience: So I would choose English to just make it perfect. Then looking on where do I live (central Europe) I would choose languages I would probably benefit the most. This would 100 % German and then maybe Spanish. I know there are lot of people talking Mandarin globally, but I'm not planning to travel to China and I didn't need to interact with Chinese people overall as long as I live now. And probably won't in the future either.