If you could know only three languages, what would you choose?
If you could know only three languages, what would you choose?
Finnish
Turkish
Polish
English
Russian
Mandarin
Proto Indo-European to talk to women.
Proto Afro-Asiatic to talk to God.
Proto Sino-Tibetan to talk to my horse.
English
German
Russian
english is all you need
english is a blessing and a curse
sometimes i feel if i didn't speak english there would be so many terrible things in the would that I wouldn't have access to and my life would be so much better.
English
Russian
French
English
French
German
Somali
Arabic
Turkish
I could speak with all people in Sweden
Klingon
Quenya/Sindarin
Goa'uld
Same languages I speak now.
Swedish
Sápmi
English
Etruskan
Sumerian
English
english
mandarin
japanese
English
Japanese
Russian
>Klingon
>Quenya/Sindarin
>Goa'uld
Completely and utterly based.
English
Russian
Finnish
faroese
danish
english
English & Farsi (Native Languages)
Russian (For the literature)
I'd probably choose languages whose natives do not learn English. From the perspective of scientist...
English is mandatory.
Mandarin I think would be important to know.
Hindi, maybe but probably not
I'd like to say Spanish because it has so many speakers but I don't think they do much.
I think Arabic would be pointless from how little they do.
I think #3 would be a vanity choice like German. it's very important in western Europe but it also sounds nice to me and the nazis had an unbeatable aesthetic of superiority which is very hot, whether or not it was true doesn't matter. Mandarin has so many speakers and they are definitely important so I think it'd be a decent choice. China comes off as a oppressive, polluted place currently though so I don't like the idea entirely and I'd never live there.
if Finns didn't know English, I'd choose Finnish solely because their education system is so, so good that I am sure they will have a high percentage of great people in the future who I'd like to communicate with. Germany also is the case.
maybe
English
German
Finnish
I don't know
Currently I can operate in Finnish, English and Swedish. I might want to change Swedish to French or German if given the chance ex machina. I have studied both but I have no meaningful French or German skills.
Dropping Swedish might sound obvious but I've been getting more fluent lately in what I read in Swedish and there are benefits in knowing Swedish since lots of stuff written in Swedish and Norwegian is very relevant to Finland too. For example lots of machinery is made specifically for Nordic conditions and qvasi silent knowledge can be found on specific forums in Swedish and Norwegian on top of lots of youtube videos being in Swedish and Norwegian.
I don't know. It's sort of a tough one. I'm pretty sure there would be lots of Swedes and Norwegians who would be surprised about the benefits of knowing Finnish for the same reasons.
English
Spanish
Arabic
Russian Finnish Spanish
Fortran
x86 machine code
Haskell
Esperanto
APL
Cat's
English
Java
Haskell
Classical Latin, Koine Greek and French. There's nothing else
English
Spanish
German
Hittite
Sumerian
Etruscan
English
Java
SQL
>x86 machine code
Noice
English
Hebrew
Arabic
Swedish, English, Portuguese
Finnish is too hard :(
ITALIAN, english and japanese
French
English
German
beside Japanese
Sanskrit
Hindi
English