My uni offers free language courses with my degeree

My uni offers free language courses with my degeree
Which should i pick?
>French
>Arabic
>Mandarin
>Spanish
>German

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Arabic so you can easily get Swedish citizenship

Arabic, you'll need it when your local muslim forces you to convert.

Mandarin. China is the future.

Arabic so you can easily get Swedish citizenship

Mandarin for the ladies

Spanish, you go to Spain and fuck every qt, that's what i would do

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Arabic so you can easily interact with your countrymen

Dont pick mandarin

american english, so you learn how to pronounce the letter 'h'

Spanish but Arabic seems cool to learn

pick one you wouldn't learn if you were away from the academic environment

French, it's very similar to English vocabulary-wise, and you'll pick it up very quickly. German is easy from English, too, and Spanish isn't too hard. Arabic and Mandarin are bad memes, learn them for fun, but they're useless.

WTF NO DON'T DO THAT

Mandarin and Arabic are interesting choices if you're into philosophy and old classics. German or French if you intend to work in continental Europe, or if you enjoy classical European culture. Spanish if you intend to work in Latin America.

ANGLO'D

Hello York uni student.

I also picked one of their languages, was best decision I ever made

first the invincible armada... then Gibraltar... then this... is there any limit that the *nglo knows?

what did he mean by this

>WTF NO DON'T DO THAT
You will get bean'd this coming winter

im not at york

>French, it's very similar to English vocabulary-wise
err not really pal

shame mate, best city in the country

L'anglais et le français sont extrêmement similaires au niveau du vocabulaire.

Yes really (réel[lement]). 25 % of English vocabulary (vocabulaire) is of French origin (origine), 25 % of Latin (latine) origin (origine) (therefore similar (similaire) to French). 10 % of French vocabulary (vocabulaire) is of Germanic (germanique) origin (origine), and at that point (point) you've got yourself very similar (similaires) languages (langages).

innit blud we basicly speak da same ting innit
Skraaa

reaching by bringing up germanic origins for french words tbf
take utter jibberish barring words like similaires (similarity?) and vocabulaire (vocabulary?); not counting names ofc.

For native English speakers learning a new language:

Category I (24 weeks)
Afrikaans
Danish
Dutch
French
Italian
Norwegian
Portuguese
Romanian
Spanish
Swedish

>Category II (30 weeks)
German

>Category III (36 weeks)
Indonesian
Malaysian
Swahili

>Category IV (44 weeks)
All the languages not in other categories

>Category IV.5 (category 4 but slightly harder)
Estonian
Finnish
Georgian
Hungarian
Mongolian
Thai
Vietnamese

>Category V (88 weeks)
Arabic
Cantonese
Mandarin
Korean

>Category V.V (essentially impossible for an Anglophone)
Japanese

>58% de similarité
>pas basiquement la même chose

>wah, french pypo never ruled England!
>wah, no, we don't share a lot of vocabulary!
Sad.

You can select* English words for Germanic* ancestry*, but it's a fact* that mainstream English literature* uses a shitton of French/Latin words.

* latin words

never said french (normans) didn't rule england or that our ruling class didn't speak french, both of those are facts

but look at these posts, don't know what he's saying at all

how can you not read this

If your English word has 3 or more syllabs, there's a high chance that its roots are French or Latin.

literally what

The Normans aren't modern French people. Eat my latin base ass

Hello Lindybeige.

Learn Arabic and meet UAE/Saudi rich chicks

They're already married to their cousin.

You sort of do though

>58% de similarité
58% similarity
>pas basiquement la même chose
not basically the same [même and the English word memetic share a root] thing

Pick an apple instead.

Literally the same argument as the FYROMians who claim Alexander wasn't Greek. Pathetic

>japanese essentially impossible for an Anglophone
wtf i now respect the weebs, who learned it for watching anime

This

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It's not even really a human language

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not choosing overly germanic words desu

it is a fact that using french/latin words is seen as somehow smarter but that's something other linguists have tried to fight, and i agree; if you can't get your meaning across with simple words you lack the grasp of english you think you have

Arabic ofc
You are from UK afterall

German. And even words not need.

alri tarq

>it is a fact that using french/latin words is seen as somehow smarter
That's only the case(cas) for later modern(moderne) era(ère) and Victorian borrowings. Early Norman and Old French words have become an integral(intégral) part(part) of your language(langue). There's a lot of basic(basique) words like "war" that are from Old Northern French.

>war
that's just germanic desu

So French words are okay if they're of Frankish origin

>putting words in my mouth
just saying war could come from anywhere; old english, old norse, french, whatever

Mandarin is the highest valued (and most interesting linguistically imo)

If you want to pick one of the low-effort languages (spanish, french, german), go with spanish. Maybe French. German is about as useless of a euro language as you can learn.

Arabic probably has some more economic value in it than the others (except mandarin), but would you ever want to travel to an arab country?