Hi all, what language is more useful after English? I'm very serious to learn. Deutch , French or Spanish?
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It very much depends on where you live.  Spainish-speakers are the second most populous group in the United States.  Personally, I would learn Spanish.
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probably anything that i'd be currently learning...\n\nlike now, it's french and spanish... ;p
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Spanish-speakers in US.  (see following quotes from wikipedia).\n_____\n\nSpanish is the second most common language in the United States after English. As of 2005, it is spoken by 30 million native citizens of the United States aged 5 or over, i.e. 12% of the population. \n\nOf Canada's 32.2 million population, Anglophones and Francophone represent 56.3% and 28.7% of the population respectively.  [French-speakers=about 9.24 million]
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yes..which language u talking about?
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French because it gives you a wide choice for a career and languages are always sought after. Plus I like languages. Geography limits you whilst French you can do what ever job and get higher pay for it!
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English\nLatin\nSpanish\nFrench\nGerman (some)\nSign Language
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Spanish - a huge percentage of the world's population speaks Spanish.  Then French.
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I know English and I am learning French. I know a lot of Urdu and understand it, but I cannot speak it fluently. My first choice to learn another language would be French cause it is really beautiful, but i am already learning it. I would choose Greek because it is rich in history.
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i had french, it is an interesting language..\ndepends on u , whether u want to experiment something new or not
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Well in all honesty there are many languages you might check out. You see Spanish is a Romance Language, which is derived from Latin. There are many languages similar to this such as Italian, French, and Portugese. If you are looking for a challenge, you might take on Russian. There language is totally different and derived from the cyrilic alphabet. Hope this helps.
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Hmmm I can speak of french as I'm french. It's said to be a quite hard language and it really is, lots of exceptions in grammar, many problems of tenses. Well it's also known as a beautiful language and maybe it comes from the fact it's difficult.\nSpanish is close to french I think complexity is quite the same or slightly easier (I've learned it for 3 years). It's a nice language that sounds good, like there's sun in their language :)\nChinese is much more simple regarding tenses and grammar (my girlfriend is chinese) but one very hard thing is they have sounds we don't, they make difference between two sounds just from the tone where we don't really hear any difference, I think it's a question of habit. Of course the writing is also harder, there's a way to write with normal letters too...\n\nRegarding usefulness I think chinese is a language that will be interesting in the few next years as China is opening more, french can be interesting too and I think french can provide a better population coverage than spanish if you choose between those two...\n\nSo good luck in your learning and I hope I provided interesting inofmrations to guide you in your choice :)
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If I should limit myself to only one language it would be probably Arabic, it is very challenging. And of course, to improve my Spanish.\nHave a nice time!
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It's going to depend on which languages you want to learn.  If the languages you want to learn are European in origin, I have a suggestion.  \n\nWhen I was in High School, I wanted to take a foreign language course, and I had to choose between Spanish and French. I chose Spanish, but for various reasons, I failed it. For the next 24 years I was under the impression that I couldn't learn a second language.\n\nThen when my daughter was taking Spanish in High School, I found that I still remembered quite a bit of it, and began to rethink my impression about my linguistic ability.\n\nOne day I read that Esperanto was the easiest language on earth to learn. I began learning it as an experiment to see if I really could learn a foreign language. Now I'm fluent at it, and have gone on to learn Spanish (I finished the 3 Pimsleur's Spanish courses in 1 year), and moved on to German. Later I learned a little Polish (to take a business trip to Poland) and studied Mandarin Chinese (just because a friend told me about the free course work on chinesepod.com).\n\nKnowing Esperanto first, helped greatly in my other linguistic experiences, but the thing that surprised me the most was that there is a culture around Esperanto that is alive and vibrant, with Music and Literature (both translated and original). Esperanto is my favorite of all the languages, and the easiest to learn of all my language experiences.\n\nPope John Paul II has called Esperanto the "New Latin".  \n\nThis article on Wikipedia is a very interesting article about the benefits of learning Esperanto before other languages.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperanto
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Chinese.  1 billion+ people know how to speak it.  Many koreans and japanese, instead of taking English as their second language, are now taking Chinese.  China's economy is booming, and so currently is a great place for business.\n\nbut then again Wikipedia says:\n"Some assert that, after English, Spanish can now be considered the second most important language in the world (probably replacing even French), due to its increased usage in the United States, the high birth rate in most of the countries where it is official, the growing economies of the Spanish-speaking world, its influence on the global music market, and simply due to the broad number of areas on the Earth's surface that the language is spoken in."\n\nMe...I speak Chinese at home, English at school, and am taking AP Spanish right now.  =)
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Try it with French. Or Arabic. Or Hebrew.
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Arabic..\nEnglish...\nFrench..\nLearning Dutch
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Any of the Romance languages are likely the easiest, since they have many cognates (similar sounding words that mean the same thing) and usually have fairly simple grammar. Of them, Spanish is probably the easiest, and definitely the most useful. German would be a close second, however, since its grammar influenced English so closely and has many cognates as well.