If you could read in a foreign language, which language would you choose?
If you could read in a foreign language, which language would you choose?
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If you could read in a foreign language, which language would you choose?
Spanish la
Spanish/German
Spanish, I live in Texas or french
Italian
French; I’ve always wanted to be fluent in French.
@LJ Have you tried Duolingo? It’s a free download. I began a review of my college french with it, then went to Stanford continuing ed, and Alliance-Française. I’m sixty-five and need to work those little grey cells.
Spanish
German. It’s my mother tongue but I’ve forgotten it since I was forced to speak English when I was 5 and we moved to the USA.
@Deborah That is interesting. I grew up on a farm in rural South Africa in the 1960s and only spoke isiXhosa. At six we moved to a city when I was forced to forget my isiXhosa so I could learn English for an English school and two years later Afrikaans. I am bilingual in English and Afrikaans , but sadly no longer speak isiXhosa. I do recall the odd isiXhosa words when I hear isiXhosa speakers chatting in the shops.
I was 5 when we moved to the USA in 1965. My mother is German and my father is American who spoke fluent German so we only spoke German at home-I was born in Germany. The teachers told my parents to no longer speak German at home because I wasn’t learning English fast enough. The funny thing is when I go back to Germany the longer I am there my German comes back. After 2 weeks I can speak it again-mostly although there are still lots of words I’ve forgotten but I can make myself understood, and apparently I speak German without an accent.
Greek
Russian–so many great novels.
@Don me too…for the same reason.
Japanese
I can read German. I’m working on French and Swedish
Japanese
Latin
German
French
Scots Gaelic or Latin
Korean
Dutch
@Steve me too. I would pick Dutch but I don’t know any good Dutch authors. Do you?
@Kay Hi Kay, two of my favourite fiction writers are Rene Appel for pyscological thrillers and Maarten’t Hart for good war fiction but I have many others if these do not suffice.
@Steve I would love to hear of a few more if you don’t mind
Hi Kay, If you like police procedurals then I can recommend a series by Baantjer featuring a detective called De Cock. These are are very easy to read. I used to use them whenever I was due to fly to Holland to work on a project there to get my Dutch back up to scratch. I would read a whole book in the evening before. The author is no longer with us unfortunately but left about 100 books in this series (I have all of them). If you like sport and travel then Mart Smeets is your man. He is a television sports presentor and has written about 10 books. Geert Mak is another good travel writer. For thrillers, Renate Doornstein, Simone de Vlugt, Ester Verhof, and Saskia Noort are modern day writers that I like. Good hunting.
Thank you. I am going to look for some of these so hope I can find them. Thanks
French and Spanish
French !
I read English and Spanish, I would like to learn Chinese.
Sign language
Latin
French
I would choose Spanish
I read English and Spanish, right now I’m learning French and Italian, and just started reading some of these, probably Turkish, Greek or Hebrew I love how those languages sound!
Latin
I think any of the Scandinavian languages. I am loving those books right now.
@Debra like which books?
@Debra could you give me some names
@Kay Jussi Adler-Olsen and Camilla Lackberg are two that I have been reading ?
@Debra thank you. I will look for them
@Kay Enjoy and I have been enjoying both those authors. I am finding Camilla’s series is better as I go along.
Doggy n parrot
Tough call! French, Russian, or German.
Russian
Spanish. I have some familiarity with it.
Japanese
Hungarian
I do read in 5 languages, but I always found it a pity that my Russian was so poor that I couldn’t read the classics in the original.
Greek
French!
Arabic (modern standard and classical) without diacritics!
Gaelic
German
German
Chinese
Hebrew
I can read in French.????
Italian.
Hindi
English, French,German.
English and French.
English, Spanish and French
English and Arabic
French x
Japanese
French ❤️
French, very fluently. I can read B-1/B-2 level and that isn’t enough.
Same
Swedish
Russian
French
Greek
Italian
German
German.
Spanish ,
German
Latin or hieroglyphs would be cool. Sumerian… you know. Anything useful for summoning… lmao
@Tamela is it true? Are you are linguistic. Its amazing that you can read Latin or Sumerian. Can you recommended books to learn Latin??
Tahir Awan… I can’t read any of these languages, but it would be awesome to be able to. I was answering the question asked If you could…
@Tahir ^^
@Tamela ok. Thanks.
@Tamela stay blessed
@Tahir You too!
Korean
Japanese
Swedish and German
French and German
And Russian
Spanish. There are many Spanish speakers in our area.
עברית
German
French
Galiec or French
As many as possible. I can already use several and I feel so blessed!
Italian