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German, for the Philosophy. Dan Send a noteboard - 21/12/2009 04:38:10 AM
Everything else is pissing in the wind.

I want to expand my ability to explore and communicate in the world, and also experience a wealth of litterature otherwise unavailable to me in its original form.

It'll either be German, French, or Spanish, as I have a passing familiarity with all of them. But they all represent different areas of opportunity; french will let me be understood in large parts of Africa, and let me read many great works of Humanism and Realism, German opens up a host of philosophical texts, will let me read Kafka as it was intended, and I could live comfortably in Berlin, which is the greatest city I've ever been in, while Spanish of course would let me travel and communicate in Latin America, even travel through the Amazon for a year as I may do, and I could read the many great works of Latin American authors (Spansih authors as well, obviously, though I'm less familliar with the Spanish litterary tradition).

So, any suggestions? Pros or cons?

:)
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