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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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OK linguaphiles and intelligentsia of RAFO, which language should I learn? Ouranid - 20/12/2009 05:25:54 PM 1287 Views
Learn Spanish Camilla - 20/12/2009 05:27:54 PM 900 Views
Spanish Larry - 20/12/2009 05:51:56 PM 881 Views
Predicted that from both of you Ouranid - 20/12/2009 05:54:49 PM 1020 Views
French. Werthead - 20/12/2009 05:58:00 PM 860 Views
Spanish Palatine - 20/12/2009 06:06:11 PM 885 Views
Sorry Ouranid - 20/12/2009 09:19:40 PM 962 Views
Ah, so you're Norwegian? Palatine - 21/12/2009 05:36:29 PM 950 Views
If you learn Spanish, it won't be that hard to learn Portugese and Italian *NM* Matrimony Cauthon - 20/12/2009 08:18:11 PM 463 Views
German or Spanish, of course. jh - 20/12/2009 09:12:27 PM 838 Views
Yeah, Ouranid - 20/12/2009 09:22:44 PM 1039 Views
Um, where do you live? everynametaken - 21/12/2009 01:18:05 AM 1064 Views
I vote German. It's the closest that I I come to "speaking" another language. Erith - 21/12/2009 03:15:42 AM 975 Views
No, man... Ouranid - 21/12/2009 11:42:58 AM 965 Views
LOL - you could be right Erith - 22/12/2009 02:41:57 AM 1022 Views
German, for the Philosophy. Dan - 21/12/2009 04:38:10 AM 1009 Views
By that I hope you mean Ouranid - 21/12/2009 11:35:56 AM 883 Views
I'd suggest Spanish. Phelix - 21/12/2009 07:30:26 AM 960 Views
Never thought of Spanish as a gateway language Ouranid - 21/12/2009 11:45:56 AM 970 Views
The first hit's free, but after that you gotta pay. *NM* Phelix - 21/12/2009 05:24:48 PM 408 Views
A lot more to Dutch than to German. Legolas - 21/12/2009 02:57:26 PM 941 Views
I guess I should rephrase... Phelix - 21/12/2009 05:24:01 PM 921 Views
I'm neither of those things in your title, but I'll put in another vote for Spanish. Aemon - 21/12/2009 02:08:09 PM 896 Views
We all have our own prejudices for suggesting languages. Of the three, I suggest French. Tom - 21/12/2009 02:32:45 PM 1081 Views
Spanish, unless you actually plan on travelling to Africa a lot LadyLorraine - 21/12/2009 05:29:13 PM 889 Views
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