I am semi-fluent in Spanish, and I went to the Island of Mauritius this Fall, where they speak a French Creole language. It took me a few days, but I was eventually understanding the spoken language.
I am able to piece together written french fairly easily. I do use a dictionary as needed, but the basics are fairly easy to pick up when you already know one Romance Language.
Really, that goes for all of them. I can understand the basics of spoken Italian and Portuguese as well.
Personally, I think Spanish is the easiest of the Romance Languages because it is so phonetic. Each letter primarily makes the sound that it should make, and there are very few silent letters.
That said, German could be fun. I also spent some time in South Africa, and learned some Afrikans, which I'm told is closely related to German.
I am able to piece together written french fairly easily. I do use a dictionary as needed, but the basics are fairly easy to pick up when you already know one Romance Language.
Really, that goes for all of them. I can understand the basics of spoken Italian and Portuguese as well.
Personally, I think Spanish is the easiest of the Romance Languages because it is so phonetic. Each letter primarily makes the sound that it should make, and there are very few silent letters.
That said, German could be fun. I also spent some time in South Africa, and learned some Afrikans, which I'm told is closely related to German.
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You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.- Churchill
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OK linguaphiles and intelligentsia of RAFO, which language should I learn?
- 20/12/2009 05:25:54 PM
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If you learn Spanish, it won't be that hard to learn Portugese and Italian *NM*
- 20/12/2009 08:18:11 PM
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I vote German. It's the closest that I I come to "speaking" another language.
- 21/12/2009 03:15:42 AM
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I'd suggest Spanish.
- 21/12/2009 07:30:26 AM
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I'm neither of those things in your title, but I'll put in another vote for Spanish.
- 21/12/2009 02:08:09 PM
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We all have our own prejudices for suggesting languages. Of the three, I suggest French.
- 21/12/2009 02:32:45 PM
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