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A lot more to Dutch than to German. Legolas Send a noteboard - 21/12/2009 02:57:26 PM

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.


Though as I understand there is also a decent number of South-Africans with actually German roots, and a couple of them might still speak it. But Afrikaans is largely mutually intelligible with Dutch, and not really with German.
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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 462 Views
German or Spanish, of course. jh - 20/12/2009 09:12:27 PM 837 Views
Yeah, Ouranid - 20/12/2009 09:22:44 PM 1038 Views
Um, where do you live? everynametaken - 21/12/2009 01:18:05 AM 1061 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 964 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 1008 Views
By that I hope you mean Ouranid - 21/12/2009 11:35:56 AM 882 Views
I'd suggest Spanish. Phelix - 21/12/2009 07:30:26 AM 959 Views
Never thought of Spanish as a gateway language Ouranid - 21/12/2009 11:45:56 AM 969 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 895 Views
We all have our own prejudices for suggesting languages. Of the three, I suggest French. Tom - 21/12/2009 02:32:45 PM 1080 Views
Spanish, unless you actually plan on travelling to Africa a lot LadyLorraine - 21/12/2009 05:29:13 PM 888 Views
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