1. Swiss German - Banking is done there.
2. Mandrain Chinese - China is becoming a bigger country by the day.
3. French - France is cool.
4. Italian - Italy is cool too.
5. Gulf Arabic - Just because.

1.Serbian or Polish
2.Portuguese
3.Hebrew
4.Arabic
5.Greek

1. Hmong (we have a large Hmong population in my town, and it's pretty much impossible to learn because of how they intonate things)
2. Arabic
3. Farsi
4. Mandarin Chinese
5. Russian

Now this is a fun question.

My choices would be:

Mandarin Chinese
Russian
German - Germany is my home country.
Japanese
Vietnamese - Many of my good friends are from Vietnam

Peace

hmmm...this is an interesting one

1. Cherokee
2. German
3. Spanish (my 5 years of learning this has done nothing for me)
4. Ancient Egyptian
5. French (just so I can piss them off when they say Americans don't know anything...God bless the French)

1. Latin
2. Chinese
3. French
4. Ancient Greek
5. Italian

1. Latin
2. Irish Gaelic
3. Germany
4. French
5. Italian

Im currently teaching myself Classical Latin and Irish Gaelic, and am taking professional lessons in German.

I sincerely would like to know at least one other language... I really envy people who grew up in bilingual households, or those in which the dominant language was not the same as the general area's (such as growing up in a Spanish household in Vermont or something...)

1. French (I'd finish learning it)
2. Ancient Greek
3. Latin
4. Irish Gaelic
5. Russian


I have languages to learn prioritized already, so I could go farther.

I already know a good deal of French, so I won't use up one of mine on it, here goes:
1. Spanish-because it'd be incredibly useful. I'm not sure why I haven't learned it already, but I really should.
2. Latin-just because I want to, and it might make other languages easier to understand.
3. Arabic-I really want to learn Arabic one day, since we as a country are so involved in the middle east.
4. Russian-just bcause I want to.
5. Hmong- it'd actually be incredibly useful around here. There are tons of Hmong immigrants around here, and there are very few people of non-Hmong origin who speak the language at all.

I can read it. My vocab consists of hello, and falafel, and a few other religious words. Besides, I was taught ancient Hebrew. I'd look like a moron if I speak it in Israel when I go this Summer.

don't you already speak hebrew phant?

1. German

2. Korean

3. Russian

4. Hebrew (modern day)

5. Arabic

Yay! I guess that is the first step to learning the language...

you spelled swahili correctly

Hmmm...I'm fluent in English and 70%fluent in Spanish already, so...

1)Mandrin
2)French
3)Italian
4)Swahili (or just to learrn how to spell it... )
5)Latin

The five languages I would want to speak are:
1. Russian
2. Japanese
3. Arabic
4. Hebrew
5. Italian

but in a majority of those nations (europe) you can find some one who does (espeacilly france)
Russian is known by a good enough amount of people in arabia and the old east bloc
and Swahili's dialects are found all over the vast majority of the continent
The solution to Arabic and Swahili's dialects is to learn the "high" version of them which contains no regional changes

quote:

between Russsian, English and German I'll be able to communicate every where in europe and with russian a large part of the rest of the world
Swahili let's me communicate all over africa
Arabic will let talk in Arabia
and Chinese/Russian helps me out in Asia the only place I'd be at all weak would be south america and India

everywhere in europe doesnt speak english and german, the majority of france spain italy greece east europe turkey etc doesnt speak english or german, neither does east europe speak russian, swahili isnt spoken all over africa and arabic has many dialects, for example someone from lebanon cannot communicate with a saudi arabian very well. Not to mention the many many dialects of asia,

if you want to maximise who you speak with russian isn't the way to go, choose something like spanish, english and french.

Personally i think it needs drive to learn a language, not just a desire to speak with people, i am only beginning to learn my seconed language, and have no intention to go further!

quote:

1. German
2. Chinese
3. Arabic
4. Russian
5. Swahili

I'll explain mine now

between Russsian, English and German I'll be able to communicate every where in europe and with russian a large part of the rest of the world
Swahili let's me communicate all over africa
Arabic will let talk in Arabia
and Chinese/Russian helps me out in Asia

the only place I'd be at all weak would be south america and India