Currently using Busuu for Spanish, German, French, and Russian and would like advice on other languages to take up learning whether Busuu has them or if not I’ll then use Tandem.
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Swede here, at school I learned both English and Spanish, I consider myself to be Swedish/English bilingual, but even after six years of proper in-school Spanish classes I have only a brief surface level knowledge of the language, it is about 20 years since I last took classes in Spanish, and I never used it outside of class.
My English however, I have used that daily for the last 20+ years, both at work and at home, over the years I have learned common expressions and slang, and have been told several times that I speak excellent English.
My point is that I would recommend prioritizing learning one or at most two languages outside of your native language, but learning them well, rather than trying to cram in as many languages as possible.
One thing that has served me well however, is understanding pronunciation of foreign names, pronouncing other people’s names properly when other’s wont bother to will grant you a lot of respect and help you work together.
I would say that you already have enough on your plate and you should focus primarily on just one of your languages. But if you’re just looking to dabble, I think a South East Asian language like Mandarin would shake it up a bit.
Python!
Oh…oh, I get it. Learn Latin.
If we’re talking programming I recommend Rust. Besides that, regex is the foundation of formal languages and really useful too.
Learn Arabic. I have started learning it too.
I’ve always thought that learning the native language of a developing country would be a huge asset. Very few people do so, and outsourcing has a huge cost differential, so it opens up unusual career moves to capture that growth.
Hilariously, 12 year old me suggested this on the “what 3rd language would you like to learn” form in high school and somehow got in trouble for it. I guess they thought I was joking. Perhaps the joke was on them though, I immigrated to Vietnam and own a (small) tech company now.
You should send the school a postcard
That would be funny, although I think it may have been closed down and converted to some other purpose. It was a vast concrete sarcophagus of a building. No windows or proper heating. Weird cardboard dividers for walls, so all classrooms could hear all nearby classrooms. Bizarre skywells on the upper floors with no cages or guard rails.
It was really a building suitable for any purpose except a school :D
Gaelic likely wouldn’t be terribly useful but you’d be helping keep it alive by learning it
I’d love to! Maybe Busuu should add it.
Learning a European language, especially from a country that had colonised other countries will be useful. French and English, for the most part. Learning a romance language will also help if you were to touch Latin someday
I’d learn Mandarin next since there’s a lot of speakers and Asia is a fun place. Japanese after that if I have the time. That would be my personal journey if I ever learn any other languages, but we’ll see
Hmm, Mandarin…maybe I could.
Killian: I’M THE MANDARIN!
I’ve been learning Norwegian Bokmål and it’s pretty interesting seeing all the words that it and English have in common (as well as their differences).
Also, Toki Pona as others have mentioned. Might seem like a joke language at first, but the community is really vibrant and kind. You can make some real, meaningful connections through it. Plus, it takes maybe a weekend to get good at Toki Pona.
I studied Norwegian bokmål a time ago and I liked unfortunately I had to stop
Busuu should add Norwegian soon.
You must be some kind of savant to learn 4 languages at once. I can barely wrap my head around English.
I just watched this video on toki pona. Really interesting in how it’s easy to learn but the difficulty comes from trying to communicate complex ideas.
