>>10772013I'm trilingual so lemme give you the deets.
Romance languages are great because once you're good at one, you can figure out the rest.
I don't know a lick of Italian, but I can understand it most of the time.
Of the romance languages, I think Portuguese is the easiest. Less irregulars, pretty straight forward, and the jump from Portuguese to Spanish is easy. The jump from Spanish to Portuguese is also easy, but Spanish is harder to learn. And then those languages to French are easy as fuck if you know English as well.
Russian is based but the cases are hard as fuck to learn and perfect.
Mandarin is fun, but the tones are also hard to learn and the characters are a different monster. Another problem with Mandarin is that it really comprises of many languages in each city that are not mutually intelligible. People from Wuhan can't understand people from Shanghai etc. Throw in Cantonese and get fucked. Though for the most part the writing is all the same and the same characters are assigned the same meaning, but different words.
Japanese grammar is pretty basic, but the Kanji are difficult.
Don't learn German or Hindi because anyone worth a damn who speaks those languages already speaks English. same with the rest of the Germanic languages.
Korean has semi-difficult syntax, but it's a phonetic language and the letters are relatively simple.
Arabic and Farsi are a waste of time unless you learn Levantine Arabic and then MSA or vice versa.
Then C++ and python
