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Anonymous ID:KoGc0YgI Sat 25 Jan 2025 01:16:25 No.21976711 View View Reply Original Report

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You are magically granted full fluency in five languages of your choice, not including your native language (which I presume is English). Which five languages do you pick and why?

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Anonymous ID:z3y1Fu5f Sat 25 Jan 2025 01:25:35 No.21976751 Report

Quoted By: >>21976760 >>21978031

>>21976711
i guess most distinct languages from each other so chinese arabic english hindi and russian

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Anonymous ID:yW4T2ZFX Sat 25 Jan 2025 01:27:54 No.21976758 Report

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>>21976711
ealde englische, proto indo european, mandarin, russian, latin

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Anonymous ID:KoGc0YgI Sat 25 Jan 2025 01:28:40 No.21976760 Report

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>>21976751
Mandarin or Cantonese?

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Anonymous ID:z3y1Fu5f Sat 25 Jan 2025 01:29:09 No.21976764 Report

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>>21976760
>Mandarin
Mandarin

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Anonymous ID:S6S5DR7E Sat 25 Jan 2025 01:34:22 No.21976895 Report

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>>21976711
Japanese
Mandarin
Cantonese
Korean
Vietnamese

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:S6S5DR7E Sat 25 Jan 2025 01:35:04 No.21976902 Report

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>>21976760
Cantonese is better in California because most Chinese people I meet are from Southern China originally.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Uldxr9+A Sat 25 Jan 2025 01:40:20 No.21976930 Report

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>>21976711
French, German, Japanese, Polish, and Russian

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Anonymous ID:dDipAkbz Sat 25 Jan 2025 01:47:36 No.21976953 Report

Quoted By: >>21976962 >>21977079

>>21976711
Japanese (obviously)
Finnish
Russian
Roll dubs for the other two

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:KoGc0YgI Sat 25 Jan 2025 01:50:04 No.21976962 Report

Quoted By: >>21978754

>>21976953
I get that weebs and people living in Japan would want to know Japanese, but is it useful literally anywhere else? Compared to a trade language like Mandarin, Japanese is almost a hobbyist language.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yW4T2ZFX Sat 25 Jan 2025 02:23:42 No.21977079 Report

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>>21976953
proto germanic

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:KoGc0YgI Sat 25 Jan 2025 02:43:56 No.21977144 Report

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Four common ones, and a fifth ridiculously rare one for bragging rights. That would be Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Kutenai.

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Anonymous ID:GjazORv1 Sat 25 Jan 2025 03:25:11 No.21977339 Report

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>>21976711
Assuming fluent in reading/writing as well:
Latin
Spanish
Mandarin
Greek
Hebrew
As for why Spanish/Mandarin would be beneficial to speak, the rest would mean I’d be able to read a bunch of cool untranslated ancient shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:b09lliiV Sat 25 Jan 2025 04:06:34 No.21977513 Report

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>>21976711
canadian
american
united kingdoman
australian
new zealandan

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Anonymous ID:Iivt9R8U Sat 25 Jan 2025 04:15:01 No.21977538 Report

Quoted By: >>21977989

Altaic
Atlantian
Shabazzian
Lemurian
Finngolian

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:u2XG5T1W Sat 25 Jan 2025 05:52:22 No.21977977 Report

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>>21976711
french
jap
both chineses
danelandish

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:3SVxOhdD Sat 25 Jan 2025 05:54:13 No.21977989 Report

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>>21977538
this

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Anonymous ID:tXAr5nNr Sat 25 Jan 2025 06:04:38 No.21978028 Report

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Whatever the fuck language this cartoon is in. Also Japanese.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:PNgVP/FK Sat 25 Jan 2025 06:05:10 No.21978031 Report

Quoted By: >>21978261

>>21976751
These are all good, replace English with Portuguese I guess. Mexicans will be impressed I almost know Spanish, Portuguese and Brazilians will be surprised I know their language

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Anonymous ID:KoGc0YgI Sat 25 Jan 2025 07:02:09 No.21978261 Report

Quoted By: >>21978319

>>21978031
A White guy in America speaking Spanish is nothing terribly impressive nowadays. I think Mexicans would be more baffled that you learned a language that will benefit you almost zero than Spanish.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:DmEI28GL Sat 25 Jan 2025 07:15:10 No.21978304 Report

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Shanghainese
Yoruba
Ubykh
Sumerian
Ido

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:DmEI28GL Sat 25 Jan 2025 07:17:50 No.21978319 Report

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>>21978261
>I think Mexicans would be more baffled that you learned a language that will benefit you almost zero than Spanish.
This. I'd be more impressed by a guy willing to learn Kyrgyz for literally no reason than an otherwise ordinary American fellar learning sPaNiSh (since everybody and their gay dad takes Spanish class in high school/college in America).

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:TDIXi/Ip Sat 25 Jan 2025 07:56:04 No.21978434 Report

Quoted By: >>21981040

>>21976711
japanese, greek, russian, german, and church latin

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Anonymous ID:EA7AlwZQ Sat 25 Jan 2025 10:27:36 No.21978754 Report

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>>21976962
Isn't translation well payed? And the more obscure the language the less people translating it. Japanese is obscure and in high demand so it should be good?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:KkmcFr6e Sat 25 Jan 2025 10:31:49 No.21978767 Report

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Mandarin
Spanish
French
German
Russian
and I am learning Japanese already

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:/iWVLWWc Sat 25 Jan 2025 11:21:32 No.21978884 Report

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>>21976711
korean, chinese, french, arabic, russian
korean because i sort of know it and want to accelerate fluency
chinese for business & interest
japanese for business & proximity to the above two
arabic because it covers a shit ton of countries
same reason for russian
i already know german otherwise it'd be in the list

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:p8b0nfdE Sat 25 Jan 2025 22:22:52 No.21981040 Report

Quoted By: >>21981464

>>21978434
>CHURCH latin
you are so fucking gay

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:mFrhOv2k Sat 25 Jan 2025 22:58:29 No.21981284 Report

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>>21976711
Attic Greek to read my Sophocles and Aeschylus and maybe Homer.
German for Nietzsche, Goethe and Schiller
Spanish because of all the damn Mexicans and Cervantes
Russian for Dostoyevsky and maybe some other stuff that I would miss not knowing Russian.
French for Celine et al

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:lW0z1DbA Sat 25 Jan 2025 23:08:45 No.21981330 Report

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English because I suck at it.
Japanese because yes.
Russian
Arabic
Java script

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:yW4T2ZFX Sat 25 Jan 2025 23:38:33 No.21981464 Report

Quoted By: >>21981609

>>21981040
church slavonic

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:p8b0nfdE Sun 26 Jan 2025 00:11:00 No.21981609 Report

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>>21981464
classical latin>>>>

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!!+BhVj0FRlGa ID:r/2PtMwT Sun 26 Jan 2025 00:23:10 No.21981677 Report

Quoted By: >>21981752 >>21981843 >>21981987 >>21982744

>>21976711
>bug bait
not today demon
otherwise:
swiss, italian, german, japanese and various aussie/new zealand accents of english

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Anonymous ID:KoGc0YgI Sun 26 Jan 2025 00:37:40 No.21981752 Report

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>>21981677
You cannot escape them.

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!!+BhVj0FRlGa ID:r/2PtMwT Sun 26 Jan 2025 00:39:06 No.21981758 Report

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>>21981752
you've accepted challenge mode: competent introvert who's more skeptical of other people than asians.

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Anonymous ID:KoGc0YgI Sun 26 Jan 2025 00:41:21 No.21981774 Report

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>>21981758
The only Asians that I would want any modicum of interaction with are Japanese and South Korean, and even then, I probably have a rosy picture painted of them in my head based on media. I'm sure most of them are horrible too.

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!!+BhVj0FRlGa ID:r/2PtMwT Sun 26 Jan 2025 00:50:09 No.21981831 Report

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>>21981774
i'm married to my ideal of making a shit ton of money, getting guns and assets and digging myself into the side of a mountain somewhere leaving everyone else to rot or blow themselves up, preferably both.

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Anonymous ID:4FBOGjyU Sun 26 Jan 2025 00:52:45 No.21981843 Report

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>>21981677
JAPANESE, "SWISS" AND "VARIOUS ACCENTS OF ENGLISH" WHAT A FAGGOT LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLLLLLLL

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!!+BhVj0FRlGa ID:r/2PtMwT Sun 26 Jan 2025 00:56:57 No.21981864 Report

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>>21981843
don't forget your government mandated holohoax shame, you're supposed to be humble and ashamed or something.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:KoGc0YgI Sun 26 Jan 2025 01:35:06 No.21981987 Report

Quoted By: >>21982039 >>21982053

>>21981677
wtf an accent is not a new language. It's slang at best.

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!!+BhVj0FRlGa ID:r/2PtMwT Sun 26 Jan 2025 01:47:17 No.21982039 Report

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>>21981987
tell me with a straight face that australian is english

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZtVtcmE0 Sun 26 Jan 2025 01:48:30 No.21982044 Report

Quoted By: >>21982213

>>21976711
there's an optimal list out there... the more people respond to this the more of a pattern you'll see
mandarin (obvs, very useful even if you're just ordering stuff online)
spanish (objectively good pick)
russian
now pick your supplementary two from german/french/japanese

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Iivt9R8U Sun 26 Jan 2025 01:49:09 No.21982053 Report

Quoted By: >>21982060

>>21981987
yeah nah, nah yeh, ya know wot oim sayin’
tl: the colloquial spoken aussie deviated from standard international english in that the syntax, grammar, vocabulary and general language structure has changed so much that any speaker of any other popular english dialect would have extreme difficulty understanding it
eg: standard english: make a U-turn just before the McDonalds 100 meters ahead.
aussie: chuck a u-i at maccas, cunt.

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!!+BhVj0FRlGa ID:r/2PtMwT Sun 26 Jan 2025 01:50:48 No.21982060 Report

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>>21982053
thank you

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:lZzYNMSe Sun 26 Jan 2025 02:01:47 No.21982120 Report

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>>21976711
afrikaans, mandarin, japanese, hebrew, standard arabic

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:KoGc0YgI Sun 26 Jan 2025 02:19:00 No.21982213 Report

Quoted By: >>21982248 >>21982418

>>21982044
Russian, I'm sure, is great in Russia. What good would it do you in America, the UK, China, etc.? If you're going to learn a bunch of widely spoken trade languages, I doubt Russian is even in the top ten.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:KoGc0YgI Sun 26 Jan 2025 02:24:18 No.21982248 Report

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>>21982213
Edit: I've perused Google, and the top ten languages, according to a handful of sites, are as follows: English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, French, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian, and Urdu. So hey! Russian is top ten.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:m+lx+gm8 Sun 26 Jan 2025 02:27:29 No.21982369 Report

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>>21981831
You should move to Switzerland, they live by that motto.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ZtVtcmE0 Sun 26 Jan 2025 02:35:32 No.21982418 Report

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>>21982213
russia has the 11th biggest economy in the world and it's quite affordable, it's like moving to thailand or something
plus, lots of pirate and hacker sites are in russian

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Uldxr9+A Sun 26 Jan 2025 03:40:22 No.21982722 Report

Quoted By: >>21982780

>>21976930
Forgot to say why
>French
Just cause
>German
For philosophy and stuff
>Japanese
For anime and stuff
>Polish
For fun and it connects my European language bingo
>Russian
For the literature

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Uldxr9+A Sun 26 Jan 2025 03:44:35 No.21982744 Report

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>>21981677
>swiss
Lmfao

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Uldxr9+A Sun 26 Jan 2025 03:51:10 No.21982780 Report

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>>21982722
Actually technically all those languages are "in a row" cause Russia basically touches Japan.

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