05-23-2014, 09:31 AM
So if your next project is to learn a new language, and you have a choice, which language would you choose and why?
This is just me being curious. For myself I've always been interested in finding similarities - what I call bridges - in vocabulary or idioms among different languages, and wondering if way back in history there had been cultural exchanges, and where and how it happened. But when it comes to wanting to learn a language, I tend to get lured by simpler reasons such as "It's cool". So my list has Irish (not the accent, the Irish language), Tibetan, Persian or Arabic, and something European that wavers back and forth depending on what I've heard lately. But might be German because Germany seem to have a strong history of natural science illustration.
This is just me being curious. For myself I've always been interested in finding similarities - what I call bridges - in vocabulary or idioms among different languages, and wondering if way back in history there had been cultural exchanges, and where and how it happened. But when it comes to wanting to learn a language, I tend to get lured by simpler reasons such as "It's cool". So my list has Irish (not the accent, the Irish language), Tibetan, Persian or Arabic, and something European that wavers back and forth depending on what I've heard lately. But might be German because Germany seem to have a strong history of natural science illustration.