Not Speako Englasey!

[Stewart]

Alright lads,

As the more astute of you may have noticed, from my time on the forums; I'm thick.

I'm as thick as the adult version of 'Ben The Friendly Dog Likes the Sun'.

I'm as thick as Big Thick Mick 'the Thicko' McThcikery, the current and reigning Mr Thick UK, on the day he tripped over his copy of 'Ben The Friendly Dog Likes the Sun', whilst making a sandwich with extra thick sliced bread, banging his big thick head on the ground, before waking up twice as thick as the thicko ever was before, in the special Thicko ward at the national Thick Institute for the terminally, indescribably and utterly thick.

Which is pretty thick, I can tell you.

Now, as you know, if you're thick, there are only really two ways to appear more intelligent. Firstly, wear a top hat all the time, and secondly, the ability to speak another language.

Now, due to my bizarre and unfeasibly large head, as well as a chronic and potentialy fatal allergy to hat stands, I cannot take the first option. Still, all is well on the second, so I want some advice.

What language would you recommend learning? Anything will do really, although I want something considered easy (or at least easier) than some others. Also, it has to be a major language; I don't want to learn a language only spoken by the surviving members of the Wungybungy tribe, from South North-East Southport.

So, suggest away, you lovely little people. Obviously, if you have learnt another language, I'd be interested to hear what you've got to say about it. (In English, before you even go for the obvious joke, you cheap, cheap floozy)

[Howard]

This thread made me laugh so much

[megah0]

I can stumble along in german and make myself understood in french, trying to learn spanish atm too.

multiple languages should be taught at primary school

[Theo]

German is pretty easy as long as you have some decent audio lessons/exercise books or possibly a qualified tutor.

[mike_w]

I'm learning German for a GCSE, I found it much easier than French, despite the fact I had done French a year longer. Thinking about it, the fact that I learnt nothing in the first two of the three years I spend "learning" French might have had something to do with my choice...

[Tom]

you can learn '1337 14|\|g|_|4g3' (leet language) in no time! just go sit in some crappy clan's channel for counter strike

[megah0]

you can learn '1337 14|\|g|_|4g3' (leet language) in no time! just go sit in some crappy clan's channel for counter strike

I think he want to increase his "Cool Quotient" not appear lame

[Moonshade]

Hm, I've studied German for about 4 years and I nearly got an A in it (well, my teacher was a bitch..she said she couldn't give me that cos I was sick for a week or something) well..whatever. I didn't/don't think German is a hard language to learn, so if you wanna learn a quite easy language you should go for German.

But I don't like it that much though, it sounds..so, I dunno how to explain it, but I can say that french sounds much better!

I could also recommend Spanish, I've studied that for a year now, and I think it's great. This are the basic language that I'd like to recommend..

But hey, you could learn Swedish Since there are some Swedes here now
I'm one of them btw . Then you've got: Starkmjolk and wberg here on hexus !

Good Luck, mate!

[directhex]

you say you want to learn another language, but don't seem to ant to other than for personal cranial expansion. this opens up your options considerably.

the real important question is whether you want to learn a language fairly similar to what you know (any latin-based european language, they're all the same), or go for somethign a little more exotic. latin-based languages tend to have fairly rigid grammar to learn, as much of the vocab can be inferred from other latin-based languages. english is FAR less gramatically defined than most languages, making it messy & hard to learn, but very expressive.

russian, for example, is gramatically very similar to any latin language, with only the cyrillic alphabet to distinguish it. it's almost word-for-word identical to the latin-alphabet polish.

japanese, on the other hand, would present a COMPLETELY different perspective - the japanese language has very little grammar (and that which it has is very simple) - it's more a vocab and a cultural choice of appropriate words for a situation - as well as pronounciation etc. it's very interesting i you already have a knowledge of western language.

[TeePee]

Learn Esperanto!

[Rave]

directhex pretty much hits the nail on the head. My dad and my brothers are natural linguists, I am not. However, I can read a bit of Spanish purely because I did GCSE latin at school- I just figure it out. I can speak about 10 words of Japanese. Oname wa Richard- igirisu des.

Rich :¬)

[Alex]

I know a little French and German, and though German is easier, I have to say that I do much prefer the French language, its just far nicer to think in, and to speak and converse in. German is probably the most like English of any language I know anything about.

Of course what you really want to do is learn Welsh, now there is a quality language! Mae Alex ydw i, a rydw i'n mynd i'r prifysgol Bristol! (if anyone here can actually speak welsh properly then I'll so get shot down for my appalling welsh grammar...)

[steve threlfall]

Learn the language of love- french

Its a beautiful language and apparently not very hard to learn.

[Lee H]

learn klingon ... nah on 2nd thoughts that would be quite useless unless you ran into a star trek convention or Worf while shopping @ tesco's or something

[Paul Adams]

For relative ease I would say French, and it's definitely a "major" language.

I'm trying to learn Swedish myself, but the reverse grammar makes it a bit of a trial (I have to think in "Shakspearian English" and translate it that way lol).

[Steve]

I can speak a bit of visual basic, and some german.

I'm better at vb to be honest, but german isn't too bad. It's a shame really, as I'm going to Paris in four weeks and know NO french (apart for "I have two guinea pigs.")