Taking up a second language.

[Herbert The Love Bug]

Cat

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[Jackofalltrades]

Easy, gaelic.

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[Trev_GFC]

French.

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[Anybodyhome]

I took German for 5 years from the 7th grade on through my junior year. Used it once... in Germany... and it wasn't easy because they have more dialects than one could imagine. And, as mentioned elsewhere, there are more Germans speaking English than Americans speaking German. It's been useless to me for almost 40 years now.

 

If I had a choice, I'd go with Italian...

[Chimera]

I lived in Germany 6 years. I met maybe two Germans who didn't speak English.

[Rise of The Hive]

I want to learn Spanish.

[Chaos]

Somebody wants to be a cunning linguist

[SCMunnerlyn1]

Im slowly learning Korean

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[Seal (SmittyIsOurSavior)]

I need to knock out my foreign language req as well. Thinking of doing Portuguese since all the UNC athletes take it, so it can't be all that difficult... Plus the transition to Spanish wouldn't be overly difficult if I ever needed/wanted to pick up Spanish.

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[Seal (SmittyIsOurSavior)]

If you're thinking about German though, it's really easy to learn the basics. Very easy to read it, and wouldn't take long to be a proficient speaker.

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[Ivan The Awesome]

Depends on what you're wanting to do. Travel? Or taking a job that requires you to speak another language?

 

Spanish is pretty simple and easy to learn. Like anything, it just takes practice. I was forced to learn English when I was young, I am not complaining now, knowing English has gotten me a lot of places. Both traveling and for business. 

[KillerKat]

I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. Took 3 years in high school and 2 in college. Still can't speak it. They started me out too late. I'm glad they're starting it in kindergarden now.

[boo7382]

A romance language is probably your best bet if you do not pick up languages easily.

 

Spanish is super easy since there are so many cognates, once you learn that, you can get yourself around and decipher a lot of Italian and French. 

 

I would not recommend Chinese or Japanese if you are not one who uses the language side of the brain. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too many characters to try and learn in both languages, on top of the fact that everything in Chinese is spoken backwards regarding sentence structure. Very hard. 

 

Any romance language is probably your best bet- gets hardest once you get up to any of the translation or grammar classes but I doubt you will get that far if you are just trying to learn it to speak with natives.

 

If you go Spanish- immerse yourself in Mexico or South America. Don't go to Spain, nobody wants ta speak that proper crap!!

 

I've never been interested enough in Russian or German to learn either- they both come off as very harsh languages to me and I do not enjoy listening to them spoken.

[boo7382]

I need to knock out my foreign language req as well. Thinking of doing Portuguese since all the UNC athletes take it, so it can't be all that difficult... Plus the transition to Spanish wouldn't be overly difficult if I ever needed/wanted to pick up Spanish.

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Portuguese on paper- somewhat similar

 

Portuguese spoken vs spoken Spanish- extremely different. Lots of "SSHHHHH" sounds