Thread: What language would you like to learn?

I don't know.. I'm quite a fan of French, but I don't see much use in it. Maybe chinese but damn it is so hard

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

I would love to learn French and Spanish if they would stop making inanimate objects have gender. That adds a whole lot of unnecessary B.S. to memorize because nouns are generally preceded by le or la in French and el or la in Spanish. Until they get rid of that silly element, I don't want to know those languages.

Silly element for you. You say that only because you are used to the English language. Many languages have much worse characteristics than the gender thing. And in fact, even the gender of things has a logic. It's all a matter of getting used to: just like you'll spend time memorising words, you'll take a little extra time to memorise their gender. I tell you, learning genders is nothing. You'll slowly get used to thinkign of objects as masculine of feminine. The problem is when you already know, say, French, and go for Spanish, and the genders for the same objects are different.

If you think genders are bad, wait to learn verb conjugation. Portuguese, for instance, has 9 or so verb tenses, and each verb tense has a different form for each of the direct pronouns. And I mean 9 verb tenses not counting the compound tenses.

See, for example, the verb 'fazer' in the present tense:

eu faço (I do)
tu fazes (you do)
ele/ela faz (he/she does)
nós fazemos (we do)
vós fazeis (you do)
eles fazem (they do)