Very important, pivotal decision

[Gurtaton]

Pick the language that seems the most interesting to you. If you've got zero interest, there's no way in hell you'll be able to learn it.

I'd personally pick Japanese.

 

[Spraynwipe]

No I don't plan on being like this:

Also how did you find this picture of me I don't have you on fb....

 

[Grave]

Very important, pivotal decision
>goes on spam forum for advice

 

[Fayded]

I'd say go for japanese. This would make you trilingual, which would be a phenomenal thing to put on a job application after your ROTC program, in the case you chose to pursue a career in the air force.

 

[MohtasaUnique]

Chinese is the most difficult regardless of dialect.. and the most useful in the long term. Good luck either way its going to be tough but rewarding.

So far I found it really easy, I'm great with memorization so the characters don't prove to be a problem so far, and their sentence structure just makes sense to me

 

[JohnK]

chissianese

 

[Emperor Nero]

Russian because that will be the world language when the Nuclear Winter comes.

 

[MohtasaUnique]

Also how did you find this picture of me I don't have you on fb....

 

[Jei jei KK]

@JJKK NOU I wouldn't be self taught though, so it'd probably be a bit easier with a native speaker there to help you every day.. but I think chinese is easier, it just seems simpler to me

I guess Japanese would be a bit harder for an English speaker, being an agglutinative language and all, while English is mostly isolating.

 

[MohtasaUnique]

^wat?

I think the most difficult thing as an English speaker is the tonal significance in those kinds of languages. With chinese, you really have to iterate the correct tone, japanese has its nuances I'm sure, then there's languages like Romanian... Saying the same word "red" with 10 different inflections dictates the shade of red, not something I'd be able to keep up with...

But I think I have a handle on Chinese so far, despite my being tone deaf :c

 

[Realsies]

I would say chinese....Mandarin is one of the most spoken languages in the world and with china set to be the next super power, you would probably be better off with that.

 

[Snow Patrol]

Chinese is the most difficult regardless of dialect.. and the most useful in the long term. Good luck either way its going to be tough but rewarding.

This

Chinese is one of the hardest languages to pick up, but in today's society is the most applicable (With the exception of maybe Spanish if you live in a hispanic-dense part of the US. i.e. Texas/Cali)

 

[Jei jei KK]

^wat?

An agglutinative language slaps tiny bits called morphemes into words. They carry meanings isolating languages have to use separate words for. Example:

Finnish: kauppaankinko?

English: into (the) store too?

The morphemes essentially become a part of the word, which can be a major issue to users of isolating languages when learning how to actually use the language. apparently finnish has 51 declension types, suck on that, foreign people. (also: the table only lists 4 of the 15 grammatical cases, at least 12 of which are in common use)
THE MORE YOU KNOW

 

[Pokerking88]

In mother russia the language learns you

 

If you want to be based in Japan, do Japanese, that just makes sense. As for practicality, Chinese for sure.