Which of these main languages would you like to learn most?

[anvi]

Spanish, so I could spend more time in South America. 

[Classic Conservative]

Hebrew.

[Illiniwek]

I am fairly comfortable with German, although when I was in Germany it was absolute rubbish. But before I get any better at German, I have to get better at Italian. I am dreadful after a year of learning Italian.

[Hatman 🍁]

I've bee trying to learn French since Senior Kindergarten.

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

I am currently learning Russian so I would go for Latin or Classical Greek as this is pretty natural direction for Poles. German is throat disease, French sounds good but studying it is pain in the ass, for Japanese/Korean/Mandarin I have no time for learning moonrunes.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I am currently learning Russian so I would go for Latin or Classical Greek as this is pretty natural direction for Poles.

I'd say it used to be (Classical Greek and Latin). There's no wider interest now. Which I find sad, because my great-grandfather was a classical scholar.

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I had German for three years in school. I don't remember anything beside "guten tag", "ich heisse" and, like every Pole, "hande hoch!"

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

I'd say it used to be (Classical Greek and Latin). There's no wider interest now. Which I find sad, because my great-grandfather was a classical scholar.

Shhh. Don't say such things. Latin is still widely used, I want to believe. I had no Latin in high school as my class had German and Philosophy (second "humanistic'' class had French and Latin unfortunately). On studies I had only translations of two texts from Latin to Polish because I had it only for half of the year and lecturer was pretty bad (I dropped my second course as I wasn't able to cope with two examination sessions) and after that I really wanted to study Latin by myself but never had enough time or determination or had other interests etc. etc. etc.

One of my distant cousin graduated with other few people classical philology (at the beginning of the course there were like 50 students, in the end less than 6) so I guess there is interest, people are just to lazy to study (like me) or are demotivated by people who says "durr for what you need that dead language". But talking seriously you are right that comparing to the past now interest in classical languages is very low and probably soon it will fade into the total niche.

I had German for three years in school. I don't remember anything beside "guten tag", "ich heisse" and, like every Pole, "hande hoch!"

And like every Pole you don't remember anything, I had German for like 4 or 5 years and don't remember much more than you. I think this is racial trait, like in RPG.

[Kingpoleon]

1. German
2. French
3. Spanish

Spanish is mostly for practical purposes. Otherwise I'd like to learn Greek and MAYBE Hindu/Urdu.

[Cranberry]

Italienisch ist meine Antwort.

Islaendisch ist nicht hier, und ich weiss einigekann ein bisschen Deustch.

Sorry for coming off as the ultimate asshole, but you need to use "können" instead of "wissen" with languages, and you can use "einige" only with countable nouns. An uncountable adjective like "deutsch" needs something like "ein bisschen" or "ein wenig".

As for me, I'm pretty torn between French and Mandarin, as for "major languages". My ultimate dream language however is, just as for the poster I quoted, Icelandic. I'll be going there in summer, so maybe I can pile myself up with some resources and hear some of the flow of it. I sadly know no more than "góðan daginn" (good day) or "talar þú ensku?" (do you speak English), which hopefully should be enough to get me around

[dax00]

I am currently learning Russian so I would go for Latin or Classical Greek as this is pretty natural direction for Poles.

I'd say it used to be (Classical Greek and Latin). There's no wider interest now. Which I find sad, because my great-grandfather was a classical scholar.

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I had German for three years in school. I don't remember anything beside "guten tag", "ich heisse" and, like every Pole, "hande hoch!"

I took 4 years of Latin, 2 years of ancient Greek, and 4 years of German in high school. My Latin has deteriorated to about 2nd-year level, the Greek to about 1st-year level, but my German is still pretty damn good since I've kept up with it.

[President Johnson]

Other, since Germany is my native language and English second language. I'd like to speak Greek (were my father is from, but he did not teach me) and Macedonian. My father is from the Greek part of Macedonia and lots of people still speak Macedonian.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I'd say it used to be (Classical Greek and Latin). There's no wider interest now. Which I find sad, because my great-grandfather was a classical scholar.

Shhh. Don't say such things. Latin is still widely used, I want to believe. I had no Latin in high school as my class had German and Philosophy (second "humanistic'' class had French and Latin unfortunately). On studies I had only translations of two texts from Latin to Polish because I had it only for half of the year and lecturer was pretty bad (I dropped my second course as I wasn't able to cope with two examination sessions) and after that I really wanted to study Latin by myself but never had enough time or determination or had other interests etc. etc. etc.

One of my distant cousin graduated with other few people classical philology (at the beginning of the course there were like 50 students, in the end less than 6) so I guess there is interest, people are just to lazy to study (like me) or are demotivated by people who says "durr for what you need that dead language". But talking seriously you are right that comparing to the past now interest in classical languages is very low and probably soon it will fade into the total niche.

I guess the main problem is that schools simply abandoned Latin as a subject. We never had Latin, while rhe nearest HS had one. Which is a shame.

[Higgs]

Mandarin

[Mopsus]

1. Greek
2. German
3. Sanskrit

[Mr. Smith]

Italienisch ist meine Antwort.

Islaendisch ist nicht hier, und ich weiss einigekann ein bisschen Deustch.

Sorry for coming off as the ultimate asshole, but you need to use "können" instead of "wissen" with languages, and you can use "einige" only with countable nouns. An uncountable adjective like "deutsch" needs something like "ein bisschen" or "ein wenig".

As for me, I'm pretty torn between French and Mandarin, as for "major languages". My ultimate dream language however is, just as for the poster I quoted, Icelandic. I'll be going there in summer, so maybe I can pile myself up with some resources and hear some of the flow of it. I sadly know no more than "góðan daginn" (good day) or "talar þú ensku?" (do you speak English), which hopefully should be enough to get me around

You proved my point precisely.

Also, since you helped me: "talar þú þysku?" (or saensku, dansku) might be useful in case English doesn't work, "ég tala" just to clarify what you can speak, "takk" as a shorthand for thanks, and "sjáumst" seems to be the bis bald.

[Cranberry]

Italienisch ist meine Antwort.

Islaendisch ist nicht hier, und ich weiss einigekann ein bisschen Deustch.

Sorry for coming off as the ultimate asshole, but you need to use "können" instead of "wissen" with languages, and you can use "einige" only with countable nouns. An uncountable adjective like "deutsch" needs something like "ein bisschen" or "ein wenig".

As for me, I'm pretty torn between French and Mandarin, as for "major languages". My ultimate dream language however is, just as for the poster I quoted, Icelandic. I'll be going there in summer, so maybe I can pile myself up with some resources and hear some of the flow of it. I sadly know no more than "góðan daginn" (good day) or "talar þú ensku?" (do you speak English), which hopefully should be enough to get me around

You proved my point precisely.

Also, since you helped me: "talar þú þysku?" (or saensku, dansku) might be useful in case English doesn't work, "ég tala" just to clarify what you can speak, "takk" as a shorthand for thanks, and "sjáumst" seems to be the bis bald.

Takk fyrir! From what I gathered, "bless bless" seems to work as "bye" as well, but my usage of my three Icelandic phrases will be limited anyways - I've just now (after eight years of studying) toned down my anxiety when speaking English to English speakers (I've never had a problem speaking English with other Austrians / German-speakers, but I did have one with English-speakers - I suddenly got a weird accent, I made dumb mistakes, I forgot basic vocabulary), so I don't really want to imagine how high up that anxiety will be with a language I know basically nothing of