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Do french its alsome

French is a LOVELY language. I love it. I've read it for 5 years in school now (I think) and I love the feeling of actually knowing that you can make up sentences and stuff. Answer some questions and actually talk to people. It's so cool ;)

I'm learning German currently. It's really easy. It's helped me with my English grammar more than English class itself. Which is pretty crazy. I learned a little bit of French from grade's 4-6, I didn't enjoy it too much. I also really like the sound of Russian, but it would be hard to learn a new alphabet. I'd really recommend German.

Italian is incredibly easy because you read what you write, meaning you always read all the letters and they always sound the same. Also it has pretty easy grammar, advanced grammar is a pain but if you plan to learn it just so you'd know a bit of Italian and could watch an Italian movie without the subs it's okay.
Latin is pretty easy too, there too the letters read and write the same. But even if there are a lot of words in English taken from Latin, real Latin is different from the technical terms. What they mostly teach nowadays in school is Classical Latin and Latin grammar. You basically learn to read and translate from Latin, a couple Roman writers and the history of Rome and Latin grammar rather than to talk with other people in Latin.

The french don't hate everyone, they just like their language to stay french not anglo-french. And it's also great that there is a country that doesn't agree on Bush's every move, and the hate they have for Germans and Brits is also understandable if you look into history. But there is a group of Francophone countries that get along pretty well with France. However, the only French kids I've meet were pretty stuck up and stupid, so I can't really comment on that one.

All I know is English and Lithuanian.

i know that. its the latin alphabet. it also has french in it. english is a mongrel language - a bit of everything that came along. i have no idea why so many different people invaded a small rainy island XD

English is derived from Latin.

does latin count? coz its used to technical terms in english, like arachnophobia and metropolis. yes, i know what those mean and all. and i know necro and claustro and philia and mania and homo and hetro. all that translated is irrational fear of spiders (should include scorpions, as they are arachnids, but doesnt) a place full of people (i think. polis is place. like necropolis would be cemetary.) and death/the dead and sexual attraction to, and obsessed with and same and different. haha. *falls over* yeah, learn latin, you only need a little tiny bit to make you look incredibly clever! XD

I know russian, french, (english obviously), spanish, I can pick up some German and Italian. I plan on learning Latin, and I used to know Hungarian >_>

cool. i can speak english, scottish and american and a little french, and a pathetic amount of spanish and japanese.

because american scottish and english are slightly different... *giggle*

It's true until you get to the west. They don't speak much french there.
It's mostly Ontario and Quebec

really? thats cool. maybe thats coz half of canada speak french. that IS right, isnt it? in quebec...

To the post below, the French don't hate Canadians =)

dont worry, the french hate everyone XD (not racist, true. they have/had a goverment department for keeping english/american out of their language. it failed with le CD-rom. haha.)

french is easiest to learn from english... and american isnt that different really, its just a few words that change. italian is similar to french. as is spanish. dont try to learn two of them at the same time. i did spanish and french and got so confused...

german is easy, i think, they do it at schools a lot... its a lot more of a harsh language. french flows, and german is more angry sounding. im afraid to say i cannot remember anything about russian at all. hehe...

so yeah. pick the one you'll be able to learn. and would actually work at. languages are hard... i was shit at spanish, i spoke french and learned to say "i dont know, im english." and im still not good at french. i know random things like rabbit and skateboarding. XD

German!!

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I wouldn't actually learn french because I already know it -_-
and Russian.
but if I were you.

Russian is incredibly difficult - you have to learn a new alphabet.
I'd learn french, once you learn french you know the basics of pretty much any language. - Certain words in Russian are derived from french. Italian, Latin and Spanish are pretty similar as well.