If to learn a language, which language would yyou chose. And why would you?

For me, Arabic or Bangla. Bangla is my father’s first language and extended families too. Arabic because the meanings and rhetorical nature of the language. I also have Arabic heritage historically.

I’ve tried both in the past. I struggled with the Script of Arabic - too cursive. Whereas Bangla the script is super straight shaped compared. But the sounds are very different to English and the formation of words (grammar) is noticeably unnatural to me.

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I would love to learn Hindi because I want to be able to move around India freely and many people there speak it as well as English

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Hindi and Bangla are so similar! Both Sanskrit!

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There are some common words too right

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I’ve always wanted to learn Spanish but I’m lazy lol. I used to speak it fluently back when I was taking classes in it.

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A cool language to learn would be Igbo or yoruba

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I’d love to read Tagore philosophical texts in his own language (Bangla).

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Rabindrinath tagore!!! So intense lol

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Nigerian languages, we have a significant Nigerian community here in my town; I’ve had at least 2 friends who were Nigerian growing up. I’d feel at home if I managed to conversate in Yoruba or Igbo!

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I know zilch about his work, I’d love to take it up though. He was a good friend of Einstein’s apparently and they would spend time together, especially writing letters.

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I didn’t know that

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Have you read Einstein’s short stories? They’re crazy

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I had no idea that existed lol haha

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He has a short story about the future where people live really high up or down low and the people who live high up live forever because they circumnavigate the Sun in a different way or something like that. People down low live hedonistic lives and the people up above live lives that are are super proper

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I don’t remember it well

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I want to learn Korean but it’s so hard to learn. :woman_facepalming:t2:

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Is it written in German?

They say Hangul(?) is a super logical and tidy system. I love the way it looks, so clean and crisp!

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I’m looking into it and it doesn’t say that it exists so I don’t know what I read

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It was when I was a child

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