Poll: What language would you like to learn? / LJWorld.com

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Response		Percent	Votes
Spanish		32%	358
None		10%	119
German		10%	118
French		9%	104
Italian		8%	96
Chinese		6%	76
Russian		5%	62
Other		5%	60
Arabic		4%	53
Japanese		3%	41
Total	1087

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nobody1793 3 years, 1 month ago

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CWGOKU 3 years, 1 month ago

If one is in another country, learn the language.

ivalueamerica 3 years, 1 month ago

I live in Peru and a full 30% of Americans here do not speak Spanish and I hear similar comments from other expat groups around the world.

It is another example of my fellow Americans saying...do as we say, not as we do. It is a value we push on you that we actually do not follow ourselves.

Realize that for some Americans, we are just burned out on Spanish. I would love to learn other languages. (I had two years of French.) However, Spanish would be my dead last language to take given the overwhelmping problems we have in this country with people who do not want to learn English. I have co-workers that are from China, Taiwan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, and a few others. I find it unfair that they had to learn English, but the Spanish did not.

tomatogrower 3 years, 1 month ago

Then why don't we speak Cherokee, Navajo, or Lakota here? Actually, in Kansas, German was spoken here until WWI when they became an enemy. There are a lot of languages spoken in the US. Let's not kill any of them. Of course, to do business and get a job, you must speak the language of the country in which you live.

number3of5 3 years, 1 month ago

I think Thai would be fun to learn. But I would also like to be more fluent in the languages I have studied. To me all languages are fun and musical.

RoeDapple 3 years, 1 month ago

Quis lingua would vos amo disco?

CreatureComforts 3 years, 1 month ago

That honky muf' be messin' mah old lady... got to be runnin' cold upside down his head, you know?

Hey home', I can dig it. Know ain't gonna lay no mo' big rap up on you, man!

phenommenom 3 years, 1 month ago

What no category for Mexican? LOL How bout Sioux or Dine?

phenommenom 3 years, 1 month ago

What no category for Mexican? LOL How bout Sioux or Dine?

monkeyspunk 3 years, 1 month ago

Chinese because at the rate of downfall of the United States, we are all going to need it.

Ni Hao, Kai Lan. See I am already off to a good start.

CreatureComforts 3 years, 1 month ago

Just make sure you learn Mandarin and not something less useful like Cantonese!

consumer1 3 years, 1 month ago

Celtic

rtpayton 3 years, 1 month ago

Where's pig latin or hillbilly speak easy?

snap_pop_no_crackle 3 years, 1 month ago

Another vote for Jive.

whats_going_on 3 years, 1 month ago

Spanish would be nice because it comes in handy with a lot of jobs here. But I really want to know French. I took one semester, it was SO hard...I love anything that has to do with France though, so maybe someday.

paisley 3 years, 1 month ago

Klingon or Jive Amusing.

ivalueamerica 3 years, 1 month ago

I speak English, Spanish and American Sign Language.

I would like to learn Sign Language in other countries.

denak 3 years, 1 month ago

I have heard that American Sign Language is largely based on French so perhaps learning French and FSL (or would it be SLF???) won't be as hard as trying to learn sign language in any other language.

Dena:)

Agnostick 3 years, 1 month ago

Teabaggerese. I hear it's a lot like Klanish, but you slur your words a lot more.

bartstop 3 years, 1 month ago

Now that's some funny chit!

CreatureComforts 3 years, 1 month ago

Funny, I've been trying to learn redneck for a long time for the same reason. And my mechanic is my cousin...

Pywacket 3 years, 1 month ago

Nope. You shouldn't have to learn anything. You should be as ignorant as you wanna be.

And employers should be able to promote people with initiative, who have more skills and, therefore, greater versatility, and who don't have an ugly, chip-on-the-shoulder attitude ("Why should they [learn other languages]? English is the most dominant..."). Why, indeed?

Why even try to comprehend what people from all those weak, non-conquering countries are saying? It can't be nearly as important as whatever's going on in my swollen American head!