Klingon.

Actually, believe it or not, I was inspired to look up its origin when I listened to The Beatles sing the English Translation!

That's actually how I first heard the song too. I went to see the film Let It Be when it was released and heard the song there for the first time. Because of that it will always be a "Beatles song" to me, even though I've since heard many other recordings (including The Coasters' cover version which is where McCartney heard it). I'm also partial to Connie Francis' Spanish version of 1960 (the backing track to which was recorded, interestingly enough, in Abbey Road studios).

I remember last year, I watched the movie three times in a row. Good movie, good sessions.

cha,cha, boom!

Gealic

Great!

The same in what way?

I'd actually like to learn Russian too. I love the way it sounds, it's so much more melodic than Polish - but pleasantly so, unlike the irritating choppiness of Italian.

Case endings. Look it up. No problem for anyone who speaks a similar language, but absolute hell to learn for anyone who speaks a language that doesn't have them.

And really? A Polish native who wants to learn Russian? Besides, just wait until Putin invades. It'll not be too long now.

It's useful to know the languages of your neighbors, especially those that are linguistically and culturaly similar enough to make learning them a bit easier.

I asked because the other languages you mentioned also have grammatical cases, so I wondered what made Russian the exception. The simplicity of grammar is one of the things that make English a wonderful lingua franca, but it's also a bit unfortunate for English natives because just about every other language you try to learn is going to look complicated at first. I know how hard it is to learn; I had a similar, though not as big, problem with gender in German. I understood the concept, so that's one hurdle out of the way, but every noun seemed to have a different gender than in my native language, which constantly threw me off. At least in Polish you can guess a noun ending in -a is feminine and be right 95% of the time.

A handy friend of Polish descent explained it was something like -a is feminine, -i is masculine and -o is not sure, though both my recollection and understanding of what she was attempting to tell me is probably indicative of why I don't really "do" languages.

"Not sure" is neuter, a grammatical gender of its own. -i is a rare ending, often used in words of foreign origin, but if it's natively Polish then it will be feminine (i.e. gospodyni, hostess). Masculine words usually end in consonants, but I think they're the trickiest because there are many that look typically feminine or neutral.


...I'm just making it worse, aren't I? But there's no way around it, Polish grammar is hell to learn and I admire anyone who tries. On the flip side, the pronunciation is pretty easy: once you learn the basics, you can read any word you come across. In English you'll start flipping tables when you find out that every vowel is pronounced in five different ways. And then when you finally come to England, confident in your language skills, you won't understand anything at all because the Brits speak some kind of Elvish.

If I could magically learn a second language of my choice ... guess it would be Chinese. It strikes me as probably the most useful second language (for an English speaker) in the decades to come.

English cause it's the only language I can speak and understand . Well I do know some German/Dutch.

Why? When you speak finnish, you're practically speaking in code, since only about 6 million people in the entire world understand it

Anyway, i don't speak them, but i like how russian and far east languages sound.
And i hate how french pronounce the letter r.

That's more than speak Orsimeri

I do not think anyone understands Finnish

It's like a slurred W

I mean there's always Welsh.

That's kinda like Tagalog. There is no word for brother or sister, only sibling. If you want to say sister you have to say "kapatid na babae " which means "female sibling ".


There is also no word for toe. You have to say "daliri ng paa " which means "finger of the foot".


My wife is a national born Filipina. She speaks fluent English but to this day still gets "she" and "he" mixed hi from time to time because there is no "he" and "she" in Tagalog, just the word "siya " which is gender neutral.


I'm pretty fluent now in Tagalog, but for a white advlt male, it was pretty hard to learn. I've heard that once you get past the teen years learning a new language takes quite a bit of effort.

The age thing is true, but I have no idea why your skin color would matter.

Oh, just describing myself.

This makes me think of that question of "Would you rather know how to speak all the languages of the world or know how to play every musical instrument?" To which I say every language, hands down. There would be a lot more utility to knowing every language in the world, I think.

I'd also like to learn German. That would be a fun language to speak just because.

Haha, I said "Yes, I really like the Spanish language. It is my favorite language behind English, but that is because English is my first language. But I'm stupid, for I don't practice my Spanish frequently." If I were to actually speak that, it wouldn't sound even remotely as good.

Haha, thanks. I'm fairly okay at writing it out and reading it, but I'm trash at holding a Spanish conversation or understanding it when it is spoken to me. There is a bunch of grammatical stuff I have forgotten, such as some of the 124436747 different conjugations (slight exaggeration ) depending on tense and such.

I've heard from several people that they can write and read another language like a native but cannot speak worth a darn.

I can certainly read French much easier than I can speak it.

Hey I guessed most of it right!