what to take as foreign language

i don't know what language to take at my community college since it offers all the languages i would like to take and the languages i would like to take are:

1. chinese
2. vietnamese
3. japanese
4. french
5. spanish

it would be nice to know what everyone says so it will help me decide

girlygirl45 wrote: i don't know what language to take at my community college since it offers all the languages i would like to take and the languages i would like to take are:

1. chinese
2. vietnamese
3. japanese
4. french
5. spanish

it would be nice to know what everyone says so it will help me decide

french, spanish, or chinese. they are much more common. vietnamese almost no one that is not vietnamese speak it. japanese is not as common in the west.

th3f4llen wrote:

girlygirl45 wrote: i don't know what language to take at my community college since it offers all the languages i would like to take and the languages i would like to take are:

1. chinese
2. vietnamese
3. japanese
4. french
5. spanish

it would be nice to know what everyone says so it will help me decide

french, spanish, or chinese. they are much more common. vietnamese almost no one that is not vietnamese speak it. japanese is not as common in the west.

i was forced to take spanish when i was in elementary which helped me somewhat in french when i was in high school but i kinda dont want to take those since i kinda met my goal to run into families that spoke those languages and somewhat understood them but i just want to take a language that maybe easier to speak and understand

It's nice to have a diff language from each language group. That way it really forces you to look at the world from new angles.

Thus:

Russian
Chinese
Arabic
Spanish
Swahili
Turkish
German

girlygirl45 wrote:

th3f4llen wrote:

girlygirl45 wrote: i don't know what language to take at my community college since it offers all the languages i would like to take and the languages i would like to take are:

1. chinese
2. vietnamese
3. japanese
4. french
5. spanish

it would be nice to know what everyone says so it will help me decide

french, spanish, or chinese. they are much more common. vietnamese almost no one that is not vietnamese speak it. japanese is not as common in the west.

i was forced to take spanish when i was in elementary which helped me somewhat in french when i was in high school but i kinda dont want to take those since i kinda met my goal to run into families that spoke those languages and somewhat understood them but i just want to take a language that maybe easier to speak and understand

then take vietnamese. only one syllable words, add one word to change from present to past tense, and present to future tense, grammar is extremely easy because there is almost non. If you have taken french, then the vietnamese sentence structure is very similar to french sentence structure. It's romanized. It's straight forward. It has heavy influence from english and french.

Yes but where would you use it? Are there pockets of Vietnamese immigrants in every city around the world?

MagicMarker wrote: Yes but where would you use it? Are there pockets of Vietnamese immigrants in every city around the world?

well. there are 1.7 million vietnamese in america, 600 thousand in cambodia, 250 thousand in france, 160 thousand in australia, 150 thousand in canada, 120 thousand in taiwan, 150 thousand in russia, 125 thousand in germany, 116 thousand in s. korea, 55 thousand in uk, and more in other countries such as japan, china, netherlands, belgium, denmark, sweden, norway, finland, ukraine, and much more...

and she wanted a language that is easy to learn

I'd still say Turkish is more useful. It opens up huge doors in Central Asia and in Germany as well. Plus it's got a logical grammar system wrapped up in the Latin alphabet.

but my college offers vietnamese french chinese japanese spanish and korean maybe latin

i kinda need help with selecting a course that i have mentioned please