Languages You Like

[Moaning Myrtle 196]

Favorite language...Russian without a doubt.I took classes when I was young for ballet and my teacher was russian.We took russian language classes and russian is juat awesome.

Edited November 17, 2013 by YayFluttershy

[ReverseFaller 2,483]

Some ones I think sound cool are

• Japanese. I've always though that it sounded cool. I should totally learn it, then I wouldn't need annoying subtitles for my animes, well that and I could visit Japan and I could actually communicate.
• Russian. It has such a unique sound to it. I've always enjoyed the sound of the Russian Language.
• English, because I speak it.

[Mr F 1,522]

1. russian ukranian

2. Latin

3. japaneese.

4. german.

I like these languages and want to learn, but I am lazy. 

[Derpaholic 1,155]

Finnish, English, Icelandic, German, Japanese, and Norwegian.

[TeaWithPinkie 15]

I love all the Slavic languages; especially Russian, which I'm learning because my boyfriend is Russian.

 

I also really like Finnish, French, Norwegian, and German.

 

Russian will always be my favorite language though. It's so beautiful!

Edited November 17, 2013 by TeaWithPinkie

[caramba2654 602]

Wha- How come nobody ever said Math? MATH IS THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE AND IT'S BEAUTIFUL!

 

Other than Math, I like Portuguese a lot. Mostly because I speak it, and it's very similar to English and Spanish at the same time. Also, there are some amazing books written in Portuguese that I can't even describe. I'll just list them here and if anyone is interested they can look for a translation.

 

• Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (Machado de Assis)
• Viagens na Minha Terra (Almeida Garrett)
• Capitães da Areia (Jorge Amado)
• Vidas Secas (Graciliano Ramos)

[Doc. Volt 2,561]

 i love my language (italian) it's perfect for lovely words to your fiancee while you are standing on a bridge at Venezia... but also like latin.. in particual in old choral religius song.. it's incredible... also i love all the offence i can say in english.. more than i can invent in italian! if i have to command my dog i shall talk to him in german, if i wanted to talk to all of the world i will talk in english, if i want to write a poem i will write like Dante Alighieri.. if i'll become gay i shall talk in french (XD just jocking guys... i really don't like french language,, not hating anyone! it's just.. too... i don't know... flat? also it's impossible i'll turn gay with a girlfriend like mine! or friends like mine.,. damn never saw something so ugly in my life)

oh and also i love binary.. it's a pretty understandable language when you get used to it

 

(binary solo! 01010100101001010101101010000101010100110101010001010101001000101010100101010101110100101: "love")

 

also i like the language of stringed instruments.. they have a soul

[TailsIsNotAlone 3,695]

Besides English? Japanese and Afrikaans. I can't speak them, but I enjoy listening to them.

[Scootalove 10,689]

Japanese, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Finnish. Those languages I absolutely love!

[Techite Sparkle 354]

I am german so I do know some german.

Though I mainly use english now. I would LOVE to learn Finnish.

[Shanks 10,816]

I like English because of its versatility but my favorite language is Italian. My Dad immigrated to America from Italy when he was 6 so much of my Dad's side of the family including him knew how to speak it so I was exposed to it from a young age. It is a very beautiful language, there is something about how it sounds to me that is molto bene (very good). I also like Japanese because it just sounds bad ass and German is also a fairly interesting though seriously harsh sounding language.

[Final Rainbow 8]

I definitely like English, even though some say it's weird sometimes and i can fully agree with it, but it just sounds cool^^

[MrPandaa 204]

I wonder why ponies are saying that English is hard or frustrating. It's actually very simple to learn. I wonder what specific aspects made it hard to learn.

@Nightmare Diamond I'm a native English speaker, so I don't know if my opinions are quite correct, but I and many Latinos I know think that English is difficult mostly because of three things: first, it often fails to follow its own rules.  For instance, the "i before e, except after c" rule is broken in many words, such as weird, albeit, and protein.  Granted, many of these words are not common, but rules should, theoretically, be rules.  Second, it has very strange conjugations that are not so much difficult as they are different from many other languages.  We native English-speakers don't often think of ourselves as "conjugating" our verbs, but we kind of are.  The verb "to be" becomes "am" for I; "is" for he, she, or it; and "are" for we and they.  These conjugations are not intuitive, and don't follow a distinct pattern (for instance, "to go" is conjugated exactly the same for I, they, and we), and thus, may be difficult for foreigners to learn.  Thirdly, English words often have non-intuitive pronunciations.  I honestly can't illustrate this better than these poems.

So, that was highly verbose, but hopefully this helped you (and anyone else in confusion) as to why English could be considered difficult.

--MrPandaa

[Rolls Royce 606]

I've always wanted to learn Italian, German, and Russian.  My family dates back to Germany from hundreds of years ago, so why not learn that language?  I've also always wanted to go to Italy, and Russian just seems like fun language to learn.

[PlunderSteed 1,252]

Based purely on aesthetics, I like the way Chinese and Russian sound.  Tonal languages in general sound fantastic, and Chinese in particular flows very nicely.  Russian comes with a kind of attitude that makes the sound really pop.  Totally subjective, but that's my opinion.

[Silver Letter 1,832]

@Nightmare Diamond I'm a native English speaker, so I don't know if my opinions are quite correct, but I and many Latinos I know think that English is difficult mostly because of three things: first, it often fails to follow its own rules.  For instance, the "i before e, except after c" rule is broken in many words, such as weird, albeit, and protein.  Granted, many of these words are not common, but rules should, theoretically, be rules.  Second, it has very strange conjugations that are not so much difficult as they are different from many other languages.  We native English-speakers don't often think of ourselves as "conjugating" our verbs, but we kind of are.  The verb "to be" becomes "am" for I; "is" for he, she, or it; and "are" for we and they.  These conjugations are not intuitive, and don't follow a distinct pattern (for instance, "to go" is conjugated exactly the same for I, they, and we), and thus, may be difficult for foreigners to learn.  Thirdly, English words often have non-intuitive pronunciations.  I honestly can't illustrate this better than these poems.

So, that was highly verbose, but hopefully this helped you (and anypony else in confusion) as to why English could be considered difficult.

--MrPandaa

I guess that I never think about it because I caught on to English really easily. The words poems were amusing enough. They're not that hard though if a person practices enough. They can be learned and remembered in context.

[MrPandaa 204]

I guess that I never think about it because I caught on to English really easily. The words poems were amusing enough. They're not that hard though if a person practices enough. They can be learned and remembered in context.

I would certainly agree--English, though strange in syntax and grammar, is the same as other languages in that it simply must be practiced.  I hope you didn't mind the, er, longness of my post.

[CornBreadGang 514]

I'll say my three in all three of my languages!

 

I like the languages of English, Spanish, and Latin.

 

me gustan los idiomas de Inglés y español latino

 

hispanica lingua anglicus placet et Latine

[Guest]

French is my favorite. I know some basics. Idk about a least favorite.

[Hive King 2,001]

Latin always sounds magical but I prefer the Dovah language from Skyrim for having an awesome song. Japanese is also cool with the plenty of Anime theme songs

[Sabrinie 392]

I really like Mandarin Chinese (I took it in high school and it's awesome) and Ancient Gaelic (I know it's pretty much a dead language...kinda...but I love how it sounds and have been teaching myself it for quite some time now)

[Doc. Volt 2,561]

i've seen that a lot of ponies want to learn italian eh? beautifull language indeed... but i warn you it's very difficut.. we study it since we are born up to the college... lots of small details... english is so freaking easy! someday i will start to learn german again.. the only thing that i remember for school is "ich liebe dich!" (i love you)

[SparklingSquirrels 21,345]

French, mostly. I know quite a bit; it's so pretty. The noun genders always got on my nerves though. English is my native language; I wouldn't say I necessarily like it though, but I don't not like it.

 

As for languages I would like to learn... I think North Germanic languages like Swedish and Norwegian sound really cool. Or perhaps Finnish, although I've heard it's rather difficult to learn.

[Molecular Kogwheel 37]

I'm Korean, but I like English the best, since my Korean level is still primary school level. But, I don't like English when it comes to subtitles for anime. Korean translates anime better than English.

[NomDeSpite 452]

In my opinion English is the most ugly and frustrating languages ever.

 

I'm a native English speaker and when I think about how the English language "works", the more I realize that its "rules" are dauntingly complex. Anyone who is ESL, I automatically admire.