What other language would you like to learn?

if those are my only two options then Mandarin, but I'd rather learn Spanish fluently (can get by now)

i can teach you

Greek.

Spanish,American sign language and Hawaiian in that order

I'd like to become fluent in italian and french instead of just stumbling and then go with LuSir on a tour of the mediterranean with me doing all the romance languages and he can order me some dolmas.

I studied Latin for a while and it really helped me in French and Italian. But, your expertise in Spanish would be an excellent accompaniment!

I'm supposed to be learning German at the moment, as my husband wants to go and live in Germany. And I really need to learn to speak Arabic properly. I know enough to get by but really there's a lot of room for improvement.

If I could learn *any* language that has *ever* existed, I'd like to get into a time machine and go and learn the earliest human language, which would probably be Homo erectus language, but who knows exactly when humans started speaking in actual language (as opposed to just grunts, pointing and a few words, although even that would be interesting to study from a scientific point of view. I'd also like to learn a neanderthal language (they probably had a whole bunch of different ones, any one of them would do). No practical use for this whatsoever, I'm just interested in this kind of thing, and a PhD thesis would be nice lol

[kicks self] Duh...American Sign Language...

I don't know much about sign language---was watching a documentary that included many deaf people as principle characters in the piece, and it mentioned totally in passing that some of the kids at this deaf school--now bear in mind these people were going to school back in the 1960s, and not 18th century or something---and some of the kids were not very fluent in reading or writing english, and if their parents did not sign, they were unable to communicate with their family. So this made me really understand that signing is its own language with its own grammar. Naively I always thought it was a hand motioned english (which hints at even more naivety as deaf people don't just live in English speaking countries with our subject verb object sentence structure). So i would imagine that there is variability in signing across different countries...but honestly I know so little about the topic.

As for language---wish I spoke Turkish or Hungarian.

I want to learn French and...as strange as it sounds....Latin. I've actually gone as far as to take 1.5 years of both in college but decided to focus on my majors since foriegn languages are something I REALLY struggle with, and I wanted to do well with my degrees But, someday...I have the basics for both languages, so I hope to figure them out...and read The Count of Monte Cristo in it's original language!

I'm supposed to be learning German at the moment, as my husband wants to go and live in Germany. And I really need to learn to speak Arabic properly. I know enough to get by but really there's a lot of room for improvement.

If I could learn *any* language that has *ever* existed, I'd like to get into a time machine and go and learn the earliest human language, which would probably be Homo erectus language, but who knows exactly when humans started speaking in actual language (as opposed to just grunts, pointing and a few words, although even that would be interesting to study from a scientific point of view. I'd also like to learn a neanderthal language (they probably had a whole bunch of different ones, any one of them would do). No practical use for this whatsoever, I'm just interested in this kind of thing, and a PhD thesis would be nice lol

Oh my word, your post was totally off the wall---in a really wonderful way, then I read your username and totally busted up. I take it you're interested in ancient human ancestors! so awesome. I read a really great book about early language called The Unfolding of Language. Could not put it down.

I majored in Chinese (Mandarin) and lived in China for a bit and now that I am doing a whole bunch of translating as part of my post grad study I really wish I knew Chinese... better than I do, anyway.

I'm supposed to be learning German at the moment, as my husband wants to go and live in Germany. And I really need to learn to speak Arabic properly. I know enough to get by but really there's a lot of room for improvement.

If I could learn *any* language that has *ever* existed, I'd like to get into a time machine and go and learn the earliest human language, which would probably be Homo erectus language, but who knows exactly when humans started speaking in actual language (as opposed to just grunts, pointing and a few words, although even that would be interesting to study from a scientific point of view. I'd also like to learn a neanderthal language (they probably had a whole bunch of different ones, any one of them would do). No practical use for this whatsoever, I'm just interested in this kind of thing, and a PhD thesis would be nice lol

Oh my word, your post was totally off the wall---in a really wonderful way, then I read your username and totally busted up. I take it you're interested in ancient human ancestors! so awesome. I read a really great book about early language called The Unfolding of Language. Could not put it down.

thanks yes I'm a palaeoanthropology nerd find the whole subject totally fascinating. The origin of language is really interesting, although it's a lot harder to find evidence for, because language itself doesn't fossilise. I'm inclined to think that it started to evolve quite early on and that Homo erectus had some form of simple language at least. But of course it's one of those fields where there's a lot of disagreement. Some people think the neanderthals didn't have language... well I'd challenge those people to teach someone how to make a spear or clothes like those of the woman in my avatar, without using language....

Totally fascinating topic I could go on for hours but don't want to hijack the thread lol

if those are my only two options then Mandarin, but I'd rather learn Spanish fluently (can get by now)

i can teach you

Great! I can teach you Italian!

i am fluent in 4 languages, i am studying german now but have a long way to go.....i would like to learn english too....hehe

Spanish