If you have the time and money to learn a new language what would you choose?

Halfway finished already? What sort of class is that? I've learnt Japanese for four years full time & am still no good at it. To swallow a dictionary is one thing, but to actually think like the Japanese & understand how it all works is quite another thing altogether. I studied Japanese because at the time it was said that if you're into the sciences, you will definitely need Japanese - it's the way of the future! I wish I'd studied German instead! My goodness. At least the decision is yours to make, for your own purposes & not part of a prediction made by those who should know better. However, right now, time & money are both in short supply. If I had either one, I'm sure I could find much better things to with it than study a language.

I had the time and money way back in 1996 so I invested in learning a foreign language. What influenced me in doing so was when I traveled to China and I had a hard time communicating with the people. I experienced to be very hungry, can't read the menu as it is all written in Chinese, so I did eenie meenie mini moe.....voila! wrong food delivered to me :( With this, I realized the importance of learning a foreign language. I chose German language and after a year I also enrolled in French class. But its difficult to learn both at the same time so I concentrated in German. I invested two years in German and one year in French. I was really inspired and determined that even during typhoon i would go to class. I learned how to write, speak and read. German language opened a lot of opportunities to me, I worked in the tourism as german guide and was able to travel and stayed in Germany for 3 months. I gained several German friends when I worked as a tour guide and they were the one who accommodated me in Germany. I was able to travel also to the neighboring countries of Germany. Foreign language learning is a rewarding endeavor so go for it. Once you are conversant with Japanese language get the training being given by the Department of Tourism, get a license and work as a part time tour guide. During my time, the Japanese guides earn very good compared to us European guides. In addition, when I worked in dubai, I enrolled in arabic language being given by POLO (Philippine Overseas Labor Office) this is under OWWA, I had a good progress in reading, writing and speaking. However, due to unavailability of professors, there was no advanced class offered anymore. It's a pity that my learning has stopped. Arabic language skill here in the gulf offers attractive compensation.

I'm interested in the Japanese language as well. I love watching anime or want to read manga without translation. If I have more free time, I would enroll in a class.

Hi there yallit, Maybe I rather want to learn a language which is widely spoken beside English. Spanish or Arabic are my options. Since there are more opportunities in the gulf region I may pick the latter.

I would like to learn Spanish and Korean. I like to learn Spanish so that I could easily familiarize myself when we migrate to a country somewhere in the South America. I am not sure where that place is. I forgot the exact location. Our relatives who live there invited us to live there also. I want to learn Korean also I kinda love watching Korean novels.

there's a huge number of people coming here every year and the majority were like people from the indian peninsula which includes 3 or 4 nationalities i guess. from philibines, china, taiwan, japan, vietnam, etc.. so i think i need to learn some among their famous and mostly used words and idioms. as far as learning languages in school is concern where you need to spend time and money, i would enroll a language which does not use alphabets. i would say chinese is on the top list followed by japanese and korean. i used to speak spanish, english and arabic so i would become a polyglot once the languages i have mentioned above were studied!

why do you need money for learning language,in fact you can learn language anywhere as long as you can read/see/hear that there,and given that if you couldnt learn it well,two reasons--you dont get talent for that or you dont work hard on it.

If I'll be enrolling in a language school, I will choose Korean and Japanese language as well. I love watching Korean novelas and Japanese anime also and I want to understand what the movies are saying without the English subtitles.

I'm presently trying to learn Hebrew so I can go to Israel and talk to people better (I know Barac (not really Muslim honestly) Obama's trying to destroy it by getting the world to recognize a Palestinian state with 1967 borders, leaving Israel as very small and indefensible, but I'm sure he'll fail) as well as being able to read the Old Testament (well, most of it, a few bits are in Aramaic but that's very similar to Hebrew). So far I'm not very good. I'd also like to be able to read New Testament Greek so I could read the rest of the Bible. Unfortunately I'm told it's very hard.

Good for you. Me, i would love to learn Japanese too. I always watch those documentaries about Japan and i want to understand them, not just by reading the subtitles.

I want to learn the korean language, not just the language but also their culture. I love to watch them eating using chopsticks. And their fashion, cool! i WANT to be enrolled in a korean class, if their someone out there who can refer me a korean teacher. please, I want to learn.