What’s one language you wish you were fluent in and could speak?

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What’s one language you wish you were fluent in and could speak?

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  1. AbdullahCopyWrites Avatar

    Chinese. Find it interesting.

  2. tenehemia Avatar

    German. I’m really bad at learning other languages. Took a year of it in high school, studied on my own and also lived in Germany for a while and have studied it even more since moving back to the states, and I’m just not very good at it. But I’d like to move back there some day and it would be nice to have.

  3. CompetitionFun9536 Avatar

    Arabic because I want to understand quran

  4. Great_Tea3337 Avatar

    Korean. I find it so beautiful

  5. MattOG81 Avatar

    Welsh. Moved here recently, trying to learn but my lord I’m struggling with the speed people talk. Think I need to pay Dysgu Cymraeg and go on an intensive course or something.

    I learned a pretty good level of Spanish without much trouble, so maybe I’m just old now.

  6. Iwanttocommitdye Avatar

    english, the more I learn about it the less I understand

  7. Electronic-Doctor187 Avatar

    THE LANGUAGE OF SEDUCTION

  8. LunaLancs23 Avatar

    French.

    Are there any French men here? Teach me?

  9. Relevant_Chipmunk302 Avatar

    Italian, because it’s beautiful. Russian, because my husbands family would be much more fun if I actually could talk to them. 

  10. pesocoin0 Avatar

    Not just one tho hehe. Spanish because our historical records during 1600s-1800s in my country were written in Spanish. Koine Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew for scriptures and maybe international relations. And Irish for just random Tuesday 😂.

  11. PatinAzu28 Avatar

    Spanish, i hate spanish class and i just cant get it, would save me some trouble to be good it, id also get to say im trilingual so thats cool

  12. ___HeyGFY___ Avatar

    Spanish, Russian, Greek

    I have my reasons.

  13. RoseWould Avatar

    Ukrainian. My stepfamliy is from there, and they used to talk shit and laugh at me across the room. I think I ended up figuring out one of the words my stepsister used. She called her mother a whore at least twice a day if I figured it out correctly

  14. warrior_of_light998 Avatar

    I would like to speak German fluently, there are many place I’d like to visit where this language is involved

  15. Esqulax Avatar

    The language… of love.

    Haha, nah for real – Cantonese.
    One of my best friends is Hong Kongese, and I’ve visited Hong Kong a couple of times and loved it. Don’t think I could live there, I feel like big city life isn’t something I’d wanna deal with day-to-day.
    Been trying to learn to speak the lingo for years and only really got a few basic phrases.

  16. LoChubo Avatar

    Cave prototype 1.0

  17. Knorff Avatar

    Estonian. It sounds so incredible. Like the language of some very old forest people or even elves.

  18. MintyBananaChoco Avatar

    korean so i can watch kdramas and kpop content without subtitles

  19. HaMeinister Avatar

    French

    I can speak it somewhat, but I just don’t improve. Would be really beneficial, because my bf is half-French and it would also be useful in my future career

  20. FrostiePi Avatar

    Dutch. It’s my husband and now daughter’s primary language and.. well. It is awful to learn. Ngl.

  21. InterestingTank5345 Avatar

    Swedish and Norwegian. I’m Danish and want to collect all 3 of our languages.

  22. Osrek_vanilla Avatar

    German, becouse I suck at it.

  23. Ok_Butterfly_7364 Avatar

    German. I wasn’t taught it as a child and I’m pissed I have to work so hard to learn it.
    I am fluent in Spanish and English was so easy to learn.
    German is really hard!

  24. 1d1dan00ps13 Avatar

    Almost fluent in my second language Spanish and have been dipping my toes in Russian so I’d probably say that.

  25. Geezer-McGeezer Avatar

    Thai, my wife’s language.

  26. suttonsboot Avatar

    Irish. I’m Irish and I’m ashamed not to be able to speak it but, I’m also too lazy to learn it. After that, probably Spanish 

  27. JoJCeeC88 Avatar

    Punjabi, as it’s soon to become the third official language in my country.

  28. larry_tron Avatar

    Japanese. Not just for anime and games but to be able to converse with my half-Japanese girlfriend and her family; who are all fluent in Japanese

  29. _missEltorri_ Avatar

    I’d love to learn German, I think it’s an awesome language. I already speak English and Macedonian, so German would be quite different from those. I know basic phrases, but to be able to go to Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and speak German fluently with locals would be great.

  30. absolutelyb0red Avatar

    German, it’s been over ten years since i’ve been trying on an off but it’s extremely frustrating

  31. Flowerofthesouth88 Avatar

    Probably Polish to communicate with The Polish people

  32. fussyfella Avatar

    Putonghua. I speak barely a hundred words and would love to become fluent to speak to the largest first language community in the world.

  33. CatnipAndNoChill Avatar

    British English.

    So then I could say:

    ”Could I have some wataaa please?”

  34. Scary_Boot_5108 Avatar

    English, wherever you go you can speak it

  35. PinkPandy28 Avatar

    French because I’ve been trying my hardest for over 5 years and it just doesn’t stick for some reason.

  36. jizzy_fap_socks Avatar

    Cat. One of mine is not feeling well and I wish I could ask him what’s is bothering him

  37. nothpw Avatar

    Russian, my mother tongue. I lost it when I was adopted

  38. Staff_Senyou Avatar

    Chinese. Would make doing business so much easier

  39. blackav3nger Avatar

    I know that this is a cop out answer. On my part, but it is the truth. I’ve always wanted to know every language. I’m not linguistic in any way, however. I wish I was

  40. Ok-Medium-4128 Avatar

    Gaelic. I’m Scottish

  41. Ailwynn29 Avatar

    Well, I like Japanese a lot. I hope to some day become fluent in it, currently only know the complete basics.

  42. Top_Air_1251 Avatar

    Russian. I’d just use it when I want to swear in class and no-one would be able to understand me 😀

  43. Terrible_Major_7395 Avatar

    German, so I can find nice job in Switzerland or Germany.

  44. Reasonable_Elk3267 Avatar

    Greek. My wife’s family speaks it and it just sounds so beautiful.

  45. pindarico Avatar

    Chinese and Arab

  46. One-Complex-9267 Avatar

    I’d like to learn body language

  47. Sweet-Competition-15 Avatar

    Hello there, I wish that as a Canadian, I was fluently bi-lingual. I believe that my life would have been more enriched. Not just from an employable angle, but also able to more fully appreciate this countries complete heritage.

  48. _etcetera_etcetera Avatar

    Hungarian because I am learning and it is SO hard. Spanish would be nice too because I would have constant opportunity to use it.

  49. Available-Collar7280 Avatar

    Mandarin, because it’d open up a whole world of culture and business.

  50. aeonian_Blue Avatar

    Spanish!! I know a lot already and can read it and speak it I just am not fluent and my first language is English (I’m specifically talking Mexican Spanish but I live around a lot of people who know it which mak3s it a little easier)

  51. Abdecdgwengo Avatar

    Russian or south korean

  52. redarj Avatar

    Chinese. I love the poetic sound of it. Or French just so I can curse.

  53. BrickBeaver83 Avatar

    Portuguese… then emigrate to Madeira and just go hiking 😅

  54. HarukoAutumney Avatar

    French, half my country speaks it and I can barely make a few sentences-

  55. DeerieYu Avatar

    I can learn mandarin on my own but i wish i could just magically wish for fluent cantonese

  56. Aardwolf67 Avatar

    Spanish, most of my relatives are completely fluent in Spanish and English but some don’t speak English at all.

    i can understand what they’re saying like 75% of the time but I can’t respond back.

  57. Rano_Pteranodon Avatar

    English (I’m a Korean)

  58. feeance Avatar

    Baby talk. Might make the really late nights a little shorter and I could make a killing translating for anxious new parents.

  59. DistanceActive8998 Avatar

    Russian, I really want to understand Dostoevsky Books and Tarkovsky Films.

  60. Lonely_Carob5841 Avatar

    I know there’s no speaking involved, but I would love to be fluent in American Sign Language.

    Working in retail, you meet more deaf and hard of hearing people than you’d think! There’s also 2 deaf people in my family (who I know about).

    I know some, but I am nowhere near fluent.

    That, or Spanish. Where I live, over half of the people here know Spanish or have it as their only language.

  61. PintSizedAndProvoked Avatar

    Māori!! I’m part Māori myself and would like to feel significantly more connected to my culture than I do.

  62. Nodnardsemaj Avatar

    All of them. But, the first would be Russian. Know thy enemy

  63. enemyatgates Avatar

    There are three actually, in order of preference:

    • Sanskrit
    • Latin
    • Ancient Greek
  64. Loner4Life234 Avatar

    Arabic, so I can talk with my family.

  65. screenfreak Avatar

    Spanish because you will then have access to many countries

  66. Much-Meringue-7467 Avatar

    Mandarin would be very useful

  67. OriginalCoso Avatar

    Spanish.

    And French [I remember something but I couldn’t make a sentence even if my life depended on that]

  68. shaunrundmc Avatar

    Urdu, my wife and her family are south asian so everyone is fluent in it

  69. LuckRS99 Avatar

    Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

  70. ElderCarbon Avatar

    There are so many. The ones I really want are Danish and Russian. And I’d love to learn French, Italian, and Spanish too. Probably won’t happen, but hey, the desire is there. Oh, and obviously English for work stuff – I’m getting there

  71. gregolynn Avatar

    Korean- sounds like soothing music to me.

  72. CharieRarie Avatar

    Swedish, as my husband is Swedish. I know lots of words, but putting them in to sentences is the problem!

  73. Well_Spoken_Mute Avatar

    I work in healthcare in Minneapolis and being able to speak Somali would be tremendously helpful.

  74. FlamingoMedic89 Avatar

    Arabic. It’s such a beautiful language!

    Gaelic! (Irish and Scottish)

  75. Mighty_Angelo30 Avatar

    Náhuatl, it sounds so interesting and is the language of my ancestors

  76. Lanky_Persimmon_3670 Avatar

    Without doing any effort? Bahasa

  77. Background-Host-7922 Avatar

    I once read somewhere that Old Norse was the language of the Old West. By Old he meant 1200s and by West he meant Western Scandinavia. But I had visions of Viking gunslingers in big Stetsons.

    That would be my choice.

  78. ChairNo529 Avatar

    Portuguese from Brazil

  79. BoSocks91 Avatar

    Spanish and Italian.

    Spanish because it’s prevalent in the US so it hell’s tremendously when working in Hispanic areas.

    Italian because Im Italian who took Italian and failed Italian (didn’t try) and it always bothered me that I never took it serio.

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  81. Chicagogirl72 Avatar

    Spanish and Swedish

  82. pineconeminecone Avatar

    I’m functional but not fluent in French, would be very helpful for me in my part of the country to have native level of French proficiency

  83. SwoopnBuffalo Avatar

    Spanish. It would make the job easier.

  84. bus-girl Avatar

    Turkish. I want to visit Turkiye one day. See the ancient places.