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? asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 10 years ago

Arabic, Chinese, French or Russian?

I plan on learning the official languages of The United Nations, I'm already fluent in Spanish and English but I don't know which one to study next, which one do you think I should learn next?

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  • 10 years ago
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    Next? I would say French. It belongs to the same family as Spanish, and you would learn it easier.

    That, or Russian. I'm currently studying Russian, and have found that it has a similar pronunciation to Spanish.

    Source(s): fluent in Spanish, learning French & Russian
  • ?
    Lv 5
    10 years ago

    I think you should learn Russian or Arabic or Chinese, but if I were you I would learn Russian. Russian is the easiest to learn out of all of those. My friend is learning Arabic and its very difficult for her and my other friend is learning Chinese and its very hard. French would be ok to learn and easy but its not used as much as Arabic or Chinese. If you want to go for Arabic or Chinese then go right ahead, I think it would be neat to learn a difficult language. I would go for Russian too. Theres a lot of people that speak Russian where I live and a lot of Russian immigrants coming over.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I'd go with French. The high amounts of cognates between English and French and the familiar grammar between Spanish and French make it an easy language to learn, compared to Mandarin, which has been proven to be one of the most difficult languages for English speakers to learn, as well as having an unfamiliar form of writing, as with Russian.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    I think you should learn french

    my fiancé is trying to teach me arabic but it's VERY different and complicated D:

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  • 10 years ago

    Arabic :)

    but French would probably be easier

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Next? Arabic. Get it out of the way so you can study a more nicer language(:

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    French would be easier, Chinese would be difficult but worth it I guess!

  • xoxo
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    why your spanish not chinese, french, arabic, or russian.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Arabic, it has a really important history and culture.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Chinese.I think you would get the most use out of it

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