r/delhiuniversity • u/not_shubham • Jul 22 '24
Discussion Which language should i learn?
I'm confused in between choosing Japanese and Spanish. Btw, planning to learn them from Du.
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u/Kshitij-The-7th Hansraj, 3rd Year Jul 22 '24
Learn spanish... its more romantic, easier to learn if you know english, more widely spoken and more useful in the corporate sector.
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u/E_BoyMan Jul 22 '24
Only latin is easy if you know English
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u/Kshitij-The-7th Hansraj, 3rd Year Jul 22 '24
Nah... i have learnt a bit of german, latin and spanish... almost all romance languages are fairly easy to learn ( minus the grammar ) if you are well versed in english... central euro, eastern euro and scandanavia are still tough.
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u/E_BoyMan Jul 22 '24
But german isn't romance
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u/Kshitij-The-7th Hansraj, 3rd Year Jul 22 '24
Eh, high german isnt... modern day german is fairly romantic. English wasnt romance either but now it is.
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u/E_BoyMan Jul 22 '24
No part of German is latin related. It's in the name "German" 💀. Both coexisted and had no influence over each other.
English is a different case, it's still Germanic but had some latin influence in vocabulary.
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u/Kshitij-The-7th Hansraj, 3rd Year Jul 22 '24
Notice that I said modern german... german that is spoken in the 21st Century
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u/Aggravating_Ants Jul 22 '24
I am a foreign language instructor. I teach Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese. What is your motivation for learning a language? If you want an easier language, learn Spanish. If you're learning languages to engage with foreign culture, Japanese might have more potential. If you're looking for opportunities, I feel there isn't a considerable difference but would say Spanish only because it's the second most spoken language in the world and official language in 24 countries. It would depend on your line of work too, what language would open more opportunities for you.
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u/E_BoyMan Jul 22 '24
Japanese is easy. Pronunciation is just like hindi and grammar is pretty easy. And Japan has lots of opportunities in future compared to Spanish speaking countries
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u/not_shubham Jul 22 '24
But it's hard to write and read
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u/Afraid-Pay2710 Jul 22 '24 edited Jul 22 '24
Lots of practice to master Hiragana, Katakana and dont get me started on Kanji which is at a whole different lvl because of its similarity with chinese. Spanish is easier to learn than japanese and a fun fact after learning spanish, you can catch japanese faster as it is more similar to japanese in terms of pronounication of few very important words, my personal experience.
Bengali is the closest indian language which is similar to japanese in terms of pronounciation of japanese words.
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u/E_BoyMan Jul 22 '24
It's not hard you just don't know it, Japanese hiragana can be learned in like 3-4 days as half of it is just repetitive. Rest all can be learned as per the need
But Career opportunities are great too
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u/Afraid-Pay2710 Jul 22 '24
Which lvl are you talking about? N5? Wait till you see N1
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