Which language can replace English as the international language of nations?

[lsa]

German would be my language of choice. The gravitas, the expressiveness, the long, deep vowels. Nasality, lilt and high pitch be gone.
I like a language where you can freak out and still maintain a perfect barytone or alto.

and its also the most romantic language.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

Written English is phonetic but spelling can be difficult for two reasons: roughly equal contributions from Germanic and Latin progenitor languages, and it’s been a long time since spelling reform.

most of the time when you have a language like italian, Spanish or Korean and the written language is extremely phonetically right, it’s because spelling reform was relatively recent. In Korea’s case they just recently started their alphabet.

We need fucking spelling reform bigtime. It's like. Who is in charge here? Why do we let the letter K push us around so much?

 

[tonysmasseuse]

and its also the most romantic language.

Oh ja. Nothing even comes close.

Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht
Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht
Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht

Da da da
Da da da
Da da da

 

[Jack Reacheround]

English is not easier to learn for other romance speakers (portugese, french, italian, romanian, ) portugese is 230 million speakers and french 200 million. Spanish is very logical and phonetic while English is not.

Spanish is spoken in over 20 countries as an official language. English is mainly an international force due to the United States economic power and Hollywood. English has 400 million or so Native speakers and the vast majority of them are in North America namely 320 million in the US and 35 million in Canada. Spanish has nearly 500 million speakers and growing quicker then English in birthrates. Spanish also has total close to almost 600 million total speakers. And is an official language in (20 countries)


Spanish wont replace English as the Internarional business language but it would have a better chance of doing it then Chinese. I mean the similarity between it and Portugese isnt so far off. If the US citizens took spanish learning serious in 1 generation most could know some Spanish and if thst happened then the entire western hemisphere except Canada would largely speak spanish or understand it.

No other language has that distribution of speakers and countries. Chinese is mainly entirely in China which is certainlyna force to recoken with. And yes Chinese is also spoken in Taiwan and Singapore and increasingly in Myanmar and other parts if east asia I read and many are studying it as a 2nd language.

Almost everyone in California speaks at least a little Spanish. And it is a very logical and intuitive language to learn.

 

[strebitel86]

German sounds similar to English.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

Almost everyone in California speaks at least a little Spanish. And it is a very logical and intuitive language to learn.

And Zorro fucking rules

 

[lsa]

Oh ja. Nothing even comes close.

Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht
Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht
Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht

Da da da
Da da da
Da da da

Ist es die da, die da, die da, die da, die?
Ist es die da, die da, die da, oder die da
Ist es die da, die da, die da, die da, die?
oder die da? Nein, freitags ist sie nie da

 

[fungi]

German would be my language of choice. The gravitas, the expressiveness, the long, deep vowels. Nasality, lilt and high pitch be gone.
I like a language where you can freak out and still maintain a perfect barytone or alto.

Christian 10 wouldn't have liked that, prolly

Anywho, to me, the only coarser sounding language than Deutsch is Dutch.

Listening to Dutch for more than 5 mins gives me headache.

 

[tonysmasseuse]

Christian 10 wouldn't have liked that, prolly

Anywho, to me, the only coarser sounding language than Deutsch is Dutch.

Listening to Dutch for more than 5 mins gives me headache.

Quite. German wasn't his cup of tea, exactly

You don't like German or Dutch??
Dutch is amazing, just.. effing hilarious. How that entire country hasn't died laughing yet, i don't know

Where you from?

 

[tonysmasseuse]

Ist es die da, die da, die da, die da, die?
Ist es die da, die da, die da, oder die da
Ist es die da, die da, die da, die da, die?
oder die da? Nein, freitags ist sie nie da

was ist los mit dir mein schatz, aha aha
was ist lost mit dir mein katz, aha aha
ein bisschen frieden oder ein bisshen whiskas?

 

[fungi]

Quite. German wasn't his cup of tea, exactly

You don't like German or Dutch??
Dutch is amazing, just.. effing hilarious. How that entire country hasn't died laughing yet, i don't know

Where you from?

I move around. Being an English speaker with a couple of other languages, I obviously have my peculiar "phonetic preferences".

To my ear Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Gaelic, Turkish, and Farsi are pleasant. German and Dutch sound coarse. Arabic sounds coarse, but can sound melodic at times.

Finnish (@Cole train) sounds funny to me. If I lived in Finland, I'd be laughing all the time.

 

[tonysmasseuse]

I move around. Being an English speaker with a couple of other languages, I obviously have my peculiar "phonetic preferences".

To my ear Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Gaelic, Turkish, and Farsi are pleasant. German and Dutch sound coarse. Arabic sounds coarse, but can sound melodic at times.

Finnish (@Cole train) sounds funny to me. If I lived in Finland, I'd be laughing all the time.

Great choice of languages. I really like Spanish and Portuguese too. And Farsi - sounds like a gypsy version of Italian, somehow.

Yeah, Finnish is a funny one, isn't it. To me, it doesn't sound so much like a language as just a chopped-up series of cartoon grunts. A bit like Japanese, just...choppier. No offence. Lol.

 

[MaureenCretis]

The reason English is easy to learn is that all music and cinema worth a shit is in English.

 

[Jesus X]

the chinese already crippled every global economy whilst strengthening theirs simultaneously by selling those countries products for covid we will have no choice but to speak Chinese.

 

[fungi]

Great choice of languages. I really like Spanish and Portuguese too. And Farsi - sounds like a gypsy version of Italian, somehow.

Yeah, Finnish is a funny one, isn't it. To me, it doesn't sound so much like a language as just a chopped-up series of cartoon grunts. A bit like Japanese, just...choppier. No offence. Lol.

I couldn't have described it better. LOL.
Japanese is choppy too, in an aggressive sort of manner, while Finnish is choppy in a funny way. Japanese songs can be amazing to me. Even though I don't understand anything besides a couple of words.

Farsi and Italian are both Indo-European languages. So there's a genetic connection as those "scientists" say.

P.s. German can be pleasant, when not too military marchy.

The vocab is fab (swipe):


Comic relief (swipe as welp):

 

[Cpt Migraine]

Language follows conflict..

I'd assume mandarin or russian are the logical guesses with arabic as the dark horse..

If i were to choose italian or icelandic would be awesome as the new "intergalactic communicator"..

 

[MaureenCretis]

German sex is the rudest sounding sex, for sure. A nice German milf demanding you “fick mein arsch” is as saucy as it gets.

Just a shame they all love shitting on each other during sex, which really isn’t my thing.

 

[Drain Bamage]

I'm leaning towards Mandarin after the coronavirus and collapse of dollar.

Keep dreaming ruski

 

[CutStryker]

English isn't even the official language of America lol.

What’s the official language of America?

 

[CutStryker]

Little Ricky!