What is the best language to learn? For both literary and career

>>9173335
Why does that alien have bun on its head?

>>9173335
French or Italian. They share a good chunk of their vocabulary with English, but their grammar will be tricky.

If you feel patrician: Latin or Greek.

>>9173335
just learn english better, it's the only language that matters. maybe japanese once you've mastered english.

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>>9173335
Also learn Russian. It is not easy for Native English speakers and it will not help you in STEM but I find it pleasing to my subjective tastes, and since I am god and you and your post were both created by my imagining you, you are willed towards it.

Spanish is pretty easy for an English speaker to pick up. Decent literature: bolano, marquez, borges. Good starting point for Latin and Italian which are also pretty /lit/.

Could be helpful in STEM seeing as America's tech hub is in central / southern California.

>>9173335
What the fuck is your native language?
Never seen a one that is totally useless.

>>9173335
German

>>9173361
How do you account for involuntary pain, Mr. Solipsism

-t. great deceiver

>>9173335
ANCIENT GREEK

>>9173335
French. Because French qts are a gift from God and humanity doesn't deserve them.

Also, French literature is great but it's more for the women.

>>9173335

Latin is a good stepping stone for all the other romance languages.

If you want an intro to learning languages, Esperanto might be an easy grammatical introduction.

>>9173335
Deutsch

>>9173335
>easy for a native English speaker
French, German, Dutch

>that has a lot of quality literature available
Lowers it to German and French

>benefit my future STEM career
German it is

>>9173335
>I want a language that is moderately easy for a native English speaker to learn,
Frysian.
>and can benefit me in my future STEM career
Mandarin.
>that has a lot of quality literature available
Nigerian.

>>9174001
How does German benefit his stem career?

>>9173335
>and my country's native language, which is quite useless
and but so to put it simplier, you're cancer

>>9174032
It's one of the most widely spoken mainland European languages and Germany is one of the biggest scientific (engineering) hubs in the world.

How does learning a monkey language like Spanish or Russian benefit a scientist is the better question. The recommendations ITT are shit.

>>9174032
Germany is in the center of Europe. Its location makes it attractive for tech companies and scientific studies. German is also spoken in Switzerland, Austria and Belgium. All central European nations and major scientific and technological hubs.

>>9174045
>a monkey language like Spanish or Russian how does it benefit a scientist muh scientist
>one of the biggest hubs muh biggest

>scientific (engineering)

stay casual bro

>>9174045
Calm down, Hans

>>9174061
Greentexting and adding 'muh' is not an argument. Stay assblasted.

>>9174084
Du hast das vermisst:

>>scientific (engineering)

>stay casual bro

>>9174052
Not so much in Belgium. It's a decently popular second language, but no more so than in the rest of Europe, and only 0.5% speak it natively. Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and even Italy would all be more at home on that list.

>>9174094
Vermisst doesn't make sense in this context, step it up Stinkstiefel.

>>9174094
It's verpassen, not vermissen. And there's nothing of value in your green autism.

>>9173351
Seconding this.

>>9173335
Don't bother. Deep data and AI is going to make instantaneous translations a real thing pretty soon.

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>>9174120
>Italy
>Südtirol is still in filthy hands of pasta niggers
Don't remind me, bro.

>>9174137
Spoken like a man who has no idea about either deep data or linguistics. Translation problems are here to stay until next disruptive breakthrough.

>>9173361
I did a report involving these pictures of Nigerians owning hyenas in 7th grade

>>9174045
Were talking about languages as to read a book in their vernacular, not career options.

>>9174167
>and can benefit me in my future STEM career
Read OP's question before shitposting.

I would go for German if I had the time to learn a third language.

Lots of literature and a good choice career wise (engineering).

>>9173335
Arabic.
worth it to understand quran.

Also for STEM part you can try applying KAUST. they have lots of research fund, and since that place is in Saudi Arabia, at least Arabic is useful.

>>9174283
The arab world is literally a fucking desert when it comes to science.

>>9173335
I support German. Literally the only relevant European language in STEM beside English.

>>9173335
Russian, then German.

>>9173335
What's the story with this pic?

>>9174389
Some nerd got a shitty haircut, the end.

>>9173351
This.
French and Italian literature and poetry is worth learning at an academical level these 2 languages.

Latin and Greek will make accessible the most influential pieces of literature and poetry in existence.

If you're into philosophy it makes sense to learn Deutsch too, but the German canon is way more limited when compared to the French and Italian one.

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>>9174045
>It's one of the most widely spoken mainland European languages
Russian has more than twice the number of speakers as German. Sorry but it is not 1945 anymore.

>>9175189
Try reading the whole post before replying.

>>9175196
Care to say What you think I got wrong?

>>9173351
>italian
>career

Go for Spanish or French

>>9173434
pls don't troll

>>9174045

Educated Germans already speak English though, so what's the point?

>>9173335
If you want a balance between literary richness and usefulness, go for Spanish or French. Spanish is more diverse and interesting in its literature with all the diferrent voices in Latin America and Spain, and of cousre, is he second most spoken language in the world. Don´t let these americans undermine the greatness of this language because all of they think is their mexican inmigrants (which is sad, because Mexico has a very rich literature)

>>9177181
It might be useful to read al the scientific papers that are written in german, which are lot

learn finnish for the memes

>>9178690
All the modern relevant scientific papers are published in English. The only things in local are national history/language/culture research. Also:
>read the scientific papers meme
You're not going to do that unless you're in research yourself, stop being delusional.

Japanese is the best
its difficult to learn, but there are a lot of good literature

>>9178686
>Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world
That isn't some variant of Chinese.

>>9178722
But if you are into research it is relevant to be able to speak the language of the place where the research is done.
Also its easier to learn a language which you can use, in Europe German is a useful language and i regret not learning it in school.

>>9178737
Chinese is a meme

>>9178722
OP here, I will go into research. I will also live in the UK soon

>>9173335
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