Which one should I learn?
I'm curious, is the dyslexie font actually easier for dyslexic people to read?
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There are different forms of dyslexia, so I can't speak broadly, but dyslexic-oriented fonts helped me out a ton back when that was an issue for me [namely, during my early years on SG]. That said, I'm fairly certain I used OpenDyslexic rather than Dyslexie, and I seem to recall having had issues with Dyslexie working for me.
Certainly, at this moment, I'm finding Dyslexie seems extremely dubious [in the sense that I don't find it easy to read, currently]. Bright side, having both* fonts available does give those in need options by which they can better suit their specific needs.
*Also notable:
FS Me, Sassoon, and Sylexiad fonts, which offer more noticable differences compared to the relatively similar Dyslexie and OpenDyslexic, for those who don't find the style of those two favorable (or who want a font that's more universally relatable across Dyslexics and Non-Dyslexics).
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Oh wow, o_o it's so interesting the different types of fonts made for ease of reading for dyslexia.
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Cobol has actually been getting some unexpected attention lately:
https://betanews.com/2020/04/28/cobol-programmer-demand/
https://www.enterprisetimes.co.uk/2020/04/29/cobol-given-a-new-life-by-covid-19/
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Much like in D&D, [Kobold] just doesn't offer any experience worth pursuing.
In fact, you could say that pursuing COBOL is just going to lead you into a trap.
..budumpsh.
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COBOL speaking Kobolds ... one of the least common DND languages.
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As a Canadian I'd say French by default, but I think Spanish is spoken in more countries. (if you want to travel)
That being said once you get one of the romance languages down the others are very easy.
Also keep in mind what version of the language you want. Quebecois French is different from Parisian French. Not enough to make it impossible to communicate but enough to cause issues. Spanish is the same in the Americas vs Europe.
German is great (where I went to school that was one of the 2nd language options) but it is harder to learn and master than French / Spanish.
If you're looking for long term job prospects keep working on English and then try Mandarin. That should cover the 2 main economies.
From my experience (though it's been 30 years) the majority of Germans speak some English, so you can get them on your WW3 team that way. Assuming they don't start it of course.
Now the other option is if you want to travel. Where do you really really want to go? I've always found it easier to travel if you have some of the local language ... they respect that you're trying. If you always wanted to see X, go learn their language 1st.
Good luck and never stop learning.
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"Spanish is the same in the Americas vs Europe"
Ha! It'd be nice if that was true, no battles over what is "correct" Spanish. Spanish has dialects too, it's just that when it's formal and written is hard to notice.
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Truth. There was this Cuban in Mexico that got stabbed in a dulceria because of a dialect difference.
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Crap I missed the "Not" ... And yes Latin America Spanish is different than Spain Spanish which is different than Philippines Spanish.
I always wondered what Native Spanish speaking people (of any area) thought of "USA" Spanish.
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Well said. Of course Im still working on English, as for Mandarin I can speak pretty good, but cant read and write (because my family sometimes speak Mandarin, but generally i find it really hard to learn non-roman language).
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Influent Free Edition Learn French + Italian + Korean. i think its still free on steam
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Already checking that game. But many review said its not a good place to start learning language, more focused on vocab
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He wants to learn a new language, not try to clean a brand-new car!!11!1!!
Jokes aside, the word kurwa already makes it worth it to learn Polish.
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My polish friend told me to not learn polish because of this.
She also says not to because you sound like a child playing with the zip on a jacket.
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even tho as an Asian K-drama and K-pop all around my life, non-roman lang are off the table for now, its just really difficult
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German. It's such a gentle language, they've got words like die Schildkröte, love it.
Or you could just go wild and start learning Russian if you find German too easy.
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I can't tell if you are sarcastic with the part about German being a gentle language. ;)
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Not at all. I mean, people have been watching movies about WWII for generations, hence the stereotypes (not to mentions Rammstein's contribution), but it's a language perfectly pleasant to my ear - unlike Italian with their weird intonations, for example.
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Well as a German I do know that there is quite some variety in how our language can be used, but I never heard a foreigner considering it gentle. :)
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Gentle like a brick filled stuffed animal to the side of the head.
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Hahaha, as a Chilean myself I have to say that our spanish is a mess for strangers.
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I'm Argentinian and the one time I went to Chile I ran face first into that problem, I certainly wasn't expecting such an obvious difference when it's literaly the country next door.
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In my country, it is the same, every city/province has their own traditional language, which usually mixed with national language, and neighbour country language are a bit different, but usually ppl still understand if you speak neutral, and try to respond in neutral. As for Spanish, in case i go travelling, will most people (especially int he city) understand neutral?
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I've been learning English, German, and French, and from what little info on Spanish my friend told me about in high school and my observations, if your goal is to ever learn all of those, French, which is geographically in between England, Germany, Spain and Italy will have some similarities with all of those (last 2 being Romance languages - just like French, and English taking words and stuff from French for centuries.)
My favourite to speak about is past tense of be + movement/status change in past form, or have + any other verb in past form - remarkably similar in both German and French.
Still, it has >10 different tenses, of which I maybe can speak 4, so I'm pretty much just a low level noob speaking his opinion.
But you should probablly base your choice off what you want to do with your language of choice, instead of potential ease of learning next ones after that.
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German is a romance language, that's a new one XD
I get that you meant French, Spanish, and Italian but the way it's written it looks like you're including Germany instead of France :P
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Yup, honest mistake. Gonna fix that. Thank for help
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From ones you conside spanish is used by the most people so propably the most opportunities to use it at work
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Link don't work for me, germany is for angry people who want kill all :( , french is for baguette <3 , so i guess spanish is ok. :D
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You know what's funny? I have about 30 PDF books and 3 hard copy books for "Learning Python" sitting on a flash drive & bookcase for the last 4 years. I keep meaning to get to it "once I have the free time".
Silly thing is I used to know (it's been 20 years): Fortran, Basic, Pascal / Modula 2 / Delphi, Smalltalk & Java (I'll be dead in my grave before I learn C) and yet I just can't get motivated.
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dutch! so much fun and not hard at all! ahum And who wouldnt want to learn how to properly pronounce the 'g'/'ch' ?
as a bonus you can speak dutch in the netherlands, parts of Belgium, Suriname, AND south africa!
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Interesting, many article say its one of the easiest lang to learn for English speaker
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the basics are fairly easy I think, but there are a lot of exceptions to the grammar rules so to get it right is pretty hard. That, and the pronounciation of certain letters or letter combinations...
fun fact: the dutch had a way of figuring out if they were dealing with a german spy in world war 2 by asking him/her to pronounce 'Scheveningen' :)
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Event tho I really have fun on my multiple visit to Japan, for now non-roman are off the list
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Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, French, Dutch, Finnish are some of the easiest and most popular i've found :)
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I personally would like to learn French because I would like to visit or move to Canada. As I understand its not really necessary but I have my mind set on that idea so that would be my reasoning behind it.
German would be cool to know to understand what Rammstein and Eisbrecher are singing about, but I suppose I can do with only headbanging as well
Currently I'm learning Chinese .. Dualingo and courses at Uni (Chinese girl lives here and offered 1 year course for free).. And I'm trying to freshen up my Russian... Maybe that would be something to learn ? Russian is also used widely
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Good luck with your Chinese, I can speak mandarin but can't read/write lol
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Quebecois French is not 100% the same as "Real" French (Just did that to p*ss off any Quebecois here).
You can get by (I did when I went to France) but there is a fair number of small differences.
And yes you can get by with English in 99% of Quebec, but being able to understand things will reduce the cost of the Anglo tax.
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Unless you are planning to move to Quebec or work in government, you do not need to learn French to live here. Most Canadians do not speak it or only know a few words at best. Heck, if you come to Toronto, you can probably get by without even knowing English (depends on your mother tongue though).
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In Sweden you're forced to learn one of these three in middle school. I picked German and thought it was fun, sadly though that subject was like Harry Potter's Defense Against The Dark Arts and we had a new teacher every year (some of which didn't even know German) and this didn't make for good learning. Then I had to read one year of a language in high school, tried to stick with German but I think the German teacher there was actually a witch and so I switched to Italian. (I still thought German was more fun than Italian with the right tools).
I honestly would pick something based on the country you like the most, it's a bit easier when you feel connected to the culture. I'm a weeb and I get exposed to the Japanese language daily, so learning that would probably be the best for me, K-pop fans would probably enjoy Korean more, maybe you like a lot of Latin literature, etc to name a couple examples.
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Are you maybe the witch from high school, who brought her kid into class to let him watch German kids programs on his tablet on a high volume while we were writing a test? I can tell you're not the substitute teacher from middle school who didn't know German, so he just held the exact same lesson every week.
I wish I was joking, I really thought the language was fun but the mess they made learning it into has really turned me off from trying again.
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Its good to be able to say the car brand correctly, and increase my survival chance just in case ww3.
Don't worry, we Germans aren't great at winning world wars anyway. :D
Jokes aside, I'm German and at school I had to learn French. Though I was really bad at it, so today I can only speak German and English. From what I've heard, most people who try to learn German struggle with the article "the", since the German language has three of those: "Der", "Die" and "Das".
On the other hand, if you can really speak German, you can basicly create extremely long words just for the lulz. A famous example of this is the Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz.
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Living near Strasbourg, I had to learn German at school way before English actually. I started German in CE2, which is about at 7-8 years old, and English only in 4ème, which is at 13-14. Things changed since that time, nowadays kids start to learn English and computing almost right after the maternity clinic.
I was... meh. About 13/20 (B+ ?), which is more than enough to pass but not that great, just okay-ish. I used to hate that language. It felt awful, confusing with this Der/Die/Das indeed (yet it's the same puzzle in French with Le/La), too much effort. I learned the vocabulary or the lesson that I needed for my exams and forgot it right after.
I casually learned that language for 10 whole years, went to my final German exam of the Bac/Abitur, got a 13/20, and I forgot absolutely everything at the moment I left that room. It felt like I pressed a button to delete all of the memories of it.
I was fine with that, to move on and just forget all about that terrible, disgusting, hated language.
Now I'm full of regrets.
Not only that was a terrible mistake because for sure German can be handy, especially near Strasbourg, but also I made peace with this language, and now I have to admit that's a very beautiful (yes, yes it is) and interesting one.
Also, all of the many German students part of the Erasmus program that I met at college were so nice, talkative and fun. I felt so rubbish not being able to talk to them other than in French or in English, after so many years learning German, while they had no problem to speak a fluent French with their very cute accent.
I wish I could slap the 8 years old me and tell him to care a little bit more about his neighbours from across the Rhin.
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How hard German compared to English? did Germans have no problem with speaking English, or you guys still prefer people to speak German?
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German is much harder as english if you aren't from a nordish country like sweden, denmark and so on and not from the netherlands, belgium and such small (half german -ok in belgium are only 5% german ones-) countries.
I would say german ones are good at english because we start to learn it normaly at the age of 10 years till at least up to 16 years old.
Some earlier, some have french, some (need to) pick later a second language on top. Depends on the different school forms and levels.
So if you don't speak with germans in the age of 60+ you shouldn't have much problems to talk here in english too.
I would advice you to learn spanish because i think the countries "around" your own have partly portuguese influences and spanish is near to port., near to italian and make it because of that "easy" or at least easier to communicate in different europe, south american, partly US and maybe a little bit in asian countries.
French will be used in europe (france, partly italy and tiny european countries), a lot in africa and at a lot of islands all over the world.
German will be spoken in europe (french people near the german border can mostly talk in german but they hate it mostly -_-), one state of the US, a bit in africa and a bit in the asian regions (Japanese and chinese people come a lot to us for holidays/vacation and it give a chinese beer [Tsing Tao] that were [and is?] made with german equipment and from german people teached how to do a good beer).
I like from the two not native languages french more because it is a bit like a "poem language" when you hear something.
As example "The little death" = "La petite mort" (or Le petite mort?)
But i don't give you the translation for what it stands :-D ... let's say the english word for it is ugly, the german word is not really good too (but much better as the english one). And trust me your gf will like the french version of that word much more as the other ones.
I learned french 6 months at the age of 9 or 10 ... so over 30 years ago. I am able to sing 2 kids songs, count from 1 to 10 and use a few words. I can speak french better as to write it (the schooltime lay sooooo far behind me). And a little bit, as the example above, did i learned as a adult because of ... reasons ;o)
But i can count from 1-10, understand and speak a few words in italian (so partly spanish and portuguese too) and sometimes i understand the context of what people talk (at least the direction off).
But to be honest i don't like the italian language, it is too fast, too aggressive, too loud.
Counting in different languages can be very helpfull when you are in other countries or at least it was in the past.
Nowadays you can use your mobile phone for the direct translations. At least for easy stuff and numbers or one word.
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If I would bother to learn another language these days, just for myself, I'd only consider Spanish. Love the people, love the sound of the language.
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Idk why but your profile picture really stands out, for me at least. Good point btw
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In my travels I've found that most people speaks english and/or spanish.
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Why do you want to learn a new language?
If it's not for required for your work or for career opportunities that might be opened to you, then there is no point in trying to learn a new language.
Let me explain: without a set goal, you won't have any motivation to continue and will stop after a few months (at A2 level in the best case). I mean, learning a new language require a dedication and most importantly motivation and practice. You can be good in grammar, but still you need to practice the oral part. Also you won't learn a new language in a year or two (if you goal is to be able to speak it fluently, not just get B2 certification and forget it after that), especially german/french/spanish which have nothing in common with chinese and bahasa. But if you learn french it will be a piece of cake to learn spanish afterwards or vice-versa.
Food for thought...
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this is just #boredathome talking, so most likely I will not learn that serious, except if midway learn I take a liking of the lang. Its good to know the Spanish-French vice-versa thing.
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Cant really suggest anything without knowing generally where you live?
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Than I'd suggest spanish. You'd have to learn the local dialect, but it will give you a good basis in french and italian at the same time. Also, along with english, you have the America's to be able to travel across.
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"HI guys!! Welcome back to my channel, today we're gonna talk about something important that you use everyday. Can you guess what is it? Yup, today we gonna talk about
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Okay, so apparently after improving my cooking skill, Covid-19 take it one step further and now it want me to learn new language. After some consideration I decide to learn either Spanish/German/French. (Currently I can do Bahasa, English albeit not that good, Chinese but only speaking).
I already done some google research and still can't decide. Marie Kondo not helping either because all of them sparks joy. Spanish are widely used language, and EASIEST to learn, also its good to be able to understand La Liga commentators and watching la casa de papel with Spanish sub. German are leading at economic, manufacture, Its good to be able to say the car brand correctly, and increase my survival chance just in case ww3. French are useful because from some article that I read, French people didn't like to speak English, also Im pretty sure French gonna help me when my gf angry.
ALL JOKES ASIDE, CAN YOU GUYS GIVE OPINION ON WHAT LANGUAGE TO LEARN, AND WHY (especially Europeans). Thanks, sorry in case I said something sensitive or offensive. Stay healthy you all :D
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