My new company who I work for are offering language classes before work or on your lunch.

They do all of the above and I'd quite like to learn one!

I'm really busy this year with lots of courses, new job etc but I think I can still fit it in as it is during work time, but which would you say was the easiest, most useful to learn?

Spanish - without a doubt.

Depends what you want to do with it, and who you'd like to communicate with!

German is the easiest to learn logically but French or Spanish would be probably more useful.

German seems a lot harder than Spanish or Italian - to me.

French, Italian and Spanish are Romantic languages and if you learn one of them there is correlation with the others. Personally I prefer the Germanic languages of German, Dutch and Swedish but I guess the Romantics may be your better, more useful option.

Have you any knowledge of any of them at all?

Well I just want it as another string to my bow.

I work for a legal firm, so they do want us to try and use it for our career.

I have basic knowledge of them all really, I did german at school for a year (but cannot remember any of it), I did italian for 3 months and learnt basic grammar and things. And spanish and french, I only know the holiday type phrases but I think I'd use these more than german and italian.

Well I just want it as another string to my bow.

I work for a legal firm, so they do want us to try and use it for our career.

I have basic knowledge of them all really, I did german at school for a year (but cannot remember any of it), I did italian for 3 months and learnt basic grammar and things. And spanish and french, I only know the holiday type phrases but I think I'd use these more than german and italian.

Most people find Spanish the easiest to be honest, but if you have a smattering of German, then it might be as well to go along with that, unless you hated it! What sort of course is it? Is it going to be a proper course for a recognised qualification, or like a Linguaphone type thing?

Most people find Spanish the easiest to be honest, but if you have a smattering of German, then it might be as well to go along with that, unless you hated it! What sort of course is it? Is it going to be a proper course for a recognised qualification, or like a Linguaphone type thing?

Hmm, I didn't really like german, but I have changed since being at school and I actually want to learn now!

Think I might learn Spanish, because if the job gets boring, I can just jack it all in and move to Spain :hihi:, I wont tell them that though!

I still have to ask whether it is a recognised qualfication, as it was just a friend who mentioned it to me today! I hope it is though.

Thanks guys x

It depends where you intend to work. You could actually learn Latin and then understand youself when you talk to yourself.

Veni Vidi Vici

Spanish is the more widely spoken of the four sue to its use in south America and is second only to Chinese as far as per capita numbers go. Italian is only spoken in Italy, parts of Switzerland and in Tyrol in Austria, and even then, it's a dialect, and possibly in Albania but not sure.

German - spoken in Switzerland, Austria, in anger and by Kristian.

French is quite widely spoken in parts Africa as well as in Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, the French West Indies, French Polynesia, French Guyana and Canada (but it's old fashioned French). There may be more but it's late and I can't remember.

German is the most closely related to English, but French is so much more fun, and simpler to learn in terms of grammar.

Let us know which you choose...

spanish defo!

french is a dying language

Italian is great, i'd love to have the time to learn more

french is a dying language

and you explain this how tom? :)

Spanish is the most spoken of those languages, by far.

because i never seen a person in a french pub smile, so i never spoke to them therefore you dont need the language

ha ha! nice one! Sacre bleu! Mangetout, mangetout, mon ami!

danke schon :P

tom3t0

I'm French and pretty much alive.

danke schon :P

A perfect example as to why the umlaut is so important!

Danke schoen. Schon means 'already'.

because i never seen a person in a french pub smile, so i never spoke to them therefore you dont need the language

you've obviously not been to the right pub then!
Besides it's more likely to be a bar or cafe rather than a pub in France for your information...

brassiere is it?, ive been to quite a few in paris and on the way to spain from paris, spain aswell - they had some decent pubs

i started learning italian and found it really easy because i used to know a lot of french. without knowing much of either though i would say german is the easiest - you have a year of it already, and the way the language works is much more similar to english than the romantic languages (although english is made up of both - words that posh people use - flowery sorts of words - tend to be derived from french, whereas more bog standard english language is derived from german sources).

A more in depth summary of learning spanish.

I feel that spanish is easy to pick up as a begginner, and for the first few stages(years) of study, but it is overly complicated with having 26 verb tenses which makes it a complex when you get on to more advanced study. As an adult, to be totally fluent in all the verb tenses would take most people about 10 years of hard night class at college. But if you just want to be comfortable in shops and ordering food and drink then you can do all that in a year or less, pretty easily.

German I understand is much easier in this regard, in that it follows rules and they are consistant.

brassiere is it?, ive been to quite a few in paris and on the way to spain from paris, spain aswell - they had some decent pubs

Brasserie, that's the one.
You'll find Paris is not the friendliest city in France.
I can guarantee that if you go to my hometown of Bayonne (South West) during the festival the first week of August, you'll feel very welcome even if you don't speak the linguo and there's lots of people with a smile on their face due to the beer and wine flowing! :D

would say spanish sunshine....esp. if you wanna go travelling in south america or to the caribbean

Hmm, I didn't really like german, but I have changed since being at school and I actually want to learn now!

Think I might learn Spanish, because if the job gets boring, I can just jack it all in and move to Spain :hihi:, I wont tell them that though!

I still have to ask whether it is a recognised qualfication, as it was just a friend who mentioned it to me today! I hope it is though.

Thanks guys x

Hi sunshine, I did french and german for years at school (probably same as all of us) but i cant remember any of it, yet when i went to spain, and was forced into it, (met some spanish lasses that couldnt speak english) and picked loads up really quickly and loved it, and i still remember it.

I think if you listen to languages for a while, you will know which one you will prefer..hence pick up easier.

(i remember those german lessons with them dodgy tapes, with an 11 year old boy(horst, i believe) telling me he liked football and music, with a deeper voice than Barry White)

Pretty pointless post from me, but thought id say anyway

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Judging a lot of the posts on here, English would be my first choice.

Spanish, they make better films.

France makes great films too! But films might be useful here... Why not watch a few in each language and see which one sounds most appealing to you?

I'm learning French at uni at the moment. I think it's a wonderful language. I love Italian too. However, I have to agree that Spanish would probably be most useful, and I think English people usually find the pronunciation easier than French.

Im looking at learning a new language... I like the sound of french german and now spanish...

What is the widest spoken other than english and which language would be the most usefull for traveling?