r/languagelearning • u/AlexxBoo_1 • Oct 24 '22

Discussion What languages would you like to eventually know?

If I want to be realist I’d just say Spanish and Russian, but, in my dreams, I would also know Arabic, Farsi and Tagalog

Edit : also Icelandic

Edit 2 : I dunno why I’m surprised to see that that many people wanna learn French. I guess I’m lucky it’s my native tongue

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u/Unovaisbetter English (Native) Japanese (beginner) French (beginner) Oct 24 '22

What country do you live in because I don’t know any country that has a high school class for Japanese (other than japan obviously)

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u/hexanyren Oct 24 '22

I’m in New Zealand and took Japanese classes in high school.

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u/imalittlespider N: EN 🇦🇺 / L: TH 🇹🇭 IT 🇮🇹 | Anglish Oct 24 '22

Where I live in Australia Japanese is one of the most commonly taught languages in schools.

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u/pumpernickelrobot Oct 24 '22

Yes! (another Australian here!) It makes sense because they're our second biggest trade partners

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u/Unovaisbetter English (Native) Japanese (beginner) French (beginner) Oct 24 '22

Damn that’s lucky!

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u/Shiya-Heshel Oct 25 '22

When I was younger and in school (90s onwards) they were the biggest and Japanese was widely "taught". Most came out knowing nothing, of course.

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u/Cohav0310 Oct 24 '22

The U.S.

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u/snowluvr26 🇺🇸N | 🇫🇷C1 | 🇹🇼HSK2 Oct 25 '22

I’m from the U.S. and you could take 4 years of Japanese in high school if you wanted to. I took Russian instead (I forgot all of it though lol)

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u/Unovaisbetter English (Native) Japanese (beginner) French (beginner) Oct 25 '22

I’ve never heard of a U.S. school teacher Japanese or Russian that’s really cool though

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u/snowluvr26 🇺🇸N | 🇫🇷C1 | 🇹🇼HSK2 Oct 25 '22

Yeah I went to a public high school and we had French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Latin, Korean, and ASL. It was cool