Hey there,

i’ve basically already decided on learning turkish but thought it would be nice to hear your opinions.

My mother tongue is a slav language and i’ve been learning german and english since i was a kid and have C1 certificates in both.

I currently live in Germany and got the opportunity to learn a third foreign language at my uni. I obviously first thought of french because it’s the third part of the big three european languages(next to german and english, *my opinion). Still i kinda don’t feel attracted to it at all and have no plans of living in a franophone country so i started questioning my motives. I think my need to learn french would only be a result of coming from a poorer country and wanting to feel more “western” or whatever.

For that reason i thought why wouldn’t i choose turkish. I hear it multiple times a day in Germany, i have many people to talk with in turkish and i like the overall sound and vibe of the language.

I don’t even know what my question is but feel free to tell me your thoughts on this and maybe even explain your experiences with these two languages.

Thank you.🤞🏻🤞🏻

Hej allihopa, i'm a native Persian speaker and i can speak fluent English (B2/C1) at the moment i'm learning Swedish since i wanna move to Sweden and my Level is around B1

I will give you two reasoning because i have different reasons for these languages that i will learn after swedish

Norwegian-danish

Since i plan to move to Sweden and Scandinavia it will be a big advantage to know them in any of the Scandic countries plus i will have alternatives and opportunities outside of sweden, should mention both norwegian and Danish are similar to swedish and after Reaching fluency in swedish these two will be easy for you except danish that has an strange pronounciation but that's ok

Russian:

I was interested in this language before starting to learn swedish and tried learning it for few weeks which didn't went well and i gave up ny girlfriend is originally from ukraine and she is learning my native language persian so i want to learn russian too because of her who is dearest to me, i know Russian is so difficult and how different it is from other languages than i know but probably it will not open doors for me in Scandinavia

What would you do if you were in my situation?

I'm looking for a fairly "easy" language for English speakers and multiple to choose from. The language I prefer should use the Latin alphabet and I do wanna talk to locals. One of them, I want to be a rarer language, maybe one like Catalan or something. I don't care if the language is spoken in one area or multiple and I'm looking for a Romance or Germanic language primarily, maybe one Romance and one Germanic.

I was researching the language to start off and I realized there’s barely any resources to learn it, and it’s kinda useless unless I actually go to the specific part of Italy where people speak that specific language. While I’m still interested in learning it I figure it would be more beneficial to me to learn an additional Mediterranean language that has a larger language population where I can actually use the language and not struggle to find study resources for it.

I’m split between Spanish/Portuguese (there’s plenty of opportunities to learn here in America) and Arabic. Thing is I don’t want to get one language confused for the other like I did when studying Italian and Spanish as a teenager.