The most useful foreign language to pick up in S'pore is...

[DT_]

hokkien? because hokkien is from... china?

yes hokkien! ..... obversely this language is so much in demand.. learn it as soon for self benefit, go go go!

those who are interested but no idea how to start, .... :thumbsup:

jus fyi, i personally do conduct tutorial class almost every evening at different venue, usually would be at any hokkien cafe 'aka' ko~pi~tiam, ...... first lesson: conversation when placing order.. 'carlsberg'='ong bo' 'tiger'='lau hor' , etc....

please pm me in advance to join in the class.... :bsmilie: :bsmilie: :bsmilie:

 

[adamadam]

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[melnjes]

Yeah...so I can start to ask my future parents in law for their daughters' hands

Wow, how many of their daughters are you marrying? :bigeyes:

Sorry, couldn't resist it

 

[TMC]

hopefully enough so that I wouldnt be able to see the same one within a month :bsmilie: :devil:

 

[JoshSiao]

How about some nearly extinct latin? Its fun learning the roots of English.

 

[Paul_Yeo]

How about some nearly extinct latin? Its fun learning the roots of English.

root of english is latin? oh. i thot most parts of english came from german? :embrass:

 

[bernardy4416]

Since English is our 1st language, my personal favorite for a 2nd language would be Mandarin.

 

[mojopy]

took French 1 in NUS and got C+... :sweat:
that was like a year ago.
but still interested in that language though forget most of the stuff already.
i guess the difficulty when learning foreign language would be their vocab.
Like for French, they have conguations of a root word for I (je), you[informal](tu), he/she(il/elle), you[formal](vous), they(ils/elles), us(nous) plus present and past tense...
That's like :bigeyes:

 

[legiz]

language i speak , cantonese , mandarin and english .... good enuff right?
hokkien speak tam po nia

 

[redstone]

If given a choice I'll learn Teochew (my dialect), Hokkien and Malay.

My teochew half pail water. :bsmilie:

 

[Lightworkz]

took French 1 in NUS and got C+... :sweat:
that was like a year ago.
but still interested in that language though forget most of the stuff already.
i guess the difficulty when learning foreign language would be their vocab.
Like for French, they have conguations of a root word for I (je), you[informal](tu), he/she(il/elle), you[formal](vous), they(ils/elles), us(nous) plus present and past tense...
That's like :bigeyes:

French can be consider easy until you try German, in spite of English is a Germanic language.

 

[Lightworkz]

root of english is latin? oh. i thot most parts of english came from german? :embrass:

Languages that came from latin are the romance languages namely Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French. English is a Germanic language though, IIRC, 50% of English vocab came from latin.

 

[Lightworkz]

actually spoken Japanese is quite easy to pick up... it's only when you start doing the actual written part.....:cry:

For me, it is the other way around.

 

[wrx_sti_22b]

language i speak , cantonese , mandarin and english .... good enuff right?
hokkien speak tam po nia

My 3rd language, Cantonese, i believe is A1 standard. Totally fluent in speaking, writing & reading it. :bsmilie: :bsmilie: :bsmilie:

 

[dotaboy]

I just starting taking swedish language not too long ago.

I would say vietnamese since vietnam is another emerging asian market and there's quite a number of vietnamse locally.

 

[dotaboy]

My 3rd language, Cantonese, i believe is A1 standard. Totally fluent in speaking, writing & reading it. :bsmilie: :bsmilie: :bsmilie:

I'm cantonese too.
Undestand the basic but can't speak it.
Whenever i visit my dad's side dring cny,they all speak canto:sweat:

 

[Rafael]

I find Japanese a very happy and jovial language to hear, followed by the romantic Italian.

 

[stougard]

French, it's definetely the most beautiful one.

 

[iskofil]

i think Japanese language is cool........:devil:

 

[JillValentine]

I doubt anyone picked up one of the most difficult languages on earth - Greek. :devil: