If everyone had to learn a international language...

Which Type of IL?

  • Ayola (Esperanto with a reform) Aiola.org?

    Votes: 2 4.5%

  • A character based language (Chinese-Languages, Japanese)?

    Votes: 20 45.5%

  • A language with words taken from many language (Like English)

    Votes: 16 36.4%

  • Other (explain in post please)

    Votes: 6 13.6%
  • Total voters
    44
English, but I wish it were Italian

Hi,

in the current state of the world, English is the universal language, whether I like it or not (actually, if we French did not lose some stupid wars in the eighteen centuries, it could have been French, and everybody would be struggling with French verbs now).

I only regret the universal language is not Italian. Just hearing Italian brings sunlight to a rainy day.
 
I wish the world language was Swedish. The problem is that we screwed UK too long ago. We basically invented UK. The only succesful colonisation of the world.
 
Well I think that a language with words would probably be the easiest and fastest to learn. As it's said on the poll the words from many different languages are taken from one or various other original languages so it may be easier for many people (not all people though) to recognize each word and their meaning while learning. Besides the fact that most of the people know at least some words of languages like English..

Still I'd like it to be any character based language just because I find them more interesting and creatively expressed..
 
I'm already learning 3 languages at once. Or trying to at my best. The ones I'm learning right now are French, German and Japanese. After that, I already chose to learn Manderin Chinese, then after that Korean. I know that's a lot of languages but it's a goal that I want to succeed in.

Also, I am interested in Egyptian Heiroglyphics, though I may never know them. I love Egyptian writing, seeing as it always captured my interest because it's art in its own self. Just like all the other Character languages.

My government teacher once said that the USA was 1 vote away from German being the native language. If that had happened, would German be the international language instead of English? French is also an international language, and if French was the international language, we'd all be learning French in school instead of English like some countries.

What I find contridictory in the USA is that English is the international language, but it's not the official language of the country. In fact, Spanish will most likely be spoken by the majority of people, leaving English as the minority by the year 2010. That's less than 2 years from now.
 
Korean: It has grammar familiar to some Asian languages (Japanese in particular), and a pronunciation-based character system which is a lot easier to read than english letters.

To be honest I don't think the western world could handle learning a language like Chinese without some form of long term immersion.
 
If it was free and you had time, what language would you like to learn right now?
As for me Portoguese/Brasilian
 
JimmySeal said:
Excuse me? How do you figure?
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Actually, that's just a statistic my government teacher told us. She's actually very up to date on news. Plus, with all the people who speak Spanish, all the Spanish under the English, more and more people are going to learn Spanish.

Then, a few of my other teachers in COMPLETELY different states also stated that Spanish might become the majority.
 
Don't tell me that. Tell my government teacher. I'm not a scientist. Blame them.
 
Since I love the chinese language (but one has to be a bit musically gifted, anyhow, I am), which is so easy to learn apart from the hanzi, it would be this as another one beside english.
But in general I would think, a language that has something from every language, incl. asian ones, would be fine for me. But that may not come up so soon. . .alas
 
I'm a SHE. I'm not a guy, or at least, I sure hope not. If I was I'm missing something here!

And, by the way, it's not fair that you blame me just for saying some things that are STATISTICS that happen to NOT be real. I was just reporting them. I even said MY GOVERNMENT TEACHER told her students, my other teachers told their students. I'm sure there are other people in the US that think English is going to be the minority language. So, therefore, no, you can't blame me for being wrong when there are millions of others out there who are the same. That's descrimination. Find them, blame them first before you turn around and say you're going to blame me. And if you do blame me, it's YOU, because I don't see anyone else who will blame me. As the last person said, I'm just reporting and she doesn't blame me.
 
you know the though occured to me that the people in this pole are not entirely free of bias, considering that this is a JAPANESE language and culture forum....
 
pugtm said:
you know the though occured to me that the people in this pole are not entirely free of bias, considering that this is a JAPANESE language and culture forum....
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Despite that it seems many people can see that Japanese is not a flawless language.
 
Barsoomian language rules! It is very simple. It is very easy to learn it. It is very intuitive, because it very closely tied to telepathy. Just project telepathically an images of words directly into the mind of Your opponent.
 
English is considered to be THE international language for a reason - and I think it's good the way it is.
English is a relaly easy language to learn for almost everybody.

Something like Chinese or Japanese could never become an international language. It's just too complicated for EVERYBODY to learn.
 
well if "international language" means "foreign language" then Japanese, since i enjoy and im learning it anyway

otherwise English, since im a native speaker so i dont have to learn it
 
Not every Asian countries are using pictograph characters so Chinese is not Asian friendly, no! I am learning Japanese and find the Kanji is so difficult to remember.
 
Whatever language bests facilitates the overthrow of the government requiring us to learn languages.

Barsoomian would probably work, since Barsoomians are very warlike.
 
I am currently learning french and am semi fluent. I want to learn svenska (Swedish), Japanese, and Italian. I am a native English speaker also.
 
First, Japanese and Chinese are not Character based languages. They just use characters as part of their writing systems.
Second, any language takes many words from other languages. It is not just English.

So, having only choice one is not really a choice to me.
 
I would choose English with Spanish being a close second. Mainly due to the fact that I can speak both languages fluently. But also because you can go practically anywhere in the world and someone there will speak at least basic English. Unfortunately that can't be said about character based languages... I even used Spanish in the Republic of Georgia, and most people have no idea where that country is or that it even existed... Just my thoughts :)
 
English makes the most sense because it's entrenched.
Spanish would be one of the easiest if we were starting from scratch.
Korean has a very scientifically designed written language.
But, Chinese is my favorite written language.
 

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