Kippur's dumb question of the day.

[kippurbird]

If I want to get an English PhD, why do I need to learn another language?

Also, since I do, apparently, have to learn another language which one should I do? Cause I suck at it.

Comments

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Pick Esperanto, just to screw with their brains. :) Or barring that, Spanish, which is as simple a foreign language as you're likely to study.

I feel your pain though. I sucked at languages all through college until I squeaked by with a D- in German.

[madamsnape.livejournal.com]

You have to learn another language??? ^!^

[spoofmaster]

I'd say either Hebrew, since you have a background in it, or Spanish, because it's relatively simple and has enough cognates with English that you can start getting the gist of things fairly quickly.

Just don't learn Russian. They conjugate EVERTHING, and it's making my brain fizzle.

[prototypical]

Spanish! Easy pronunciation, grammar similar to English, minimal accent marks, no real new letters, and it's useful when you live in California.

It was too easy for me, which is why I'm currently killing my brain cells in handfuls with Japanese.

[albijuli]

Spanish is the easy way out ;D But, obviously, it'll be more useful in the long run, maybe.

Maybe Esperanto.

Third choice would be Japanese, but...

No, wait, how about FRENCH!?

8D

[thelittlebudgie.livejournal.com]

I'm toying with the idea of learning Norwegian. It's quite fun, and it is Germanic in nature, which means that it's somewhat familiar.

Spanish would be easier, though.

[yetanotherbob.livejournal.com]

Aw. You suck at it, otherwise, I'd say go for latin or greek, to give you an edge on those english root words, I suppose?

[christinaathena.livejournal.com]

ASL could be cool. I'd like to study ASL some day myself. Partly as a backup in case I ever lose my hearing, or when I meet a Deaf person, and partly just cause it'd be cool to learn a non-auditory language.

[millenium-king.livejournal.com]

Since you are an studying English, you should certainly pick German as a second language. English is a germanic language, it is good to know your roots. Fuck those stupid romance languages inspired from latin like Spanish and Italian. German is a robust, strong language that makes sense to the English speaker far more than Spanish or any of that other crap. Besides it spawns from the same linguisitc roots! It is part of the anglo-saxon heritage that created English! How can you even study English without studying German?!?!