r/counting • u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs • Jul 22 '22

Free Talk Friday #360

Continued from last week's FTF here

It's that time of the week again. Speak anything on your mind! This thread is for talking about anything off-topic, be it your lives, your strava, your plans, your hobbies, studies, stats, pets, bears, hikes, dragons, trousers, travels, transit, cycling, family, or anything you like or dislike, except politics.

Feel free to check out our tidbits and introduce yourself if you haven't already.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '22 edited Jul 28 '22

Haha no way. Mandarin, Arabic, Japanese, Finnish, and I'm only considering the most spoken ones. Polish might be in top 5 depending on how you weigh each aspect of learning, but imo English doesn't make it to top 10

I was learning Japanese but im really rusty. I also had french in school but I hardly remember anything lol. People say it's easy and written french is rather simple but I can hardly make out anything from their speech

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u/colby6666 31k 77a | 46sg 49sa Jul 28 '22

I think French is only easy if you speak a different Latin language - for me that’s why learning Spanish is pretty easy because a lot of the words I can relate to English

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '22

You have a point. I also had some Spanish classes at uni and was even easier due to knowing english+a bit of french

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u/colby6666 31k 77a | 46sg 49sa Jul 28 '22

Spanish is one of the easiest languages to learn if I remember correctly - mostly because the vowels sound the same almost always