While some of the more intelligent animals could be interesting to see just how far they could go, most animals are going to mostly be vocalizing for the purposes of procreation. The wonderful sounds of the forest are millions of bugs and animals screaming, “hey, wanna fuck?” as loud as possible. Other vocalizations will be similarly utilitarian like, “look out, predator”, “holy fuck this hurts” or “back off!” Not exactly stimulating conversation.

Human language. Then I could watch undubbed Anime and stuff again because I can’t read too much.

Human languages for sure.

isn’t that the same?

animals for sure

Any human language.

Any human language…

Does this mean I know Proto-Indo-European, too? Or only currently living languages? Or only languages we have written representations of?

Probably rather humans. Animals might not be able to reason well and what they have to say may be quite annoying. I mean my cat likely just keeps asking about food and to be brushed. I’d rather hear the meow instead of actual words. Same with birds. Which begs the question, if you’d understand what birds say, would you still hear the song of it?

I’d rather speak any human language I’d like.

There was a gorilla that learned sign language. It learned hundreds/thousands (?) of words.

…once you got past the initial cool/cute/fun factor, conversation was about as stimulating speaking to a toddler.

Animals? Cool but likely useless.

How else are you going to know if your horse needs glasses?

Animals, they are way better than humans anyway. Although they do say never to meet your heroes…

If I’m able to speak cat, does that mean my cats will actually listen to me? or will they just stare blankly at me and stick their tongue out when I ask them to get out of my bedroom?

Definitely animals. I want to be able to speak to my cat. Although speaking any human language would certainly be useful.

Second one. That would be so cool/special.

Flawed question. Humans are animals and all animals speak the language of “fuck!”.