Disclaimer: full fluency, no studying required, but knowledge of the written language is not included.
Seeing as I am already Italian I suppose I will pick Chinese.
Also I guess I’m going to be that guy. “La vida es bella” is not Italian, it’s Spanish lol.
God damn it lol
Living la vida loca
That’s hilarious.
came here to point that out as well lol
Could you choose Italian and become your countrys best linguist by objectively being twice as good at the language as any other native speaker? Or does it turn into Vulgar latin?
Chooses Chinese:
- Monkey’s paw curls
- Congratulations, you learned the Min dialect of Chinese!
Chinese because Italian would be a lot easier to learn on my own.
Learning spoken Chinese without learning written Chinese is basically like only knowing half a language. Whereas learning spoken Italian and being familiar with the Roman alphabet would basically mean you could read it too, at least at a basic level. So much as I think it would be useful good to magically learn Chinese (which I am incidentally currently working on), the constraint of only being able to speak it tilts me in favour of Italian.
God, Chinese is so much more useful. Italian is virtually useless, in fact. 59 million people live there, 1.4 billion live in China alone, not to mention the the emigrants.
I love my Italian homies, but yeah.
Eh, I actually want to visit Italy one day. I’ve never had the desire to go to China, and a lot of stories I’ve heard from people who did visit for tourism or business were not making me want to go.
I’ve been and thought it was splendid.
Doesn’t China have more than one spoken language, though? If I get all of them, Chinese. Otherwise Italian because then I’d have Spanish as well, I know toddler Spanish already and the grammar is the same.
From what I was taught, most people in china primarily speak mandarin or can speak mandarin as well as another dialect. Mandarin is the one you want.
I was being intentionally broad but yeah. Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, whatever the Weigers speak, and a bunch of regional dialects/languages. That’s my understanding at least, without googling it.
Italian, so i could read The Name of the Rose in original
中文
Going by the picture, each means successfully losing a shit tin of weight, so I’m down with either
compared to not learning written Italian (like you 😜), not learning written Chinese seems kinda worthless. ofc that’s an exaggeration but the written part is the hardest part!! and the best part
Would knowing the spoken language make learning the written side easier? Or does it likely depend on the language?
depends on the orthography. I find Chinese much harder to read than Italian. part of that is because of me, and part of that is because of how their writing systems are designed.
so I think you’d be getting a better “deal” out of Chinese if you could magically learn the writing too. but without that, well… students pour thousands of hours into learning them, and I’ll still have to do that too
Italian i can just bibbity bop my way to the future, hello see ya later
Definitely Chinese preferably Mandarin since I already know some.
Italian is “La vita é bella”. This is Spanish. ಠᴗಠ
If I was a young man again, Italian. Because aside from French, it does the most for ladies; especially those that don’t understand the language.
At my current age, Chinese. Because it will come in the most useful for WWIII. After all, when China finally invades Taiwan, western powers are going to go all racist again with internment camps to hold visibly ethnic people, and not all of them will know English well. They will need translator advocates.
Probably Chinese (Mandarin). More people speak it so it would be more useful.
Kind of an easy question for me.
I’ve studied Italian before and while I dropped it pretty early, of the language classes I took I found it pretty comfortable to learn. If I wanted to become fluent I feel confident I could. I’ve actually been debating whether to take it or a French course as a hobby lately.
With Chinese I’ve had difficulty even differentiating words or learning basic phrases from friends who speak it. I don’t think I could become fluent even if I dedicated myself. Getting it by magic is the only way I’m going to learn it. It’s also by far the more useful of the two languages.
No written? Interesting.
If you want full fluency in both spoken and written, I think learning the adjacent written portion would be easier with Spanish, French, German. So I would pick Spanish or French. Both are very common in the world.
Manadarin would be neat, but without the writing I wonder how helpful it would be.
*Lol I missed the picture entirely. Between Italian and mandarin I’d take Mandarin because sorry I see no use for Italian at all,
