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how can i decide what language to learn? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 2 days ago by nonBInary@thelemmy.club to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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i genuinely have no idea if i should study italian or french. on one hand, french is probably more useful, especially since i live in the u.s. and could communicate with people from french-speaking canada. french also seems to have more speakers. however, i also have an italian study book and it seems easier to get the hang of for me than french, especially since i can't yet differentiate what people are saying and the way things are spelled in french.

i genuinely love both languages but i don't know which one i should learn, even if i'm the only one who can decide this. i have a study book for italian and busuu as a language learning app but i don't have a french book yet. should i learn italian first and then go with french? learn italian and pick up bits of french along the way?

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[–] lemuria@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Did you know? French, Italian, and Spanish are all Romance languages; they are part of a large family of languages that evolved from Latin over hundreds of years. That's why they're similar. While I don't have the necessary citations on hand, learning a language might make it slightly easier to learn, or at least have a basic "I know a few hundred words" understanding of its sibling languages.

(I saw that other people have typed similar things but I already wrote it so I'm just gonna send it anyway.)