many many languages and I'm an monolingual fool, one who doesnt know her own language at that
The thing thats truly SUX about being an English speaking person is you get so lazy and so conceited you stop trying to even learn other languages, just assuming whenever you need to speak to someone else, they will have a good knowledge of English. I have decided that this is going to have to stop, so for my elective in uni (something to do for
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Dutch is a lot like German, and really useful if you plan to go to South Africa or Holland.
Japanese is hard, but very useful (especially in business). Both Japanese and Chinese are "toned" languages, and very hard to speak unless you have a really good ear. My father took Japanese a few years ago, and I helped him make flashcards of a two of their alphabets. Kanji can be tough to learn--you've been warned!
Russian's another that can be useful (if hard). A lot of my friends in uni took Russian and loved it. And there's only 30-something letters in their alphabet.
Polish is supposed to be near-impossible. At least, that's what I've been told by people learning it.
If you take Bulgarian, you can write really good Viktor Krum fics.
As I said, I took Spanish and Latin, and it turns out that I really should have taken French, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Hebrew, and Punjabi or Hindi. Oh, and I really wish I'd taken Modern Greek (rather than failing miserably at Ancient Greek), as my boyfriend's family is from Cyprus.
The Greek alphabet is easy. At least, it was for me. Only 24 letters, and a lot are similar to their English counterparts. "Alphabet" actually comes from "Alpha" and "Beta", the first two Greek letters. (Hey, is the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding out in the UK? You might enjoy it).
My (long-winded) point being, you don't know what you're going to need. Whatever you take, you'll end up needing something else completely random.
How good are you with languages, anyway? Can you take a few at once? *wink*
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