What should be my next language?

[theunixgeek]

Here are the languages I currently speak

Comments

[ledh]

I study Turkish and speak Dutch ^^ so i vote for those. Dutch is a lot like German, you might confuse them? Turkish is very very intriguing. <3

[blackbirdj2]

Dutch!! *cougcough* Ok I'm biased, I admit it, it's my mother tongue (or Flemish at least, the Belgian variant).
Also, I love Swedish, I'm doing an evening course in it now. I also speak French since my country is bilingual and French is the other official language. And I know Mandarin as well, yay! :)

[iriacynthe]

Trilingual! :P

Personally, when choosing a language to study, I'd also look at the practical side. Are you going to have a lot of opportunities to use the language you pick? Are there any native speakers in your area? Could you find books, songs, newspapers,... in the language? Could speaking it prove useful when looking for a job in your field of interest? Etc.

[blackbirdj2]

Well yes, actually it is trilingual. But I never liked the German language so much, I don't know why. I can understand it though, but speaking is a whole different matter. O_o

[theunixgeek]

Would Dutch and German be comparative to Spanish and Portuguese? i.e., different verb conjugations, a few different words, but a heck of a lot of cognates, intelligible, etc.?

Just wondering :)

[fachidiot]

Given the languages you speak, Dutch and Swedish would be the easiest, but I don't know if that's what you're going for, necessarily.

[sollersuk]

Go for Dutch if you want to build on what you already have or Turkish if you want something different. Turkish is a good way in to agglutinative languages generally (I even found a good carry-over from Turkish into Japanese)

[alirose]

I vote Swedish. Especially as a teach-yourself, it's supposedly fairly easy.