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To: nickcarraway

I gotta wonder what kind of japanese person would give a care about yiddish. I’m trying to make a list in my mind of the most useful languages to learn and yiddish is way down on the list...far below japanese in fact.

english
spanish
french

then it gets vague...maybe a tie between german, dutch, and portugese.
Chinese would be on the list if it wasn’t such a ridiculously difficult language.
So excluding chinese, next is probably a tie between russian, arabic, and japanese.

then maybe 25 more languages
then yiddish


4 posted on 04/16/2012 9:18:28 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (I take Olive Oyl on me spinach. She said she didn't go in for that kinky stuff but she does now)
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To: mamelukesabre

Why is French above German?


5 posted on 04/16/2012 9:20:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: mamelukesabre

Most useful depends.... English and Spanish are at the top of the list, but I’d put Arabic ahead of French, but that would depend on where you are at. If you are in East Africa then Swahili. If in West Africa, then French. North Africa Arabic. In India Hindi would get you around. Russia would get you around all of the Russias yes, but nowhere else


11 posted on 04/17/2012 12:25:09 AM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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