Which language is more beautifull and usefull to learn?

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Well, if you decide to learn Dutch you'll be able to communicate well to ~30 million people and you'll be able to understand Afrikaans (almost exactly the same, small difference in pronuncation and words), which means you can communicate to ~20 million people more. So that altogether means Dutch (and some dialects) are spoken by ~50 million humans worldwide.

Swedish: ~9 million
Norwegian: ~5 million.
Danish: ~6 million
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Total: ~20 million

[CandyCotton Marshmallows]

The most useful?

Latin because it is the root of most other languages.

For the scandinavian sound? I find Icelandic to be a good one

[DrMcNinja]

Being Dutch myself, I can say that learning Dutch is more difficult than English (Yes, even for Dutch people). It's a fun language nonetheless, as some words are based on their English, French and German counterparts.

As for the most useful, I would say Spanish. There are a ton of countries with Spanish as their native language.

[Lionwoman]

Dutch, japanese... are beautiful

[Deleted]

Chinese, it's the most useful

Or if one of those languages: Norwegian, that way you can easily migrate to Norway and easier to get a job in Norway, their economy will do fine for the coming years

[Garnier Fructis]

Chinese is useful.

[Deleted]

Sorry for responding so late, but TY for for your comments!

[Deleted]

You want something that is beautiful and useful at the same time and it has to be some Germanic language?
Well, since we can't say that "this language is the most beautiful, no discussion", it has to be at least useful. There aren't many Germanic languages that are very useful (sorry to say that) outside of German (that you already know) and English (same). IF you want to move to Scandinavian countries, then ofc you know which one to choose. It's not a good idea to choose Danish if you want to live in Sweden.
So let's say that it might be something different, yet not totally alien. Your choices are pretty much Romance and Slavic languages.
Romance languages: Spanish.
Slavic languages: This might be harder. Russian is no doubt the most useful of all because of huge amount of speakers, the problem is that even though other Slavs might (partly) understand Russian, they won't (sadly) like it. Then there are smaller Slavic countries that have retained their original Slavic vocabulary - or it's better to say most of it. You will be able to speak with most Slavs and learn their languages pretty fast and they won't view you as an enemy (no colonialism). Cons - you will hardly meet native speakers outside of their own countries.

[Deleted]

Learn Antwaarps.

[Yvaelle]

English and French are useful, the prettiness of French is entirely subject upon your accent in French - Parisian is generally quite pretty - Quebecois not so much ;p I'm native english, but apparently I speak French with a parisian/marseilles accent - which I guess is good!

My mom speaks Norwegian (I speak a little bit) - it's quite pretty, I think I'd recommend it for prettiness

[Deleted]

This is bullshit. In modern day Slavic countries, people either love Russian because they are nostalgic about communist times, or take Russian as one of the millions of other languages out there without any prejudice. This might not apply for Belarus and today's Ukraine (for obvious reasons, but last year, in Zakarpatska oblast at least, people were friendly towards Russian), I am not sure, but applies for all the West-oriented countries.

Otherwise the post is right, you really want to learn a Germanic language for no apparent reason, but you already know the two important ones. I would recommend either
a) actually having a reason to learn a Scandinavian language (will to move and work or something)
b) learning a universally useful language (Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, ...)

Don't get me wrong, I love learning languages too, and if you really like Germanic ones, that's your preference. But in your place, I would start by learning a language of a different family, it will really enhance your possibilities and world perception.

Sure, it's not like majority would hate it, but I said that because there's a lot of people in our countries that don't like Russians because of socialism in our countries, massacres in Poland and Ukraine, supporting of Serbs and recent demonizing of Russians doesn't help either. It might be rare to meet such people, or more common in certain areas, but my point was that it can't happen with any other Slavic language (let's ignore SCB).

[Puupi]

In addition to Wilian's; some more Finnish complexity:


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English vs Finnish vs Swedish:

A small poem in each language

English: "Island, island, grassy island; grassy island's maiden."

Finnish: "Saari, saari, heinäsaari; heinäsaaren neito."

Swedish: "Ö, ö, hö ö; hö ö mö"

[Terahertz]

If you're going for a beautiful and useful language then I suggest against learning Dutch. Dutch is really not useful whatsoever as there are only a few places where you can use it. And even in those places you can use english without any trouble.

As for Dutch being beautiful... ehh.. I guess that's your opinion. If you ask me it's the most horrid, rough and boring language both to speak and write.

[Puupi]

If you're going for a beautiful and useful language then I suggest against learning Dutch. Dutch is really not useful whatsoever as there are only a few places where you can use it. And even in those places you can use english without any trouble.

As for Dutch being beautiful... ehh.. I guess that's your opinion. If you ask me it's the most horrid, rough and boring language both to speak and write.

Dutch is the most commonly used and useful language when buying weed or prostitutes. Hilariously, neither of those activities require any lingual capabilities, all you need is body language.

[Deleted]

Usefull : English Spanish Chinese French Arabic
Beautiful : French

[Puupi]

Usefull : English Spanish Chinese French Arabic
Beautiful : French

I wouldn't call French that useful. Swap French with Russian and your list is good

[Fleckens]

If you want useful avoid Scandinavian languages, most of them speak english already, no?

Kinda yeah, pretty much only the older generation that might not speak english.

I don't really see the point of learning a language just for the sake of it though. Unless you have a huge amount of motivation it's very hard to learn a language without a good reason. I suppose some languages are easier than others though, I'm currently learning japanese which is completely different from Danish/English, and it's really tough. Although i suppose Dutch/scandinavian languages shouldn't be too hard, seeing how close they and english/german are in a lot of ways. I never studied german but i can understand a bit and i doubt learning the basics would be too difficult, so i guess the opposite of learning a scandinavian language while knowing german and english shouldn't be too bad either, as a lot of words and grammar are similar.

[TrumpIsPresident]

English.

It is the language of business and should the Earth ever agree to a planetary standard language, it will be English.

[Binko]

A great number of people you'll meet in Germany, Holland or the Scandinavian countries will probably speak english as well as you do. And they are impatient with poor attempts to blunder through their language and will just switch to English. A number of people I've known have mentioned how hard it is to practice German with the Germans, for example.

The French will generally treat you like shit if you speak their language poorly. On the other hand, Italians and Japanese are usually very happy to see a foreigner trying at all. Personally I want to learn a language where native speakers are pleased to talk to me.

[Puupi]

English.

It is the language of business and should the Earth ever agree to a planetary standard language, it will be English.

Wait until there are 2 billion Chinese, 3 billion Indians etc. When world population is around 13-14 billion and there are 300 million native English speakers, even suggesting English as a planetary language is a joke.