What language should I learn?

Question

First off, English is my native language (I live in America). I'm also learning French in school so I'm not fluent but I know quite a bit.
Secondly, I can't roll my r's. I'd rather learn a language where the trill r isn't a big part of it (Spanish and Russian aren't on my list of languages to learn just to give you an idea ;D).
And finally, I'd like to learn a language similar to the English structure. I don't have a problem with Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, etc. I'd just rather learn something from one of the European countries. Even something like Icelandic would be okay...
Could someone please help me figure out what a good language would be?
P.S. I'm 14 and don't mind putting in the effort to learn a new language. I just can't buy any special software or anything like that. This is more of a "I'd like to do this in my spare time but it may also benefit me in the future" sort of thing.

Answer 1

italian..

Answer 2

We are on the same boat! I speak English, Spanish, Portuguese and I'm taking French and learning Korean as well! I too, am in love with European languages, but I don't have a problem rolling the r nor gargling it. I highly recommend Italian and German. European Languages are the best! :) Arabic, Chinese, and Russian are the hardest languages in the world. Best of luck!

Answer 3

German is a good language to learn. The sentence structure is similar, and there are a lot of false cognates and cognates. Germans have really good music, which is good to help with vocab.

Turkish is another good one. It doesn't have gender (he and she are the same word). The only thing is that the structure is subject-object-verb. It's spoken a bit slower than English and has funny words.

Answer 4

How about Italian, it's a great language, and as per your needs and enthusiasm also its fits in. Also, I would like to tell you that you are doing a great thing by learning different languages, you are just 14 and this interest of yours is going to take you long way(hopefully) into learning many languages, and I am sure it will be very helpful to you in future.

Answer 5

If I were you, I'd keep studying French. It's a good language to know, even if it's not used as much in America as Spanish is.



If you don't want to learn Spanish, Italian is a good language to learn. It's fairly similar to English and as far as I know, you don't have to roll your r's.

Answer 6

Icelandic has trilled Rs and some unusual constructions, so even though it's not that distantly related to English, I'd recommend against it, given your constraints.

Answer 7

Languages from european countries aren't much different... But in my opinion I think you should learn Japanese theres an app called human Japanese so you can just learn japanese when you're bored.