What language should I learn for travelling in Europe?
Feb 17
snowchik asked:
I’m planning on spending a lot of time in the future travelling through europe. What language will be the most widspread and useful? I’m thinking about French, Italian or German.
I already speak english
probably french!
English for business, Italian or French for romance.
I think english is basic for all countries, except for France, they are special people they speak only frech, spanish the 3er second language in the world and if you want to vivir la vida loca this is the only one, of course don´t forget the german language. Resume: Spanish (Spain, some words are similar for pontuguese, italian and even french words), English (some words are similar for frenchs and spanish vowels) and finally the german language used in Germany, Holland and all these specific part of Europe.
English is always spoken, but you can try spanish or french..
Take care..
Bcn_mimosa from Barcelona, Spain
you can learn a little bit of each
You speak english.You can travel in Europe or in Uganda.Not a problem,anywhere in the world poeple speak english,especialy in Europe.
French or German, but I’d say French because it was more widespread and taught in schools before the English overtook after the WWII. Since you already speak English, you’d most likely be fine anywhere you go with another one.
Russian also would be a good choice, as you’d be able to use it in most of the ex Eastern Bloc countries, but this carries risks with it. Older people can speak it, but not the younger generations. They may also be unwilling to use it. Still, Russian could help you with understanding other Slavic languages – Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbian.
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“widespread” as a native language, no one. The most spoken is German (Germany, Austria, part of Switzerlad (dialect) and part of Belgium), then French and Italian: as a native language, inside Europe they’re equally spoken, by numer of people: French is spoken in France, part of Belgium and part of Switzerland; Italian in Italy and parto of Swritzerland. But Italy do have something like 4 to 5 million (legal) citizens more than France.
Spanish is Spoken in Spain and Andorra (less than 40 million).
As a non native language, although it’s true a lot of European people can speak two or more languages, there’s almost no point in learning something more than English, since is by large the more common foreign language in every European Country. Generally the second more spoken foreign language is French, anyway.
So, you should actually find out where you’re going to stay more/which Country will be the more important for your job/life then learning the nativa language.
On the other hand: atill about “quantity” only, if you leanr Italian you’ll find more easy to learn Spanish, as well (or vice versa). Those two languages are similar although not identical. An Italian person who doesn’t speak Spanish can understand almost half of a Spanish talk, for instance.
With your English you’ll be O.K. all over Europe, but, if you want to learn a foreign language, it will be always useful.
i advise u to learn german. in central europe,all languages normally are from germanic root,so they have very similar words to german. if u go to belgium,luxembourg,poland and denmark,its likely for them to know how to speak german and even some other eastern countries.
for the mediterranean countries,english is quite enough,even if in France,they are stubburn to speak english,but a basic french isnt bad to learn,but if they see u dont know a word of french,they speak english with u,so its no prob. maybe german and spanish is better to learn. spanish dont speak much foreign languages, and its quite similar to portuguese and italian,so,u wont have a prob!
English! Anyway, make sure you learn the basics in the local language(s), such as hello, thank you, and so on.