Disclaimer: full fluency, no studying required, but knowledge of the written language is not included.
I’m from the future. Go to China.
Italian is “La vita é bella”. This is Spanish. ಠᴗಠ
Chinese simply by the fact that more people in the world speak Chinese. Plus, I’d be able to bettwr understand my favorite singer Jam Hsiao.
I don’t know enough about the Italian language, any pop culture, or have enough interest in Italy to wanna be fluent in Italian.
Chinese because Italian would be a lot easier to learn on my own.
Definitely Chinese preferably Mandarin since I already know some.
Probaly Jomon (i.e. whatever was spoken by some of the first people to inhabit Japan).
God, Chinese is so much more useful. Italian is virtually useless, in fact. 59 million people live there, 1.4 billion live in China alone, not to mention the the emigrants.
I love my Italian homies, but yeah.
Doesn’t China have more than one spoken language, though? If I get all of them, Chinese. Otherwise Italian because then I’d have Spanish as well, I know toddler Spanish already and the grammar is the same.
I was being intentionally broad but yeah. Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, whatever the Weigers speak, and a bunch of regional dialects/languages. That’s my understanding at least, without googling it.
From what I was taught, most people in china primarily speak mandarin or can speak mandarin as well as another dialect. Mandarin is the one you want.
Eh, I actually want to visit Italy one day. I’ve never had the desire to go to China, and a lot of stories I’ve heard from people who did visit for tourism or business were not making me want to go.
I’ve been and thought it was splendid.
Chooses Chinese:
- Monkey’s paw curls
- Congratulations, you learned the Min dialect of Chinese!
If I was a young man again, Italian. Because aside from French, it does the most for ladies; especially those that don’t understand the language.
At my current age, Chinese. Because it will come in the most useful for WWIII. After all, when China finally invades Taiwan, western powers are going to go all racist again with internment camps to hold visibly ethnic people, and not all of them will know English well. They will need translator advocates.
Chinese. Already know multiple Indo-European languages. Would be cool to know other language families, I only speak languages from two right now.
Italian, because i already know chinese, and since written knowledge isn’t instantly gained it didn’t help much in my case.
中文
Celestial.
Kind of an easy question for me.
I’ve studied Italian before and while I dropped it pretty early, of the language classes I took I found it pretty comfortable to learn. If I wanted to become fluent I feel confident I could. I’ve actually been debating whether to take it or a French course as a hobby lately.
With Chinese I’ve had difficulty even differentiating words or learning basic phrases from friends who speak it. I don’t think I could become fluent even if I dedicated myself. Getting it by magic is the only way I’m going to learn it. It’s also by far the more useful of the two languages.
Chinese, preferably Cantonese, just because I wanna be able to visit my best friend in Hong Kong and get around without any sorta language barrier.
On the other hand Hong Kong has a lot of English mixed in due to tourism (and its history) so you won’t fare too bad even if you didnt know how to speak
