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BTW, feel free to leave comments if you think there's another I should look at. Those are just the ones on the Rosetta Stone disc that I have.

Dutch is the only real option.

Dutch is the only real option.

Of course you'd say that. You only want me to learn dutch so you can kick me out of iFOK and force me into FOK!

Of course you'd say that. You only want me to learn dutch so you can kick me out of iFOK and force me into FOK!

There goes my plan

I'd vote for finnish, but that is not in the list so I have to say german. Cool language and really usefull if you wanna travel in Europe.

I voted German. After spending 20 years over there, I had to learn it. It's quite the challenge

On the list, I'd have to say Dutch or German. Off the list, Japanese is awesome. :<

French certainly.

French would be my first choice on your list, but Latin would be a good first language to study if you are going to study other languages later.

I voted Latin because of the subtitle besides it making me chuckle. I'd be for Spanish if you live in America, if you live in Europe, probably Chinese, or Dutch.

Swedish, so you too can suffer our "grammar".

It really depends a lot on what you're planning to do with it and your background. Since you mentioned a German heritage, I'm guessing you don't have any cyrilic experience, so Russian would be hard for you, but it is a very useful language to have.

The Romance languages (Spanish, French, Italian) are also very useful (Particularly Spanish if you are in America), they have the added advantage of making it much easier to jump from one to the other if you want to learn more than one language. Plus, they are excellent for travelling in many places around the world.

German would probably be the easiest, and is also widly spoken in central Europe.

I tend to disagree with Letum. Learning the Cyrillic alphabet takes about a week, and once that's done, you're home free. Russian grammar is also quite regular, unlike German grammar, which is the work of Satan.

I'd vote for finnish, but that is not in the list so I have to say german. Cool language and really usefull if you wanna travel in Europe.

Finnish is an epic language. Too bad I'm not fluent.

Other than that I voted French, German, and Russian, because they were the common languages I enjoyed learning the most. Would also agree on Dutch although I haven't learnt much of it myself. I do know some basics like "goede/gooie morgen," "dag," and "dank jij veld" (sp?) but little else.

That said, in my linguistics endeavours I've encountered languages that appealed to me far more Just don't learn Chechen. That language is hard on the throat and then some. Kalaallisut (aka Greenlandic), Bashkir, and Yoruba are some of the more interesting ones.

Learn Irish and you can have no worries that you'll ever be put on the spot and have to use it

Failpoll for no Afrikaans option. Like Dutch, but easier.

I voted for Dutch because it's a European language I'd learn if I wasn't more interested in Asian ones.

The fact that Italian has only one vote (mine) is a travesty. All shall fall before it.