German or Portuguese?

Pisces   Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:02 am GMT
Which should I learn? I love them both, but have enough time only for one.
answer   Mon Apr 26, 2010 6:40 am GMT
Learn Dutch.
Chiesha   Mon Apr 26, 2010 6:41 am GMT
Learn Portuguese（Brazil）
Gate-crasher   Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:53 am GMT
Learn Spanish, it's basically the same thing as Portuguese, but more useful than both Portuguese and German.
Franco   Mon Apr 26, 2010 11:00 am GMT
Learn German (Namibia)
bill   Mon Apr 26, 2010 12:04 pm GMT
Learn German (Tokio Hotel)
Virgo   Mon Apr 26, 2010 1:35 pm GMT
German (Marlene Dietrich, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Martin Heidegger, Immanuel Kant, Gottfried Leibniz, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Otto von Bismarck, Angela Merkel, Heinrich Böll, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Hermann Hesse, Erich Maria Remarque, Friedrich Schiller, Albert Schweitzer)
Virgo   Mon Apr 26, 2010 1:39 pm GMT
Also, if you learn German, you will find your way in Dutch and Swedish.
Matematik   Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:21 pm GMT
<<you will find your way in Dutch and Swedish. >>

No more so than speaking English.
Libra   Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:31 pm GMT
Learn Polari, it's more useful than Portuguese.
hella   Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:51 pm GMT
<<you will find your way in Dutch and Swedish. >>

"No more so than speaking English."


A thousand times more, actually.
Penetra   Mon Apr 26, 2010 4:42 pm GMT
Speaking German in Holland helps you a lot if you want to get a good beating.
alicia   Mon Apr 26, 2010 6:46 pm GMT
These days are over.
Matematik   Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:15 pm GMT
<<Speaking German in Holland helps you a lot if you want to get a good beating. >>

Lol, a beating from the Dutch? Those pussies couldn't beat their way out of a wet paper bag.
Matematik   Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:21 pm GMT
<<A thousand times more, actually. >>

Nonsense. A knowledge of German will help you a bit more with Dutch vocabulary, but in terms of grammar knowing English is adiquate preparation as none of the complex aspects of German are present in Dutch.

As for Swedish, that is even further removed from German than Dutch is, and I would say is more closely related to English than High German. It is even more grammatically simplified than English.