Your Language Rank
=>I don't care because I'm not planning to speak it one day lol <=
Is this worth knowing for me? I merely reduced your claim of being able to say 'hello/good day' in German.I don't care about your personal 'life'.
Ich kann nicht sehr gut Deutsch sprechen aber Deutsch gefällt mir
Native: Japanese
1, English
2, Chinese
3, German
4, Spanish
5, French
6, Portuguese
7, Korean
In Brazil, there're many Japanese immigrants living and working.
This is my "chart"
1 English (the most important!!!)
2 Spanish (I tkink, it's the 2nd important, but in Spain there isn't only the Spanish(Castillian), but they also speak Catalan, Basque etc.)
3 French (the old Lingua Franca; i think it isn't correct to say that NOW is in decline, because French lost many learners in the years 70', 80' 90',and only in US. And I think, now the decline is "end" and french will be in 3rd position forever.
4 Arabic Because it's got many native-speakers, but itsn't very important and it's very difficult to learn.
5 Mandarin I know that in China there isn't onlt the Mandarin so it isn't correct to say that 1,000,000,000 of people speak it.
6 German It's speak only in Germany, Austria and in a part of Switzerland
7 Portuguese it's speak only in Portugal and Brazil
8 Hindi In India, English is an official language and there are many dialects very different from Hindi, so i think that very few Indian speak Hindi
9 Italian It's my language and i think it's very unuseful! In fact Italian is speak only in Italy and in a small region of switzerland (Ticino)
Excuse me for my English!!!!!!!!
@Marco
About Italian... What about Slovenia? There's also San Marino and Croatia... and also a significant amount of speakers in Malta and Libya.
inutile = not useful... "I do not think it's very useful"
San Marino is a very small state, it's got only 40,000 inhabitants, in slovenia and Croatia Italian it isn't an official language (however I think it's official in Istria, a part of Croatia), and in malta, they speak Maltese and English, but I know there Italian is "famous". But in general it's got a very small number of speakers.
@Tiffany. Are you Italian?
My language rank:
1.) Chickasaw
2.) Mongolian
3.) Old Norse
4.) Coptic
5.) Elvish
6.) Piedmontese
7.) Icelandic (not quite as important as Old Norse, but close)
Vital languages for dynamic folk:
1) Kashubian
2) Faorese
3) Apache
4) Manx
5) Livonian
6) Carib
7) An Indian tribal language
8) KhoiKhoi
9) Any made up language
10) Whale
@Marco
Sono una straniera, ma mio marito e' italiano. In realta', italiano e' una lingua ufficiale in Slovenia, ma come Croatia, solamente in qualche provincia (tre).