Hello, hello, it’s Friday! Thank you to @CopperBack1 for covering me last week!
This week’s question is:
If you could wake up tomorrow fluent in any language (in addition to your native language!), which one would it be?
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LATIN, so i could Darktide harder
Otherwise, Spanish for practicality and… Lexiness 
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High Gothic, I’m sureth. Or maybe Japanese.
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With Fatshark being a Swedish company, being fluent would be helpful - but I know a little already, and English is very well spoken in Stockholm especially. Otherwise, maybe Spanish as I know it’s considered to be a super useful language!
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Chinese could also be useful considering the amount of CN players I seem to regularly encounter everywhere.
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German, followed by Italian or Hebrew maybe. I used to be A2 in Japanese and decent in Latin, but alas! If you don’t use it, you lose it!
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ill have to say i would choose a forgotten language, you’d be instantly recognized in the archeological field opening up an entire avenue of forgotten history.
but its probably Norwegian if its just about me
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For me it would either be Latin or Old Church Slavonic.
OCS is a great base for further Slavic languages study.
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Definitely Chinese. Gives me the ability to communicate with over a billion people and watch Series like the Three Kingdoms 1994 / 2010 w/o subtitles. Followed by probably Spanish / Portugese, Hindi, Russian and Arabic. Going for a more pragmatic approach which i can actually make use of IRL to communicate with as many Humans as possible and learn about the respective Cultures/History/Civilizations - just with those languages aside from those i already know (German/English) could communicate with more than half almost 2/3rd of all of Humanity.
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Japanese. Sounds cool.
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Trying to get Swedes to speak Swedish to you: Impossible 
That said, it’s usually a good idea to learn the local language. Even if people are fluent in English, they won’t be speaking English to each other, and you’ll likely be left to the side in social gatherings a bit because of that.
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Japanese, easy. Getting shortcutted to mastery with the most insane writing system in the world is too good to pass up.
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少し日本語を話せますか？
私の日本語は少々おろそかになってしまっています。
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Old norse
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I tried learning it but bounced off due to kanji causing artificial illiteracy. It is maddening to not be able to read a Japanese word I’ve known for years, but easily spot its Korean cognate in Korean text simply because they write with an alphabet.
Like, say. I’m reading a Magic card. In the Korean card I see the word 순간 마법 sun’gan ma’beob. I’d certainly heard “shunkan” and “mahou” before in anime, so…
Could I have recognized 瞬間魔法 as those familiar words? Not in a million years. Watched Frieren, “ippan kougeki mahou” stuck with me. If I opened the manga, and it didn’t have furigana, would I catch 一般攻撃魔法? Doubtful. In the Korean edition, though, 일반 공격 마법 ilban gongeyok mabeob is quite easy to spot.
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I haven’t actively learned Japanese since 2017. However, I distinctly remember Kanji causing me a lot of grief as well. Chinese characters in general make me feel dyslexic. Hiragana and Katakana were extremely easy to memorise in comparison to Kanji.
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French. I just love the way it sounds.
Or Japanese so I could watch anime without subs.
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