Question:“On a language to learn”
On a language to learn
A language is not chosen by usefulness. It is chosen by whether there is someone you wish to speak with in it. Where there is a person, the words come.
Three descend. In the first month learn only greetings, numbers and the names of foods. That alone is already a journey.
- JapaneseA neighbor that shares borrowed characters, so the first step is the nearest.
- SpanishLearn one tongue and the doors of twenty countries open.
- ChineseThe language of the most mouths, and every character is already half familiar.
In Egypt, Herodotus heard the stories of the priests through the mouths of interpreters.