What languages have good literature?
I'm looking to learn a new language, but I live in the middle of the agricultural wonderland and I don't travel, so I'd just be reading.
My native language is French. I also speak English like everybody else and I started learning Swedish a while ago for some reason. Did some latin along time ago too, but I'm not really lookin to learn dead languages right now I think.
Bonus question : what language has the best literature?
What language has the best literature?
French.
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People are going to tell you to either learn German or Spanish, and those are the two best languages for literature you don't already know
I would personally recommend Spanish because I find it both prettier and I find Cervantes, Marquez, and Borges far more compelling than any gross German
As a native English speaker I think we have the best literature
>Russian
>French
>English
>German
in that order
>Russian
So you can be even more bored when reading Dostoevsky
Spanish is what I was most thinking of learning.
That or Italian since both would be pretty easy from French.
Did italians ever write anything good?
I think it sounds better than Spanish, but that may be because I associate Spanish with those trashy venezuelan guys that invade the fields in the summer and annoying TV shows characters.
the modern Italian corpus is seriously lacking compared to Spanish in my opinion. You have greats like Eco of course, but most great Italian lit is hundreds of years old and the language really isn't the same
If you're willing to masochistically torture yourself in a cruel, masturbatory sounding of the mind's urethra, try mandarin. but if you're not that crazy, try arabic.
it has many benefits:
1) incredibly large and varied vocabulary rich in nuanced dialects. does it mean "nephew" in Egypt? surprise! it means "multiple partner sodomy" in Kuwait.
2) phonetics that are naturally conducive to poetry and song. strike up a chord, pick up a sword, and serenade that infidel before cleansing the caliphate of their filthy presence.
3) a broad abundance of poetry, philosophy, fiction, and histories, all containing a significant amount of multiple partner sodomy.
4) a grammar that includes complex, 4-condition declensions, 12 pronouns with multiple contextual forms, multiple conjugation forms, twisted conditional syntax, a number system that is so pants on head ass backwards frustrating, and an entire new alphabet. Also, any native speaker you ever encounter will tell you that everything you say is wrong in some way.
How can English even compete?