Norwegian… because I am forced to live here and being completely fluent rather than sounding like a bit of an idiot would help me with study and/or get a better job and in every day dealings in life…. like today, when I get another reminder in my email for something that looks urgent, but for the life of me, I can’t work out the language well enough to figure out what the fuck they are on about.
I have been taking classes in American Sign Language for some years, going into the advanced class this month. I do not know people who use it all the time so between sessions of classes I lose some. If you don’t use it you do lose it. It is a beautiful language.
I wish I could be a little more like my sister, she speaks ASL, Spanish, Swiss and French. She speaks Swiss and French well enough to teach medical massage therapy in Europe.
I can get by on English (by wildly gesturing and speaking really, really loudly- it helps others comprehend so much better!) and French. I would learn to speak the Russian dialect, and it’s street jargen also. You get farther when you do so.
I would probably have to go with Arabic. I’d like to know first hand what Islamic militants are saying, and their fellow Arabs response.
It would also be an excellent paying job at present, and yes, I’m willing to relocate.
However, like @Earthbound_Misfit, “I’m not good at learning languages so this isn’t going to happen!”