Greek and Latin are overrated. Here are the top 5 Yea Forums languages:

i dont do 3DPD :3

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i understand

God I wish I had another kon season:(

Yeah no. That simply isn’t possible unless you have von Neumann x Einstein level IQ. Especially if you’re past peak language acquisition age. Perhaps you could get a grasp of one them in a year, but all five of them? No.

>read classical Japanese Folklore
Why would anyone ever do that

>french
yes
>chinese
yes
>portuguese
yes
>german
yes
>japanese
kill yourself

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you gave no specific examples to back up any of your claims

rude

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>French
>strongest literary tradition

1. Finnish- ascend to shitposting godhood, enjoy the Kalevala in the original, and speak the beautiful language of the angels themselves.

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ahem...
>Proust
>Flaubert
>Moliere
>Hugo
>Rabelais
>Montaigne
>Chretian
>Zola
>Ballsack
>Baudelaire
>Rimbaud
>Verlaine
>Huysmans
>Genet
>Valery
>Mallarme
>Verne
>Dumas
>Maupassant
>Racine
>Celine
>Artaud
>Camus
>Breton
>Pascal
>Nerval
>Cocteau
>Roussel
>Perec
>Queneau
>Chateaubriand
>Lautreamont
>Vigny
>La Rouchefoucald
>Stendhal
>Camus
>Colette
>Duras
>Fayette
>Fournier
>Gide
>Sand
>Sade
>Barbey d'Aurevilly
>Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
>Robbe-Grillet
>Mauriac
>Schwob
>Jarry
>Mirbeau
>Barbusse
>Bataille
>Gracq
>Daumal
>Anouilh
>Ionesco
>Klossowski
>Breton
>Des Forêts
>Ponge
>Perse
>Bonnefoy
>Radiguet
>Butor
>Sollers
>Guyotat
>Tournier
>Malroux
>Houellebecq
>Bergson
>Deleuze
>Derrida
>Foucault
>Baudrillard
>Lyotard
>Lacan
>Barthes
>Blanchot
>Guattari
>Levinas
>Levi-Strauss
>Bachelard
>Merlau-Ponty
>Weil

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based weeb

I've learnt French, and I've been learning German and Japanese. Portuguese is extremely similar to Spanish, which I've already mastered. It'd take me 4 months at most to master Portuguese.

how did you do it

Yes?

The cultures that actually have a literary tradition:
Anglosphere
Greater Germany
France
Russia
Japan
So yeah learn these languages first unless you have a literary idol like Pessoa

>peak language acquisition age
are you von Neumann ÷ Einstein level IQ?
Adults are smarter, now start learning user

I'm HSK3 Mandarin, learning Russian too. Aussie

Definitely either French or Latin for me because most references and quotations are attributed to them in english literature.

Japanese surely as their culture is so unique and different from ours.

Here's a better ranking, top 10 languages:
#1 Papiamento
#2 American Sign Language
#3 Lojban
#4 Medieval Latin
#5 Rotokos
#6 Early Modern English
#7 Icelandic
#8 Lithuanian
#9 Serbio-Croatian
#10 German

I digress, and would instead replace Japanese with Russian.

>5. Japanese- to watch anime and read manga in their intended languages

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You can became competent in them all within a year, it's much easier now that we have internet access a heap of content, but you won't have the required grip on them that allows proper appreciation of literature (in other words, reading a translation will give you more).

>You can became competent in them all within a year
no you can't.

You can become the polyglot fag that picks up every girl in the bar, don't do that. If you want to learn a language take it seriously. Both German and Japanese took me less than a year where I can read literature (somewhat painfully).

This, OP you are a retarded weaboo, and not even the good kind.

Adults are smarter but they don't have the neuroplasticity required to quickly learn languages like children can. Long story short, children's brains are fundamentally wired differently than adults' in a way that greatly facilitates language-learning. You can do it as an adult, but it'll be a much more arduous process.

Also, I generally believe that unless you actually spend time conversing with people who speak that language natively (i.e. not just passively receiving it via text or audio) then you won't really have "mastered" it. Of course, if all you're interested in is reading then that may or may not make a difference to you. Languages are tools like any other.

If you want to spend 3 years to learn to form basic sentences, 5 years to communicate properly, 10 years to express complex thoughts, 15 years to read sophisticated literature while having no adult obligations you can buy into all that 'learn like a native' bullcrap.

Otherwise start learning the theorist's way, you might not 'master' it according to your definition but you will take more out of it than even natives and you might eventually write in it like Beckett, Cioran and countless others (they all had their reasons). And no, languages are more than tools, and it takes a non-native to appreciate all the character and subtlety to it.

>5. Japanese- to watch anime and read manga in their intended languages
Kindly kill yourself you weeaboo faggot

> Greek and Latin are overrated

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