I know some American Sign Language, because my brother is deaf. I have been taking French for 5 years. I find it easy to write 40 minute essays in French and write an entire paper without a dictionary. I was wondering which language should I learn? Gaelic or Norwegian. Both are dear to me, because they are major parts of my heritage. My last name is Norwegian. And I am the only person I know who actually celebrates St. Patrick’s day, with a tradition dinner.
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Norwgian is a more spoken language, the celtic languages are not really spoken anymore, I mean you wont hear a welsh scottish or an irish speaking their gaelic…. from exprience at last.
go for norwegian, after all you can identify with the language by your last name
good luck
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Spanish it will help you the most in the work force in the future!
Gaelic sounds interesting, but Norwegian does too. Go with whichever is more dear to your heart.
I am also learning a little sign language. My brother lost most of his hearing about 15 years after having cobalt treatments for a brain tumor.
Norwegian.
I don’t think either language will be terribly useful. There are very few Gaelic speakers and it’s only worth learning if you can go to a class – do you have this option? As for Norwegian, being a Scandinavian language, it’s pretty hard with grammatical cases and most native speakers will have a very good grasp of English. Go for something more widely spoken such as German or Chinese – certainly useful for the future.
P.S. Since when has St. Patrick’s day had a tradtional dinner? None of us do that in the UK!
Norwegian, as it is so much easier to find people with whom to talk it than Gaelic. It would have the added advantage of giving you access to Swedish and Danish.
I would think with the heavy immigration from Mexico and
the Ukrane, that learning either one of those languages
would be valuable in daily conversation if you plan to work
in a vocation where you would be interacting with people
from those countries. Or for just your own knowlege,
regardless of your job occupation. In grocery stores in the
city where I reside, both nationalities are seen shopping, and they never speak in English. So to be conversive, it would be
very helpful to understand what they are saying should they
try to communicate with you.
The same would be beneficial if you live in an area where
there are many Asian dialects. Our daughter took Swedish
in school because it came easy to her. And she has had no
chance to use it in all the years since learning to speak
comfortably with people. Except once, while in school.
I definately see the need to learn one of the languages used by immigrants that have been migrating here over the last five years en masse. Sooner or later, we may all be having to learn one of them, as the immigrants aren’t in any hurry to learn our national language.