Disclaimer: full fluency, no studying required, but knowledge of the written language is not included.

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Seeing as I am already Italian I suppose I will pick Chinese.

Also I guess I’m going to be that guy. “La vida es bella” is not Italian, it’s Spanish lol.

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God damn it lol

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16 points

Living la vida loca

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That’s hilarious.

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came here to point that out as well lol

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Could you choose Italian and become your countrys best linguist by objectively being twice as good at the language as any other native speaker? Or does it turn into Vulgar latin?

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29 points

Chinese because Italian would be a lot easier to learn on my own.

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Chooses Chinese:

  1. Monkey’s paw curls
  2. Congratulations, you learned the Min dialect of Chinese!
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'3. You unlearned all other languages

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Chinese, preferably Cantonese, just because I wanna be able to visit my best friend in Hong Kong and get around without any sorta language barrier.

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On the other hand Hong Kong has a lot of English mixed in due to tourism (and its history) so you won’t fare too bad even if you didnt know how to speak

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Learning spoken Chinese without learning written Chinese is basically like only knowing half a language. Whereas learning spoken Italian and being familiar with the Roman alphabet would basically mean you could read it too, at least at a basic level. So much as I think it would be useful good to magically learn Chinese (which I am incidentally currently working on), the constraint of only being able to speak it tilts me in favour of Italian.

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