Best foreign languages?

[every1blowz]

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[Shaz]

Arabic is badass (I'd suggest you learn Arabic just so you could read arabic poetry; even mediocre arabic poetry far surpasses the greatest american/english poets, like Whitman)

Second to that, German and Russian are equal in my eyes. But in terms of relevance in the USofA, I'd say spanish.

 

[EllieElle]

Greek! This is the language for medical terminology. Sorry to break the news to everyone, but Greeks did begin medicine. Thank Hippocrates 😉

Are you kidding me? What about fossa, rugae, and pilli? These are all Latin words, not Greek, as are many other words in anatomy, etc. I'm glad someone else addressed the issue of the Greeks "inventing" medicine 😱 I love the Greeks and Romans, but let's not be too Eurocentric, here!

As for taking Latin or Greek, you'd need at least three years before you'll learn much of the vocabulary that's used in medical terminology. I end up getting out my gigantic Greek dictionary to read ancient medical texts because some of the vocab is so unusual (and that's the vocab that ends up in the medical words we have today)... same deal with Latin, but to a lesser extent.

Take Spanish 🙂 Four years of Greek and nine of Latin, and you can bet your bottom dollar I'll be in a medical Spanish class when I head to school next fall!