What language is everyone getting for medical school?

[umean2tellme]

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I live in Miami so I've been working on Spanish b/c of all the hispanic people that live in south florida. But all the anime makes we want to learn japanese despite never wanting to practice medicine in japan.

 

[Powdermonkey]

Spanish, Italian or Russian. I havent decided yet.

 

[DocInProgress]

the language that chewbacca speaks (serious)

 

[slim78]

I speak Spanish. I'm definitely going to take the medical Spanish elective at my school though because I don't have the medical vocab I'd like in English, let alone in Spanish.

 

[DrMidlife]

My Spanish is starting to not suck, but now I'm jonesing for French & Arabic. I want to work for MSF or PIH. Most aid work is on the other hemisphere, and there's not much Spanish there. Sigh. I only know cuss words in French, and not even any really good ones.

 

[speeter]

I was going to get some spanish but it's too expensive.

 

[Tachymeter]

I know some french, but I'd really like to know Japanese as well. Anime FTW.

 

[theserbatron]

i speak Serbian, Spanish, some Greek, but have my sights set on the Rosetta Stone Farsi CD-Rom. their language learning programs are great - super intuitive

 

[Darktide]

I'm in german right now and love it... so i'll continue =)

 

[gasapple]

I'm in german right now and love it... so i'll continue =)

Nice. German is next on my list. I'm never going to be in Bopard or Salzburg again without the ability to say something more than "Grüss Got!" to passersby!

My Latin and French are good - Spanish in undergrad but suffering in light of little to no practice. Oh well.

 

[LauraDO]

I'm fluent in spanish and so therefore can understand italian/french fairly well, I'd love to become more proficient in those

 

[ellinopedo182]

i speak fluent Greek, German and English.

I speak a little Italiano (Lived there), Srpski, and Espanol.

I am currently learning Assyrian and Arabic (I can read and write in both languages, just learning to speak... know more assyrian then Arabic currently).

 

[schussboarder]

im going to try and go with the ever popular American sign language

 

[sunny08]

I used to be fluent in French, but you use it or lose it. I didn't use it for the past four years...so most of it's gone. I'm trying to get it back. Also, VERY determined to learn Spanish. I demand to become fluent. I'm dreaming of Russian, Korean, and Farsi, though. Two at a time may be my limit, though. So, French and Spanish for now.

 

[umean2tellme]

Taking linguistics this semster really gets me in the language learning mood. But japanese is so much harder to learn when you speak and Indo-European language. It would be so much easier to learn sanskrit or hindi or something like that before japanese.

 

[HrvatskiDoktor]

I'm not fluent in Spanish, but I was a step below it then decided to study German. I'm also learning Croatian and have always wanted to learn Russian, ASL, and whatever language of the people group I end up working with.

I took an AMAZING class that taught how to learn a language. We used Somali as an example for the class, but it was a great method to learn how to immerse yourself in a language to learn to speak it fluently from someone who already speaks that language.

Latin and Hebrew would be fun to learn too!

 

[Moshe Rabbenu]

C++

 

[MossPoh]

I've taken German, French, and Spanish. I an also read dutch/flemish and a bit of swedish.

 

[ATrain]

C++

<rimshot>

 

[Moshe Rabbenu]

Haha, seriously though, try the fish. I'll be here all week.

I know Hebrew, German, and Arabic, but I need to brush up on the German and Arabic. I'd like to learn some Italian too. I think I want to learn every language except Spanish.

 

[ATrain]

I'm pretty sure that if you want to practice medicine in the US, Spanish would be the most valuable language after English

 

[Moshe Rabbenu]

Yeah, but it sucks.

 

[theserbatron]

i speak fluent Greek, German and English.

I speak a little Italiano (Lived there), Srpski, and Espanol.

I am currently learning Assyrian and Arabic (I can read and write in both languages, just learning to speak... know more assyrian then Arabic currently).

serbian, represent. 👍

 

[ATrain]

Yeah, but it sucks.

Not for most native English speakers. I would think Hebrew would be much more difficult. Not even getting into pronounciation, the vowels alone are enough to turn your head upside down, never mind reading right to left...

 

[ellinopedo182]

Not for most native English speakers. I would think Hebrew would be much more difficult. Not even getting into pronounciation, the vowels alone are enough to turn your head upside down, never mind reading right to left...

its a lot easier than you think. I learned to read and write in Arabic first, then Assyrian and Aramaic, and then Hebrew (though i stopped halfway through, had to study for mcats and never started it up again). Its really easy and it gets easier with practice. I write and speak Greek, so picking up cyrillic was easy, and learning serbian was fun, plus i had a lot of serbian/croatians/bosnian/macedonian/montenegrans (LOL) friends to practice on.

 

[ATrain]

its a lot easier than you think. I learned to read and write in Arabic first, then Assyrian and Aramaic, and then Hebrew (though i stopped halfway through, had to study for mcats and never started it up again). Its really easy and it gets easier with practice. I write and speak Greek, so picking up cyrillic was easy, and learning serbian was fun, plus i had a lot of serbian/croatians/bosnian/macedonian/montenegrans (LOL) friends to practice on.

I didn't mean to imply that it was impossible, but compared to Spanish I think it is cleary more of an edjustment for native English speakers

 

[ellinopedo182]

I didn't mean to imply that it was impossible, but compared to Spanish I think it is cleary more of an edjustment for native English speakers

u r right, it is harder for native english speakers. but still not impossible if you put the time and effort into it.

 

[ATrain]

u r right, it is harder for native english speakers. but still not impossible if you put the time and effort into it.

Without a doubt. My point was that for most pre-meds, Spanish would be both easier to learn and more useful in the field

 

[Moshe Rabbenu]

Not for most native English speakers. I would think Hebrew would be much more difficult. Not even getting into pronounciation, the vowels alone are enough to turn your head upside down, never mind reading right to left...

Hebrew wasn't difficult for me to learn. Spanish wouldn't be either, I just think the language is boring.

Also, with Hebrew, you don't really use the vowels in day to day life. I couldn't tell you all of them off the top of my head because I don't use them.

 

[Moshe Rabbenu]

its a lot easier than you think. I learned to read and write in Arabic first, then Assyrian and Aramaic, and then Hebrew (though i stopped halfway through, had to study for mcats and never started it up again). Its really easy and it gets easier with practice. I write and speak Greek, so picking up cyrillic was easy, and learning serbian was fun, plus i had a lot of serbian/croatians/bosnian/macedonian/montenegrans (LOL) friends to practice on.

Learning Hebrew was easy for you because you already knew Arabic, and especially Aramaic. Once you're familiar with languages of that structure, the rest are fairly easy to learn. Arabic wasn't difficult at all for me, since I already spoke Hebrew.

 

[TexasTriathlete]

Klingon. Because I want to have one of these when I get married:

http://www2.b3ta.com/mirror/klingonwedding/

 

[ellinopedo182]

Learning Hebrew was easy for you because you already knew Arabic, and especially Aramaic. Once you're familiar with languages of that structure, the rest are fairly easy to learn. Arabic wasn't difficult at all for me, since I already spoke Hebrew.

i think arabic was easier for me to learn as far as writing then hebrew... i started getting into some of those vowels for writing in hebrew, and it does get quite difficult. But knowing aramaic/arabic helped a lot with hebrew, like the arabic s (not the strong S) is similar to the hebrew SH. The hebrew m is very close to the assyrian/aramaic m.

 

[Moshe Rabbenu]

Really? I found the Hebrew alphabet much easier than the Arabic alphabet. The letters are all pretty distinct. I found that some of the Arabic letters looked very similar. Also, learning the vowels is pretty much pointless. I learned to read it without learning the vowels; I learned them later. No one uses them when writing, and most of the time you will see things written without them, except in some formal circumstances or certain exceptions (e.g., the siddur has all the vowels, but most books don't. Most signs and menus, etc. don't have vowels, and no one writes them).