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I’ve only been to Ireland

so I said germany, but my family says that's the worst choice. including my family that lives in austria part time now. they are the ones who have lived in czechia for a while now, so they have also been learning german now. I started learning german for work, we all were advised to study up on other languages, lots of my old parent company coworkers are multilingual. this new parent company is just a giant global company so the language learning thing still applies. that's part of the reason. it will work for my resume to have foreign experience, langues, culture etc. that's just how cybersecurity is. so my second choice is austria, but idk, I just would rather do Germany. Czechia is awesome but my family lives there already so I have reasons to travel there, not live there, plus the language is much harder. so third choice is Netherlands probably, dutch shouldn't be too hard to transition to

oh my sister wants to move to northern Italy with me, so that's an option, she was living in Italy for school spring 2023

by northern I mean like the dolomites though, or as far north as you can go

I would never want to live in germany

they ban and censor so much foreign media

I quite liked the towns I have been to in southern germany

that was funny, and france does too

I loved seeing tweets say you cant view this in germany

I feel like the "small town" feel of Germany or France is better in the East, Poland or Romania or w/e German cities would be a hard no lmao

If I had to pick somewhere to live in mainland Europe, I'd end up in Croatia more than likely

I don't think i'd want to live in europe at all, actually

but I also have zero desire to move to Europe tbf

^^

definitely want a town, not a city, just not Munich or Berlin or something like that. I want cozy, but still night clubs and stuff to do

east germany also is tempting, never been north of munich though

still need to do some traveling I guess

I have the option to if I really wanted for work, but between not wanting to learn a shitter tier 2 or tier 3 language, and feeling like there's really no point doing that sort of career long-term

why would you want to go to a night club

sounds awful

main benefit is cost of living being lower, but if that's the drive, SEA is better

sea is so tempting

gotta listen to that Eurobeat Dialga

actually i think i said that before in this server

Euro club scene is frankly just weird

malaysia or indonesia

both are easier languages

we have offices in Indonesia at least

quite a big one too

idk, i feel like despite all the issues the US has, its still the only place i would want to live currently

clubs are fun, that's why

I could see if I retire early (35-40), deciding it might be fun to live overseas somewhere for a while

yeah no I like the us despite it's problems, definitely the best place to be living in in the world rn. China do be gaining us though

i think its a bit too late to retire early spooky

35-40 was 20 years ago for you

I would move back to us probably or something

lol

china is NOT a place to consider lol

the government is way too

y'know

learning Chinese also

yeah so hard to learn

I used to take mandarin back in middle school

a woman who works for me, her entire family just lives all over the world, so she spends like half the year traveling to see people in Portugal, Italy, France, Thailand, Argentina, etc.

ours is too, in just a different kind of way

i wish any school around here offered language classes for anything that wasn't French, spanish, or navajo

and that seems pretty comfy she spends ~6 months of the year traveling, 6 months in the states

I would need to be HIGHLY motivated to learn a language, and I don't think I ever will be tbh

see that would be me, and my family. but Im too poor atm to travel . but they do live all over the world. I just do europe because that's usually the cheapest option

it's hard, and I definitely don't have the language learning brain

so barely passed my Spanish requirements in highschool

i want to learn japanese if i learn a language but theres no good resource and motivation is hard

I'm not good at it inately, and it's a tremendous amount of work to get good, that relies on you to care a lot as well

If I was going anywhere, netherlands is a high contender for international vacation

classic memory is asking my advisors if I could take Spanish 3 because I liked learning languages and he said no you clearly suck at spanish

the whol idea though, of working a meme remote job, and just fucking off to the 3rd world

is kinda neat

my middle school having mandarin is super wacky. because we only had spa ish french and mandarin, then they got rid of French after two years. but the whole school is like 70 people. yet we had a mandarin teacher

Quebec is so close to Kingston you should try to talk your gf into how you have to meet your internet cult leader irl

didn't even have a Spanish teacher, we did Spanish through Duolingo for credit in class

the teacher was our literature teacher, and she knew zero spanish. as a class we voted to designate every other day as a nap day

I love my funny hippie school

mandarin teacher spoke great Spanish though

she used to be a Spanish teacher at my elementary school

is duolingo good for spanish cuz i know its bad for jp

I think learning Spanish past like, an elementary level is kinda weird unless you want to go into business in Mexico/S.America

Duolingo is nice for practicing hiragana and katakana with that other tab thing. no idea about spanish, I think it was ok. it's not that great for German I will say, I mostly use the DW learn app from German government media company DW

I'm just glad English became the worlds default 2nd language, you can reliably find someone able to understand you nearly anywhere

whats the 1st one spooky

oh wait i misunderstood what you meant

yeah

at least for travel, a light brush with the local language + Google Translate can get you by

for some reason i was thinking most spoken total, but thats probably like, indian or chinese right? just cuz of population in those countries

(Indians speak a lot of English FYI)

because of the British

Hindi, Bengali, and Urdu are the big 3 local languages

Just go to places that have ENG as a 2nd+ language

but like, English it HEAVILY used

ok according to Wikipedia(super trustworthy source), English has the most total speakers, but chinese has the most native speakers

mandarin specifically