Would you ever learn a useless language?

>>213152994 (OP)
I want to learn Klingon to kiss a black girl on the lips

they should have used 愛 instead of the picture of the heart imoimc

>>213152994 (OP)
I'm learning Chinese and despite so many speakers there is surprisingly little media. At least Koreaboos have Kpop and Kdramas.

>>213152994 (OP)
Almost every language is useless besides English, Japanese, and I guess Korean to a lesser extent. Literally, what the fuck are the rest of you doing all day? Go make some content. Go create something in your language. Anglosphere and Japan are tired of producing all the world's content.

>>213152994 (OP)
>want to learn ancient greek
>the ph and th sound are stop consonants
>wtf

I study useful languages for useless purposes

>>213153339
you already have those sounds in your repertoire.
you also have the base pi and tau sounds.
they are all native to you.
you need only to open your mind. discard abstraction and open your mind to material reality. the breath, the voice, you feel it, no? it exists regardless of whether we think of them or not. meanwhile “p” and “t” only exist as an abstract category in your mind. once we all die, they will too.

>>213152994 (OP)
I want to learn spanish so i can stop being a no sabo but the language is stupid difficult

yeah, I kind of want to learn Akkadian.

>>213153654
no one even knows how it was pronounced

>>213153684
obviously we can't know the exact sounds, but we can make pretty good guesses by comparing it with other semitic languages.

>>213153339
Way more kino phonology than modern greek

>>213152994 (OP)
Yes, I speak fluent Esperanto, ask me anything.

>>213153076
Some good poetry though. Li Bai or Du Mu is at least the equal of Shakespeare.

>>213152994 (OP)
I already speak one

>>213153339
It would be more practical to just learn to pronounce it like the modern Greeks do, more audio material to listen to that way, and it's at least a single Schelling point- there are fine points of reconstruction to argue about, and the pronunciation evolved over time, are you going to use different pronunciations for texts early, middle, and late antiquity? Plus modern pronunciation is easier, not having things like vowel length and pitch accent.

If I had the choice to not learn Japanese and pick something else. I'd go for Mandarin

>>213153613
Just read/watch stuff that interests you in Spanish, as long as you understand the basic gist your brain will start picking up the words you don't know by context.

>>213155608
How hard was it? Why did you learn it? How many people speak it? Do you know any other languages?

>>213153076
What about Cdramas? Although those are for foids

One day I'd really like to learn an Indian language, but all modern Indian media seems like it sucks, and Indians are Indians.

>>213155952
>How hard was it?
Easier than other languages definitely- the first time I met another human being who spoke it, when I had been learning it for on the order of a few months, I was more or less able to converse albeit a bit stumblingly. Still took some degree of effort, though.
>Why did you learn it?
I liked the whole ideal of international brotherhood and a neutral bridge between nations, I guess.
>How many people speak it?
Hard to say, partly because it depends on your definition of "speak". Jouko Lindstedt gave order-of-magnitude level estimates of 1,000 native speakers, 10,000 thoroughly fluent speakers, 100,000 conversational speakers, 1,000,000 who can at least understand a large amount of Esperanto, and 10,000,000 who have had some sort of contact with Esperanto at some point.
>Do you know any other languages?
I'm more or less conversational in Spanish and Japanese, and have a basic level of French, German, and Chinese.

>>213156171
Very cool. Do you think Esperanto could become more prevalent in the future? Does it have a future?

>>213156205
Perhaps. It already has a thriving community and literature, I doubt it's dying out any time soon. (If you're curious about the literature, Star in a Night Sky is an anthology of Esperanto literature with English translation.s)