What is the best language for Europeans to speak? I mean what language has such deep roots in European culture that it should be the lingua franca of Europe? English? German? Latin? Spanish? What? Or at least what family of languages would be the best. Germanic? Romance? Slavic? I'm curious mainly because I am trying to rediscover my own European heritage (Germanic mostly with a bit of French) and will soon be traveling there to live.
What is the best language for Europeans to speak...
Juan Anderson
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Ayden Smith
Our own.
If you're German you should learn German.
Cooper Lee
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Levi Miller
The most European language used to be French since it was spoken by most nobles. Over the long run I'd say the closest to a pan-European modern day language is Italian since it is a direct descendant of Latin and Latin is dead.
Henry Sanchez
Personally I think that the more languages you know the better but to return to the question at hand it depends on your definition of Europe.
Think that German is a given even though for Europe as a whole if not only because of the pure beauty and the way you form sentences it is just has really nice aesthetics but every country should of course still keep their own language while the Scandinavian countries should of course have Swedish as main language of choice in internal discussion.
English could work as a cancerous kind of last resort if communicating with people outside of Europe that doesn't know anything else.
Julian Garcia
French is also a descendent of Latin. The most similar laguage to Latin spoken by real people today is Sardinian.
What are you talking about? English is the first choice with everyone speaking both outside and inside Europe.
It's the lingua-franca of the modern world. Like French used to be or like Greek once was.
Jack Wood
Latin is to the west what Sanskrit is to India. It's by far THE language of the civilization of the west, of its liturgy and intellectual elite, and that every educated European was supposed to know at least to some degree and in which essentially all major works of the west were written in, from the works of the fathers of Catholicism to Newton/Leibniz and their calculus. And obviously, it was the language of the ancient Empire.
Brayden Bailey
Uh, the one I speak.
Oliver Rogers
Yes I agree with you that it is and have been for quite some time but that doesn't mean that it always has to be.
It's mostly based on personal preference seeing as there is nothing that works better as a moral booster as some good old german.
In order to provide some sort of argument, the way that you would form a sentence in german versus english while having a discussion makes it imperative that the other part actually listens because normally you start at the other end of a sentence compared to english if this makes any sence.
The positive consequence of this is that discussions can't really be interrupted and co'opted in the same way as you would be able to in english because you would more than often not get the point being made without the whole context providing a lot more nuanced debates and interviews as some examples.
Charles Williams
Your own.