What is your favorite foreign language?

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I have now been on this lovely planet for 1 month or so. I have tried not to talk to much about my AS speciel interest. But now I cannot hold it back anymore so please allow me to ask you which foreign language is your favorite? Mine is without doubt, farsi/persian.

My favourite foreign language is French.

I have family in Switzerland and they speak French.

ENGLISH! ...Hur-de-hur-de-hurr-hurr...

Nah, I'm just kidding. I can't stand English!

Seriously, though, my favourite is probably Portuguese. I don't understand it when it's spoken, but I enjoy hearing it very much. I favour the Portuguese spoken in Portugal to Brazilian, but I think Brazilian Portuguese is beautiful as well. I can read a fair bit of Portuguese, though.

I'm also fond of a couple of Asian languages. Mandarin is my favourite Chinese language; at this point I can follow a LITTLE bit of Mandarin when I hear it, though reading the characters is a no-no as of yet. Mandarin, like Portuguese, has this 'soft' quality, because it uses a lot of fricatives (sh, h, f, s, etc.) beside its plosives. Cantonese and Spanish are a bit more... harsh. Certainly not unpleasing to the ear, but I personally prefer Mandarin.
I like Japanese, though I can only understand a couple of words and can barely make out any sentences, despite my constant viewing of subbed anime in the original Japanese.
Korean is cool as well.

I've developed an affinity for Indonesian, as part of my quest to learn more about my Indonesian roots, and I've arrived at a point where I can understand most of Indonesian, written as well as spoken (at least, when they're not speaking to fast).

Spanish

French

Portuguese

I'd pick Klingon if it counts & I have none if it doesn't

I dunno. Finnish, Norwegian or Japanese.

Russian is pretty cool, too.

I like all the romance languages and took two years of Japanese as well (though I forgot much of the Japanese)

Finnish and Russian.

well, considering i have 2 native tounges either could be foreign. Non surprisingly id say i do quite like german. it avoids a lot of silly things other languages do. But it has a lot of words to learn

English because my native language is not English xD

Mandarin.

Spanish & Portuguese, mmm...

I like ancient Latin and ancient Greek, but I'm not sure if they count as foreign languages since they no longer have any native speakers.