The US State Department (yeah yeah, I know) classifies it as a category IV language for native English speakers, meaning on average it takes learners 90 weeks or 2200 class hours to reach a "professional working proficiency" score on their language exam. The other category IV languages are Japanese, Arabic, and Korean.
nah, you'll work just as hard to get good at Spanish if you do. You just gotta decide which you will be emotionally able to stick with and put in the work to learn. If it is Chinese you are more interested in doing twenty minutes of practice a day for the rest of your life, than it will be easier. Spanish might only take ten minutes a day, but if you don't have the heart to do it, it will be harder anyway.
watch a bunch of movies and see what clicks with you. Read up a bit, have some fun with it. You are gonna need as much dopamine as you can get to get through it. Otherwise mandarin is a better long term investment. Spanish is a better short term investment. It is up to your material conditions you see as being more useful.
Oh, err. Fixed that. Spanish. You probably already live where speaking spanish will let you go more places and meet new people and it an increasingly important job skill.
However learning mandarin and leaving the sinking ship that is america will eventually be a better option. Assuming we are too late for white monkey jobs, you would still end up in a country that is coming up in the world.
Whatever you pick to learn, the most important thing is using it with people in your daily life. If you know a lot of Spanish speakers or live in a town with a lot of Hispanic immigrants, you'll learn Spanish much more quickly by using it with people daily and you'll keep what you learned for longer. Doesn't matter if you fuck up grammar or vocabulary, in fact most likely the single greatest block you'll find is just getting over the fear and shame of making mistakes. You already learned at least 1 language and one of the reasons you did so well despite being like 2 or 5 years old is because you weren't ashamed to make silly mistakes.
The US State Department (yeah yeah, I know) classifies it as a category IV language for native English speakers, meaning on average it takes learners 90 weeks or 2200 class hours to reach a "professional working proficiency" score on their language exam. The other category IV languages are Japanese, Arabic, and Korean.
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nah, you'll work just as hard to get good at Spanish if you do. You just gotta decide which you will be emotionally able to stick with and put in the work to learn. If it is Chinese you are more interested in doing twenty minutes of practice a day for the rest of your life, than it will be easier. Spanish might only take ten minutes a day, but if you don't have the heart to do it, it will be harder anyway.
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watch a bunch of movies and see what clicks with you. Read up a bit, have some fun with it. You are gonna need as much dopamine as you can get to get through it. Otherwise mandarin is a better long term investment. Spanish is a better short term investment. It is up to your material conditions you see as being more useful.
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Oh, err. Fixed that. Spanish. You probably already live where speaking spanish will let you go more places and meet new people and it an increasingly important job skill.
However learning mandarin and leaving the sinking ship that is america will eventually be a better option. Assuming we are too late for white monkey jobs, you would still end up in a country that is coming up in the world.
Whatever you pick to learn, the most important thing is using it with people in your daily life. If you know a lot of Spanish speakers or live in a town with a lot of Hispanic immigrants, you'll learn Spanish much more quickly by using it with people daily and you'll keep what you learned for longer. Doesn't matter if you fuck up grammar or vocabulary, in fact most likely the single greatest block you'll find is just getting over the fear and shame of making mistakes. You already learned at least 1 language and one of the reasons you did so well despite being like 2 or 5 years old is because you weren't ashamed to make silly mistakes.