If you didn’t speak the native language that you do, what language would you choose to speak natively?
I would want to be bilingual in Hopi and German. Or maybe Turkish or Aztec
Whaddya think?
I’m quite happy with having italian…
maybe german 
I dunno, doesn’t make much of a difference…
I’m really not too bothered. As long as the place speaks English, i’m happy.
And English does seem to be a very universal language so there’s not a lot of problems using it.
Yet, i suppose i’d have to pick French. Yes, a rather useless language but isn’t that bad for holidays in the Alps.
- Because i’ve been doing it for a long time
- Because the words are manageable compared to those German 26 letter words consisting of schl more than twice.
aside from english and portuguese, i’d go with lokei and do french
Actually, I’m just started reading German at my uni. So far, I find that it’s quite an original language, in the post Greco-Roman sense. And English are really Germans! I wonder if they were from the German state of Saxony initially…
the germanic peoples that became English are Friesian, from what is now approximately the Netherlands and Denmark
The english have a partially germanic foundation. however norse and gaelic roots are just as strong and deep in the PreNorman language.
I though Saxony is somewhere between Holland and Denmark… And the name, is it a mere coincedence?
I believe that while not a mere coincedence, the name’s origin has been buffeted by the play of history, leaving the story quite gnarled and complicated
What’s the percentage of English decents there in America?
First thought? I’ve always liked (Classical) Greek since i first studied it. Phoenetic alphabet, i think it sounds nice, more accuracy in some things than English.
“What’s the percentage of English decents there in America?”
US census bureau only lists number of “white” in America – which in 2002 was 232k(k) people as opposed to 288k(k) people total US residents.
census.gov/statab/www/poprace.html
(thanks, Hermes) 
eh, my real name, check the units there, man. It’s 232k by 1000 - so 232,000,000. no 232,000.
But that’s for white people, not English decedents (is that the right legal word?). The whole concept of “white” as a racial category is crap anyway, so it really doesn’t make much of difference. I mean Irish and italians weren’t white people until, like, 1928.
See…
America is the most racially diversed place by far.
But this it the most racially equal place, or the opposite?
Northern Sotho.
Uiodu dothdu Gavtmcc dndif kdie, fkbof Gavtmcc!
And what is that supposed to mean?
It isnt Northern Sotho.
It’s Southern Sotho. 
Sanskrit, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Latin, or Danish (So I could read Kierkegaard like he’s supposed to be read).
English is far too rich a language for me ever to repudiate it by choice. Studying Latin, and to a lesser extent Russian, has increased my appreciation of English a thousandfold.
That said, I’ve always wanted a sudden magical native knowledge of Greek and French. English words descended from Latin are no longer mysterious or enticing to me the way Greek-rooted words still are, and French is just as rhythmic and exuberant as English, only lacking the richness of its roots.
My understanding of this is as follows:
Saxons and Angles were two of the most numerous of the Germanic peoples who, owing to migrations and invasions originating in Asia, launched invasions of the undefended Roman province of Britain, wiping out the Latin/Celtic culture in the south and east over a period of several generations. The territory they had consolidated by the early middle ages is now known as England (from Angle-land), and contained small kingdoms named according to who had conquered them. The names of some of these kingdoms still survive as regions of England: Sussex (South Saxons), East Anglia, Essex (East Saxons) and the like. Alfred, the king of Wessex, eventually unified what became England under the rule of his own family. When William of Normandy invaded and replaced much of the Anglo-Saxon nobility with Norman/French nobility, nobles in southern England were described as being Saxon or being Norman according to their descent and physical features.
Meanwhile not all of the Saxons had left the European continent, and so place-names derived from their tribe-name remain both in England and in Germany.
What?!