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Which is the best language for:
>Prose
>Poetry
>Plays/drama
>Philosophy
>General
>Stories/Narrative

>> No.16536712

Danish for fairy-tales.
German for philosophy.

>> No.16536713

>>16536703
>Any
>Any with lots of rhymes like Italian
>Any (but for verse plays see above)
>Any with a well-developed philosophical vocabulary, i.e. no random African languages (yet)
>Not sure what this means
>Any

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Clarify: do you mean for the writing/conveyance of ideas in general and in potentia, OR do you mean which language has the currently extant "best" corpus of texts in each respective domain?

>> No.16536760
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16536760

>Finnish
>Finnish
>Finnish
>Finnish
>Finnish
>Finnish

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>>16536760
But I'm just getting started

>> No.16536773

German

>> No.16536850

>Russian
>Chinese
>Italian
>German
>English
>Hebrew

>> No.16536855

>>16536850
What are the best Italian plays? I only know Six Characters in Search of an Author.

>> No.16536867

>>16536724
The one that can best transfer information.

>> No.16536892
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>Spanish
>Spanish
>Spanish
>Spanish
>Spanish
>Spanish

>> No.16537463

>>16536855
Anything by Dante

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>>16536703
Spanish for all

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>>16536892
>>16537469
Basado

>> No.16538033

>>16537463
I'm pretty sure the Divine Comedy isn't a play.

>> No.16538073

>>16536892
muy basado

>> No.16538856

>>16536703

English; except for comedy, which goes to Spanish.

>> No.16538890

>>16536703
>Prose
Russian
>Poetry
Malay / Arabic
>Plays/drama
?? / English probably
>Philosophy
Sanskrit / German / Latin
>General
English
>Stories/Narrative
Russian

>> No.16538907

>>16538890
>>Poetry
>Malay / Arabic
Rec pls

>> No.16538921

>Serbian
>Tagalog
>Cree
>Samoan
>Afrikaans
>Korean

>> No.16539040

>>16538907
>Arabic
Ar-Rahman / The Compassionate (with translation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnnD7YUWybI&ab_channel=QuranReader

Ar-Rahman / The Compassionate (Female recitation, but without translation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumtHqRjQe8

Quran has a big emphasis on the recitation, on the sound.

Al-Mulk / The Sovereignty (Uses to recite in my school dorm room at night before sleeping to prevent ghost or supernatural disturbance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHalJp_88bg&ab_channel=QuranReader

>Malay
Bilingual Edition: Tenggang's Homecoming
>https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20754155-pulang-si-tenggang-tenggang-s-homecoming
>https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29869839-time-and-its-people
Muhammad Haji Salleh's books are very hard to come by. I can only recommend two of his books as they are the few that available in English.

>> No.16539293

>>16536703
>Prose
Latin
>Poetry
Old English
>Plays/Drama
Ancient Greek
>Philosophy
German
>General
English
>Stories/Narrative
Middle Welsh or Russian

>> No.16539367

>Prose
Latin
>Poetry
Latin
>Plays
Ancient Greek
>Philosophy
Ancient Greek

>> No.16539461

>>16539367
Based

>> No.16539848

English
English
English
English
English
English

>> No.16539869

>>16536703
>Prose
French
>Poetry
English
>Plays/drama
English
>Philosophy
Attic Greek
>General
English
>Stories/Narrative
English

>> No.16539887

>>16536867
...really? Unfortunately shallow take tbqh.

>> No.16539890

>>16539848
this

>> No.16539896

>>16536867
You'd need a clear metaphysics of information and how it relates to language in order to make that determination

>> No.16539958

>>16536703
Different cultures and languages are going to give you vastly different but tantamount takes in each of those genres. As far as the ones I personally find most interesting:
>Poetry
Norwegian is said to be among the best. I know of a handful of anecdotal accounts and at least a few celebrities who learned Norwegian just to read the poetry in its original form.
>Philosophy
I am currently infatuated by texts from Taoist China and Zen Buddhist Japan, from which many concepts that are misrepresented in translations due to a decidedly lacking vocabulary for things of infinite or infinitesimal size.
>General
From what I've heard, Latin is a generally good language to learn. More facile than Greek for sure, and just as applicable, especially for anything politics.
As for the others, the only works I can recommend are in English

>> No.16541351

>>16536703
>Spanish
>French
>English
>German
>English
>This just is prose.

>> No.16541447

>>16536703
Polish for everything.

>> No.16542550

>>16536703
>Hungarian
>Hungarian
>Hungarian
>Hungarian
>Hungarian
>Hungarian

>> No.16542822

My first language: German
Second: English
I know some latin as I learned it in school. Should I learn Russian next? If yes, how long will it take until I am able to read a Russian book? What's the best way to learn a language

>> No.16543088

>>16542822
Yes, very based

>> No.16543098

>>16536703
English
English
Japanese
English
English
Japanese

>> No.16543586

>>16542822
Bump, how to into Russian?