If you could instantly learn a language, which one would you pick?

English , ofc.

No choice for assembly?

English, Chinese, Hindu/Urdu and Spanish. I think that covers the highest percentage of the population of earth. And since I can already kinda speak 2 of them, only 2 to go!

looking at some of the people around me i would rather loose all ability to understand them

Icelandic!

japanese... ive got a backlog of japanese movies to watch... not quite sure what id do with the language after id finished watching them though... probably make it easier to find tentacle porn in forums at least.

1. Japanese 2. German 3.Italian and 4. Spanish

Obviously, I'd pick a language that doesn't use the Latin alphabet, like: Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Russian, Thai. Because I already know perfect English, I'm pretty good with both French and Spanish and any other language that does use the Latin alphabet is relatively easy to learn compared to those that don't, even the Germanic languages. I'd probably pick Japanese, though, because Japan is an absolutely AWESOME country and I plan to at least visit it once in my life-time, even though Mandarin would be the more obvious choice, given that it's the most spoken language in the world.

I would like to learn spanish or german a little bit.But also greeks are a nice languange.I'm gonna speak now greek.Καλημερα σε ολους σας,σας ευχομαι να εχετε μια υπεροχη μερα :P -use google translation -

Latin.

Doesn't even need thinking! Japanese!

Chinese, it's of more use than japanese, also I had 4 semesters of japanese already (forgot it partly already because of not using it) and the hardest most annoying part is learning the chinese symbols (Kanji), which would be easier if you know Chinese.

I'd probably choose Japanese for gaming although Chinese and Russian would also be tempting. They aren't really the most useful languages I could learn (for me personally) but I think it would be the only way I'd ever learn a language that isn't based on the latin alphabet.

I still hold out hope that someday I'll finish learning either Spanish or German, both of which I took in Highschool and/or College =p

I voted German! :D

English, mine is still not perfect unfortunately. Or German

Surely not ITALIAN we have one of the most difficult grammars on the earth :D Spanish and English are the easy one :D

Either Japanese or German or Russian
German because I'd use it to pass my German exams/GCSEs
Japanese because I have friends there and its cool
Russian so I can reply to all of the bloody Russians on DotA

I think Japanese is the clear winner on a gaming site that primarily speaks English. Those two languages get the huge majority of early and exclusive releases. Other languages are much more likely tend to either be released simultaneously with the English version, later, or not at all.

Arabic; it's a very hard language with very hard grammar; it takes years upon years to perfect, and even then it is not perfect.

Turkish because I work in a German school with a lot of kids with a turkish background

Brazilian Portuguese would be very useful to me for Capoeira.