So, could anyone help me decide the best foreign language for physics major?

terenc
Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:03:47 +0000

You guys do realize that the OP is probably never going to become remotely fluent in any of those languages. The OP already stated that he/she doesn’t really care for languages and doesn’t like the idea of taking language classes.

Yet for a language to ever be truly useful, you have to become fluent. If you only reach the level of awkward-fractional-proficiency (which is the level that most high-schoolers who take languages reach), the language is 99% useless to you.

Barring the chance that the OP manages to fall in love with a language, the most important factor for the OP, then, is finding the most “painless” language.