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

Blobof
Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:45:32 +0000

Learning a language works best with immersion of course, but failing that, to truely be able to learn and appreciate another language, you have to be interested in a culture that uses that language. So, you can ask yourself this question: which of these language is tied to a culture that really fascinates you? Would you like to read Goethe in the original language? Dostoyevsky? Sartre? Eco?

From a history of science perspective, French, German and Russian would be the most “useful” languages to pick, but that doesn’t make the other choices less important or relevant.