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| Carisma Diglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 5612 days ago 104 posts - 161 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC1 Studies: Italian, Mandarin | Message 281 of 580 10 July 2009 at 9:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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German
French Italian Russian Mandarin 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ChrisWebb Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6253 days ago 181 posts - 190 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean | Message 282 of 580 23 July 2009 at 8:33am | IP Logged | ||
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Korean
French Russian Spanish Mandarin ( or maybe Japanese ) Edited by ChrisWebb on 23 July 2009 at 8:34am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LazyLinguist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5593 days ago 105 posts - 125 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 283 of 580 23 July 2009 at 4:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would go for:
German Dutch Afrikaans Swedish Czech 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Saif Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5602 days ago 122 posts - 208 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Levantine)*, French | Message 284 of 580 24 July 2009 at 1:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Nice thread. I know English (native), Arabic (native), Spanish (advanced fluency, but trying to achieve native fluency). So my next 5 would be:
1. French 2. German 3. Korean 4. Japanese 5. Mandarin 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| GoingGoingGone Newbie United States Joined 5658 days ago 28 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Swedish, Mandarin | Message 285 of 580 24 July 2009 at 5:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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Long thread - I don't think I already replied and forget so I'll answer. Only language I speak "fluently" is English so far. Other 5 I would choose:
1. French 2. Italian 3. Mandarin 4. Spanish 5. German 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Aeroflot Senior Member United States Joined 5592 days ago 102 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 286 of 580 25 July 2009 at 1:10am | IP Logged | ||
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I think the following list would be most world encompassing
Spanish - Europe and Latin America French - Europe and Africa Russian - Russia and former USSR Chinese - China and Southeast Asia Arabic - Middle East and Northern Africa That doesn't leave much out 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Rhoda Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5590 days ago 166 posts - 196 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, Swahili, Ancient Greek, German | Message 287 of 580 27 July 2009 at 4:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I've already got English & French, so next up is:
1) Swahili 2) Russian 3) Egyptian Arabic 4) Hindi/Urdu 5) Hungarian But realistically, all those languages are so different, so once I've got Swahili & Russian down, I'll probably go for either Romanian or Czech, and mayyyybe Arabic. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Z.J.J Senior Member China Joined 5598 days ago 243 posts - 305 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 288 of 580 27 July 2009 at 5:55am | IP Logged | ||
My uncle is from Teochew. Generally, Teochew dialect (Tiô-chiu-oē) is regarded as a branch of Southern Minnanese which is more difficult to learn than Minnanese (Taiwanese) largely due to its richer phonology of 文白异读 (文白異讀), that's to say, the same character would be pronounced differently in different vocabularies or occasions, one is called "literary"(文) pronunciation, the other, "vernacular"(白) pronunciation. Actually many Teochew locals have tended towards speaking Cantonese as their communicating language in Guangdong province, Hongkong, Macau, & overseas. I guess you'll be a little frustrated by failures in learning Teochewnese (Mandarin: Chao-zhou-hua), if you don't have a good Teochew teacher to help you often. Of course, if you were born an excellent language talent, then it would be quite easy for you, no matter which language you choose to learn. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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