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| Felipe Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6020 days ago 451 posts - 501 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Italian, Dutch, Catalan | Message 409 of 580 22 June 2010 at 1:44am | IP Logged | ||
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| Ubik Senior Member United States ubykh.wordpress.com/ Joined 5306 days ago 147 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin, Arabic (Egyptian), German, Spanish | Message 416 of 580 10 July 2010 at 12:11am | IP Logged | ||
The above was what I originally posted, but Ive done a lot more research since then and have changed my mind Im almost through my first semester of Arabic and its not that Im not doing well in the class (I think I have a solid A in fact), but the more I read about the religion and the culture the less I care about it. Its not that I was completely ignorant of their culture and religion prior to committing to learn it, but I shrugged a lot off as "well its just stereotypes" "its just "different" not "bad", etc, but after all Ive learned there is 0 incentive for me to go to any of the countries, have meaningful conversations with their people, get interested in their culture, etc. So that one is now off my list. Ive also decided to drop Croatian and Romanian. I am still interested in those languages moreso than most languages, but theyre just not in my top 5 any more. So here is my new and improved top 5: 1. German. Still #1 in my book. Still a beautiful language. Frustrating to learn, but that will be overcome eventually 2. Spanish. Beautiful language, highly highly useful as Spain is on the short list of places to eventually move to 3. Basque. One of the most unique languages. I love everything that Ive studied about it so far. Of course its almost a guarantee that I *will* have to move to Spain in order to learn it 4. Finnish. Call me crazy, but the longer the words the better and the more noun cases the better too. I would MUCH rather learn a language with giant agglutinative/inflecting affixes than learn a language where >50% of the words are 2-3 letters long or rely on many diacritical marks/punctuation/word order to be understood 5. Latvian or Welsh. Maybe Ill post yet a third time to come to my final conclusion, because Im still weighing out which one I would rather learn between the two. They both are really cool and fascinating to me and I like most of their features, but there are minor plusses and minuses clouding my decision still. Im pretty set on that above list so I dont imagine there being a revision #3, but we'll see... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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