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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6587 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 537 of 580 14 March 2013 at 11:10am | IP Logged | |||||
and that's my list from 2006:
This one is from a year ago:
so my current list is: Italian Swedish German (same remark as above still stands) Danish Croatian I'm not going to stop after that, though:P these are just the highest priority. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4697 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 538 of 580 14 March 2013 at 12:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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For me, it would be (leaving aside English, Dutch, French, German and Swedish)
Russian (to make it a little better) Hebrew Romanian Portuguese Icelandic Edited by tarvos on 14 March 2013 at 12:05pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4348 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 539 of 580 15 March 2013 at 7:34am | IP Logged | |||||
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Russian Danish Hebrew Turkish However I have only really been studying the first two. Danish is an extra bet because I have a friend and I want to learn this year, if possible. The other two, for sometime in the future. More languages pop into my head, demanding attention, but I try to ignore them for now. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| casamata Senior Member Joined 4252 days ago 237 posts - 377 votes Studies: Portuguese | Message 540 of 580 27 March 2013 at 2:09am | IP Logged | |||||
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Mandarin
French Brazilian Portuguese Arabic German (I would put Spanish but I'm content with my current/future knowledge) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| cacue23 Triglot Groupie Canada Joined 4289 days ago 89 posts - 122 votes Speaks: Shanghainese, Mandarin*, English Studies: Cantonese | Message 541 of 580 01 September 2013 at 11:25am | IP Logged | |||||
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English (I'm not a native English speaker)
Janpanese French German Korean I confess I'm not much of a passionate learner, and these are the most economic/relevant/mainstream languages that most Chinese with language interests would try to learn (or learn at least two of them). I'll learn to like them though, given that with progress comes confidence. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| JosuéB Newbie United States Joined 4087 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 542 of 580 08 September 2013 at 11:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
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French German Portuguese Arabic 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Tsopivo Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4461 days ago 258 posts - 411 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Esperanto | Message 543 of 580 09 September 2013 at 1:57am | IP Logged | |||||
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Spanish, Esperanto and Portuguese comes as a strong top 3. After that, I am not sure. I am not sure if I will reach fluency in those and much less sure that I would seriously move on to new languages after that.
In a dream world, I would love to speak Japanese because I find it beautiful but I doubt I would ever actually learn it (the efforts required for something that I just finding melodious seems disproportionate to me). Other "exotic" languages such as Arabic, Hindi/Urdu, Swahili, Vietnamese and nearly every language that exist often pique my interest in a wanderlust kind of way but that's nothing concrete. Speaking a native language of my adoptive country like Cree, Inuktitut or Obijiwé would be great but the same efforts/benefits ratio reasoning I used for Japanese make it highly unlikely that it will ever happen. Completing the romance family with Italian and Romanian also cross my mind and it should not be too hard if I already spoke 3 or 4 other romance languages. Knowing the 6 languages of the UN (so dropping Portuguese and adding Russian, Arabic and Chinese) would be harder but maybe more rewarding since it lends more variety. I am exploring translation for job opportunities and choosing German makes a lot of sense for this. Anyway, here goes the very uncertain list: Spanish Esperanto Portuguese Italian Romanian or German Edited by Tsopivo on 09 September 2013 at 6:21am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| wanderingbird Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4125 days ago 16 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, French, Japanese, Portuguese, German | Message 544 of 580 09 September 2013 at 7:56am | IP Logged | |||||
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French Italian Portuguese Russian I really do love my Romance languages 1 person has voted this message useful |
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