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| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4654 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 9 of 32 27 January 2015 at 6:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Go Greek! Challenging without being "impossible," Indo-European but off the "beaten path" of Romance / Germanic / Slavic, beautiful vacation destination, writing system that looks nice and is relatively straightforward to learn, long and interesting history.
That is what has been tempting me lately, anyway. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6586 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 10 of 32 27 January 2015 at 7:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
I think you're highly biased, being a native speaker of German with a knowledge of English and Swedish. Danish isn't easy to understand if you don't already understand another Scandinavian language. However if we're speaking of comprehension, why not go for the whole trio? And really, any Scandinavian language offers linguistic curiosity. Greek is an interesting option too. The cyrillic alphabet was based on it and Russian has many loan words from it, though probably often from Biblical Greek and/or with the meaning changed. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4036 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 11 of 32 27 January 2015 at 11:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thank you guys ;)
Let's try to answer individually. @nikolic993: - wow, never thought about it! I would have a plus of learning 4 languages in one. @Serpent: - Focusing on understanding only Russian can be an idea, I'm worried about my brain ordering me to drop everything else. - Romance languages: well, that is chilling out to the extreme :) But actually I don't want to mess up my Spanish with Catalan and Portuguese. Romanian can be an idea, but I read that Romanian cinema is pretty bad. Dutch has also this issue. - German and Afrikaans no, not until I speak Dutch decently. - Tackling the trio Norwegian, Swedish and Danish: dammit! I said one XD Do you know that if I do start with the scandinavian as a block 1) I have more or less to study starting from tomorrow 2) it still counts for one so I have to add another one afterwards? :P This is so tempting. I can rationalize more by saying that I would gain a better overview of English, my Dutch would be boosted by this and at the end I will be closer to Icelandic. @Mooby: - The non-rational approach unfortunately tends not to help me a lot. In the past I dropped every language I choose just because it was beautiful or fascinating. My heart suggests me to learn pretty obscure languages but my brain orders me to use my time in a practical way. @tastyonions: hey! Greek is not a bad idea at all. The food is very tasty and I have a nice Greek restaurant at 1m from my house. And I find Greek very fascinating also. I don't know anything about Greek cinema anyway. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6898 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 12 of 32 28 January 2015 at 12:35am | IP Logged | |||||
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In case you choose Swedish, don't think there are no dialects on TV - there are. In any show, series, movie and newscast you're likely to hear something that doesn't sound like your "language course Swedish".
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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4878 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 13 of 32 28 January 2015 at 1:08am | IP Logged | |||||
Oh, fun, it's like a puzzle game! Looking at languages I've studied and flirted with over the years, I'd say: Arabic Assimil: One of their few bad courses Interesting media and literature: movies, limited literature Can learn in one year: fat chance Indonesian Assimil: yes Interesting media and literature: limited Can learn in one year: absolutely Turkish Assimil: yes, French base Interesting media and literature: horrible movies, one decent historical soap opera, two famous writers, huge online presence Can learn in one year: It would be a challenge Japanese Assimil: yes Interesting media and literature: oh hell yes Can learn in one year: see Arabic Latin Assimil: yes Interesting media and literature: if you like the classics, hell yes Can learn in one year: don't know I'm surprised there's no Icelandic or Irish Assimil courses (I don't count the "On the Road" series). Either would also be a good choice. And I don't know enough about modern Greek to weigh in, but I learned basic tourist phrases once for a trip to Mykonos - and that alone put me heads and shoulders above every other visitor I met that summer. Edited by kanewai on 28 January 2015 at 1:10am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5119 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 14 of 32 28 January 2015 at 1:45am | IP Logged | |||||
Pretty subjective, but I've found lots of good, contemporary programming on Kanal D. It's all easily accessible from any region, too. R. == 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4878 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 15 of 32 28 January 2015 at 2:09am | IP Logged | |||||
mea culpa - I had a total mind fart there, and was only thinking of such gems as Turkish Star Wars. There is of course a whole generation of new Turkish directors like Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Winter Sleep), Zeki Demirkubuz, Fatih Akın (The Cut), and Uğur Yücel, among others. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4998 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 16 of 32 28 January 2015 at 2:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Scandinavian languages look like they might be just what you are looking for.
Or Slavic ones, such as Polish. There is quite a lot of good movies, lots of literature, there is Assimil and other material as well. Greek is a great idea, actually. :-) From the Romance, have you considered Italian? It is quite different from Spanish and French, I don't think it would mix that much with your Spanish, which is probably a well founded fear when it comes to Catalan or Portuguese. How about Hebrew? There is Assimil, I've heard the Modern Hebrew is not as hard to learn as the biblical one, and there is less trouble with various dialects and standards (surely less than with Arabic, perhaps less than with Norwegian) there are interesting movies (I only know those that get to film festivals in Prague, I suppose there is much more to be seen) and quite a lot of people around me have travelled to Israel lately and were totally excited. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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