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| IarllTroseddwr Newbie United States Joined 3648 days ago 23 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 25 of 32 29 January 2015 at 1:50am | IP Logged | |||||
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Greek would definitely be interesting. I love the alphabet. Have you considered Swahili? It's different enough to be interesting, but not usually considered too difficult to learn. I think the noun classes are a fun change to the normal noun cases that most languages have. One issue would be the lack of materials. I've found a fair number of books for learning, but the amount of literature and videos in the language are minimal. There is a fun translation of the Pharell Williams song "Happy" into Swahili that is very entertaining to watch. Also a video on YouTube about Lion Guardians that I found fascinating and made me want to learn the language.
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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4036 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes  Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 26 of 32 29 January 2015 at 3:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Swahili can be fun but African languages are very low in my priorities :(
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4998 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 27 of 32 29 January 2015 at 3:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
:-D :-D :-D Sorry!!! And idiot mistakes like this are exactly the reason why you shouldn't skip sleeping. Too small amounts of sleep make brains melt, as I've just demonstrated. 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 28 of 32 29 January 2015 at 4:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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To your Czech question: Yes, there is a lot of material for Czech, perhaps more than
for each of the Scandinavian languages (but it is probably outweighted by the fact that Scandinavian languages tend to be easier for natives of non-slavic european languages). There are various courses (and some appear to be of very good quality), grammars and such tools for learners up to B2.There are already courses published not only by the huge international houses or the local czech ones. Even German publishers appear to be adding Czech to their protfolios of "languages that are not the top five but still worthy of some investment". Unlike the Scandinavians, the Czechs in general suck at English and our tvs are anticultural morons, so you'll have lots of dubbings for intermediate stage of learning (ranging from technically correct but otherwise bad quality up to the best dubbings you can ever hope for, a few are even as good as the originals), just as tons of translated books. And once you are more advanced, there is quite a lot of movies, tv series and original books, I would guess at least as much as for Swedish. As usual, when it comes to smaller literatures, it depends on your tastes. Should you be interested in sci-fi, fantasy or crime books, you should be well satisfied and nicely surprised. If huge classical novels are more to your taste, I recommend Polish or Russian instead, we haven't got those, even though we've got quite a lot of "high literature" authors of shorter forms. I would say Czech is the Slavic number three when it comes to the amount of available resources. Slovak is just twice as small (even though there is surely a lot to discover as well) and it comes nearly for free with Czech. (A funny fact: there is quite a lot of foreigners studying medicine in Prague and some are studying in Czech. Who wants an easier degree, pays for English taught classes, who wants high quality education, studies with us. People with various native languages, like Russian, Spanish, Arabic,... learn Czech to study. Et voila, around 25-30% of their classmates and some of their teachers speak Slovak instead! :-D But they are usually brave and awesome and soon understand both without troubles.) Polish is surely number two, Russian being number one. The southern branch suffers from being divided (sometimes artificially) among two or three languages. The rest of the eastern branch lives in the shade of Russian. An old friend of mine was half Ukrainian and from her experience, even the Ukrainians use large amounts of Russian media, thanks to high intelligibility, so that makes the country produce less content in its own language. Edited by Cavesa on 29 January 2015 at 4:08pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4377 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German | Message 29 of 32 29 January 2015 at 6:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well dear Tristano :-).... if you put it that way and you want to play a bit with assimil , I would go either for
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4510 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 30 of 32 30 January 2015 at 2:58am | IP Logged | |||||
It's not like I find Danish easy. But that's not the case with Norwegian/Swedish either. Sure, Danish is harder to start with. In the end it doesn't matter. Danish/Norwegian/Swedish is not equal to rigsdansk/standard østnorsk/rikssvenska. None is easy, all are manageable. It all depends on what you want. Some people are crazy enough to even try out French ... and succeed. 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 31 of 32 30 January 2015 at 10:14am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hey guys,
I decided the first of the two languages for this year ;) It will be the scandinavian trio :P And since they are three languages I'm going to start now. I will decide the other one later on. Let's say that Turkish and one of the slavic are the favourite right now, but I change idea every three seconds, so :P I will update this thread later in the year, and of course every suggestion is welcome. (@Cavesa, no worries :D I thought you were a man for months and then another user made the mistake for me :D No one is safe when it comes to make errors :D And thank you very much for your presentation about Czech!) Edited by tristano on 30 January 2015 at 10:16am 2 persons have 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 32 of 32 30 January 2015 at 2:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Forgot to say, I stick to the order Norwegian - Swedish - Danish.
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