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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4696 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 1 of 27 27 January 2015 at 7:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm going to China the day after tomorrow, and I'll be studying Chinese for a while
still - but after my intensive one-month course I will probably be able to stand on my own two legs and move on to native materials and be a normal human being who speaks some Chinese. Because I'm staying for a long time and because I'll be living in a place that is not Beijing, I have some time (a few months) to dabble in other languages before I have to turn my focus to Greek. Now there are plenty things I would like to dabble in, and here are some ideas (this is excluding my ongoing project where I learn to speak Norwegian separate from Swedish): - Finnish. I would like to speak Finnish in order to drink Finlandia wodka. Also there are lakes in Finland and that is cool. - Georgian: to drink their wine and avoid toasting with beer. - Armenian: to drink their wine. - Czech: to drink their beer. - Serbian: to drink their raki. - Polish: to drink their crappy beer. - Swahili: to drink some unknown alcoholic solution in order to avoid getting food poisoning from the water. - Mongolian: to drink whatever they drink in Mongolia. - Persian: to avoid drinking. - Lebanese Arabic: to indulge in drinking anyway. Please help me choose! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7145 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 2 of 27 27 January 2015 at 7:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Finnish.
--- And as for Polish, why bother with the beer (which isn't all that bad but still doesn't hold a candle to Czech or Slovak stuff) when it's really the wódka that excels? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4696 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 3 of 27 27 January 2015 at 8:07pm | IP Logged | ||
Ah yes, their wódka. I must make a note and remember that. Edited by tarvos on 27 January 2015 at 8:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 4 of 27 27 January 2015 at 8:15pm | IP Logged | ||
Must be fermented yak milk. You can stop by on your way back from China. but more seriously: Persian (Farsi), the language of poets Edited by daegga on 27 January 2015 at 8:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5949 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 5 of 27 27 January 2015 at 10:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Persian. You get not only a language, but a civilization with it.
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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 6 of 27 27 January 2015 at 11:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would say Persian but seems like it's not enough challenging for you.
I would also eliminate Polish, Serbian and Czech (too easy, you already speak Russian), Swahili (also too easy), Finnish (too mainstream in this forum) so basically you have three remaining choices: - Armenian - Georgian - Mongolian - Lebanese Arabic (did I write three?) Now you have good reasons to do all of them - Armenian: you would be more or less a pioneer. - Georgian: everyone he's doing it is struggling, great challenge - Mongolian: I don't know why, but I'm fascinated about it. - Lebanese Arabic: well, it is Arabic. But then Armenian is somehow related to Greek, Mongolian is written in cyrillic, Arabic is too mainstream. So I would say Georgian. Or Euskara. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4696 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 7 of 27 27 January 2015 at 11:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Must it be a challenge, though? I am a simple man. I like drinking beer! Not always a man
will be satisfied, though he lusts for the more complex gustations of strong spirit. Sometimes his soul is common, and he must indulge in the everyday pleasures of man and woman - and drink exactly that, which all others drink. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Rniks Newbie United States Joined 3693 days ago 36 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Romanian | Message 8 of 27 27 January 2015 at 11:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Lebanese Arabic, for all your arak drinking needs.
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