prince_shane Newbie United States Joined 6247 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Studies: French, German
| Message 154 of 580 26 October 2007 at 3:11pm | IP Logged |
1.french
2.German
3.irish
4.czech
5.romanian
thats my top five to learn
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TheMatthias Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6236 days ago 105 posts - 124 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin
| Message 155 of 580 26 October 2007 at 4:39pm | IP Logged |
Easy...
English
Mandarin
Arabic
Russian
German
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6693 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map
| Message 156 of 580 26 October 2007 at 4:51pm | IP Logged |
If the proposed five new languages could just somehow pop up in my head without any toil and labour then I would probably choose Mandarin, Japanese, Arabic, Turkish and either Finnish or Hungarian. In the real world though, it is quite unlikely that I will ever learn any of these languages, - at least I want to relearn Latin first and then add maybe three or four Slavic languages (and in between maybe even have a look at Esperanto) before I try my luck at anything outside my Indoeuropean soap bubble.
Edited by Iversen on 26 October 2007 at 4:56pm
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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 157 of 580 26 October 2007 at 7:20pm | IP Logged |
I think it deserves a topic of its own, but here's my list of languages I'd certainly want to pop up in my head:
1. Karelian - I'm eager to study it, but there are so few resources:(
2. Welsh - I'm going to study it someday, but I don't think I'll ever be as fluent as I'd like to
the rest are the ones I most likely won't study at all:
3. Japanese
4. Arabic
5. a native American language
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leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6540 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog
| Message 158 of 580 27 October 2007 at 5:31am | IP Logged |
I would never avoid a language because it's difficult, so the languages that I'm learning are the same as the pop up in my head languages.
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frenkeld Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6933 days ago 2042 posts - 2719 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German
| Message 159 of 580 27 October 2007 at 11:03am | IP Logged |
leosmith wrote:
I would never avoid a language because it's difficult, so the languages that I'm learning are the same as the pop up in my head languages. |
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I would never avoid a language because it is difficult - I only avoid those that would take too long to learn.
Edited by frenkeld on 27 October 2007 at 5:27pm
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apparition Octoglot Senior Member United States Joined 6640 days ago 600 posts - 667 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), French, Arabic (Iraqi), Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Pashto
| Message 160 of 580 27 October 2007 at 11:48am | IP Logged |
I've always hesitated to contribute to this thread and the others like it. I know it's just an exercise, but it seems so restricting to even think about!
I guess I would focus on these "big" ones, if I absolutely had to choose:
1. Mandarin
2. Russian
3. Arabic
4. Hindi
5. Portuguese
It kind of says something that I'm working on ones other than these (Mandarin excepted); namely, that I think I'll have time to study all of them!
Optimism is useful!
Edited by apparition on 27 October 2007 at 11:48am
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