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| pineappleboom Groupie United States languageloft-ashley. Joined 5243 days ago 66 posts - 76 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French, Russian | Message 433 of 580 05 September 2010 at 10:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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italian russian mandarin german aww no room for french 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jase27 Newbie United States Joined 5659 days ago 21 posts - 23 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, French | Message 434 of 580 06 September 2010 at 3:42am | IP Logged | ||
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Russian Italian German Spanish That's my goal, although I'm rather lousy at learning languages, so they may be a tall order :p 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vexx Groupie Australia Joined 5208 days ago 81 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin | Message 435 of 580 06 September 2010 at 7:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Japanese Italian Mandarin Norwegian 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rob4languages Groupie Egypt Joined 5187 days ago 53 posts - 55 votes Speaks: Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: English | Message 436 of 580 22 September 2010 at 10:22am | IP Logged | ||
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Actually more than 5
English French Russian German Mandarin Spanish And also: Coptic (Ancient Egyptian) Middle Egyptian (Ancient Egyptian) Greek Modern Hebrew Aramaic 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5756 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 437 of 580 23 September 2010 at 8:15pm | IP Logged | ||
It is interesting to compare my choices from last year with my present thinking. They haven't changed much. The Mandarin would possibly be replaced with Japanese and in the second bit, Finnish wouldn't likely be there at all. It is a shame that the majority of Celtic languages are either extinct or have a very small number of speakers. In recent years I have been attempting to revive the Welsh I spoke as a kid, with quite a lot of success. This has made me quite curious about other Celtic languages and it is a shame that the few that survive have so few speakers when compared to other languages and language families. Edited by LanguageSponge on 23 September 2010 at 8:27pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6132 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 438 of 580 29 September 2010 at 5:59am | IP Logged | ||
Like LanguageSponge, I'll go back an review my old goals which I wrote in March 2009.
Greek, if we can still count that (because I "speak" it now), Russian, Japanese, and Arabic would definitely be in there, but I'm not very interested in Italian anymore, so instead I'd probably say Finnish. If I don't count Greek, then I'd probably say Georgian, Swahili, Czech, Hungarian, Mandarin, or German. So many choices! So here are the two possible lists: List 1: Greek, Russian, Japanese, Arabic, Finnish List 2: Russian, Japanese, Arabic, Finnish, Georgian/Swahili/Czech/Hungarian/Mandarin/German (the last one is always the hardest to choose) Edited by ellasevia on 29 September 2010 at 6:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kidshomestunner Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6395 days ago 239 posts - 285 votes Speaks: Japanese | Message 439 of 580 30 September 2010 at 6:44am | IP Logged | ||
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classical Arabic Chinese Latin Greek and Sanskrit
As they influence practically all living languages. I think fluency in all of these would be a good enough base to learn almost any other language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| blitzny Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5506 days ago 14 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian Studies: French, Cantonese, Greek, Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 440 of 580 03 November 2010 at 5:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Cantonese Arabic Hindi Portuguese 1 person has voted this message useful |
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