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| pohaku Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5653 days ago 192 posts - 367 votes  Speaks: English*, Persian Studies: Arabic (classical), French, German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 25 of 29 24 February 2010 at 6:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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I lost my wanderlust a long time ago and have no interest in travel, but I have plenty of interest in languages for their own sake, or, rather, for the sake of their literatures. Most of my language study is with older texts in Persian and Arabic, with some dabbling in Biblical Hebrew, Latin, Greek, and modern (!) Bengali. I have this idea about reading Rabindranath Tagore, whom I think of as a modern incarnation of the Classical Persian poets.
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6013 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 26 of 29 24 February 2010 at 9:29pm | IP Logged | ||
Riiiiiiiiiiiight. I think you meant "which most Irish people don't speak". That's like saying the Basques don't speak Basque or Gallicians don't speak Gallician. "All" - "some" - "none"...? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Muz9 Diglot Groupie Netherlands Joined 5526 days ago 84 posts - 112 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Somali | Message 27 of 29 24 February 2010 at 10:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes. I am learning Spanish, mainly just for fun and not for traveling or meeting Spaniards/Latinos.
Practically it is useless for me, for example if I really needed a career/CV booster I could better just study German instead. So my incentive to learn Spanish is purely recreational. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Iris-Way Newbie United States Joined 5578 days ago 22 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 28 of 29 25 February 2010 at 7:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, I would, actually.
Sometimes I just like writing in Spanish, not necessarily speaking it. I'm not much of a talker, anyway. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5926 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 29 of 29 25 February 2010 at 11:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, I am learning Afrikaans, Spanish, Finnish and Swedish. Spanish is the only one of those languages I could use without having to travel abroad. I hope to travel to South Africa, Finland, and Sweden but that won't happen soon.
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