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Toufik18
Bilingual Tetraglot
Senior Member
Algeria
Joined 5746 days ago
188 posts - 202 votes 
Speaks: Arabic (Written)*, Arabic (classical)*, French, English

 
 Message 49 of 60
13 February 2010 at 1:23pm | IP Logged 
Do you know that there is roughly 3500 spoken languages in the world?
Even if you learn the top 50 languages (which is impossible of course..) you will manage to speak to 50% at top !
The african tribes alone have their share of population with several hundreds of languages...
You have taken the motto "Sky is the limit" litterarly :)
My advice is to "settle down" on a dozen of languages :
Arabic
Chinese
French
Russian
Spanish
English (duh...)
Japanese
that's it... I know those will help you ...
Also, even if you learn enough to speak with 95% of the population, would you be traveling constantly throwing hellos here and there?
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Delodephius
Bilingual Tetraglot
Senior Member
Yugoslavia
Joined 5405 days ago
342 posts - 501 votes 
Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech
Studies: Russian, Japanese

 
 Message 50 of 60
13 February 2010 at 2:35pm | IP Logged 
QiuJP wrote:
Are you a separatist? I got very angry when you consider Mandarin and Cantonese as different languages. Only separatist will talk of them as different languages, because it is one of the tricks to divide a country into many pieces. I won't hestitate to use force against you, even if you are a girl! Long live my motherland China!

I personally support every single separatist movement on Earth! Throwing people together into one country is not right if they don't want to. China should be broken down and its provinces turned into independent states. Same should be done with every country on the face of the planet.

Now that's my opinion and it made me very angry you think differently.
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j0nas
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Groupie
Norway
Joined 5544 days ago
46 posts - 70 votes 
Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German

 
 Message 51 of 60
13 February 2010 at 3:00pm | IP Logged 
lichtrausch wrote:
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You're looking at it the wrong way. Consider that, although, as you would say, a sufficiently large amount of people speak both German and Chinese, you are far more likely to run into a speaker of Chinese around the globe because there are something like 8 times more Chinese speakers. So in your average uni class, hotel, business you'll probably have 8 Chinese speakers for every 1 German speaker. So considering these kind of situations, you can reach more people by knowing Chinese. Of course I left out a host of other factors, but this is just to demonstrate the effect that total speaker numbers have when isolated from the other factors.

Well, most Chinese are piss poor farmers who have neither the time nor money to go abroad ...
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Wilco
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Senior Member
Canada
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160 posts - 247 votes 
Speaks: French*, English, Russian

 
 Message 52 of 60
13 February 2010 at 3:27pm | IP Logged 
QiuJP wrote:
I won't hestitate to use force against you, even if you are a girl! Long live my motherland China!



That's the funniest quote I've seen on this forum.

(I know - out of topic).

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QiuJP
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Singapore
Joined 5857 days ago
428 posts - 597 votes 
Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French
Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese

 
 Message 53 of 60
13 February 2010 at 3:28pm | IP Logged 
Delodephius wrote:
QiuJP wrote:
Are you a separatist? I got very angry when you consider Mandarin and Cantonese as different languages. Only separatist will talk of them as different languages, because it is one of the tricks to divide a country into many pieces. I won't hestitate to use force against you, even if you are a girl! Long live my motherland China!

I personally support every single separatist movement on Earth! Throwing people together into one country is not right if they don't want to. China should be broken down and its provinces turned into independent states. Same should be done with every country on the face of the planet.

Now that's my opinion and it made me very angry you think differently.


So you want to fight with me? You are a betrayer of the Slavs. I have always supported my Russian brothers to go ahead and from the Slavic Union! You should be put into gas chambers if you are a Slav. If you are not, you should be slavised!
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Delodephius
Bilingual Tetraglot
Senior Member
Yugoslavia
Joined 5405 days ago
342 posts - 501 votes 
Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech
Studies: Russian, Japanese

 
 Message 54 of 60
13 February 2010 at 3:40pm | IP Logged 
QiuJP wrote:
So you want to fight with me? You are a betrayer of the Slavs. I have always supported my Russian brothers to go ahead and from the Slavic Union! You should be put into gas chambers if you are a Slav. If you are not, you should be slavised!

Come and join my Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=319665272200&ref=nf
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John Smith
Bilingual Triglot
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Australia
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396 posts - 542 votes 
Speaks: English*, Czech*, Spanish
Studies: German

 
 Message 55 of 60
13 February 2010 at 3:49pm | IP Logged 
In the year 3020 you'll only need to learn one. Mandarinbic Spanglish.




24% Arabic, 24% Spanish, 24% English, 24% Mandarin, 4% Klingon



Edited by John Smith on 13 February 2010 at 3:54pm
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Wilco
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Canada
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160 posts - 247 votes 
Speaks: French*, English, Russian

 
 Message 56 of 60
13 February 2010 at 4:08pm | IP Logged 
For the good of mankind, shouldn't we close the thread now?


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