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| sensejoe Bilingual Triglot Newbie China Joined 5850 days ago 4 posts - 3 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, Cantonese*, EnglishB2 Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 89 of 117 22 March 2011 at 3:55am | IP Logged |
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20 languages would fall on most part of the planet, cool
Chinese Japanese Korean Thai Vietnamese Tibetan English German Swedish Spanish French Italian Russian Polish Persian Turkish Arabic Hebrew Greek Sanskrit I feel contented just thinking about them,haha 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 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 90 of 117 22 March 2011 at 9:35am | IP Logged |
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Already in the box or on my agenda right now
1. Danish 2. English 3. (High) German 4. French 5. Italian 6. Spanish 7. Portuguese 8. Catalan 9. Romanian 10. Latin 11. Dutch 12. Low German 13. Afrikaans 14. Swedish 15. Norwegian 16. Icelandic 17. Scots 18. Modern Greek 19. Russian 20. Esperanto 21. Bahasa Indonesia But this is not enough. I'm sure I won't get through the supplementary list, not even as passive languages - but there is nothing wrong in having ambitions: 1. Irish (and maybe also 2. Scottish Gaelic) - I began my studies of Irish, but then Bahasa took over before I got anywhere 3.-6.: Polish, Czech, Serbian (and Croatian) + Bulgarian ... I'll get those! 7-11: Old stuff: Old English, Old High German and activation of Old French and Old Occitan, - Old Greek (and Koiné) 12-15: Other European Indoeuropean things: Albanian (not unrealistic), Lithuanian and Latvian 16-19: European leftovers: Basque, Finnish, Hungarian and Estonian 20: Bahasa Malaysia And a few more because I couldn't just stop there: Georgian, Armenian, Azeri, Turkish Tagalog .. not totally unrealistic. And among the tonal languages I would choose either Vietnamese or Thai first, but probably postpone Chinese in all its forms because the those languages have more than 30.000 signs and even with my current eyesight I can hardly distinguish those pesky sdrawings - what then in ten, twenty years? There will certainly be a machine that solves the problem, and I'll reconsider - at least in theory (in reality Chinese is not on my agenda) Edited by Iversen on 22 March 2011 at 9:50am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| koba Heptaglot Senior Member AustriaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5869 days ago 118 posts - 201 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, French | Message 91 of 117 22 March 2011 at 7:18pm | IP Logged |
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I think my list would be more or less like this (including languages I know/study already)
1. Portuguese 2. English 3. German 4. Hungarian 5. Spanish 6. Italian 7. French 8. Russian 9. Polish 10. Finnish 11. Mandarin 12. Japanese 13. Dutch 14. Danish 15. Swedish 16. Icelandic 17. Turkish 18. Esperanto 19. Welsh 20. Korean 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5968 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 92 of 117 22 March 2011 at 8:09pm | IP Logged |
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I don't want to make a list of twenty languages, because at my extremely slow rate of one language per decade, I'd have to live 200 years to complete it.
The thought of that makes me feel too weary to even pick up a book. Future languages should not take a decade each, of course, but still . . . . 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| JFman00 Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5530 days ago 20 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Russian | Message 93 of 117 24 March 2011 at 5:43pm | IP Logged |
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Not including English, I can only get up to 18. In rough order of what I'm working
on/interested in: 1. Spanish 2. Chavacano/Zamboangueño 3. French 4. Tagalog 5. Russian 6. Bulgarian 7. Farsi/Persian 8. Modern Stand. Arabic 9. Swahili 10. Lingala 11. Mandarin 12. Hindi 13. Urdu 14. German 15. Italian 16. Portuguese 17. Latin 18. Ancient Greek 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Lightning Groupie United Kingdom livelanguagelove.bloRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5339 days ago 58 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 94 of 117 24 March 2011 at 7:00pm | IP Logged |
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I'm really picky when it comes to languages and don't think I can think of 20...
Languages I definitely want to learn (and am currently studying): 01. Japanese 02. Korean 03. Mandarin 04. Cantonese 05. Tagalog 06. Malay/Indonesian (either) 07. Spanish Languages I would like to learn (on the fence about): 01. Portuguese 02. Norwegian 03. Swedish 04. Finnish :) That's it ... for now, any ways! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| PonyGirl Groupie United States Joined 5020 days ago 54 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 95 of 117 25 March 2011 at 2:34am | IP Logged |
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Umm, yeah, there's no way I could think of 20, my mind would blow up. * indicate a serious intention to learn.
Definitely learning: 1. German* 2. Dutch* 3. Afrikaans* Good possibilities: 4. French 5. Spanish* (ugh) Would be really cool/useful for future work: 6. Arabic 7. Hebrew <- so beautiful* 8. Russian Would love to learn because of beauty/coolness & potential mission work: 9. Xhosa 10. Zulu Then I suppose I can think of ten "nice thought" languages: 11. Romanian 12. Greek 13. Danish/Norwegian/Swedish 14. Icelandic! 15. Luxembourgish 16. Italian 17. Portuguese 18. Belarusian 19. Polish 20. Cherokee -just because I've heard it's so insanely hard, and it would be cool to get to my "roots" (distant though they may be) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5179 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 96 of 117 25 March 2011 at 11:51am | IP Logged |
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20 languages:
Zhuang - 网友的爱人 Lu Mien 网友的女朋友 Tamazigh - The script looks cool, and we have Tamazigh tv. Sakha - I like Altaic languages Slovak - I cannot tell why Finnish - because Estonia is too controversial Ukrainian - It's like Russian and Polish mix, right? Yupik - I knew a girl who was Yupik, nad I would like to try Polysynthetic language Tamil - it has cool script Georgian - It's supposed to be hard, I want to learn all mega hard languages Minnanese - i forgot why Shanghainese - some cool new characters Amharic - cool writing system Boyarish - dudu Zulu - I gotta try such interesting stuff Swahili - Most popular African language Somali - we have Somali tv Hausa - needa study more African stuff Ancient Egyptian - cool writing Sumerian - cool writing I don't count the ones that are on my list already. But If I would choose the next 20 ones. Edited by clumsy on 25 March 2011 at 12:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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