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| CS Groupie United States Joined 5129 days ago 49 posts - 74 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Latin, French | Message 97 of 117 25 March 2011 at 2:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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1) French 2) Latin 3) German 4) Spanish 5) Old English 6) Middle English (You'd think it would be transparent, but lots of false friends for a modern English speaker.) 7) Gothic 8) Greek (Homeric, Attic, Modern? not sure) 9) Catalan 10) Old Norse (or Icelandic maybe) 11) Classical Nahautl 12)-20) Whatever random language interests me at the time. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6869 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 98 of 117 25 March 2011 at 5:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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Wow Clumsy, some of those languages are completely new to me.
What is so controversial about Estonian? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5694 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 99 of 117 26 March 2011 at 3:33am | IP Logged | ||
Me too! What's Boyarish? I did a quick Google search but didn't come up with anything. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TDC Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6922 days ago 261 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, French Studies: Esperanto, Ukrainian, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Persian | Message 100 of 117 26 March 2011 at 4:13am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm going to group mine a little differently, I don't really think a lot of languages from one language family should all count as one language each, so with that in mind I would learn:
Romance languages 1 - French / Italian / Occitan 2 - Spanish / Portuguese / Catalan 3 - Romanian Germanic 4 - German / Dutch 5 - Swedish / Norwegian / Danish 6 - Icelandic / Old English Slavic 7 - Russian / Ukrainian 8 - Polish 9 - Serbo-Croatian / Czech 10 - Bulgarian Asian 11 - Mandarin / Cantonese 12 - Japanese 13 - Korean Other 14 - Arabic / Hebrew 15 - Hindi 16 - Cherokee 17 - Esperanto 18 - Greek 19 - Persian 20 - Turkish 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Didgeridoo Newbie United States Joined 5154 days ago 28 posts - 31 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish | Message 101 of 117 26 March 2011 at 4:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Hmm, let's see...
In no particular order, save for the first several ones: 1) Norwegian/Danish/Swedish 2) Dutch 3) Lithuanian 4) Croatian 5) Romanian 6) Icelandic 7) Czech 8) Irish 9) Russian 10) Gaulish 11) Latin 12) Ancient Egyptian 13) Hungarian 14) Japanese 15) Slovene 16) Albanian 17) Basque 18) Faroese 19) German 20) Polish 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| taydev2006 Newbie United States Joined 4866 days ago 7 posts - 7 votes Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 102 of 117 16 August 2011 at 6:03am | IP Logged | ||
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Mandarin
Spanish French Portuguese Russian Japanese German Italian Romanian not 10 but damn near. Possibly Latin and Hebrew for special languages. Oops. This is the 20 thread....... Edited by taydev2006 on 16 August 2011 at 6:22am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5500 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 103 of 117 16 August 2011 at 6:10am | IP Logged | ||
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Hm...
In no particular order (except for the first one, which I am currently learning): 1: Persian (my favorite language ever) 2: Hindi (one of three choices for my next language) 3: Irish (one of three choices for my next language) 4: Cantonese (one of three choices for my next language) 5: Thai 6: Russian (because it's awesome) 7: Mandarin 8: German 10: Urdu 11: Arabic 12: Spanish 13: French 14: Czech (because I have Czech ancestors) 15: Dutch 16: Turkish 17: Polish 18: Finnish 19: Swedish/Danish/Norwegian 20: Xhosa/Zulu (one or both of these) Runners-up: Japanese Romanian Hungarian Old English Greek Hebrew 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4860 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 104 of 117 16 August 2011 at 12:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ok, so....
1. English - because it's a must everywhere. Maybe in the rush of languages actually it misses it's first place, but I really do like this language. 2. Bulgarian - actually studying at university 3. Macedonian - -||-, admittedly, I have it only once a week, but my visit in Macedonia made me so eager to learn this language and I like it even more than Bulgarian now. Bah, today I had even a dream in Macedonian :D I don't know, maybe the fact that it's an ex-yu country helps a lot. 4. Italian - I was very sceptical about Italian for a long time, but somehow I've enrolled for this language at my uni and... it's not that bad actually :) Still, Italians who don't know any language except Italian - don't touch me! 5. Dutch - I've had already a few attempts, but I know nothing more than basic vocabulary. Still, my dreams about working in the Netherlands (or Flanders) won't let me discard this language 6. Ukrainian, 7. Slovak - my new purchases. For a native Polish speaker like me they are not very difficult. 7. Portuguese - I've started learning it accidentally... because there was a free course in the city where I study. Now I don't want to lose what I've learned, so I'll remind both vocabulary and grammar and then... expand it :) 8. German, 9. Latin - Well... I've learned them for a long time (Latin - 3 years, German... ekhm, 10 years). Now I remember only basics. I do feel awful with this fact, so I'll probably look for some opportunities to remind it as soon as possible 10. Croatian - here is the first language I don't know at all (except this what I've learned from Croatian music), but... well, I could call it "Yugo-nostalgia". I don't know why, but I simply cannot live without Croatian. However, somehow it still runs away from me... But maybe next year I'll have an opportunity do something in this direction. My acquaintance was eager to teach me Croatian - let's hope she won't abandon. 11. Slovenian - Slovenian has come even earlier to my mind than Croatian - when I was 15/16 years old. Most likely I'll start learning it at my uni on october - Finally! 12. Persian - only approximately 90 days and we'll see if my decision about 3rd faculty - Persian philology - has been a good idea... P.S. Once I've said that Persian sounds like Arabic should sound :) 13. Swedish - I've seriously thought about enrolling for Swedish course, especially that the price was very attractive. Unfortunately, in the year when I wanted to begin, they have added the 2nd hour during the week (that's positive but...) and the price went up, so, overall, it was like +130%. Not for my budget, unfortunately... Currently abndoned for undetermined time 14. Indonesian - I don't know why, but I like it. Simply. 15. French - I feel that because of not knowing French I'm missing something. Hangs somewhere in my extended plans. 16. Chinese/Japanese - I have a plan to enroll into one of them somewhere around my 30s, when I'll be already able to pay for myself. It's a distant plan though. Thereafter the list is very flexible: Maltese, Luxembourgian, Turkish, Romanian, maybe Tajik or Uzbek... or maybe an unexpected language which will "cade dalle nuvole" :) Edited by prz_ on 16 August 2011 at 12:39pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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