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| sigiloso Heptaglot Groupie Portugal Joined 6783 days ago 87 posts - 103 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, PortugueseC1, Galician, French, Esperanto, Italian Studies: Russian, Greek | Message 42 of 117 16 November 2010 at 7:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, you are right, I was tilting it to the not-so-geek around here, trying to make a list of that magnitude as rational, for the average Westerner, as possible, so that motivation wont suffer too much. Patuco said this thread is a continuation of a similar previous one in which the deal was advising the average unidentified 10-aimer what to aim. And for the 20-list, he said "to humour myself". There's a difference betwwen talking a list in the abstract, and "my" list, which according to Patuco led to the other thread go barren as well. I commented from that framework. Obviously beyond that each individual is unique. I know some of the best word-crunchers of the world swarm here :), whom I always admired and whose feats defended. Pessimism, never! Good luck to all 20-aimers!
But careful with minority exotics you have no connection whatsoever with! motivation might suffer and if you do a few lessons and drop it, those dozens or hundreds of hours of your life would be down the gutter. Just trying to be helpful! For example the list of Iversen current achievements is so more rational that Patuco's hit list,in my opinion; and didnt mean to hurt Patuco, good luck Patuco! Edited by sigiloso on 16 November 2010 at 8:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6872 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 43 of 117 17 November 2010 at 1:41am | IP Logged | ||
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Collections often seem or obsessive strange to others. For myself, I get more of a sense of pleasure out of the
actual learning rather then the use of the languages. I've always tried to explain my reasoning for wanting to learn vast numbers of languages by explaining how reading novels isn't always practical, but a joy in of itself. I find languages similar. I do love using them, but in my heart it's more about the feeling of exploration and discovery. 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6532 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic | Message 44 of 117 17 November 2010 at 6:21am | IP Logged | ||
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Here I go (20 plus my native language, Spanish)
Languages I really want to speak (or I already do) 1. Portuguese 2. French 3. Italian 4. Catalan 5. German 6. Swedish 7. Norwegian 8. Danish 9. English 10. Dutch 11. Russian 12. Polish 13. Serbo-croatian 14. Turkish Maybe yes, maybe not: 15. Romanian 16. Icelandic 17. Czech Few chances: 18, 19 and 20. Arabic, Greek, Hungarian, Finnish, Indonesian or Vietnamese 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6298 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 45 of 117 17 November 2010 at 7:00am | IP Logged | ||
Aw, where is your sense of adventure? Ideograms are as simple as 1, 2, 3. (If 1, 2, 3 make sense, 一，二， 三 really shouldn't be that big of a stretch.) ;-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Scratch Groupie United States Joined 5239 days ago 45 posts - 57 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 47 of 117 17 November 2010 at 3:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here's my list
1. French 2. Spanish (one that I'm most likely to get to speak with others face to face) 3. Finnish (my ancestors were Finns) 4. Norwegian (some more ancestors) 5. Esperanto 6. Russian 7. Swedish 8. German 9. Dutch 10. Cornish 11. Welsh 12. Unami/Lenape (Language of the Native American tribe that once lived here) 13. Inuit 14. Polish 15. Arabic 16. Urdu 17. Portuguese 18. Italian 19. Basque 20. Frisian 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6707 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 48 of 117 17 November 2010 at 8:12pm | IP Logged | ||
I would sound like an elderly lady with false teeth. About ideogrammes: I do not fear no 1,2 3, - but somewhere around no 177, 178, 179 I would start longing back to my good ol' alphabets. However you should never say never, because I expect to find contact lenses on the market in 2,3 years time that automatically translate those ideogrammes into pinyin + tones. And I might even reconsider my attitude to tones if I had a compelling reason - after all Chinese is not the only language with tones. My sense of adventure is always strictly controlled by practical reasoning. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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