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| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7151 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes  Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 9 of 109 15 May 2006 at 1:24am | IP Logged |
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Most of the languages I have learnt have been just for fun. Still. these are the languages I would like to learn for no logical reason except I would enjoy the experience.
1. Icelandic 2. Norwegian 3. Sanskrit 4. Portuguese 6. Ladino 7. Danish 8. Chinese 9. Greek 10. Hindi All of these languages might have to go on my hit list. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| winters Trilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 7049 days ago 199 posts - 218 votes Speaks: Croatian*, Serbian*, Russian*, English, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek Studies: Greek, French, Hungarian | Message 10 of 109 15 May 2006 at 4:04am | IP Logged |
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Lithuanian, Latvian, Old English, Sanskrit, Armenian, Ukrainian, Czech, Portuguese, Romanian, Finnish.
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7020 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 109 15 May 2006 at 6:27am | IP Logged |
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I agree with fanatic. The languages I've learned have been for fun.
Anyway, in the spirit of the thread (and in no particular order): 1. Basque 2. Icelandic 3. Mongolian 4. Cornish 5. Manx 6. Sanskrit 7. Georgian 8. Old English 9. An aboriginal language 10. A "click" language 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| andee Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7082 days ago 681 posts - 724 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Korean, French | Message 12 of 109 15 May 2006 at 6:55am | IP Logged |
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Most of the languages I study (or want to) are for fun anyway, but these seem a little more fun than some of the others:
- Hungarian - Catalan - Farsi - Turkish - Arabic - Javanese - Amaharic - Mende - Nepali - Georgian - Mongolian - Pashto 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Qbe Tetraglot Senior Member United States joewright.org/var Joined 7140 days ago 289 posts - 335 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Japanese, German, Mandarin, Aramaic | Message 13 of 109 15 May 2006 at 8:58am | IP Logged |
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If I were a man of leisure with lots of free time and resources, just for the fun of learning them I'd pick:
1. Syriac (have the book but not the time) 2. Akkadian 3. Ladino 4. Coptic 5. Tocharian A or B 6. Hittite 7. Basque 8. Vietnamese 9. Sanskrit 10. Mayan or Quechua 11. Sumerian 12. Ainu 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6773 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 14 of 109 15 May 2006 at 9:01am | IP Logged |
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My own fun list:
Japanese — an incredibly interesting language in all respects French — for the beauty and culture of it Russian — sounds cool, especially with its Cold War mystique Arabic (Egyptian) — the cultural and linguistic centre of the Arab world Mandarin — best spoken loudly! Ancient Egyptian — keep your diary in hieroglyphs! Thai — beautiful script, nice people Swahili — a real people's language of Africa Javanese Malay/Indonesian 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sumabeast Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6931 days ago 212 posts - 220 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written) | Message 15 of 109 16 May 2006 at 12:01pm | IP Logged |
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If I really had the time, "for fun" I take that to mean a language that's interesting in a linguistic way.
for me that would be: Native Am language: like Navajo or Cherokee for all I've heard about it's complexity and how unlike most other languages, finally get a grip on one word sentences. Celtic language: like Welsh or Irish for the strange throaty sounds and Lord of the Rings quality Persian: not sure why, to me sounds like a cross between Arabic and French Georgian: maybe for the cool looking script Russian: for access to all Slavic speakers Zulu: not too many clicks, and other cool sounds, like m nasals and n nasals, with lots of v's and sh's and z's Mayan: maybe for the mathmetics, think of what you can do with number system based on 20 instead of 10?! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| surfingnirvana Newbie United States Joined 6829 days ago 37 posts - 45 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Turkish, Japanese, Armenian | Message 16 of 109 16 May 2006 at 1:50pm | IP Logged |
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Just as a note, most Slavic speakers dont like to speak Russian. From the looks of it you would be more successful with German.
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