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| CaoMei513 Senior Member United States Joined 6846 days ago 110 posts - 113 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Korean | Message 65 of 109 22 August 2006 at 8:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well I really like this question!
1. Mandarin 2. Japanese 3. Korean 4. Shanghainese 5. Welsh 6. Danish 7. German 8. Thai 9. Elvish 10. Cantonese Though, this is in no particular order. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| redtelephone Tetraglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6585 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin | Message 66 of 109 16 November 2006 at 3:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would learn:
- Hungarian - Polish - Finnish - Faroese - Slovak - Icelandic - Lithuanian - Georgian - Esperanto - Latvian I realise now that they are all really European languages! I'm really obsessed with Europe- I think it is because I grew up in Asia and always saw Europe as a rather exotic place! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| MeshGearFox Senior Member United States Joined 6696 days ago 316 posts - 344 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 67 of 109 16 November 2006 at 11:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Finnish - Unlike everyone else except this guy I went to school with, I adore cases. I guess Finnish has the same sort of cool factor that Turkish has -- it looks really impenetrable, but at the same time it's really regular -- only I like how Finnish sounds more than Turkish. Doubled consonants scare me.
Hindi - Devanagari is awesome looking. Hindi is a really, really big language spoken by a lot of people. Indian history is cool. And I'm sure this sounds silly, but I REALLY adore Indian cooking. Swedish - I like Germanic languages :) It seems a bit easier to pronounce than Norwegian and Dutch, and it doesn't have the split-language thing that Norwegian has. Dutch - See above. Also, points for Low German connections and probably being relatively easy to pick up after taking German. Icelandic - See above. Also, it has the /T/ and /D/ sounds in it, I believe, and I like those. Greek - I like the alphabet, it has the /T/ and /D/ sounds in it, and from what little I've seen, it reminds me of German, sort of. 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 68 of 109 17 November 2006 at 3:56am | IP Logged | ||
It would not be hard to find differences between German and Greek, but they have at least one thing in common: they positively LOVE making long long words by stitching words or tiny fragments of words together. But unlike the Germans the Greek compensate for this by saying as many syllables as possible in the shortest possible time. The German way of speaking is more 'gemächlich'. Maybe the Germans have learnt patience by waiting for the verb to arrive. Edited by Iversen on 17 November 2006 at 3:59am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6895 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 69 of 109 17 November 2006 at 7:22am | IP Logged | ||
The same is true about Swedish to some extent, and even more so about Finnish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| aceinthehole Newbie United States Joined 6574 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 70 of 109 27 November 2006 at 2:21am | IP Logged | ||
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10. Greek - My real English name has Greek origins.
9. Hungarian - Probably to please the local nymphs ;) 8. Czech - To bewilder the people. I can picture the response of some Czech resident: "An Asian guy speaking Czech?!" 7. Egyptian Arabic - I have an Egyptian friend, and everytime I see her, she is always really happy to see me for some reason... 6. Persian - Iran's an intriguing country... 5. Turkish - A friend and I hung out with a lot of Turkish people visiting the USA during the summer of 2002, and I had a great experience with them. 4. Japanese - Japan is probably the most interesting country I have ever visited... 3. Italian - Sounds very beautiful... 2. Russian - The language just looks very exotic, making me more curious about it every time I watch people speak it, or see cyrillic. 1. Cantonese - For me and my family. Edited by aceinthehole on 27 November 2006 at 2:31am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 71 of 109 29 November 2006 at 2:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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| Snesgamer Groupie Afghanistan Joined 6612 days ago 81 posts - 90 votes Studies: English*, German, Spanish, Norwegian, Scottish Gaelic | Message 72 of 109 29 November 2006 at 4:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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1) Old English/Anglo-Saxon (Imagine speaking this to a Modern English speaker, and them asking you "Could you please speak English"? How many here wouldn't crack a big grin at this point? I'm not seeing any hands. lol).
2) Old Norse (Isn't this the language of the Vikings? That'd be cool). 3) Romanian (speak the strangest/most obscure Latin language on the planet. Spook your friends during Halloween speaking the old count's language - yes, I'm aware he wasn't really a vampire, but this would be just for fun). 4) A constructed language that was introduced for a series of fiction (Klingon, a science-fiction Elven language, etc.) 5) Arabic (figure out what's going on in the Muslim quarter of the world). There are more, I'm sure, but these I find really interesting at the moment. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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