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| sammymcgoff Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4364 days ago 40 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 33 of 59 13 January 2013 at 3:41pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm quite an oddball as well. I plan to learn Afrikaans, Lithuanian and Romanian after Polish 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Malek Groupie Christmas Island Joined 4344 days ago 60 posts - 76 votes  | Message 34 of 59 13 January 2013 at 8:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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My language combination is perfectly normal. I can't imagine getting looked at strangely...
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7157 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 35 of 59 13 January 2013 at 8:27pm | IP Logged | ||
Hear, hear! 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Malek Groupie Christmas Island Joined 4344 days ago 60 posts - 76 votes | Message 36 of 59 13 January 2013 at 10:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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*High 5* Chung! :)
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| Fuenf_Katzen Diglot Senior Member United States notjustajd.wordpress Joined 4370 days ago 337 posts - 476 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Polish, Ukrainian, Afrikaans | Message 37 of 59 14 January 2013 at 2:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't think mine is uncommon, considering a lot of people do take German in school, although most don't seem to remember much after leaving. But people do seem surprised that I speak German and don't have a heritage connection to it. Polish is definitely not common where I live, but again, more of the surprise seems to be that I'm studying a language when I don't have family members who speak it.
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| Zimena Tetraglot Groupie Norway Joined 4593 days ago 75 posts - 146 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish Studies: Czech, Mandarin | Message 38 of 59 15 January 2013 at 6:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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I suppose most of mine are quite common, or at least not very unusual. In recent years, even Spanish is getting more common than it used to be.
The most unusual language on my list is definitely Czech. Most of the time when people realize that I'm learning that, they give me a blank stare and ask "What do you want that for?" I've also met quite a few people who have no idea what Czech sounds like, and who insist that "all the Eastern European languages are just some kind of Russian, right?" ... I cannot wrap my mind around that way of perceiving it. Needless to say, that reaction always makes me want to show these people something else. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4869 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 39 of 59 15 January 2013 at 8:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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At the moment I only seriously study Korean and while that is uncommon in Germany (especially the level I'm at), I know several people who know conversational Korean.
Looking at my overall languages I have studied more or less seriously so far, I think the combination is very uncommon. My interests are all over the place, ranging from Portugal/Brazil to the middle east (Hebrew, Persian) all the way to the far east (Korean). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gallo1801 Diglot Senior Member Spain Joined 4903 days ago 164 posts - 248 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), Croatian, German, French | Message 40 of 59 19 January 2013 at 12:18am | IP Logged | ||
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Speaking Croatian in the American South will get me some looks.
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