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How common is your language combination?
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eimerhenkel
Diglot
Newbie
New Zealand
Joined 4397 days ago
10 posts - 19 votes
Speaks: English*, German
Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese

Message 49 of 59

28 January 2013 at 1:58am | IP Logged

p.nezinia wrote:

Lithuanian Sign language is something that always surprises people I meet. The linguists have only started digging in it in 1996, and most people over here still have no clue of what it is. I keep hearing such things as "oooh, that hand-language-of-the-mutes" or "how come it's Lithuanian if it's international?". But the funniest thing is when people think that I speak Estonian (estų kalba) instead of sign language (gestų kalba).

By the way, what I miss in this forum on the profile section is the distinction of International Sign and the local Sign languages. :)

That's very interesting! Have you ever been interested in learning other signs? I went to a high school which accommodated for deaf students, I really regret not learning a bit when I was there.
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Jarel
Diglot
Groupie
Turkey
Joined 4327 days ago
57 posts - 77 votes

Speaks: Turkish*, English
Studies: Italian, German

Message 50 of 59

28 January 2013 at 8:28am | IP Logged

Serpent wrote:

Interesting! So are you learning it for professional reasons or just for fun? :)

I'm one of those lucky guys, that does things for fun and it helps their business
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p.nezinia
Triglot
Newbie
Lithuania
Joined 4322 days ago
4 posts - 6 votes
Speaks: Lithuanian*, Sign Language, English
Studies: Finnish

Message 51 of 59

28 January 2013 at 11:54pm | IP Logged

eimerhenkel wrote:

That's very interesting! Have you ever been interested in learning other signs? I went to a high school which accommodated for deaf students, I really regret not learning a bit when I was there.

Lately I've been interested in the International Sign, which is considered being not a language, but rather a set of universal lexical units, that a speaker puts into sentences using his/her own native grammar. This works with sign language, because two most different sign languages have still more things in common than two very similar spoken languages.
I'm also interested in learning Finnish sign language, but I can only learn that after I'll be at least decent in the spoken Finnish, since most of the local sign languages use first syllable of the nouns and adjectives of the local spoken languages as a mouth movement morpheme. (One sign is built up out of five integral morphemes, and mouth movement is one of them).
I fully understand your regret, and I suggest you taking the other chance if you'll ever encounter it again, because sign languages are not only very beautiful, but they open some new ways and perspectives of thinking as well. :)
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Phantom Kat
Diglot
Senior Member
United States
Joined 5064 days ago
160 posts - 253 votes

Speaks: Spanish*, English
Studies: Finnish

Message 52 of 59

31 January 2013 at 12:54am | IP Logged

I have never met (in real life) an English speaker learning Finnish, so meeting someone
with the Spanish/Finnish combination outside of this forum is laughable. I've gotten a
bunch of weird looks and questions of, "Why?", but I've gotten used to it. I always like
talking to those who seem genuinely interested as to the 'why'.

- Kat
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sjheiss
Diglot
Senior Member
United States
Joined 5685 days ago
100 posts - 174 votes

Speaks: English*, Basque

Message 53 of 59

01 February 2013 at 1:49am | IP Logged

I'm probably the only person in the world learning these 3 languages. :D
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Darklight1216
Diglot
Senior Member
United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name
Joined 5101 days ago
411 posts - 639 votes

Speaks: English*, French
Studies: German

Message 54 of 59

01 February 2013 at 4:40pm | IP Logged

Phantom Kat wrote:

There is a Finnish woman who attends my church. I remember when I first met her son, who was a toddler at the time, and he gracefully switched from either language, I thought it was pretty much the coolest thing every.
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Malek
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Christmas Island
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Message 55 of 59

02 February 2013 at 10:47am | IP Logged

sjheiss wrote:

I'm probably the only person in the world learning these 3 languages. :D

Nah, I know a guy who is learning those 3. :D
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cacue23
Triglot
Groupie
Canada
Joined 4300 days ago
89 posts - 122 votes

Speaks: Shanghainese, Mandarin*, English
Studies: Cantonese

Message 56 of 59

26 February 2013 at 12:51am | IP Logged

I'm thinking that the Chinese/English combination is probably the most common combination of languages all around the world, with China being the most populated country and English the absolute must alongside the native Chinese in the education system, and the vast number of people with Chinese origin and whose nationality belongs to an English-speaking country... You know the rest.

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