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| onurdolar Diglot Groupie TurkeyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4652 days ago 98 posts - 147 votes  Speaks: Turkish*, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 129 of 141 24 March 2012 at 8:23pm | IP Logged |
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English: well it is a must in business ( and i am actually getting paid for it )
Italian: One day i noticed ( besides English and Turkish ) most of the songs i like are in Italian; so i decided this would be a great choice for a L3 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4703 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 130 of 141 24 March 2012 at 8:58pm | IP Logged |
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French: We had a choice of French and Spanish in middle school and I was more interested
in French literature. Czech: This I haven't started yet, but if I am accepted to study in Prague this May it will become a must. It sounds beautiful. Dutch: I love the directness and no-nonsense attitudes encouraged in the culture, my grandparents prefer to communicate in it, and because where else will you find a show about farmers looking for wives so wildly popular? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| leonidus Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6326 days ago 113 posts - 123 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, French Studies: German, Mandarin | Message 131 of 141 25 March 2012 at 10:48pm | IP Logged |
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English, Mandarin - first of all, practical reasons (can't do much business without English nowadays, Mandarin should become more useful in that sense in the years to come). Both languages also have tons of cultural material, which does lose a lot when translated, so that's another, although secondary, reason for me to learn them.
German, French - popular languages with rich cultural heritage and fairly large number of speakers, but I don't intend to advance these two from my current intermediate level. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Gatsby42 Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4641 days ago 55 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 132 of 141 29 March 2012 at 9:39pm | IP Logged |
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For the longest time, I had interest in both French and Spanish. I went with Spanish
because I have a friend who was fluent and also realized that it was far more likely that I'd run into Spanish speakers in the US than French speakers. It was actually a tv show that finally inspired me to start learning Spanish last year, and I've been obsessed with it as my L2 ever since. Albanian is my L3, something I've learned as a child and retained to around an A2 level or so. I think it'd be interesting to go back to it some day and actually learn it, but that'd be more for resume padding than any actual interest in connecting with family or revisiting the mother country. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| koba Heptaglot Senior Member AustriaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5868 days ago 118 posts - 201 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, French | Message 133 of 141 30 March 2012 at 5:38am | IP Logged |
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English: I didn't choose it, English just chose me.
German: I've learned the first words through Rammstein and then became very interested in the language. Spanish: It's relatively an easy language for Portuguese speakers. I can't say I have dedicated much time to it, but I've started and stopped studying the language many times, it's just never been useful to me in any way, but I can still use the language and recognize the differences between both languages. Hungarian: It was chosen quite randomly actually. I was reading on Wikipedia about languages and Hungarian caught my attention for being an isolated language in Europe. Then I downloaded Assimil and after the first few lessons I was hooked. French: Mainly to use Assimil and because of the chic aspect. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| glitteronwings Newbie United States kiharatsu.deviantartRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4633 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Studies: German | Message 134 of 141 01 April 2012 at 1:43am | IP Logged |
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The first language I wanted to learn was Swedish, though there was no reason because of
practicality, I just simply had an overwhelming desire to know how to speak Swedish! This was when I was around 11, and now I remember not much about what sparked me to learn Swedish. I did listen to a lot of Swedish music (such as the techno band Caramell and punk band Ebba Gron), but other than that, I had not been exposed much to Sweden. After that came a complete obsession with Sweden, and all things relating to. Languages that came after that are German, Swahili, French, Esperanto, Sign Language, and Russian. Some of them just came out of slight interest. The though of "it'd be really cool to learn _______ language, I'm gonna go learn it!" was the driving force for most of them. The one that stands out to me as having significant meaning behind my reason for learning it is German. Some of my favorite bands when I was in 8th grade were German, and their music and/or interviews were all in German. They were bands such as Tokio Hotel, Cinema Bizarre, and Ramstein. The language of German just seemed so beautiful to me spoken- all those around me just thought that it was a language that made everything sound angry, but I thought it was beautiful. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 5100 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai | Message 135 of 141 01 April 2012 at 10:52pm | IP Logged |
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English - Native, so no choice
Spanish - I chose this language because I went to Spain every year when I was a child with my family, so I wanted to know how to communicate with native Spaniards when I went back for my next holiday, thus investing in a phrasebook French - I was offered a collection of textbooks by my Spanish teacher when I was in year 8, this teacher said that she saw 'potential' in me with languages, this teacher was also a teacher of my dad's when she started teaching ^-^ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 136 of 141 02 April 2012 at 1:22am | IP Logged |
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and your other languages? especially Finnish
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