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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6437 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes  Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 105 of 580 03 July 2007 at 6:49am | IP Logged | ||
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1) Indo-European (at least one language from each major branch, and a decent passive familiarity with the living languages of the Romance and Germanic branches).
2) Japanese 3) Basque 4) Pirahã (... but I probably won't actually learn it; it would be very cool to speak it, but spending years for a language with a speech community of 150 is something I'm not currently willing to commit to) 5) To be decided - candidates include Arabic, Turkish, Finnish (or another Finno-Ugric language), Korean, Tagalog, Swahili, or a Native American language, ideally a polysynthetic one. Maybe I'll stop at 3 after all... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| uman Diglot Groupie United States umanwizard.com Joined 6933 days ago 58 posts - 61 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 106 of 580 03 July 2007 at 7:07am | IP Logged | ||
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I believe that learning Pirahã has only been accomplished by a tiny number of professional linguists who have devoted their lives to the study of the language.
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6437 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 107 of 580 03 July 2007 at 7:19am | IP Logged | ||
Even they don't have a full grasp of it, as far as I've gathered. I know that it would be a significant undertaking, and involve spending years in Brazil, for what would almost certainly be well short of native fluency. Notice my "... maybe I'll stop at 3" comment; it was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but with a large kernel based on this. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| uman Diglot Groupie United States umanwizard.com Joined 6933 days ago 58 posts - 61 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 108 of 580 03 July 2007 at 7:23am | IP Logged | ||
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I agree that it'd be fun and highly interesting.
I think I'll wait for Pirahã Sans Peine to come out, rofl. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lemus Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6379 days ago 232 posts - 266 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese, Russian, German | Message 109 of 580 03 July 2007 at 10:54am | IP Logged | ||
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My five would be:
1)Spanish-very useful, and a Romance tongue 2)Japanese-don't know why, just like it 3)Turkish-very interesting, and a Turkic language 4)Russian-always wanted to learn it. Useful, and a Slavic 5)Arabic-fascinating looking language, and lets you talk to a wide range of people 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6437 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 110 of 580 03 July 2007 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | ||
Hahaha. I suspect that'll be a long wait. That said, if it happened, I would -definitely- use it. I'd learn almost anything to understand the base language too; Portuguese would be most likely. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6548 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 111 of 580 03 July 2007 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | ||
I believe that's a language family, not a language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| uman Diglot Groupie United States umanwizard.com Joined 6933 days ago 58 posts - 61 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 112 of 580 03 July 2007 at 3:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Maybe he was talking about Proto-Indo-European?
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