Dhavlos Diglot Newbie United Kingdom talkcyprus.org Joined 6741 days ago 33 posts - 33 votes Studies: Greek, English*, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 9 of 580 14 September 2006 at 5:44am | IP Logged |
Aha:
French,
Spanish,
Greek,
Turkish,
Arabic(possibly the lebanese type).
The first four are easy, its the fifth one that is hard to choose!!
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Kveldulv Senior Member Italy Joined 6951 days ago 222 posts - 244 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Italian*
| Message 10 of 580 14 September 2006 at 6:58am | IP Logged |
It's such a terrible question! I'd say:
English
French
German
Norwegian
Japanese or Finnish (sorry I can't decide yet!)
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Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6766 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek
| Message 11 of 580 14 September 2006 at 7:00am | IP Logged |
Japanese
French
German
Mandarin
Arabic*
The fifth language changes depending on my mood. Sometimes I think I'd like to be fluent in Portuguese, or Spanish, or Russian…
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Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6892 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map
| Message 12 of 580 14 September 2006 at 7:38am | IP Logged |
I like this question much better than the top-10 listing. This forces me to concentrate more and even ends up being useful to myself as a rough kind of roadmap. So, here goes:
Mandarin
Japanese
Arabic
Russian
Greek*
* Same comment here as the Cap'n: Certainly the last one, and perhaps some of the other ones too, would depend on where my mood takes me.
EDIT: The change of mood struck already, though it was more a case of absent-mindedness. Hungarian changed to Greek. I just forgot about Greek when I was writing the list.
Edited by Hencke on 15 September 2006 at 4:18am
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japkorengchi Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6678 days ago 334 posts - 355 votes
| Message 13 of 580 14 September 2006 at 7:55am | IP Logged |
Mandarin
English
Japanese
Korean
German
* The last is so difficult for a Chinese like me! I actually can't stand the inflections of German and the three genders of it.
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andee Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7075 days ago 681 posts - 724 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Korean, French
| Message 14 of 580 14 September 2006 at 9:15am | IP Logged |
Korean
Polish
Russian
Arabic
These are four I dream of advanced fluency in.
Turkish, Farsi, and Indonesian are all inseparable for me.
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Nyerere Triglot Newbie United States Joined 7182 days ago 24 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English*, German, Swahili Studies: French
| Message 15 of 580 14 September 2006 at 11:00am | IP Logged |
This is a mean post--making me give up some of my babies!
Luckily, you wrote that the languages we are already advanced in don't count...
So, here goes:
Already know well:
English
German (I love Germany)
Swahili
Next five:
French
Arabic
Spanish (I refuse to live in the US without knowing Spanish!)
Amharic
Kinyarwanda
Basically, I want to be able to go all over Africa and communicate with as many people as possible. I'll need a few more than these eight, however, to reach my goal....
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AML Senior Member United States Joined 6823 days ago 323 posts - 426 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, German, Spanish
| Message 16 of 580 14 September 2006 at 11:14am | IP Logged |
French
Spanish
German
Persian
Portuguese
Edited by AML on 02 October 2006 at 9:39pm
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