FrozenNorth Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6295 days ago 37 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English*, GermanB2 Studies: Finnish
| Message 169 of 580 09 November 2007 at 6:12am | IP Logged |
Due to interest:
French
Norwegian
Wouldbe useful:
German
Spanish
Just because:
Dutch
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Sammuell Diglot Newbie Brazil Joined 6168 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German
| Message 170 of 580 04 January 2008 at 5:17pm | IP Logged |
0-Spanish(I am a portuguese native speaker,so Spanish is very,very easy to me,so it doesnt count)
1-German(Already studying,it's fascinating)
2-French(Although it is a romance language,it is pretty tough even to speakers of romance languages' .I would like to learn because of the culture)
3-Mandarin.
4-Hard choice.Italian or Russian.
5-Japanese.
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Kualidu Triglot Groupie Mexico Joined 6204 days ago 93 posts - 102 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, EnglishC2 Studies: GermanB1
| Message 171 of 580 05 January 2008 at 5:12pm | IP Logged |
If, as planned, I could achieve advanced fluency in German by the end of the year, my list would include those languages I'm planning to learn :
1) Russian : gateway to a different European culture.
2) Mandarin : there's a country called China right on the other side of the globe.
3) Arabic: the fact that the language is not even standardized speaks of a living culture. I'd go for MSA and then pick up a dialect depending on communication opportunities.
4) Italian (Actually I started this year)
5) Brazilian Portuguese (for me the most cachondo language on Earth).
Edited by Kualidu on 05 January 2008 at 5:13pm
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Almond Diglot Newbie Yugoslavia Joined 5814 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: Serbian*, EnglishB2 Studies: Spanish, French
| Message 172 of 580 22 December 2008 at 7:12pm | IP Logged |
English
Spanish
German
French
Farsi
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Lindsay19 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5819 days ago 183 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC1 Studies: Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic
| Message 173 of 580 23 December 2008 at 12:55am | IP Logged |
Swedish
Gaelic
Faroese
Finnish
Dutch
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nutts Triglot Newbie Japan Joined 6045 days ago 11 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Japanese Studies: Spanish
| Message 174 of 580 23 December 2008 at 5:43am | IP Logged |
If I had to choose 5, I'd go with:
Japanese
Italian
Spanish
Mandarin Chinese
Russian
But in all reality the Russian will most likely end up being French, as the others will probably take most of my
lifetime to master, and so I'm doubtful I will ever get to Russian. But we'll see.
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pythonbyte Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5926 days ago 26 posts - 28 votes Studies: French, German
| Message 175 of 580 23 December 2008 at 12:36pm | IP Logged |
In a perfect world mine would be:
* French
* German
* Spanish
* Russian
* Japanese
The first three are would be of most use to me given I holiday in both France and Spain regularly, German I'm learning as I'm going to spend a year in Bochum as part of my University degree. Russian for the immense literature on offer, sure I've read Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Tolstoy, Gorky...but I'd love to read the native texts of those works. Japanese seems to be a real academic endeavor those proficient in it clearly put the hard work in.
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J-Learner Senior Member Australia Joined 6028 days ago 556 posts - 636 votes Studies: Yiddish, English* Studies: Dutch
| Message 176 of 580 23 December 2008 at 1:26pm | IP Logged |
Hebrew
Yiddish
Spanish
Mandarin
Hindi
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