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| densou Senior Member Italy foto.webalice.it/denRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6130 days ago 120 posts - 121 votes  Speaks: Italian* | Message 289 of 580 28 July 2009 at 1:23am | IP Logged | ||
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| Z.J.J Senior Member China Joined 5606 days ago 243 posts - 305 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 290 of 580 28 July 2009 at 4:52am | IP Logged | ||
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Mandarin (native), English (necessary).
1. Japanese (helpful in Asia) 2. German (helpful in Europe) 3. Italian (pleasant to hear & speak) 4. Arabic (mystery) 5. French (hard to resist though it can't attract everybody) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| onesteptwostep Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5771 days ago 49 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Japanese, Korean | Message 291 of 580 28 July 2009 at 11:04am | IP Logged | ||
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| Park-Spirit Bilingual Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5721 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English*, Turkish* Studies: Hindi | Message 292 of 580 01 August 2009 at 6:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Japanese German Arabic Hindi Unlikely that I will aquire all of this. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Caturdayz Newbie United States Joined 5596 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 293 of 580 02 August 2009 at 12:12am | IP Logged | ||
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English (Native, highly useful throughout the world)
Spanish (Again, the language has a lot of utility) Japanese (Perhaps not useful outside of Japan, but a language that interests me greatly) Chinese (One you know the Kanji, why not the Hanzi?) French (Very attractive language) 1 Germanic language, 2 Romance languages, and 2 Far East languages. Edited by Caturdayz on 02 August 2009 at 12:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| justberta Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5583 days ago 140 posts - 170 votes Speaks: English, Norwegian* Studies: Indonesian, German, Spanish, Russian | Message 294 of 580 10 August 2009 at 7:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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If I could magically wake up tomorrow with five more languages I would chose;
Saami - spoken in my area, used to name mountains, valleys and towns Russian - many immigrants and a neighboring country Finnish - spoken in my area, plus super fun to pronounce Japanese - also fun to pronounce and they have cool gadgets Javanese - amazing island and people 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ribas Pentaglot Newbie Brazil blogmarceloribas.blo Joined 5858 days ago 37 posts - 48 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish, French, German Studies: Italian, Mandarin | Message 295 of 580 11 August 2009 at 9:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Apart from my native Portuguese, my not-yet-perfect English, my decent Spanish, my very-far-from-decent German and my newly acquired French (low intermediate, I think), all of those (even portuguese) in need of serious work, I would, in a dream world, learn:
1. Japanese 2. Mandarin 3. Arabic 4. Russian 5. Dutch Unfortunately, I don't think I could be even close to attain it, unless I manage to find some high-paying/low-demanding/probably-non-existant job to travel the world and visit places where those languages are spoken... Maybe I could try pimsleur in these languages only to impress some friends ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ribas Pentaglot Newbie Brazil blogmarceloribas.blo Joined 5858 days ago 37 posts - 48 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish, French, German Studies: Italian, Mandarin | Message 296 of 580 11 August 2009 at 9:43pm | IP Logged | ||
Your listing javanese reminded me of a short story from a 19th century Brazilian writer Lima Barreto called "O homem que sabia javanês" (the man who knew Javanese). It is about a guy who cannot find a job and then sees an ad in the newspaper for a position teaching Javanese, gets the job (only applicant) and pretends to teach the poor client (the 'teacher' learns some words in the language). After that he gets a position in the ministry of foreign affairs, because of his excellence in languages... The story tells a lot about 19th century Brazil... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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