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| hokusai77 Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 7151 days ago 212 posts - 217 votes  1 sounds Speaks: Italian*, FrenchB1, EnglishC1 Studies: GermanB1, Japanese | Message 25 of 78 30 January 2007 at 3:50am | IP Logged | ||
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| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6767 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 26 of 78 30 January 2007 at 4:14am | IP Logged | ||
The great thing about these kinds of threads is that the fickle among us get make the most of them. :) Hm, what are my seven this month? How about: 1. French 2. Japanese 3. German 4. Mandarin 5. Russian 6. Hindi 7. Afrikaans Edited by Captain Haddock on 30 January 2007 at 4:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 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 27 of 78 30 January 2007 at 8:42am | IP Logged | ||
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| *Aquarius* Triglot Newbie Poland Joined 6601 days ago 39 posts - 40 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Spanish, French | Message 28 of 78 30 January 2007 at 9:26am | IP Logged | ||
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I am not inclined to believe in "Rule of Seven" - I think that the number of languages which we are capable to learn is dependent on such factors as motivatiion, time, memory etc. - as aforementioned, so I won't write any more because it would be just rephrasing somebody's posts :) My list:
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7014 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 29 of 78 30 January 2007 at 4:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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First there was a list of 10, then a list of 5, followed by a list for each continent and now it's a list of 7 (sorry if I missed anyone's list out). What will we think of next? ;-)
Anyway, here's mine: Arabic Russian Mandarin Cantonese Japanese Swahili Korean 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jtmc18 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7244 days ago 119 posts - 140 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 30 of 78 30 January 2007 at 5:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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From a practical standpoint, I'll probably stick with my three priorities for now: Spanish, Portuguese, and German. However, if I ever get to a high level of proficiency in all three, I'll probably go for Italian, Swedish, Arabic, and Russian afterwards. I'd like to see if I can't break the Rule of Seven one day and maybe even add Japanese or Chinese to that :)
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| delectric Diglot Senior Member China Joined 7180 days ago 608 posts - 733 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German | Message 31 of 78 31 January 2007 at 5:53am | IP Logged | ||
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6702 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 32 of 78 31 January 2007 at 3:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Depending on the languages seven may be a low number or a very high number. I have learnt six Romance languages to a level where I can watch television or discuss with locals about most subjects that interest me (though I don't know enough 'chistes' to participate in the hyperactive Spanish thread, -sorry). Add a bunch of Germanic languages and I'm already beyond the sacred number seven. Of course you can boost the demands for fluency to a level where all languages that you don't use daily in discussion at an academical level or with street kids - equally difficult tasks! - are rejected, but for what purpose? Besides the rule of seven doesn't take in account the degree of relatedness, possibilities to actively use the languages in question and so on. Learning six Romance languages is less of a feat than learning Basque, Japanese and Swahili.
Edited by Iversen on 31 January 2007 at 4:36pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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