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Chung
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Message 265 of 346

22 July 2010 at 11:48pm | IP Logged

feanarosurion wrote:

I've determined that I never, ever, want to learn Hungarian, even though I'd probably have an easier time with it from studying Finnish. Still, every time I compare the two, I'm just left sitting staring at my computer screen in awe of how much more complex Hungarian is. Plus there is practically no shared vocabulary, just a smattering of distant, distant cognates. In any case, whenever I see something describing Hungarian grammar, I retreat quickly back to my Finnish studies and smile because I picked such an easy language in comparison.

You're crazy, man :-P While studying Finnish I always think that Hungarian is noticeably easier. Notwithstanding the fact that Hungarian was the first Finno-Ugric language that I had learned and so I had virtually no "discount" from other languages when studying Hungarian.

Don't believe the junk about Hungarian being impossibly difficult to learn. It has the same worth as people saying the same about Finnish. What's more is that I have found that the comments come quite a bit from laymen speaking only Romance, Germanic or Balto-Slavonic languages and they seem simply "spoiled" by being familiar with languages that function as a whole differently from Finno-Ugric ones.

Besides if you think Hungarian is hard, try to learn Estonian. You'd think you'd have an easy time of it because of the similarity to Finnish but damn me, if you can figure how to form the genitive singular, partitive singular or partitive plural for an unfamiliar word correctly about 80% of the time at first glance, I'd place you on almost the same level as Iversen for linguistic aptitude.
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TangerineDream
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Message 266 of 346

28 July 2010 at 8:47pm | IP Logged

I would have to say Esperanto, Elvish, Klingon etc. anything artificially constructed, and African tribal languages.
Anything I wouldn't get a use out of learning.

Also Dutch! I've watched a few documentaries in Dutch and I can't get over how unappealing it sounds to me.
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ßruno
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Message 267 of 346

30 July 2010 at 5:03am | IP Logged

1 - Any artificial languages like Klingon (this one mainly because it's horrible coloquially) or Esperanto;

2 - Any dead language. Cause i have no interest in learning something that nobody uses unless to translate texts that actually was already translated lol;

3 - Some incredibly hard languages like Arabic and Mandarin or any tonal languages.

4 - probably all asiatic language.
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alang
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Message 268 of 346

30 July 2010 at 5:43am | IP Logged

O.K. I am bringing up semantics here. The thread starter posted a language one would want to learn least. Why are members posting languages they do not want to learn.

Example for me. I want to learn many of the Romance languages. Here is my list in order:
Spanish, French, Portuguese, Catalan, Latin, Italian, Occitan, Romanian.

In this list, the language I least want to learn is Romanian, but I still want to learn it.
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johntm93
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Message 269 of 346

30 July 2010 at 5:59am | IP Logged

alang wrote:

Considering I'd like to learn every language...yeah.
And typically when someone says "X is the LAST thing I want to do" they mean it's something they don't want to do.
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Tiki
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31 July 2010 at 9:34pm | IP Logged

ßruno wrote:

This. Especially the first and second points.
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whipback
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31 July 2010 at 9:42pm | IP Logged

Although I am learning Russian right now and will probably learn some other very useful languages, I mostly want to learn languages that few people speak and/or learn. So I guess the languages I want to learn least are the most common ones learned...
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BobbyE
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01 August 2010 at 2:09am | IP Logged

Artificial languages.

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