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 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6895 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 73 of 346 09 March 2006 at 4:24pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks, that does make more sense. I was wondering what language he actually meant, but as his post was the next one after one about Finnish it looked like he was answering that one. And my knowledge of Mende is too restricted as yet, I hadn't heard about it before it was mentioned here, that I'd better not say anything about that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Pristine Newbie United States Joined 6821 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 74 of 346 24 March 2006 at 4:53am | IP Logged | ||
The following is a list of languages--in no particular order--that I would want to achieve advanced fluency:
If anyone is wondering why I am so interested in learning so much languages, several experiences in the past year have really captured my interest in foreign languages. In addition, this language acquisition would immensely compliment my intended major and job career. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| easyboy82 Pentaglot Groupie Italy Joined 6831 days ago 72 posts - 75 votes Speaks: Italian*, French, English, Latin, Ancient Greek Studies: Greek | Message 75 of 346 29 March 2006 at 10:39am | IP Logged | ||
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For a young European i'd suggest the most spoken of the U.E languages:
1 - German 2 - Italian 3 - French 4 - English 5 - Russian (it's not the official language of any of the U.E states but it is widely spoken in the three baltic republics and still an important secon dlanguage in the other eastern european countries: 5% of the U.E population speaks it,official U.E data ) 6 - Spanish and the last four? Well in Europe Polish has more native speakers than Spanish Then i'd choose Portuguese and Greek And maybe a Northern language (Swedish for instance) to have a complete knowledge of different linguistic areas Anoter very good idea could be adding to the most popular (English,French;Italian;Spanish,German;Russian) the languages of the countries that border yours : for instance an Italian would add to French and German Slovenian and Croatian and if he is very passionate,Maltese. Another choose could be focusing on a linguistic group:i'd like very much to master all the 5 most important languages of the romance group,and at least some Occitan and Catalan. Why not Sardinian?Well I noticed Sardinian people are not so interested in italian-speakers learning and understand their own traditional language :))) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| knewman Groupie China Joined 6809 days ago 44 posts - 41 votes Speaks: Mandarin* Studies: English | Message 76 of 346 05 April 2006 at 8:36am | IP Logged | ||
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english,
chinese french German japanese Spanish russian Portuguese polish korean Edited by knewman on 07 April 2006 at 8:06am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Clintaroo Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6872 days ago 189 posts - 201 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Tagalog, Indonesian | Message 77 of 346 05 April 2006 at 4:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, maybe not somebody else, but for me...
English (mother tongue) Italian Japanese Mandarin Chinese Korean Vietnamese Spanish Russian Arabic Minority SEA language (Khmer, Lao etc) or Bahasa Indonesian Maybe some of those aren't the most practical languages, but my interests lay in the Asia-pacific region. Could you imagine going to little countries like Laos or Cambodia and being able to speak the language with (probably startled) locals... It would enrich the experience ten-fold and I'm sure you would get a lot of attention haha! Edited by Clintaroo on 05 April 2006 at 4:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| knewman Groupie China Joined 6809 days ago 44 posts - 41 votes Speaks: Mandarin* Studies: English | Message 78 of 346 07 April 2006 at 8:02am | IP Logged | ||
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English: the biggest economy, the scientific and technology language, with the largeset population of internet.
Chinese: the biggest population as native language, the second population of internet, and the second large scientific and technology language could be searched by googe scholar. French: is the lingua franca of last centrury, speaked by many countries. German: lingua franca in urope unions, and the big economy, developed science and technology Japanese, the second biggest economy of the world after USA,the scienc and technology. Spanish, is the second language in american, a up and coming language. Russian, the important language 30 years ago. Portuguese, up and coming language. Italian, language easy to learn. Korean, the economy, up and coming language. Edited by knewman on 07 April 2006 at 8:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6910 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 79 of 346 07 April 2006 at 12:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Funny - close to identical replies. :) It would be interesting to see a statistical chart similar to the tables listed HERE - to see if the ten major languages are as important for people regardless of location and native language.
For instance, which "Target Languages by Location"-list is most similar to the general top 10... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Topsiderunner Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6919 days ago 215 posts - 218 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Arabic (Written) | Message 80 of 346 07 April 2006 at 3:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, if you are looking for a language that's spoken by a large number of
people, 10 languages covers quite a bit of ground. Of the most spoken languages in the world, the only ones that are really missing from a majority of these lists are those of the Indian subcontinent and surrounding South Asia (Hindi/Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi...). This is probably because they are only useful in their very concentrated geographic areas. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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