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| alexptrans Pentaglot Senior Member Israel Joined 6766 days ago 208 posts - 236 votes  Speaks: English, Modern Hebrew, Russian*, French, Arabic (Written) Studies: Icelandic | Message 153 of 346 21 December 2006 at 11:40am | IP Logged | |||||
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Here's a HUGE site on Ojibwe, with grammar, books, dictionaries, what have you. It's in Russian.
http://www.first-ojibwe.net/translations/weshki-ayaad/rus/in dex_rus.html EDIT: Delete the space in "index" above. Edited by alexptrans on 21 December 2006 at 11:43am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| *Aquarius* Triglot Newbie Poland Joined 6603 days ago 39 posts - 40 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Spanish, French | Message 154 of 346 21 December 2006 at 12:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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So... :) :
English German French Spanish Italian Portuguese As to these 6 languages, I'm sure. But what else? I'm hesitating. The candidates are: Arabic, Russian, Modern Greek, Indonesian, Romanian, Persian. But the candidates may change - there are still many other languages, which have something fascinating in themselves. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Linguamor Decaglot Senior Member United States Joined 6619 days ago 469 posts - 599 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, French, Norwegian, Portuguese, Dutch | Message 155 of 346 22 December 2006 at 1:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Have you considered Swedish? Sweden is not far from Poland, and the language is fascinating and not too difficult.
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| Quackers Triglot Newbie United States Joined 6713 days ago 18 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, French, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, Bengali, Armenian, Italian, Russian | Message 156 of 346 22 December 2006 at 10:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
Quechua has about 7 to 10 million speakers, more than any other language orginally from the Western Hemisphere, and is an official language in both Peru and Bolivia. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| *Aquarius* Triglot Newbie Poland Joined 6603 days ago 39 posts - 40 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Spanish, French | Message 157 of 346 23 December 2006 at 7:23am | IP Logged | |||||
I must admit that I've never taken into account learning Scandinavian languages so far. And I don't even know why. Maybe I've just "overlooked" them ;)? All the same, I do believe that learning any of them can be challenging, as they are different from English or Spanish. But Swedish is bit similar do German, isn't it? So it wouldn't be totally incomprehensible for me, I suppose. Anyway, thank you for a hint :). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| skeeterses Senior Member United States angelfire.com/games5Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6619 days ago 302 posts - 356 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Spanish | Message 158 of 346 24 December 2006 at 8:55am | IP Logged | |||||
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Man, 10 languages. That's an quite an ambitous goal for any human being. If I was going to live 200 years and had Albert Einstein's IQ, here's the 10 languages that I would favor (Besides Korean).
1. Chinese: The idea of communicating with 1 billion people is a very fascinating ability to possess. And the characters are used in Japanese and Korean. Currently, I am studying the character set alongside with my Korean. 2. Russian: This language is pretty pleasant to listen to. The writing system is easy to read. I personally like listening to the Soviet parades on youtube.com. Russian should be possible for any English speaker. 3. Arabic: The language of the Quran, there's also a wide range of beautiful Arabic music on youtube.com. 4. Greek: This is the original language for the Biblical New Testament and the language for the classic literature. 5. Hebrew: This is also the language for the Biblical Old Testament. It would be a fascinating way to learn about the Jewish religion and Middle Eastern culture. Also, this is a nice language for calligraphy. 6. Hindi: Like Chinese, this language also has a very large number of speakers. And the writing system doesn't look too difficult to learn. 7. Czech: This is the language of my mother's ancestors. 8. French: This is widely spoken up in the Quebec region of North America. I've been up there a few times as a little kid and wished at the time that I knew French. 9. Spanish: This language is quickly gaining popularity in North America because of the growing hispanic population. This would be a practical language to learn. 10. Norweigen: Because this language is closely related to English, it should be easier than German. On a closing note, I have no intention of going for 10 languages in my lifetime. Learning a foreign language mostly is studying books, with the occasional conversation with the native speaker every here and now. Given the difficulty of some of the world's languages listed in this topic, 20 years would not be sufficient for an average person to become fluent in 10 different languages. Edited by skeeterses on 24 December 2006 at 9:04am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| skeeterses Senior Member United States angelfire.com/games5Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6619 days ago 302 posts - 356 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Spanish | Message 159 of 346 24 December 2006 at 9:16am | IP Logged | |||||
I accept that I'm not going to learn 10 languages. But if I picked 5 languages that I could learn in my lifetime, here's what they would be. I would probably pick Chinese, Russian, Spanish, and Czech. After I finish learning Korean, I'll probably spend more time at other hobbies like guitar or art. Edited by skeeterses on 24 December 2006 at 9:43am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| RoseNoire Tetraglot Newbie Belgium Joined 6291 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 160 of 346 06 September 2007 at 9:28am | IP Logged | |||||
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I learned French because I grew up in Belgium and went to a francophone kingergarden.
I learned English because it was compulsory in my school from the first grade primary onwards. I learned Portuguese because of "special" connections to the country. I love the language and culture and have been visiting the country from my first year of life onwards. I started learning Italian because it was a course offered at school - sadly thoug, the course wasn't brilliant and I did not continue to study Italian provately. Other languages I'd like to learn include Spanish, Arabic, Afrikaans/Dutch, Greek, Russian and Hebrew. Maybe also Yiddish because its so close to German. Latin woukd probably also be quite interesting... But I know myself too well to believe I will be able to learn all these languages I just don't have enough discipline. 3 or 4 more will have to do :). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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