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| Cage Diglot aka a.ardaschira, Athena, Michael Thomas Senior Member United States Joined 6625 days ago 382 posts - 393 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Portuguese | Message 161 of 346 07 September 2007 at 4:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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A person of average intelligence should be able to gain basic fluency in 10 langages in 10 years if he/she is willing to work consistently at it. We all only use a small portion of our brains making IQ numbers somewhat meaningless. So no excuses why it can not be done.
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7016 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 162 of 346 07 September 2007 at 7:50pm | IP Logged | ||
Don't you think that it depends on the ten languages chosen? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cage Diglot aka a.ardaschira, Athena, Michael Thomas Senior Member United States Joined 6625 days ago 382 posts - 393 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Portuguese | Message 163 of 346 08 September 2007 at 9:58am | IP Logged | ||
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Yes you are right Mr. Patuco! A number of the Asian languages will take longer than that one year and perhaps some of the slavic languages too. How about an average of 2 years per language, longer for some shorter for others. Francois learned Spanish in 6 months after already knowing French and Italian and said that Portuguese should be with in reach in about 3 months. I was only speaking of basic fluency and not native like fluency. Edited by Cage on 08 September 2007 at 9:59am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| MOSF Newbie Antarctica Joined 6469 days ago 17 posts - 17 votes Speaks: EnglishC2 Studies: FrenchB2 | Message 164 of 346 08 September 2007 at 7:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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1- English.
2- Portuguese, love the sound and the countries where it's spoken. 3- French. 4- German. These two would open me the gates of central/western Europe, the region that interests me most in the world. 5- Mandarin. Someday... 6- Hind-Urdu: lots of speakers, not too hard but exotic enough. 7- Romanian: The largest inmigrant community in my country right now, being a romance language it shouldn't be too difficult. 8- Arabic: I couldn't decide between the dialect(s) spoken in western Maghreb or trying to learn the one in some middle eastern country. The former, I guess, being closer and having a large Moroccan and Algerian community in the country. 9- Farsi. 10- I feel ridiculous already, listing a tenth language I won't manage to learn would only make things worse. Edited by MOSF on 08 September 2007 at 7:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Yvelle Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6315 days ago 14 posts - 17 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: Gypsy/Romani | Message 165 of 346 08 September 2007 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Italian Romanian Serbian Ukrainian Greek Chinese Dongba (fluency in reading), Piraha (fluent comprehension), Tibetian (fluency in reading/writing) Adi The language sung in the movie "In My Country" Edited by Yvelle on 10 September 2007 at 8:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| angeltreats Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6295 days ago 48 posts - 49 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Swedish | Message 166 of 346 09 September 2007 at 8:59am | IP Logged | ||
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Not really in order...
1) Portuguese 2) French 3) Italian 4) Catalan 5) Japanese 6) Swedish 7) Irish (I'm Irish and would love to be able to speak my "native" language but not at the expense of other languages that would be more use to me in everyday life 8) Mandarin 9) German 10) Not sure. Maybe Polish because there are a lot of Polish people in London, where I live. Maybe Romanian, so I'd have learnt all the Romance languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bojan Bilingual Pentaglot Newbie Germany Joined 6225 days ago 35 posts - 35 votes Speaks: Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian*, German*, English | Message 167 of 346 15 November 2007 at 8:12am | IP Logged | ||
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I want to speak:
English German Slovenian Serbian Romanian Portuguese Spanish Esperanto Italian Mandarin Urdu And also Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Russian, Cantonese etc... That will be a much of work for me...First, I am studying the south slavic languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Alvinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 6235 days ago 828 posts - 832 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish | Message 168 of 346 16 November 2007 at 5:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Portuguese (mother tongue)
Spanish English Italian French Chinese Mandarin Russian Swedish Romanian German 1 person has voted this message useful |
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