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| mintgreennova Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6187 days ago 24 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, German | Message 169 of 346 24 December 2007 at 9:46am | IP Logged |
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I would usually factor my personal life more into this, choosing languages which I think I would have many opportunities to practice in relation to people I know and where I live.
English (mother tongue) French (first language I ever started to learn, and I'm doing a year of school in France right now) Spanish (my bf is Colombian, my family lives in Florida... need I say more?) German (my host family in France is actually Swiss/German/Dutch (i know), and I have quite a few other German friends) Dutch (host family, plus easy to learn Dutch if you know English/German) Portuguese (I visit S. America often) Quechua (ditto, plus a chance to learn something non Indo-European) Swedish (I have a good Swedish friend, also to get in touch with my roots) Finally after that, 2 languages which I have no personal connection to whatsoever: Thai (I love the culture, and I'd really like to immerse myself in an Asian culture at some point in my life) Swahili (It's just always appealed to me...) That was fun! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ruan Diglot Groupie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6182 days ago 95 posts - 101 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, English | Message 170 of 346 24 December 2007 at 12:13pm | IP Logged |
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These are the languages that i'm planning to learn.
*2008 to the middle of 2009 1. English 2. Spanish 3. French 4. Japanese *Middle of 2009 to the end of 2010 5. Chinese 6. Arabic *From the beginning of 2011 to the middle of 2012 7. Russian 8. German 10.Hindustani ------------------------------------------- 9. Portuguese* * Native language Edited by Ruan on 24 December 2007 at 12:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| bellumgero Tetraglot Newbie Canada Joined 6182 days ago 32 posts - 37 votes Speaks: Russian, Ukrainian*, English, Polish Studies: German, French, Spanish, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, Portuguese | Message 171 of 346 24 December 2007 at 8:27pm | IP Logged |
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My top ten would look like this (if I didn't know Russian and Polish):
English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese +5 "fun" languages: Greek, Russian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| bellumgero Tetraglot Newbie Canada Joined 6182 days ago 32 posts - 37 votes Speaks: Russian, Ukrainian*, English, Polish Studies: German, French, Spanish, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, Portuguese | Message 172 of 346 24 December 2007 at 8:32pm | IP Logged |
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As for the Asian languages, I would choose these:
Mandarin, Japanese, Hindi, Farsi, Turkish. Sorry, guys, ten is too little. :) My ideal choice would be 15: 10 European + 5 Asian languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| bellumgero Tetraglot Newbie Canada Joined 6182 days ago 32 posts - 37 votes Speaks: Russian, Ukrainian*, English, Polish Studies: German, French, Spanish, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, Portuguese | Message 173 of 346 24 December 2007 at 8:48pm | IP Logged |
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Oh, my Gosh! I totally forgot about Italian! Souls of great Dante and Petrarca, forgive me this unpardonable sin... That exquisite language will be without a doubt among the first five languages,however in that case I'd have to shift Portuguese to the "fun" section and I'll have to bid my farewell to Hungarian. :( ...unless the list would include 20 languages. :) In that case the four vacant positions will occupy Latin (mother of all Romance languages), Dutch, Swedish and Romanian.
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| bellumgero Tetraglot Newbie Canada Joined 6182 days ago 32 posts - 37 votes Speaks: Russian, Ukrainian*, English, Polish Studies: German, French, Spanish, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, Portuguese | Message 174 of 346 24 December 2007 at 9:00pm | IP Logged |
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Great Scott! I forgot to include Arabic in the Asian languages section. In that case I'll have to sacrifice one of the above-mentioned languages-unless... ;)
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| magic9man2 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6630 days ago 149 posts - 153 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Arabic (Written), Mandarin, French, Cantonese, Russian, Korean, Taiwanese, Arabic (Levantine) | Message 175 of 346 25 December 2007 at 1:28am | IP Logged |
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I'd tell the young lad to learn French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, and Korean. He'd be able to speak with somebody just about anywhere he went.
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| magic9man2 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6630 days ago 149 posts - 153 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Arabic (Written), Mandarin, French, Cantonese, Russian, Korean, Taiwanese, Arabic (Levantine) | Message 176 of 346 25 December 2007 at 7:02pm | IP Logged |
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And he'd speak most of my favorite languages coincidentally^^
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