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| LittleKey Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5953 days ago 146 posts - 153 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Japanese | Message 201 of 346 30 December 2008 at 1:33pm | IP Logged |
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English (mother tongue)
Spanish French Russian Mandarin Chinese Arabic Japanese German Italian Norwegian 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| FM_Moltke Bilingual Tetraglot Groupie Germany Joined 6620 days ago 54 posts - 58 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, German, French Studies: Polish, Latin | Message 202 of 346 31 December 2008 at 5:02pm | IP Logged |
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English (for international travel and communication)
French (for the study of art, literature, history, philology, philosophy, letters) German (for the study of music, history, philosophy, theology) Italian (for the study of art and music) Latin (for the study of philosophy, theology, classics, philology and history) Ancient Greek (for the study of drama, philosophy, theology, history and philology) and then probably: Russian Spanish Mandarin Dutch as auxiliary international languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Maestro Groupie Chile Joined 5872 days ago 40 posts - 40 votes | Message 203 of 346 05 January 2009 at 6:05pm | IP Logged |
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My list:
Spanish (Native) 1.English 2.French 3.German 4.Hebrew 5.Russian 6.Arabic 7.Japanese 8.Mandarin 9.Ancient Greek 10.Latin 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Juan M. Senior Member Colombia Joined 5900 days ago 460 posts - 597 votes | Message 204 of 346 05 January 2009 at 8:09pm | IP Logged |
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Not exactly ten, but here's what I've been considering since I acquired the language fever:
Classical Chinese English French German Ancient Greek Hebrew Italian Japanese Latin Mandarin Russian Sanskrit Spanish Perhaps if I'm fortunate, live long, and find really good online bookstores for each, I'll learn them all. Edited by JuanM on 15 January 2009 at 11:56am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6035 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 205 of 346 06 January 2009 at 4:38am | IP Logged |
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-1 Bulgarian
0 English 1 French 2 Japanese 3 Russian 4 Swedish 5 Norwegian 6 Italian 7 Spanish 8 Portuguese 9 German 10 Modern Greek This is, of course, an overly optimistic thread. I don't really have the intention to master ten, except maybe in a parallel universe where people have a lifespan of 200 years. Edited by Sennin on 06 January 2009 at 4:42am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Theodisce Octoglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5887 days ago 127 posts - 167 votes Speaks: Polish*, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian, Czech, French, English, German Studies: Italian, Spanish, Slovak, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, Portuguese | Message 206 of 346 07 January 2009 at 3:29pm | IP Logged |
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My dream list:
English Latin Ancient Greek German French Italian Spanish Dutch Russian Old Church Slavonic Excluding languages I've already mastered at some degree, I'd add Czech, Bulgarian, Biblical Hebrew and Sanskrit. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| stephen_g Groupie Canada Joined 6330 days ago 44 posts - 84 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Italian | Message 207 of 346 07 January 2009 at 6:16pm | IP Logged |
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Hmm, I have two answers... One is realistic and the other is merely fantasy. I'd choose the latter ten were a genie to offer me mastery over ten languages. I've organized the realistic list into my actual life-long plan of attack.
--Realistic-- English (Mother Tongue) Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu... One language, really) Italian Punjabi Persian French German Turkish Arabic Sicilian --Fantasy-- English Hindustani Punjabi Sanskrit Latin Koine Greek Ancient Hebrew Russian Mandarin Arabic 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Frost Newbie United States Joined 5804 days ago 27 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Norwegian, Faroese, Greek | Message 208 of 346 21 January 2009 at 3:19pm | IP Logged |
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1. English (native speaker)
2. Spanish (already reached a high level, might as well finish it) 3. Norwegian (love the culture and would move there in a heartbeat) 4. Faroese (supposedly the key to all the Scandinavian languages, sounds cool when spoken and it's rarity gives it a pretty high chic factor) 5. Old English (purely for the purpose of reading works in their original Old English) 6. Finnish (again, love the culture and much of the music I listen to comes from Finland) 7. Maltese (a really unique Semitic language, though not amazingly popular) 8. German (potential travel destination plus not too difficult to find resources for) 9. Hawaiian (can someone say chic factor?) 10. Russian (just for the sake of learning a language that uses the Cyrillic alphabet, and of course the very rich Russian culture) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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