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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5869 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 217 of 346 27 July 2009 at 8:29pm | IP Logged |
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I'm glad someone revived this thread; I knew about this one from the "So you'd like to Learn 5 languages" thread. My first four are the languages I am currently studying plus at least 6 more.
1. Spanish 2. Afrikaans 3. Finnish 4. Swedish I've already written (in other threads and sub-forums) about why I'm learning the languages above, but I will give reasons for wanting to learn the next six. 5. Hungarian (Another Uralic language with a very intriguing culture to go with it) 6. Inuktitut (copied from my post in the five languages thread, I like the syllabics used by Canadian Inuit. I'm drawn to Finnish, Hungarian and Inuktitut because they are agglutinative languages ...Woohoo!) 7. Polish or Russian (Both have complex, and therefore very fascinating, spelling systems; and I can't decide between them, but I won't delve into Slavic languages for at least a year. 8. Cantonese or Mandarin (Also copied from my 5 languages thread post. Hanzi characters are fun to try to write. I'd like to learn both, but in the real world I won't so in about 3 years I have another decision to make) 9. Arabic (most likely Modern Standard Arabic, but I do want to read the Koran, and learn at least one local dialect, plus the script is gorgeous) 10. Irish/Scottish Gaelic (my ancestors were Celtic as far as I know, and I wish to know more about them) I don't really want to limit myself to 10 languages, but this list will be very long if I don't stop now. Spanish, Afrikaans, Swedish, and Polish or Russian are great introductions to most of the languages of Europe, so I left out German, Italian and Czech to name just 3 more I may consider. Edited by mick33 on 27 July 2009 at 8:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Genocyde Groupie United States Joined 5717 days ago 56 posts - 75 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Mandarin, Persian | Message 218 of 346 27 July 2009 at 8:40pm | IP Logged |
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1. German 2. Russian 3. Farsi 4. Hebrew 5. Arabic (Egyptian) 6. Hindi 7. Mandarin 8. Spanish 9. French 10. Korean and then on top of that, I'd still want to learn a few old languages, just to be able to read some really old stuff. Sanskrit Latin Hieratic, middle Egyptian/hieroglyphics maybe Gothic too? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| densou Senior Member Italy foto.webalice.it/denRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6077 days ago 120 posts - 121 votes Speaks: Italian* | Message 219 of 346 28 July 2009 at 1:17am | IP Logged |
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Priority list:
1) Norwegian (improvement required) 
2) Føroyskt 
3) Icelandic 4) Russian Else: 5) Danish 6) Swedish 7) Gaeilge 8) Sami 9) Kalaallisut 10) Spanish 11) French (needs a revise) 12) A Paleosiberian language (at least) Edited by densou on 28 July 2009 at 1:19am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ashley_Victrola Senior Member United States Joined 5651 days ago 416 posts - 429 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Romanian | Message 220 of 346 28 July 2009 at 2:20am | IP Logged |
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The five from the other lit:
French Romanian Arabic Russian Hindi Then, I guess... Urdu Spanish--the only reason it isn't Portugese is for "usefulness" reasons Amharic Farsi Hungarian although for my top 5 I now bump out Russian for Farsi Edited by Ashley_Victrola on 28 July 2009 at 2:21am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JS-1 Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5928 days ago 144 posts - 166 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), German, Japanese, Ancient Egyptian, Arabic (Written) | Message 221 of 346 29 July 2009 at 9:13pm | IP Logged |
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Mandarin Arabic French German Akkadian/Old Babylonian Sumerian Middle Egyptian Irish Farsi 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| KiwiKiwi Tetraglot Groupie Belgium Joined 5641 days ago 50 posts - 50 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French Studies: Italian, Russian | Message 222 of 346 29 July 2009 at 11:17pm | IP Logged |
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Russian Spanisch Portugese Arabic Swedisch Hindi Japanese Irish/Scottish Gaelic Latin Edited by KiwiKiwi on 29 July 2009 at 11:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6473 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic | Message 223 of 346 30 July 2009 at 2:18pm | IP Logged |
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In no particular order:
German French Italian Finnish Arabic Polish Russian Turkish Vietnamese Danish 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| gdoyle1990 Groupie United States Joined 5565 days ago 52 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Serbian, Estonian | Message 224 of 346 30 July 2009 at 9:27pm | IP Logged |
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1.) Russian
2.) French 3.) Spanish 4.) Hebrew 5.) Icelandic 6.) Turkish 7.) Mandarin 8.) Persian 9.) German 10.) Ancient Greek I'd love to be able to learn all of these, and go back in time and speak Ancient Greek with the native speakers...but, that isn't likely. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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