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| creeper Newbie Germany Joined 7153 days ago 24 posts - 23 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English | Message 17 of 346 29 June 2005 at 3:05pm | IP Logged |
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Ten languages to choose is difficult, but I would go for the following:
English French Spanish German Latin Mandarin Arabic Ancient Greek Polish Russian Having studied this language, one should be able to converse with almost the entire world, although I listed Latin and Ancient Greek. These languages, to my mind, are nontheless important to understand our own languages (relating to the Romance languages and English) and our culture. Besides, they are an overwhelming help for the acquisition of foreign words. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| arkcarn Newbie United Kingdom Joined 7108 days ago 7 posts - 6 votes | Message 18 of 346 01 July 2005 at 2:25pm | IP Logged |
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Creeper, learning Indo-European grammar is the best thing you can do.
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| creeper Newbie Germany Joined 7153 days ago 24 posts - 23 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English | Message 19 of 346 02 July 2005 at 7:48am | IP Logged |
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I have already considered this, but here in Germany the ressources are rare. Living in a small town, there are no libraries in my proximity covering such a topic. The only book I have found is the following:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0804738122/qid =1120308012/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-1405698-36935 66?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 But I am not willing to pay this sum. Does anyone maybe know where on the net one can find a grammar of the Indoeuropean language? Edited by creeper on 02 July 2005 at 7:49am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| perramount Newbie United States Joined 7105 days ago 7 posts - 7 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 20 of 346 14 July 2005 at 4:44pm | IP Logged |
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Here is my list; based mainly on work needs. (As you will see, we do a lot of business with Italy!):
Spanish Italian Portuguese Mandarin Lombard Turkish Napoletano-Calabrese Sicilian Javanese Piemontese 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Raistlin Majere Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Spain uciprotour-cycling.c Joined 7156 days ago 455 posts - 424 votes  7 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish*, Catalan*, FrenchA1, Italian, German Studies: Swedish | Message 21 of 346 14 July 2005 at 5:21pm | IP Logged |
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Creeper: arkcarn is right, you can benefit a lot by learning Indoeuropean grammar (onlygrammar, not the language itself). I myself read the following book last Christmas and, while it has not helped me much to learn new languages, it helps me a lot in understanding languages I never studied such as Dutch, Portuguese...
"Las Lenguas Indoeuropeas" Anna Giacalone Ramat, Paolo Ramat I don't know in what languages this book is available though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JLanguage Newbie United States Joined 7151 days ago 31 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English* | Message 22 of 346 14 July 2005 at 8:36pm | IP Logged |
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First I'll start with the six languages that I plan to learn.
1. Hebrew - Am Jewish and plan to live in Israel for a time, as well as the fact that that knowing Modern Hebrews makes the two liturgical strata of Hebrew much easier. 2. Spanish - Number of speakers in the US and promixity of other Spanish speaking countries to the US. 3. Russian - Would like to learn a slavic language as well as a cyrillic-based one. Huge number of Russian immigrants in Israel. 4. Arabic - Useful in Israel and throughout the middle east. 5. German - Amount of great literature written in German, as well as a great language because of the many awesome compound words with no equivalents in other languages. 6. French - great literature, culture, useful for touring France. Also useful if living in Canada, as well as Quebec's promixity to the US. Also Aramaic because of its importance in Jewish liturgy, but very easy because of its similarity to Hebrew. Other 4 languages (if I have extra time and desire): 1. Mandarin: Economic and political reasons if China fulfills its potential. Very differemt from any Western languages as well as a unique writing system. 2. Latin: The classics, nuff said. 3. Ancient Greek: same as above 4. Yiddish: useful in Israel and New York when communicating with Chareideem. Lots of great unique expressions as well as some great literature. 5. Japanese - a possible option instead of learning one of the above. A difficult but beautiful writing system as well as great literature and TV. Edited by JLanguage on 14 July 2005 at 8:38pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| andee Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7081 days ago 681 posts - 724 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Korean, French | Message 23 of 346 15 July 2005 at 1:14am | IP Logged |
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The languages I wish to speak are:
English - ahuh Korean - growing technology, reunification possibility Indonesian - 200M people, largest Islamic society, Australia's closest neighbour, my Mother-in-law, hah... Malay bonus Polish - family French - cinema, literature, UN, 40+ countries Spanish - South America, number of speakers Russian - number of speakers, literature Arabic - literature, number of speakers German - economy Hindi - lingua franca of India... Urdu bonus, Nepali headstart Subsitute some of my ten (say Polish and ??) for perhaps the more important languages of: Japanese and Mandarin 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| randy310 Senior Member United States Joined 7069 days ago 117 posts - 117 votes Speaks: English* | Message 24 of 346 07 August 2005 at 3:43am | IP Logged |
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The ten languages that I would learn if I had goals for that many would be:
1. Spanish- need i say more for Americans? 2. French- for the business oportunities 3. German- same as above 4. Russian- emerging capitalist country probably with great potential in business 5. Mandarin- emerging economic super power and as with russian not that many americans who can speak them 6. Arabic- [EDITED - OFFENSIVE]. 7. Portuguese- to round out your ability of the two major languages of Latin America. 8. Italian- Wine, women, and roses! 9. Latin- the progentitor of all the romance languages..where they all began! 10. Japanese- Spoken by the second largest economy in the world and one of the most incredible places to visit on the planet. [EDITED - OFFENSIVE] Edited by administrator on 07 August 2005 at 12:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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