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| Iolanthe Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5634 days ago 410 posts - 482 votes  Speaks: English*, DutchC1 Studies: Turkish, French | Message 241 of 346 23 March 2010 at 7:43pm | IP Logged |
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Would recommend to an English speaking British person (since that's what I am):
1) German (important in europe) 2) French (a lot of people go to France on holiday) 3) Spanish (important in the Americas) 4) Polish (a minority language) 5) Welsh (it's pretty, why not?) 6) Arabic (widely spoken) 7) Mandarin (supposedly important...) 8) Russian (why ever not) 9) Esperanto (I'm running out of ideas) 10) Saami (I needed a 10th language) Would like to speak: 1) English (native) 2) Dutch (can kind of speak it) 3) Portuguese 4) Spanish 5) German 6) Welsh 7) French 8) Bosnian 9) Swedish 10) Latin 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6365 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English* | Message 243 of 346 28 March 2010 at 6:13am | IP Logged |
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I don't know. It depends on the persons intentions. What are they interested in?
Personally, I think I want to learn four Asian languages and five or so European languages but I can never settle on which ones... My list is something like this: 1. Mandarin 2. Cantonese 3. Japanese 4. Korean 5. French 6. German 7. Russian 8. Polish 9. Norwegian, Swedish, Danish 10. Dutch Out of linguistic curiosity I want to learn either Finnish or Hungarian. Other than that, I'd be happy with this list. But I plan to get advanced or near native in six to ten languages over the next twenty years or so and then when I'm around fifty, I'll dabble in a few languages out of linguistic curiosity. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| pythonbyte Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5921 days ago 26 posts - 28 votes Studies: French, German | Message 244 of 346 29 March 2010 at 4:52pm | IP Logged |
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The only way I'd realistically speak 10 languages was if I based my language choice on languages I already knew.
I'm learning German at the moment so 1) Dutch 2) Swedish 3) Norwegian and perhaps 4) Icelandic, in that order. My French is also coming on nicely so 1) Spanish 2) Italian 3) Romanian would be a logical progression. I don't care much for Portuguese. Russian is a language that lingers in my thoughts and I have amassed a tidy collection of resources. German Dutch Swedish Norwegian Icelandic French Spanish Italian Romanian Russian 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5396 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 245 of 346 30 March 2010 at 1:19am | IP Logged |
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1. Mandarin
2. German 3. Russian 4. Japanese 5. French 6. Arabic 7. Spanish 8. Polish 9. Turkish 10. Hindi 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| vinovash Diglot Newbie IndiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6236 days ago 22 posts - 22 votes Speaks: Tamil*, EnglishC2 Studies: Spanish, Portuguese | Message 246 of 346 02 April 2010 at 7:56pm | IP Logged |
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my choices would be
English (obvious) spanish (language of the americas) mandarin (you can buy Armani for 10 or 20 $) french (You can date Carla Bruni ,oh she is Italian,sooner Sarkozy will get a french) japanese (for mangas and money) portuguese (u get it free with Spanish&french) russian (to work for CIA,also you can tour half of europe) italian (culinary recipes in its original tongue) hebrew (religous & also for Bar Rafaeli) Tamil (oldest existing language,as far as i know),its my native language my target is 6 since i already speak English & Tamil Spanish Japanese Portuguese Mandarin Italian Russian good luck 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| global_gizzy Senior Member United States maxcollege.blogspot. Joined 5696 days ago 275 posts - 310 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 247 of 346 03 April 2010 at 10:52am | IP Logged |
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01) Spanish
02) Arabic 03) Japanese 04) Esperanto 05) American Sign language 06) Mandarin 07) French 08) Italian 09) German 10) Wolof NOT in order of preference but semi in order of likeliness that I will learn it based on personal goals (at the moment) and availability and readiness of resources. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| polyglossia Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5397 days ago 205 posts - 255 votes Speaks: French* | Message 248 of 346 07 April 2010 at 4:44pm | IP Logged |
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OK.... first list: (maximum of families languages)
1 arabic 2 mandarin 3 portuguese 4 nederlands (?? what's the correct word) 5 hindi 6 indonesian 7 swahili 8 telugu 9 lingala 10 finnish second list (most useful languages !? ) 1 arabic 2 mandarin 3 japanese 4 Spanish 5 hindi 6 french 7 russian 8 German 9 English 10 swahili ... 3d list: (want to learn it!!) 1 arabic 2 mandarin 3 kazakh 4 georgian 5 mongolian 6 icelandic 7 telugu 8 irish 9 scottish gaelic 10 one of bantu language actually that's for nation languages.... I would add "esperanto" on each list of sourse!!! Edited by polyglossia on 07 April 2010 at 4:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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