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| joshpoliglot Newbie AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5343 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* | Message 249 of 346 11 April 2010 at 5:48am | IP Logged |
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Hi, I'm Josh and Im new, this is my first post, so sorry if I do it wrong.
I would reccomend 1.English 2.French 3.Mandarin 4.Cantonese 5.Japanese 6.Spanish 7.Arabic 8.Russian 9.Spanish And i would let them choose 10, as you will enjoy it more if you pick it, and therefor do better in it. Go ahead! Learn a rare language! Learn Mhong or Faroe. I would want to learn 1.English 2.French 3.Mandarin 4.Canonese 5.Korean 6.Icelandic 7.Turkish 8.Norwigen 9.Finnish 10.Russian! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5340 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes  Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German | Message 250 of 346 13 April 2010 at 9:22am | IP Logged |
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(English= Mother Tongue)
1. French 2. Spanish 3. Italian 4. German 5. Catalan 6. Japanese 7. Mandarin 8. Russian 9. Hebrew 10. Portuguese For me: (i know English & Spanish already) 1. French 2. German 3. Portuguese 4. Dutch 5. Italian 6. Catalan. 7. Hebrew (modern and Biblical) 8. Danish 9. Russian 10. Mandarin 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jenniferqi Diglot Newbie China Joined 5344 days ago 3 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English, Mandarin* Studies: French, German | Message 251 of 346 21 April 2010 at 6:18pm | IP Logged |
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I would like to recommend those languges to study:
1) English 2) Spanish 3) Russian 4） French 5) German 7) Mandarin 8) Japanese 10) Italian The languages I would like to learn: 1) English(important and useful) 2) German(Interesting and focus on education,I learned a bit at school ,but almost forgot it at all ,so now I am trying to learn it again ) 3) French (Romantic and beautiful language) 4) Japanese(I also learned a bit at school and forgot them at all as same as the German,I plan to learn it again next year.) 5) Spanish (I don't know why ,but Spanish seems to be very uesful nowadays) 6) Korean (Because one of my Korean friend invites me to visit korea,so I am meant to learn a little bit before I go ) 7)polish (After I watched one polish movie ,I felt in love with this language ,the language sounds so beautiful,and after that I found Poland has a interesting culture and history as well. ) 8)Finnish (I used to have the chance to master this language ,becuase I had studied in Finland for two years ,but I didn't pay any attention to this language,what a pity for my loss.) I just can think about 8 languages I want to learn so far ,I will find more language I want to learn in the following days and then add them here again. Edited by Jenniferqi on 21 April 2010 at 6:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| papytofu Diglot Newbie CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5334 days ago 16 posts - 21 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2 Studies: Mandarin, Latin, Spanish | Message 252 of 346 21 April 2010 at 6:25pm | IP Logged |
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I know:
French English I'll be learning: Mandarin- I'm going to China this summer and I'm really interested in Comparative Studies Korean- Still for Comparative Studies Japanese- Comparative studies and the culture Thai -I'll be doing a trip to South Asia and as Thai is the same as Lao, i'll be doing two hits with one rock. Spanish- It's easy to learn for a native french speaker and have a abundant literature. Hindi- For Comparative Studies and my trip to South Asia. German- For Philosophy and literature mainly Russian- For its literature and the fact that I just love how it sounds I'd like to be able to read: Ancient Greek Latin Tibetan Sanskrit I want those four for the ancient texts If it's good for me, it's good for anyone :P. Edited by papytofu on 21 April 2010 at 6:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| noriyuki_nomura Bilingual Octoglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 5341 days ago 304 posts - 465 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Japanese, FrenchC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, SpanishB2, DutchB1 Studies: TurkishA1, Korean | Message 253 of 346 23 April 2010 at 12:25pm | IP Logged |
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I am impressed to see so many people striving to learn as many languages as possible, however, isn't it expensive to learn (foreign) languages, not to mention the amount of time and effort needed to master a foreign language, let alone 10? :(
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| pushkin Tetraglot Groupie France Joined 5520 days ago 49 posts - 60 votes Speaks: French*, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), German, Modern Hebrew | Message 254 of 346 23 April 2010 at 5:35pm | IP Logged |
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I think that the 10 most important languages that will be spreading in the future are :
1 English, the current lingua franca 2 Spanish : almost all people are learning it 3 Mandarin but it's too difficult to master it. It's a big disadvantage for its expansion around the world. 4 Turkish : this language is easy and Turkey will have more and more influences. 5 Indonesian 6 Portuguese 7 Swahili ( the future lingua franca in Africa ) 8 German 9 Arabic ( only because there's an increase of muslim people) 10 French Italian, russian, japanese would be less important cause of demographic reasons. The growth of a language depends on demographic, migratory factors and easiness 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Fazla Hexaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6263 days ago 166 posts - 255 votes Speaks: Italian, Serbo-Croatian*, English, Russian, Portuguese, French Studies: Arabic (classical), German, Turkish, Mandarin | Message 255 of 346 23 April 2010 at 6:33pm | IP Logged |
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I don't see Swahili ever replacing English or French in Africa... (as much as I WOULD like Swahili to replace them). Plus as far as I know there are too many Swahili dialects spread in east Africa, so that's another big problem: even if you learn Zanzibar's Swahili, that doesn't ean they'll understand what you are saying in Congo.
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| s_allard Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5431 days ago 2704 posts - 5425 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Polish | Message 256 of 346 23 April 2010 at 8:52pm | IP Logged |
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I haven't done a scientific survey, but I did a have a cursory look at all the lists and guestimated the rankings of the various language. English is by far the first language, Then comes Spanish or French. From fourth place, things start to get more diverse. Russian, German, Mandarin and Italian would seem to be around here. What does this say?
Let's start by noting what is not there. There are nearly no African languages except Swahili and Wolof. No indigenous languages of the Americas and very few of the small minority languages of the world. The languages most desired are obviously the the ones with the most prestige and the largest populations. This is not surprising in a sense because these are considered the most important languages in the world. One could say that the top 6 are quite predictable and that the others reflect the many varied individual tastes. What this also says is that with English one does not need any other language to communicate with the rest of the world. If you add in French and Spanish, you really don't need anything else. An interesting thought. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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