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| fireflies Senior Member Joined 5126 days ago 172 posts - 234 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 305 of 346 22 September 2010 at 6:49pm | IP Logged |
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I don't think I woul recommend 10! That is a lofty goal.
The 5 I personally have as goals to know and improve upon are: 1. Spanish 2. french 3. Italian 4. German 5. mandarin if i had all the time in the world I would add 6. a scandinavian language 7. dutch 8. japanese 9. greek 10. russian 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ironman Tetraglot Newbie United States Joined 5091 days ago 5 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, French Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Swahili | Message 306 of 346 26 October 2010 at 6:13am | IP Logged |
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This thread is awesome! Especially since I just decided that my new goal is to become want to be fluent in 10 languages (I just picked 10 as a round number). A couple years and I will be there. Interestingly enough, I couldn't find anyone with my exact 10, which are below, ranked in chronological order when I started studying them.
1. English (native tongue) 2. Spanish 3. French 4. Italian 5. German 6. Russian 7. Arabic 8. Chinese 9. Japanese 10. Swahili 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| sm66 Diglot Newbie Australia Joined 5303 days ago 26 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Greek, German | Message 307 of 346 26 October 2010 at 8:21am | IP Logged |
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If I were to tell a young person what languages they should learn, it'd be as followed:
English French Spanish German Latin Russian Arabic Ancient Greek Mandarin Esperanto For me, in the order that I plan to learn them: French Esperanto Italian Spanish Russian then after that I have no idea, but perhaps: Arabic Greek German Armenian/Georgian/Basque Romanian 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5792 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 308 of 346 26 October 2010 at 8:58am | IP Logged |
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- German (native)
- English - Dutch - French - Italian - Spanish - Esperanto - Latin - Danish - Turkish - Portuguese Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Old Chemist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5118 days ago 227 posts - 285 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 309 of 346 26 October 2010 at 12:31pm | IP Logged |
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Oh dear, how embarrassing, believe it or not this was a a goal I had years ago! I still have it, but the finish date has moved forward in time. Anyway, I would advise the young man/woman to use me as a negative example, like the old saying "A wise man can learn from a fool," not that I consider myself a fool. I would try to tell them how and why I had not succeeded as yet and what they should do to be successful: do a bit each day; not to "obsess" about having perfect command of the language; to concentrate on what they wanted to do in the languages; to set aside the time to learn and to just get on with it! I would also advise them to have very good reasons for wanting to learn the languages and certainly not to try to do it to "look clever".
I would say I chose the major - greatest number of speakers - languages, but they should choose for reasons that interested them above all. Very interesting thread. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| getreallanguage Diglot Senior Member Argentina youtube.com/getreall Joined 5416 days ago 240 posts - 371 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, Dutch | Message 310 of 346 26 October 2010 at 12:56pm | IP Logged |
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Honestly, I'd recommend he learned English if his native tongue wasn't English already, and then I'd tell him to learn whatever other nine languages he felt the most affinity towards. Sure, I might drop a word in regarding Latin and Spanish, for historical and other reasons, but really, given the importance of affinity (cultural, aesthetic or otherwise) when it comes to really going the extra mile in language learning, I don't really feel I could do anything more than inform people on the choices they already made. The search for knowledge for knowledge's sake (i.e. when it regards what you want) is a bit of a personal thing. And when it regards what you need, it's a personal thing too.
This is my personal list, and is somehow affected by small things such as usefulness, and largely affected by my sense of what I like. Spanish (native language, so it doesn't count) English (near-native fluency) Italian (already studying) Russian Catalan Croatian or Slovenian Polish Dutch Swedish or Norwegian Tagalog European Portuguese or maybe another romance language And also maybe Mandarin. I've studied Classical Latin and Ancient Greek at university and found them really interesting, but I'm not really interested in pursuing so-called dead languages, other than the occasional dabbling, which can be very interesting. I've found Latin useful for triangulating when I study Italian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| LiNaK37 Newbie United States Joined 5118 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese | Message 311 of 346 01 November 2010 at 11:07pm | IP Logged |
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For an aspiring Polyglot living in the US I would suggest this order for simple effiency
1. English - This is assumed to be the speaker's native language 2. Esperanto - Gives them an easy start, allows them to learn their first 'real' foreign language more easily 3. Latin - This will help them with learning of the Romance languages 4. Spanish - This is chosen because there are a large number of Spanish speakers in the United States 5. Catalan - Similar to Spanish, so it will be easy to learn 6. Portuguese - Similar to Spanish and Catalan, so it will be easy to learn 7. French - This is chosen because of the French speakers in Louisiana, Northern US, and French Canada 8. Italian - Will be easy to learn with all of the Romance language experience 9. Romanian - Will be easy to learn with all of the Romance language experience 10. Wild Card - This is whatever the person chooses it to be - For Slavic languages - Russian. For Germanic languages - German, etc etc. In my opinion this would be the most efficient way to become a decaglot for the average person from the US. Of course things change based on the individual's interests, but this is assuming their interest is only in becoming a decaglot. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tornus Diglot GroupieRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5088 days ago 82 posts - 113 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Swedish, Danish | Message 312 of 346 02 November 2010 at 9:22am | IP Logged |
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espéranto spanish greek french swedish german russian japanese mandarin Edited by tornus on 02 November 2010 at 9:22am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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