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| Aena Newbie United States geocities.com/mo Joined 7042 days ago 39 posts - 39 votes Studies: Mandarin, English* | Message 33 of 346 22 August 2005 at 1:02pm | IP Logged | ||
I've learned rudimentary Chinese through informal school and from being raised in a Taiwanese family; taken a semester of French in middle school; a semester of Japanese in high school. Now I'm using multimedia to help with picking up Chinese/French. I plan to learn more as needed. I haven't estimated how long each will take to learn. I don't perceive them as the most difficult languages - just something to learn for convenience and/or fun. Edited by Aena on 11 September 2005 at 4:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| epingchris Triglot Senior Member Taiwan shih-chuan.blog.ntu. Joined 7021 days ago 273 posts - 284 votes  5 sounds Studies: Taiwanese, Mandarin*, English, FrenchB2 Studies: Japanese, German, Turkish | Message 34 of 346 30 August 2005 at 3:50am | IP Logged | ||
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My choice for most important languages to learn:
1.English (......) 2.Spanish (a large range of traveling, ancient ruins, future market promising......) 3.French (interesting culture, and to a lesser extent a large range of traveling) 4.Mandarin (market promising, but that's already native!) 5.German (I think it's important in technology, philosophy, and laws) 6.Japanese (the second most popular language in Taiwan, with strong economical situation and fascinating modern and traditional culture) 7.Russian (its future seems promising......) 8.Portuguese (similar to Spanish, Brazil promising...) 9.xxx (can't think of any other) 10.xxx (can't think of any other) Languages that I would want to learn because, well, just because: 1.Arabic (exotic and ancient) 2.Irish (it sounds fun......) 3.Greek (exotic and ancient) 4.Finnish (it's exciting to learn a language with such simple pronunciation but such complex grammar) 5.Taiwanese (that can be called my mother language) 6.Amis (one of the indigenous languages in Taiwan; it fascinates me) Edited by epingchris on 30 August 2005 at 3:52am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Miri-chan Tetraglot Groupie United States crimsonietta.ne Joined 7001 days ago 59 posts - 60 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Cantonese, English*, French, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Thai | Message 35 of 346 17 September 2005 at 10:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I know it's a topic revival here, but I wanted to add my two cents!
1. English 2. French 3. Spanish 4. Mandarin 5. German 6. Japanese 7. Russian 8. Portuguese 9. Hindi 10. Korean or Cantonese 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Paul Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7114 days ago 114 posts - 124 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German Studies: Italian | Message 36 of 346 18 September 2005 at 12:23am | IP Logged | ||
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For me.
1. English - Native tongue (that doesn't mean there isn't a great deal still to learn) 2. French (The more i learn, the more i fall in love with it - i concentrate most of my time here.) 3. Italian (Because it's so expressive, and easy.) 4. Spanish (Great traveling opportunities, easy) 5. Swedish (The Italian of the Germanic world, tonal, fun, a forward- thinking society, easy for an english speaker, and it gives you access to Danish and Norwegian for free, being mutually intelligible with Norwegian and to a lesser extent danish ). That's almost 20 million people. 6. German - the most widely spoken language in Europe. Can be soft or harsh sounding, quite beautiful. 7. Polish - Every time i hear a girl speak a slavic language my heart melts. Such beautiful languages, though the difficulty puts me off. 8. Russian - More beautiful than polish, and a greater number of speakers (unless the russian population keeps going the way it is). 9. Japanese - Always wanted to learn this one day. 10. Romanian - Even more beautiful than Italian? The most beautiful language i've ever heard anyway. Obviously i won't learn all of these, but in an ideal world, those are the 10 i would choose. Edited by Paul on 18 September 2005 at 12:28am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mga Groupie United States beastie.redirectme.n Joined 7116 days ago 67 posts - 66 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Arabic (Written) | Message 37 of 346 12 November 2005 at 10:57am | IP Logged | ||
Language that I would like to learn:
Edited by Mga on 12 November 2005 at 7:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dadafeig Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6979 days ago 82 posts - 83 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Dutch | Message 38 of 346 12 November 2005 at 11:15am | IP Logged | ||
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English- Pretty obvious why
French- Very interesting history and importance Spanish-Extremely important for the future if you live in the U.S. Mandarin- Could be very important with the way China is becomming more important Latin- If you learn Latin every romance language after it is so much easier Arabic- Come on important for today German- Important economically and interesting Backround Greek-This is just personal, I love it's culture and especially it's history Russian-Difficult but yet satisfying language to learn and yes I also love it's history And the last one could be up to them 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7008 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 39 of 346 12 November 2005 at 5:39pm | IP Logged | ||
The original question was:
So, to answer that question: 1. English 2. Spanish 3. Mandarin 4. Japanese 5. French 6. Arabic 7. German 8. Korean 9. Hindi 10. Russian ...whereas the languages I'd like to learn are (in order): 1. Arabic 2. Catalan 3. German 3. Russian 4. Italian 6. Portuguese 7. Swedish 8. Dutch 9. Greek 10. Latin 11. Ancient Greek 12. Japanese 13. Mandarin English and Spanish I've got for "free", so that makes a total of 15. It's definitely possible...at least, that's what I tell myself! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ymapazagain Senior Member Australia myspace.com/amywiles Joined 6952 days ago 504 posts - 538 votes Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2 | Message 40 of 346 12 November 2005 at 9:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well it all depends on where this young ambitious person is from. For the sake of my argument i´m going to say that they (like me) are from Australia as this influences the languages I would recommend.
English Indonesian Japanese Mandarin Spanish French German Arabic Russian Hindi Not necessarily in that order, but these 10 languages I would certainly consider the most imporant, covering a fair chunk of the globe. English, Indonesian, Japanese are the most important languages within Australasia for business and economy. Mandarin is becoming increasingly important worldwide as the chinese economy grows. Spanish, French and German will cover you pretty well for travel or business within Europe, or will atleast give you an excellent grounding to move on to other European languages. Spanish and French will also help you out in South America, Africa, Pacific Islands and Canada. All beautiful languages with a great wealth of culture to accompany them. Arabic opens the door the middle east and northern africa. This language is very important for political and also historical reasons. Knowing arabic whilst travelling through the middle east will open so many more doors and you will learn so much more about middle eastern life. Russian will become more important in the future with a growing economy. Besides that it has an amazing ´mysterious´factor and opens the door to some amazing culture. Last of all Hindi covers many more of the western asian countries leaving you with a fairly good coverage of the world. Hindi will give you a greater insight into some amazing spiritual and cultural worlds. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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