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| Darobat Diglot Senior Member Joined 7189 days ago 754 posts - 770 votes  Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin | Message 41 of 346 14 November 2005 at 11:40am | IP Logged |
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Allow me to post again, but this time with much much more thought about my response. These are the languages I wish to learn, in order.
1. Russian - I'm already learning it. It's an awesome language 2. Italian - I love the sound of this language, and after Russian, it will hopefuly seem like a walk in the park 3. Polish - Back to a slavic language. I love the orthography of Polish, and there seems to be a great deal of resources in Polish 4. French - And back to a Romance language. Mostly for the Assimil series, and the great deal of French speakers throughout the world. I'm not too fond of its sound, but I'm sure if I decided to learn it, it would grow on me. 5. Japanese - An introduction into Asian languages. Also provides access to a highly technologically advanced country. 6. Hungarian - I need to learn an agglutinative language. Hungarian has an awesome orthography again, and vowel harmony is just cool. 7. Chinese - With Japanese under my belt, I'll have some basic knowledge of the characters. I also see China as an emerging economic power, so knowing it should seem as a great help. 8. Swedish - Simply an awesome language, and it would be an introduction into Scandanavian languages. 9. Hindi - An Indic language whith a neat script. Also provides a passive knowledge in Urdu. 10. Welsh - And a Celtic language. I love the orthography of Welsh again, and it has a nice sound. Welsh needs all the speakers it can get, seeing in how it is on the verge of extincion. And that's my plan! Edited by Darobat on 14 November 2005 at 11:41am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| hydrohphoenix Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6967 days ago 16 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French | Message 42 of 346 14 November 2005 at 12:21pm | IP Logged |
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Taking usefulness into account, the ten languages I would recommend to an aspiring decaglot would be:
(English as mother tongue) 1. Spanish 2. French 3. Latin 4. German 5. Russian 6. Ancient Greek 7. Arabic 8. Hindustani 9. Bengali 10.Mandarin 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| 1204grandine Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 7188 days ago 88 posts - 78 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, Catalan Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Greek | Message 43 of 346 17 November 2005 at 3:10am | IP Logged |
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I recommend:
1.English 2.Spanish 3.French 4.Italian 5.Arabic 6.Greek 7.Latin 8.Sanskrit 9.Russian 10.Hebrew Edited by 1204grandine on 17 November 2005 at 3:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| solidsnake Diglot Senior Member China Joined 7042 days ago 469 posts - 488 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin | Message 44 of 346 27 January 2006 at 9:55pm | IP Logged |
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my choices:
mandarin (business and trade) russian (chic factor) hindustani (hindi/urdu) (the history!) indonesian (the women!) malay (finance) french (the butter!) arabic (the desert!) croatian (the beaches!) bengali (the jungle!) German (the beer!!) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| lady_skywalker Triglot Senior Member Netherlands aspiringpolyglotblog Joined 6891 days ago 909 posts - 942 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian | Message 45 of 346 28 January 2006 at 3:00am | IP Logged |
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Here are my ten...
+ Dutch - Because I need to learn it (will be moving to the Netherlands in a few months) + Georgian - Fascinating from a linguistic point of view and love its alphabet + Armenian - Same as above + Galician - Love the sound of this language and not too difficult to learn if you already know Spanish + Basque - Long history, interesting from linguistic point of view and have had an interest in the Basque culture for quite some time + Malay - Grammar is apparently fairly easy and love the way it sounds + Farsi (Persian) - Fascinating culture and history behind it and widely spoken in Middle East and Central Asia (albeit in variant forms) + Turkish - Possible EU membership in future and language is gateway to learning other Turkic languages + Croatian - Good starting point for learning Slavic languages (alternative to Russian or Polish) + Romanian - Romance language with a slight Slavic twist 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| nights2200 Newbie United States Joined 6868 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 47 of 346 05 February 2006 at 5:58pm | IP Logged |
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I want to learn
1. Armenian 2. Georgian 3. Russian-all ready taking 4. Hindi 5. Arabic 6. Greek- all ready taking 7. Persian 8. French 9. Czech Japanese-I’ve done this before and didn’t really like it! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| nox Diglot Groupie Croatia Joined 6862 days ago 62 posts - 62 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English Studies: German | Message 48 of 346 17 February 2006 at 5:39pm | IP Logged |
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My ten favorites: (croatian as a mother tongue)
1. English - well, i understand most of it, but i don't think i have mastered it! 2. Spanish - working on it, but only at school, not very succesful, one of the most boring classes (I'll go through pimsleur's course when I get time) 3. Latin - I just 'want' to know some basics, simply as an intorducion to gramar terms and forms (intorducion in romance languages) 4. Russian - I love the sound, and it shouldn't be very hard to master it, considering I'm native Croatian. 5. Portuguese - so I could understand the enteire Latin America :), except the ancient natives. 6. German - Only because of the numerous tourists who come over summers to my 'town' (very small place) 7. French - I don't have a specific opinion about this, but I'd like to visit France a few times 8. Czech or Polish - slavic background 9. Japanese - so I wouln't know only Indo-European languages 10. Arabic - arabic writing system is quite a challenge! Who wouln't like to TRY? -------- 11. Esperanto - the last but not the last ont the 'to do' list. I love Esperanto because of it's original idea, I am really sorry I'm writing now this in English, a language with it's native speakers, whish doesn't make us all eaqual. (another subject..) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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