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| Steelinho Newbie Japan Joined 4937 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Afrikaans, German, Spanish | Message 105 of 117 16 August 2011 at 12:49pm | IP Logged |
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The first languages, including those I speak now (at any level of proficiency) would
be: 1. English 2. Japanese 3. German 4. Spanish 5. Portuguese (BR) The next ones have come to me through exposure of traveling (though, admittedly, the above ones have also done that, but were already on my list prior to that exposure): 6. Afrikaans 7. Dhivehi (Mahl) 8. AUSLAN (Australian Sign Language) 9. Russian 10. French The following ones would probably help me in my career/s, in some way or another: 11. Dutch 12. Italian 13. Mandarin 14. Continental Portuguese 15. Swedish And the rest are more a slight interest rather than anything else, though I've already dabbled (a very little bit) in some of them: 16. Japanese sign language 17. Xhosa 18. Swahili 19. Piraha 20. One of the Pama-Nyungan languages of Aboriginal Australians 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4954 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 106 of 117 18 August 2011 at 1:12pm | IP Logged |
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One of the things I love about this forums is, how beautifully can people dream here. We all know 20 is really a lot, perhaps even for several lifetimes but why not think of it.
My twenty: Those I have already good knowledge of, but still lots of space for improvement: 1.English 2.French Those I am studying and really want to learn: 3.Spanish 4.German Those I already started and want to come back to in future: 5.Swedish 6.Latin Those I want to learn one day: 7.Polish 8.Russian Here comes the limit of what is possible in reality. And list of my "dream languages" sorted approximately by priority: 9.Japanese 10.Welsh 11.Italian 12.Norwegian 13.Ancient Egyptian 14.Modern Hebrew 15.Portuguese 16.Danish 17.Irish 18.an elvish language (not sure which one) 19.Esperanto 20.Anciant Greek 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| J T Newbie Australia Joined 5632 days ago 12 posts - 16 votes | Message 107 of 117 18 August 2011 at 4:06pm | IP Logged |
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If the genie in the bottle gave me three wishes and one of them was to be GIVEN fluency in any 19 languages I wish (other than my native language, which is English), they would be (in chronological order):
Mandarin (Chinese) Cantonese (Chinese) Hokkien/Fujianhua/Taiwanese (Chinese) French Italian German Spanish Portuguese Japanese Malay/Indonesian Thai Korean Greek Arabic Hebrew Russian Hindi Basque Malayalam I know this has conjured up a bit of controversy in other places, but I have delibrately written Mandarin, Cantonese and Hokkien/Fujianhua/Taiwanese as three different languages, as all three of these "dialects" are incomprehensible to each other. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| boon Diglot Groupie Ireland Joined 6104 days ago 91 posts - 177 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Mandarin, Latin | Message 108 of 117 20 August 2011 at 6:17pm | IP Logged |
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Without thinking too much, and including languages I already study:
Spanish German French Latin Portuguese Italian Catalan Modern Greek Irish Russian Afrikaans Swahili Anglo-Saxon Arabic Hebrew Mandarin Japanese Thai Hindi Indonesian Not necessarily in that order. I'll probably change my mind anyway. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| iGustavo Newbie Brazil Joined 4803 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: French, English, German | Message 109 of 117 20 August 2011 at 8:01pm | IP Logged |
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01 - English (Improve it)
02 - German 03 - Spanish 04 - French 05 - Italian 06 - Japanese (Till here is what I have in my mind to really study) 07 - Chinese 08 - Greek 09 - Chinese 10 - Korean 11 - Finnish 12 - Swedish 13 - Russian 14 - Norwegian 15 - Indonesian 16 - Arabic 17 - Dutch 18 - Latin 19 - Esperanto 20 - Thai 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Mark1003 Diglot Newbie Ireland Joined 4810 days ago 20 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 111 of 117 22 August 2011 at 1:12pm | IP Logged |
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Okay, languages I want to know before I die:
1.Vietnamese 2.Chinese (mandarin) 3.Chinese (cantonese) 4.Korean 5.Polish 6.Italian 7.German 8.Portugese 9.Spanish 10.Esperanto 11.Russian 12.Greek (Modern) 13.Greek (Ancient) 14.Latin 15.Sweedish 16.Thai 17.Finnish 18.Lituanian 19.Croatian 20.Afrikkans 21.Swahili 22.Hebrew 23.Danish 24.Ancient Egyptian 25.Indonisian 26.Sign Language 27.Programming (lol) 28.Filipino 29.Arabic 30.Icelandic And my native language: 31.English And what I'm currently learning 32.Japanese 33.French (Obviously these would have came at the top, hence I started them first And what I'm "learning" through a mandatory class in school: 99.Irish Edited by Mark1003 on 22 August 2011 at 1:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| xees Newbie Joined 4997 days ago 28 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Vietnamese | Message 112 of 117 22 August 2011 at 8:11pm | IP Logged |
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Mark I admire you that you want to learn Vietnamese. Everytime I saw someone post they wanted to learn Vietnamese I felt a little bit proud.
I should say I'm English...but i'm currently learning Vietnamese and living in Vietnam and want to encourage anyone learning. If anyone is learning Vietnamese and wants to message me to practise then please do! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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