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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7101 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 17 of 117 14 November 2010 at 10:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
I replied early enough in that thread about 10 languages where I imagined telling some strangers what they should think about.
For 20 (foreign) languages: Afrikaans Chuvash Estonian Finnish French German Hungarian Indonesian Kazakh Komi Lappish (Saami), Northern Latvian Macedonian Mongolian Norwegian (Bokmål) Polish Slovak Turkish Ukrainian Uzbek Over the last five years little has changed apart from the fact that Icelandic has fallen off the list of languages that I'd like to learn. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| akprocks Senior Member United States Joined 5231 days ago 178 posts - 258 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 18 of 117 14 November 2010 at 10:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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My list is constantly changing due to opportunities, convenience to learn languages and interest.
English (native) Spanish (intermidiate) Welsh (novice) Inupiaq (advanced listener, novice speaker) Now for the ones I hope to start: Slovak Klallam ( check it out at http://www.lingtechcomm.unt.edu//~montler/Klallam/) Guaraní Russian Swedish Lativian Bengali Turkish Malay If I live long enough to learn all these I will die a happy man, unless they invent an anti-aging medication in the future in the future I'm afraid I'll have to be satisfied with 12 or so. Their's no way to learn 20 in a lifetime, unless you start from birth. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| thephantomgoat Groupie United States Joined 5416 days ago 52 posts - 103 votes | Message 19 of 117 14 November 2010 at 10:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Apart from the two I already speak:
1. German* 2. Mandarin* 3. Vietnamese* 4. Yiddish* 5. Polish* 6. Turkish* 7. Ancient Greek 8. Swahili 9. Hindi 10. Quechua 11. Cantonese 12. MSA 13. Portuguese 14. Esperanto 15. Indonesian 16. Irish 17. Navajo 18. Yoruba 19. French 20. Russian (or maybe Korean...or Latin...) *Already began to learn the language. After the first six, these are in no particular order. This list is very much subject to change. I'd be surprised if a list of 20 I wrote a week from now looked exactly like this. XP 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Deshwi Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 5545 days ago 31 posts - 38 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Arabic (Written), Turkish, Hindi, Persian | Message 20 of 117 15 November 2010 at 12:02am | IP Logged | |||||
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Wow, picking just 20 was really hard. In no particular order:
1 Mandarin 2 Turkish 3 German 4 Swahili 5 Hindi 6 Arabic 7 Farsi 8 Tamil 9 Korean 10 Bahasa Indonesia 11 Tagalog 12 Hungarian 13 Finnish 14 Japanese 15 Amharic 16 Hebrew 17 Vietnamese 18 Russian 19 Zulu 20 Irish 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5280 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 21 of 117 15 November 2010 at 12:52am | IP Logged | |||||
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After number 14 or so it became harder to think of languages I would really be motivated enough for to study them so I guess my wanderlust isn’t as bad as I thought. My twenty dream languages, including the ones I’m already studying:
English German Swedish Frisian Afrikaans Old English Old Dutch Latin French Italian Spanish Papiamentu Esperanto Russian Ancient Greek Greek Indonesian Arabic Turkish Hebrew 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 22 of 117 15 November 2010 at 1:27am | IP Logged | |||||
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My wish list is constantly growing, I think it's currently at about 15. If I had to grow it to 20, it would like this.
German French Spanish Italian Portuguese Russian Arabic Mandarin Japanese Hindi Latin Greek Turkish Swahili Hungarian Hebrew Dutch Korean Zulu Xhosa 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6854 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 23 of 117 15 November 2010 at 1:34am | IP Logged | |||||
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Apart from Swedish and English, I've had classes in eight languages in high school/university, have studied a few on my own (on and off), and have flirted with a couple. If I would include all of them, this would be the list:
German Spanish French Ancient Greek Irish Welsh Scottish Gaelic Japanese Mandarin Cantonese Latin Russian Portuguese Esperanto Finnish Cornish Serbo-Croatic Persian Turkish Sindarin/Quenya (I can't really remember which, if not both) I've probably forgotten a dozen. My "real" dream list wouldn't look to different from the previous, but I'd probably include Dutch, Italian, Danish, a bunch of Slavic languages, maybe Arabic and Hindi (even Sanskrit), and God knows which languages I would delete. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| pineappleboom Groupie United States languageloft-ashley. Joined 5198 days ago 66 posts - 76 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French, Russian | Message 24 of 117 15 November 2010 at 1:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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french spanish italian german portuguese chinese cantonese swedish dutch korean russian hindi greek arabic basque mayan turkish hebrew bulgarian 1 person has voted this message useful |
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