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| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5346 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes  Speaks: Spanish* | Message 25 of 117 15 November 2010 at 3:35am | IP Logged |
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I really cannot make up my mind.
Spanish Italian French English German Polish Latin Greek Russian Armenian Hebrew Arabic Persian Hindi Bengali Tamil Sinhala Pali Sanskrit Thai Chinese Mandarin Classical Chinese Japanese Edited by Juаn on 20 November 2010 at 10:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5883 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 26 of 117 15 November 2010 at 5:42am | IP Logged |
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Here are the 8 that I am pretty set on learning
1) Japanese 2) German 3) French 4) Spanish 5) Italian 6) Russian 7) Korean 8) Mandarin I imagine that it'll take me long enough to learn all of those to the level that I'd like, but imagining that I have all the time in the world, or maybe that I'd be fine learning 12 more others to just a high beginner/low intermediate range (which would be doable, I suppose), here's 12 more 9) Portuguese 10) Catalan 11) Dutch 12) Swedish 13) Cantonese 14) Tibetan 15) Hindi 16) Bengali 17) Arabic 18) Ukrainian 19) Latin 20) Sioux A lot of these would be languages I'd like to learn, just not as much as the ones in 1-8. Portuguese to round out an imaginary trip throughout South America and most of Western Europe (along with Catalan). Swedish and Dutch fills out much of central-north Europe. Cantonese and Tibetan for my imaginary trip to East Asia. Hindi and Bengali for India. Arabic for the Middle East. Ukrainian to add another Slavic language to my repertoire. Latin because I'm a history buff and reading Roman documents in their original Latin would be pretty awesome. Sioux comes in at 20 since I'd think it'd be cool to learn a Native American languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| YoshiYoshi Senior Member China Joined 5532 days ago 143 posts - 205 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 27 of 117 15 November 2010 at 7:13am | IP Logged |
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Mainstream European & American Languages (Excluding English):
01. German 02. French 03. Italian 04. Spanish (in the future) Mainstream East & Southeast Asian Languages: 05. Japanese 06. Korean 07. Thai (in the future) Mainstream Middle Eastern Languages: 08. Arabic (MSA, in the future) 09. Hebrew (Biblical, in the future) 10. Persian (in the future) 11. Coptic (Ancient Egyptian, a pity, almost impossible) My favourite Chinese language/dialect: 12. Minnanese No more learning plans. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sierra Diglot Senior Member Turkey livinginlights.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7125 days ago 296 posts - 411 votes Speaks: English*, SwedishB1 Studies: Turkish | Message 28 of 117 15 November 2010 at 10:11am | IP Logged |
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Languages I desperately want to learn and will be upset if I never manage:
1. Turkish 2. Hebrew 3. Persian 4. Urdu Languages I'd like to learn: 5. Russian 6. Arabic 7. Swahili Languages I have no particular investment in but will gladly use to round out a top 20 list: 8. Portuguese 9. Italian 10. Spanish 11. Uzbek 12. Tamil 13. Ancient Greek 14. Modern Greek 15. Quechua 16. Aramaic 17. Irish 18. Hungarian 19. Pashto 20. Coptic No East Asian languages make the cut, and the absence of French and German might surprise some people. I guess utility affects my choices only to a certain extent... but I'd rather study Quechua than German, or Aramaic than Japanese. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| microsnout TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Canada microsnout.wordpress Joined 5472 days ago 277 posts - 553 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 29 of 117 15 November 2010 at 5:26pm | IP Logged |
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As an odd member of this forum that does not desire to be a polyglot, I may be a bit biased but nevertheless this
thread seems like one of those that serve mainly as a distraction from actually studying something : ) Then again, for family reasons (In-law), I should really add Croatian to my list which will bring me up to 2 - just 18 more to go. Edited by microsnout on 15 November 2010 at 7:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6106 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 30 of 117 15 November 2010 at 7:29pm | IP Logged |
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20 Languages?
Oh boy.....Think of the maintenance!! Edited by Mooby on 15 November 2010 at 7:45pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5568 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 31 of 117 15 November 2010 at 7:51pm | IP Logged |
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Bengali Dutch French German Greek Hindi Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Korean Mandarin Polish Portuguese Russian Spanish Swahili Swedish Turkish Edited by Levi on 15 November 2010 at 7:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6784 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 32 of 117 15 November 2010 at 7:54pm | IP Logged |
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Only twenty? Why not up the quota to the total number of languages, then you don't have
to choose. To me as you go from 5 to 10 to 20 it's a bit like saying "make a list of your 20 absolutely closest friends", the exclusivity seems rather diluted. My plan is to get six, possibly seven. I could maybe muster an interest in ten, but twenty seems rather overkill. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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