Dromygolo Diglot Newbie France Joined 7210 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2 Studies: Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 17 of 580 14 September 2006 at 12:43pm | IP Logged |
For me, it will be:
Japanese
Spanish
Chinese
Korean
Arabic (the Lebanese type)
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Zorndyke Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6956 days ago 374 posts - 382 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Czech
| Message 18 of 580 14 September 2006 at 2:32pm | IP Logged |
I´m just curious why everybody wants to learn Lebanese Arabic?
Edited by Zorndyke on 14 September 2006 at 5:13pm
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luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7203 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French
| Message 19 of 580 14 September 2006 at 4:24pm | IP Logged |
Spanish
Esperanto
French
ASL
and then, since this is a fantasy, Mandarin.
Those languages are the ones I'd expect to be potentially useful for interacting with other based on where I live and the fact that I'm not really wanting to travel to other countries. I don't know that I'll go past learning French in this lifetime based primarily on practicality. But one never knows. Maybe after French, I'd have the hang of how to learn "easy" languages.
Edited by luke on 21 September 2006 at 4:07pm
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lady_skywalker Triglot Senior Member Netherlands aspiringpolyglotblog Joined 6888 days ago 909 posts - 942 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian
| Message 20 of 580 14 September 2006 at 5:47pm | IP Logged |
*back from my few weeks' absence*
Not sure how possible perfect fluency in another 5 languages is but my 5 would be :
1) Dutch (would make my life easier here in the Netherlands!)
2) French (for work purposes)
3) Japanese (for work and pleasure)
4) Basque or Georgian (just for fun and because they're fairly hard languages to learn)
5) Ancient Greek (would love to read Homer in the original)
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cadomniel Groupie Canada senseandsanity.com Joined 7193 days ago 88 posts - 90 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Esperanto, French, Italian
| Message 21 of 580 14 September 2006 at 5:50pm | IP Logged |
German, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish.
I set a pesonal goal to have a good proficiency in three languages by the time I graduate from university...so i have two more years to learn the first three!
But German is already 75% there, and French 50% there.
I do a bit of Swedish when i have time...but Russian...that will just have to wait a few more years, that language needs all my concentration and effort!
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lengua Senior Member United States polyglottery.wordpre Joined 6682 days ago 549 posts - 595 votes Studies: French, Italian, Spanish, German
| Message 22 of 580 14 September 2006 at 5:52pm | IP Logged |
Zorndyke wrote:
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For me, because it's spoken in more countries than Egyptian Arabic. Also because I'd like to visit Lebanon/Palestine someday.
For everyone who said it was hard to pick the fifth - me too! I put Japanese, but it's really a three-way tie between that, Portuguese, and German.
Edited by lengua on 14 September 2006 at 5:53pm
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patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7013 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map
| Message 23 of 580 14 September 2006 at 6:04pm | IP Logged |
Arabic
Russian
Japanese
Greek
Mandarin
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justinwilliams Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6687 days ago 321 posts - 327 votes 3 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Italian
| Message 24 of 580 14 September 2006 at 7:09pm | IP Logged |
I'm a french native speaker so it would be as follow.
1. English
2. German
2. Mandarin
4. Japanese
5. One just for fun like Italian or Swedish
I wish I was born as an English!
Edited by justinwilliams on 14 September 2006 at 7:14pm
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