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| noriyuki_nomura Bilingual Octoglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 5338 days ago 304 posts - 465 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Japanese, FrenchC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, SpanishB2, DutchB1 Studies: TurkishA1, Korean | Message 385 of 580 27 April 2010 at 4:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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For me:
Arabic French German Japanese Mandarin 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Saif Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5610 days ago 122 posts - 208 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Levantine)*, French | Message 386 of 580 28 April 2010 at 7:16am | IP Logged | |||||
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1. Russian
2. Mandarin 3. Turkish 4. Greek 5. Persian 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| PaulLambeth Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5371 days ago 244 posts - 315 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Hindi, Irish | Message 387 of 580 28 April 2010 at 7:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It's rather difficult to limit it to 5 as I haven't put too much thought in past my first two. Lots I'm just interested in. These I certainly wish to learn a lot of:
1. Icelandic because I love the country and wish to live there. 2. German as it is understood in much of central Europe. I also love it in its written form. The last two are between a lot of languages for different reasons: - French for access to much of Africa and Canada (although there are often differences) and due to their films. - Spanish for access to most of South America and some of North America. For some reason the romance languages don't appeal to me much for their own sakes but with French and Spanish you attain great access to some places that are further afield. - Welsh and Irish as I'm fond of the fact that we have minority languages in the UK. Large parts of Wales speak only Welsh so that'd be most useful. - Polish as I have several Polish friends, although I've not visited Poland. - Finnish, but I'm not really sure why. It's a beautiful country and the language has an interesting feel and look to it, with some grammatical points that I'm not at all used to. - Mandarin would be very interesting to teach myself but I'm not sure I'd take it far due to the writing system. I find it very beautiful to hear, though, so would love to concentrate on spoken Mandarin. In summary, I expect for the purpose of this list to learn one Romance language, one local minority language and one other for my own pleasure: 3. French/Spanish (probably French) 4. Welsh/Irish (probably Irish, possibly both to low intermediate) 5. Polish/Finnish/Mandarin (probably Finnish and some Mandarin) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Schicksal Tetraglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5317 days ago 8 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, German, Indonesian Studies: Japanese | Message 388 of 580 03 May 2010 at 4:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Chinese(Mandarin)
Japanese Korean Malay/Indonesian Dutch Doing a 4 year university degree in Chinese starting next year anyway, and i plan to learn the others along the way (: 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dolly Senior Member United States Joined 5788 days ago 191 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin | Message 389 of 580 03 May 2010 at 10:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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French
Italian Turkish Modern Greek Persian Edit: I just looked up at your post, Saif:
Cool :o) Edited by dolly on 03 May 2010 at 10:28pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Saif Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5610 days ago 122 posts - 208 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Levantine)*, French | Message 390 of 580 03 May 2010 at 10:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
We share common interests in languages. :D I'm learning Italian too, but I thought I'd throw in an Asian language for balance. =) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| lasoul Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 5340 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Spanish, Turkish, Arabic (classical) | Message 391 of 580 05 May 2010 at 3:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
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If I had to choose five, my picks are:
1. Spanish - I love the sound and the rhytm of this language. I already learn it but I am at the beginning. Hopefully I will be fluent someday. 2. Arabic - I am fascinated by this language. Currently I am learning MSA but I am focusing on the sript. I love it so far. Later I want to pick a dialect as well but I am not sure which one I will choose. 3. French - I leant French in school and I really liked it. Unfourtenetly I forget much of my French due to focussing on other stuff. But I reall want to re-learn it. 4.Turkish - As I am living in an area with many turkisch speaking people I have some knoweldge of this language. But this knowledge basicly consists of vocabulary. So I want to learn some grammer and some more vocabulary in order to be able to speak and understand this beautiful language. To choose the last one is really hard. I guess the 5. would be Persian, Russian or Hebrew maybe. Edited by lasoul on 22 May 2010 at 2:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ubik Senior Member United States ubykh.wordpress.com/ Joined 5314 days ago 147 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin, Arabic (Egyptian), German, Spanish | Message 392 of 580 10 May 2010 at 12:55am | IP Logged | |||||
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1. German (Its the most beautiful-sounding language Ive ever heard + the language is intuitive (to me, anyway) and I already know quite a bit from high school) 2. Arabic (Extremely useful -- one of the big players and it'd 3. Spanish (I live on the west coast of the US so thats an obvious reason, but real Spain Spanish is almost as beautiful as German to me) 4. Romanian (Just plain 'ol fascinated with it. I have been for years. Its perhaps the least Romance of the Romance languages despite its name and that alone intrigues me) 5. Serbo-Croatian (Again, dunno...it fascinates me. I want to start with Croatian first because it uses the Roman alphabet, then move to Serbian to learn the Cyrillic script) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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