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| sumabeast Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6937 days ago 212 posts - 220 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written) | Message 1 of 18 15 December 2005 at 2:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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If a person set out to learn several languages (not all at once). let's say one from each major language family, and want to get the most bang for the buck so that he/she learned the one language that would be of most use in picking up the others in the family later on, which would it be?
Romance family Slavic family Germanic family (besides already knowing English) Semitic family Sino family Celtic family Bantu family Turko family Amer-Indian family, ect. Or even if we decided the same but by region and not linguistic family such as which one language would you suggest for each of following regions and why? Eastern Europe Western Europe East Asia Middle East and non-Arab Mid East Euasia Sub-saharan Africa Amer-Indian thanks for your participation 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| KingM Triglot Senior Member michaelwallaceauthor Joined 7202 days ago 275 posts - 300 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 18 15 December 2005 at 3:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It's an interesting subject, but pretty similar to this thread:
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=1666 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| orion Senior Member United States Joined 7032 days ago 622 posts - 678 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 3 of 18 15 December 2005 at 6:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
Based on number of speakers I would say Romance: Spanish Slavic: Russian Germanic: German Sino-Tibetan: Mandarin Celtic: Welsh Bantu: Swahili Amerindian: Navaho or Cherokee 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Darobat Diglot Senior Member Joined 7199 days ago 754 posts - 770 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin | Message 4 of 18 15 December 2005 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
For Germanic, I'm pretty sure English would be a much better choice. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| orion Senior Member United States Joined 7032 days ago 622 posts - 678 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 5 of 18 16 December 2005 at 12:19am | IP Logged | |||||
I agree, however sumabeast originally posed the question assuming someone already spoke English. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Vespasian Bilingual Triglot Groupie Switzerland Joined 6930 days ago 55 posts - 55 votes Speaks: German*, Swiss-German*, English Studies: Italian | Message 6 of 18 16 December 2005 at 12:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Could you elaborate on why you pick Spanish and not French, Italian or Portuguese?
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| sumabeast Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6937 days ago 212 posts - 220 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written) | Message 7 of 18 16 December 2005 at 1:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Some very good input.
I'll only raise for discussion your selection of Spanish. While I'll agree that Spanish will give more mutual intelligbility than French because I've seen Spanish speakers converse with little problem with Italian or Portugues speakers, but this can't be said for speakers of French. However outside of Spain, Carribean and South America your Spanish might be of little use, while French is far more wide spread think France, parts of Canada, Switzerland, Belgium, Carribean, vast areas of Africa, Lebanon, and even some islands in south pacific. So maybe French is the better Romance family choice? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7026 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 18 16 December 2005 at 1:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
Just to change the focus slightly and asnwer your other question...
Eastern Europe = Russian Western Europe = French/German (can't decide, assuming already speaks English) East Asia = Japanese Middle East and non-Arab Mid East = Arabic (with French if possible) Eurasia = Malay (?) Sub-saharan Africa = Swahili in the east, ??? in the west Amer-Indian = don't know enough about these languages to comment Latin America = Spanish (obvious, but it was missing from the original list) I know I've chosen more than one for some regions, but I really can't choose one in those cases. Edited by patuco on 16 December 2005 at 1:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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