forgottensecret Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4043 days ago 1 posts - 2 votes Studies: French
| Message 73 of 94 09 March 2014 at 11:41pm | IP Logged |
French is the noble horse that I have trained and refined to attempt to perfect a language learning technique and Chinese is the formidable dragon that we will attempt to slay
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Falkenstein Triglot Newbie Germany Joined 3922 days ago 20 posts - 38 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Modern Hebrew Studies: French, Mandarin
| Message 74 of 94 10 March 2014 at 6:39am | IP Logged |
I'm obsessed with Hebrew. It's insane.
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languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 5099 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai
| Message 75 of 94 10 March 2014 at 2:01pm | IP Logged |
Mandarin Chinese - because i'm now living in Taiwan and it would be easier for me and the
natives for me to speak to them in Chinese.
Only problem is the area i'm in, the natives speak more in Taiwanese than Mandarin.
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Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4667 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali
| Message 76 of 94 10 March 2014 at 3:56pm | IP Logged |
languagenerd09 wrote:
Only problem is the area i'm in, the natives speak more in Taiwanese than Mandarin. |
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This is great, it means the language is extremely vital, unlike Irish in Ireland.
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Falkenstein Triglot Newbie Germany Joined 3922 days ago 20 posts - 38 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Modern Hebrew Studies: French, Mandarin
| Message 77 of 94 10 March 2014 at 4:08pm | IP Logged |
languagenerd09 wrote:
Only problem is the area i'm in, the natives speak more in Taiwanese than Mandarin. |
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Which area is it? Is it also the case for Taipei?
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Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4252 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian
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Come to think of it it's terribly hard for me to think of a language I could resist.
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Stolan Senior Member United States Joined 4031 days ago 274 posts - 368 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Thai, Lowland Scots Studies: Arabic (classical), Cantonese
| Message 79 of 94 10 March 2014 at 9:57pm | IP Logged |
Asian tonal languages, some sort of "take that" in my mind to those who think they are too foreign.
Classical Chinese feels like a nice code to read, some read it with their native phonemes, I wonder if I could apply
western phonemes.
I love German and its feel, like an older cousin to my native English, a cousin one looks up to and looks forward to
visiting.
Ancient Greek is an interesting subject to me, Sanskrit (Vedic especially being the oldest written IE language) also
interests me now but I seem to be able to find more in Latin concerning the vernacular colloquial tongue, and Old
Chinese from Confucian time seems to only be in Classical.
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Olja07 Diglot Newbie Russian Federation Joined 4224 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2 Studies: GermanB1, Modern Hebrew
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Hebrew. It sounds so beautiful and romantic to me. In my opinion it sounds much nicer than even French (which many people tend to rate as the nicest sounding language) and I can even go as far as saying that it is my favourite language. I love the sounds, the structure of the language... everything. I am absolutely, definitely, positively, unquestionably, beyond any doubt, unconditionally in love with this language.
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