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| Fuenf_Katzen Diglot Senior Member United States notjustajd.wordpress Joined 4368 days ago 337 posts - 476 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Polish, Ukrainian, Afrikaans | Message 9 of 14 06 June 2014 at 6:33pm | IP Logged |
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For this forum, it's not unusual. For the average person you meet on the street and get into a conversation about languages, yes, it's probably less common to have that combination.
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5333 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 10 of 14 06 June 2014 at 7:08pm | IP Logged |
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In my country it would be an incredibly rare combination, few learn French beyond what they must learn at
school, fewer learn Russian and if you to that mix add Mandarin I think you would be down to a handful of people in the entire country. On this forum however, Georgian and Persian is considered normal, and I doubt you could find any combination which would be really very rare. Welcome to the forum by the way! And please forgive us if some of us sound like grumpy old men (or women). We have seen so many starry eyed newbies who want to conquer the world, that we sometimes forget our manners when we answer :-) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Tyrion101 Senior Member United States Joined 3912 days ago 153 posts - 174 votes Speaks: French | Message 11 of 14 06 June 2014 at 9:08pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks, I probably wasn't all that clear, French is what I spend most of my time on, only is only spend the odd
minute here and there say learning the Cyrillic alphabet, or working on the more common Chinese phrases, I still listen to French on the radio, occasionally read a few minutes in French and working on those things I find confusing I'm getting to the point where it's becoming natural to see or hear the more common expressions without thinking of their meaning. My only goal was to learn enough French to listen to the Quebec hockey broadcasts I felt at the time that anything else would be too difficult. Found out that it was wrong and that I CAN actually use my love of languages and not be stuck with the odd word or phrase. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5099 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 12 of 14 07 June 2014 at 12:03am | IP Logged |
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If you are American then it is very unusual indeed. Of course, that is because studying
any language seriously is pretty unusual and three at a time even more so. But those are very popular languages so it's not like you have three heads, or want to learn a tongue native to Africa or anything. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Fuenf_Katzen Diglot Senior Member United States notjustajd.wordpress Joined 4368 days ago 337 posts - 476 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Polish, Ukrainian, Afrikaans | Message 13 of 14 07 June 2014 at 5:47am | IP Logged |
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Funny African languages were mentioned; not too long ago I saw videos on YouTube of an American who learned Yoruba in college and then spent about 9 months in Nigeria (and she already spoke Yoruba when she went). Now that is an unusual language for most people to learn (especially learning it pretty fluently before going to the country).
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| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 6039 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 14 of 14 08 June 2014 at 10:11pm | IP Logged |
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Not an unusual combination on here. I studied Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Classical Latin and Classical Greek together one year. Not that I recommend that combination it was intense, but well worth it. They were all studied formally with the first two at my local college and the last three with my university degree so far too much homework for my liking.
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