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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4829 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 9 of 67 09 November 2013 at 1:24am | IP Logged | |||||
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Mine really is short (I think):
Keeping with the idea of language families: Celtic: After hopefully getting Welsh up to a good level, Cornish, then Irish. Germanic: After hopefully(! - ? - !) getting Danish up to a reasonable level.... Kickstart Norwegian. Start Icelandic from scratch Try to get at least some passive understanding of Swedish. Revisit Dutch (after many decades....). Probably as background activities: Look more seriously at Old English, and If I've made any headway with Icelandic, Dabble with Old Norse. I gather Icelandic is close to Old Norse, but not identical. Romance: Revive the Spanish I knew, and try to step it up a gear, especially speaking and listening. Try to get at least some passive understanding of Portuguese. That's enough to keep me busy I think, even if rather parochial by HTLAL standards. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7157 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 10 of 67 09 November 2013 at 1:27am | IP Logged | |||||
Well... my next meal (chicken or fish?) not to mention the work that I need to take home with me for the weekend are on my radar. There's also a blip in another quadrant on the screen representing a hottie whom I met recently... Ooh, riiight. We're talking about languages! What's on my profile's hit list is what's on my linguistic radar. However out of what's there, I think that just Afrikaans and Azerbaijani are the most likely blips on the screen to which I would react in the next year (if at all). I've never done more than dabble in an "easy" language, and Afrikaans seems to fit the bill while Azerbaijani is part of a long-standing interest in Central Asia where I'd like to get some grounding (if not fluency) in other Turkic languages and Mongolian. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 11 of 67 09 November 2013 at 1:42am | IP Logged | |||||
That's right :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Bbcatcher 08 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4419 days ago 130 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English*, Latin Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian | Message 12 of 67 09 November 2013 at 3:01am | IP Logged | |||||
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Interesting question! Some languages I want to learn are just purely for fun, while
others may have a practicality Yiddish: The language is interesting to me, and I just want to say "Ya I speak Yiddish" Hebrew: Interested in politics, and would love to be able to read Israeli news, and anything written regarding their politics Mandarin: So many speakers, just a fun challenge :P Cantonese: Just for pure fun, actually more interested in learning this over Mandarin Ukrainian: Will start this language soon. After learning a good amount of Russian, I want to learn this language too Currently I have no resources for any of the languages, but I am patiently waiting for some resources to become available. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| AlexTG Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 4639 days ago 178 posts - 354 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 13 of 67 09 November 2013 at 3:44am | IP Logged | |||||
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German: I will definitely learn this, I have German friends, I've traveled around the country, I'm interested in
their literature. To be honest it feels absurd that I don't know their language yet. I did some Rosetta Stone a few years ago before traveling there and that was about as succesful as you'd expect RS to be... Portugese/Italian/Occitan: I read French/Spanish/Latin so these are crazy transparent to me already. Classical Chinese: Strong literature, won't be too big a leap once I'm confident enough with Japanese. Urdu/Persian/Arabic: Like the look of their literatures, Ghazals are an amazing form of poetry. Indo-Malay: I have friends from Malaysia and, being Australian, Indonesia is my neighbour. Tok Pisin: Neighbours again. But also really interesting to learn a language so strongly related to my own. Old English: Want to read beowulf and learn more about the roots of my language. Edited by AlexTG on 09 November 2013 at 3:49am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4235 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 14 of 67 09 November 2013 at 4:06am | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, since I have no power of will and so on, these are mostly dreams, some of them even are weak ones...
Swedish. I really don't know why, but I do want to learn it. I just do. French. It would've been great to read in it. I don't think I'll ever be worrying about speaking French, but to read Les Rois maudits in original is definitely something that worth working for. Italian. It has more chances than French, plus I won't give up speaking as a target so easily. Esperanto. Maybe I'll turn in one of this crazy people with huge ambitions to turn Esperanto in lingua franca? Or, maybe, I'll drop it with thoughts "it's useless"? Interesting... Bulgarian. If I should learn another Slavic language to add up to Russian, I'd choose Bulgarian. Not Polish, as I thought few years ago. Hungarian. Once again, I thought about learning Finnish exactly the same few years ago, but now I tend to look at Hungarian more. Sanskrit. Only when I'll consider myself as a polyglot. I could learn it as a reward, maybe. Hehe, weird list, but nothing more comes up in my mind. So that's it for now, I think... Edited by Via Diva on 09 November 2013 at 4:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 15 of 67 09 November 2013 at 4:55am | IP Logged | |||||
As for my list... Swedish Karelian Norwegian Icelandic Welsh Breton Catalan Corsican Napoletan if you consider it a separate language Czech Bulgarian Estonian Luxembourgish Swiss German Yiddish and the various Finno-Ugric/Uralic languages of Russia. At least half the time, the difficulty outweighs the interest/benefits. Often the difficulty is down to the resources rather than the language itself. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 16 of 67 09 November 2013 at 4:56am | IP Logged | |||||
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Oh and Papiamento sounds like fun :))) And also Guarani while I'm at it.
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