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| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5230 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 17 of 29 06 August 2013 at 9:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is aspirational, and wildly unrealistic (not that it'll keep me from trying).
I have a fascination with the ancient, which explains: Latin Ancient Greek Biblical Hebrew Sanskrit Old English Old Norse I have a taste for the (tolerably) exotic, explaining (note these are all separate families): Arabic Mandarin Japanese Swahili Hungarian Welsh I am entranced by the European (continental and colonial) corpus, explaining: Spanish English Portuguese French Italian German Swedish Russian Polish And I'm a dork, so: Quenya Sindarin Christ, that's a lot. Edited by ScottScheule on 06 August 2013 at 9:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4255 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 18 of 29 06 August 2013 at 11:28pm | IP Logged | ||
It's not THAT much because; Swedish, German, Old Norse and Old English will all support each other. Once you learn Swedish and German you are familiar with I'd say 80-90% of the vocab and concepts necessary for learning the ancients. Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian will all compliment each other (and probably get messed up in your head if you're not careful) but yeah the lexical similarities of these languages vary from 73% to 89% if I'm not mistaken. Grammar and vocab are both largely the same. Each language has its own peculiarities though but that's not too tough according to a few people. I'd assume Russian and Polish would compliment each other, I could read a little Polish after studying Russian for a few months so I'd guess they make each other easier. So in conclusion, it's not impossible :) 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5230 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 19 of 29 06 August 2013 at 11:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Henkkles, what a nice thing to say! Thanks much (for fueling my madness ;).
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| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4255 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 20 of 29 07 August 2013 at 9:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Madness is at best one of the most productive traits!
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 21 of 29 07 August 2013 at 9:49am | IP Logged | ||
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Dutch is a bigger colonial influence than
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| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5230 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 22 of 29 07 August 2013 at 4:18pm | IP Logged | ||
Granted. For some reason though, I just can't get excited about Dutch. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JMS Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4429 days ago 8 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Russian, French | Message 23 of 29 07 August 2013 at 4:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Spanish - beautiful but practical too. Lots of people in lots of different countries and
many resources. French - same as Spanish pretty much but also necessary if you want to teach in the UK. German - interesting and logical. Russian - script is exotic and looks beautiful. I see Russia as a very historical and mysterious place. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| morinkhuur Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 4679 days ago 79 posts - 157 votes Speaks: German*, Latin, English Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Maghribi) | Message 24 of 29 27 August 2013 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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-English: Opens up a world of new possibilities; invaluable for international communication; amazing variety
in vocabulary and ways of expression -Latin: It's like a window to the past; teaches me a lot about my own culture and about how humans haven't really changed all too much over the years; makes studying Romance languages much easier and a lot more fascinating, because you can compare how words developed in the different regions -Spanish: Opens up half a continent with a fascinating culture; has deepened my fascination for Spanish history from Reconquista to the Civil War -Arabic: I could write essays about how amazing this language is; first of all the script looks really cool, secondly, I absolutely love sound of Arabic and how different it can be from the eloquently flowing MSA to the guttural sound of Moroccan Colloquial where it seems like every word has more consonants than physically possible; the system of consonant roots is mind-blowing and deeply fascinating; it helps not only with understanding Arab culture but also with understanding Islam and, by extension the whole Islamic world. I don't think it's possible to really understand the intricacies of Islam without knowing arabic (although i ought to be careful with a statement like that, as even the majority of the world's muslims probably don't speak arabic) (-Egyptian Arabic): not really fascinating phonologically but culturally dominant throughout the arab world (-Moroccan Arabic): feels like a language you are "not supposed to" learn (not used in writing, hard to understand even for other arabs, almost no ressources, Moroccans speak french to outsiders etc.), amazing phonology, opens up the Maghreb -Japanese: Sounds amazing, fascinating script, interesting culture that is extremely westernized and yet completely foreign to westerners at the same time -Mandarin Chinese: fascinating script, my first tonal language, ancient cultural heritage, language of a rising modern state 1 person has voted this message useful |
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