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albysky
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 Message 1 of 35
25 August 2013 at 5:30pm | IP Logged 
If someone had no particular reason to learn any language apart from English ,but he would simply like to
learn 5 other languages , which languages in your opinion should he absolutely learn?
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tarvos
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 Message 2 of 35
25 August 2013 at 5:31pm | IP Logged 
The ones he or she wants to.

For me they would be

French
Russian
Hebrew
Swedish
Dutch (if you consider that I already know this one, then I would replace it with
Romanian)

Edited by tarvos on 25 August 2013 at 6:03pm

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Medulin
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25 August 2013 at 5:33pm | IP Logged 
Japanese, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Brazilian Portuguese and Norwegian Nynorsk
:)
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Henkkles
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25 August 2013 at 5:56pm | IP Logged 
I'm sorry but I have a problem with the question. It's going to be terribly difficult to stay motivated studying a language you have no passion for, and if you have no passion for any language it's going to be difficult to learn one let alone five.
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patrickwilken
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 Message 5 of 35
25 August 2013 at 5:58pm | IP Logged 
ancient greek, latin, sanskrit, ancient egyptian, and akkadian/old norse.
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Josquin
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25 August 2013 at 6:02pm | IP Logged 
Everyone should decide for themselves which languages to study. These are the five I would choose:

Russian, Japanese, Icelandic, Irish, French
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Chung
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 Message 7 of 35
25 August 2013 at 6:04pm | IP Logged 
This sounds a lot like the thread “So You Want to Learn 5...”

What I posted in 2006 still applies although nowadays I wouldn't object if Finnish replaced German in the list below.

On Sep. 14, 2006, 22:56, Chung wrote:
German
Hungarian
Mongolian
Polish
Slovak

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tarvos
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 Message 8 of 35
25 August 2013 at 6:05pm | IP Logged 
Also for me these five are different every other month, particularly depending on when
someone is speaking something I don't understand. Like on holiday I heard a lot of
Mandarin, and I simply wanted to know Mandarin to figure out what the hell everyone else
was saying.


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