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albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4386 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German
| 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 Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 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 Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4666 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali
| Message 3 of 35 25 August 2013 at 5:33pm | IP Logged |
Japanese, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Brazilian Portuguese and Norwegian Nynorsk
:)
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| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4251 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian
| Message 4 of 35 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 Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4531 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German
| 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 Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4842 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian
| Message 6 of 35 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 Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| 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 Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 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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