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| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5180 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 137 of 299 29 December 2011 at 2:39pm | IP Logged |
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Let's start the challenge! List of all countries, minus the ones that speak in : Polish, English, Spanish, etc 1 India 2 Indonesia 3 Brazil ; 4 Pakistan 5 Russia 6 Bangladesh 7 Ethiopia 8 Egypt 17 Iran 19 Thailand 26 Myanmar 29 Ukraine 30 Tanzania 31 Argentina 32 Kenya 34 Algeria 36 Uganda 37 Morocco 38 Afghanistan 39 Iraq 40 Sudan 43 Malaysia &n bsp; 44 Uzbekistan &n bsp; 45 Saudi Arabia 46 Nepal ; 49 Yemen 51 Mozambique &n bsp; 53 Romania &nb sp; 55 Syria 56 Sri Lanka 57 Angola &nbs p; 61 Netherlands ; 68 Cambodia 75 Belgium &nb sp; 76 Greece &nbs p; 78 Tunisia &nb sp; 79 Czech Republic 80 Portugal &n bsp; 84 Hungary &nb sp; 85 Somalia 86 Sweden 87 Belarus 93 United Arab Emirates 97 Israel &nbs p; 98 Tajikistan &n bsp; 99 Bulgaria &n bsp; 100 Serbia[9] 103 Libya &nbs p; 104 Laos 106 Jordan &nb sp; 111 Denmark 112 Kyrgyzstan ; 113 Slovakia & nbsp; 114 Eritrea &n bsp; 115 Finland[11] 117 Turkmenistan &nb sp; 118 Norway &nb sp; 121 Georgia 124 Croatia &n bsp; 125 Lebanon &n bsp; 126 Palestinian territories 128 Bosnia and Herzegovina 130 Moldova 134 Mauritania ; 135 Armenia 136 Lithuania 137 Albania &n bsp; 138 Kuwait 139 Oman ; 140 Mongolia & nbsp; 143 Latvia &nb sp; 145 Macedonia 146 Slovenia 149 Qatar &nbs p; 151 Guinea-Bissau &n bsp; 152 Estonia &n bsp; 155 Bahrain &n bsp; 157 Timor-Leste &nbs p; 158 Djibouti & nbsp; 161 Cyprus 162 Guyana &nb sp; 163 Comoros 164 Equatorial Guinea 165 Bhutan 166 Montenegro ; 167 Macau (China) 168 Western Sahara 170 Suriname & nbsp; 171 Luxembourg ; 172 Cape Verde 173 Brunei 174 Malta 178 Iceland &n bsp; 188 São Tomé and Príncipe 191 Curaçao (the Netherlands) 196 Aruba (the Netherlands) 200 Seychelles ; 202 Andorra &n bsp; 207 Greenland (Denmark) 213 Faroe Islands (Denmark) 214 Turks and Caicos Islands (UK) 215 Sint Maarten (Netherlands) 222 Åland (Finland) 226 Bonaire (Netherlands) ; 235 Sint Eustatius (Netherlands) ; 236 Svalbard (Norway) 238 Saba (Netherlands) 242 Vatican City 800 ; Somaliland Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (Transnistria) Republic of Abkhazia Republic of Kosovo State of Palestine Republic of South Ossetia Belgium Benin Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Canada Central African Republic Chad Comoros Côte d'Ivoire Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Equatorial Guinea France Gabon Guinea Haiti Luxembourg Madagascar Mali Monaco Niger Republic of the Congo Rwanda Senegal Seychelles Switzerland Togo Vanuatu Algeria Lebanon Morocco Mauritius Mauritania Tunisia Aosta Valley Clipperton French Southern and Antarctic Lands French Polynesia Guernsey Jersey Mayotte New Caledonia Pondicherry Saint-Barthélemy Saint-Martin Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Wallis and Futuna Edited by clumsy on 29 December 2011 at 6:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5180 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 138 of 299 29 December 2011 at 10:45pm | IP Logged |
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Lementary Uzbek :) 500 pages.
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| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5180 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 139 of 299 30 December 2011 at 1:48pm | IP Logged |
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http://www.ammap.com/visited_countries/index.php
I am using this website to see how much land is covered by my 'organization'. I think I need to write something about the number of languages I said I would learn. so,let's start from the west (Americas): English,French,Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch and that's all for the both Americas. We have also Completed Oceania by the way (French and English). Africa: Swahili, Amharic, Arabic. Now Asia and Europe: Malay, Thai,Khmer,Vietnamese,Burmese,Japanese,Korean,Chinese,Mongol ian,Russian,Tamil,Hindi,Urd u,Nepali,Tibetan (Bhutan),Bengali, Uzbek,Turkmen,Persian,Turkish,Armenian,Georgian,Greek,Albani an,Bulgarian,Romanian,Hunga rian,Slovene,Slovak,Ukrainian,Lithuanian,Latvian,Estonian,Sw edish,German,Icelandic,Cata lan(Andorra)- maybe Abkhaz. I don't have anything for the three 'Baltic' languages and Ukrainian and Dzhonka. I have chosen Tamil over Sinhala for Sri Lanka out of the following reasons: Tamil has more resources I have tried to learn some Tamil before I know partly The Tamil script Scandinavia: they are said to be mutually intelligible, so I will go Swedish (also Finland can be crossed out because of it). but not icelandic - it's said to not be mutually intelligible. Azeri - said to be mutually intelligible with Turkish. Macedonian and Bulgarian - same reason. Turkmen - I think it's less mutually intelligible with Turkish, soI will learn it separately. Other langs: Hebrew - Arabic is official in Israel, but I am learning it anyway. Kazakh - Russian is official, but I am learning it nevertheless. Kyrgyz - mutually inteligible with Kazakh. Bhutan - well, diglossia. Ancient Tibetan is used as a written language, but Dzonkhha(spoken Bhutanese Tibetan) is said to be quite different from it - like Latin and French. I don't know how i will deal with it :S So together: English,French,Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch Swahili, Amharic, Arabic. Malay, Thai,Khmer,Vietnamese,Burmese,Japanese,Korean,Chinese,Mongol ian,Russian,Tamil,Hindi,Urd u,Nepali,Tibetan (Bhutan),Bengali, Uzbek,Turkmen,Persian,Turkish,Armenian,Georgian,Greek,Albani an,Bulgarian,Romanian,Hunga rian,Slovene,Slovak,Ukrainian,Lithuanian,Latvian,Estonian,Sw edish,German,Icelandic,Cata lan , Abkhaz.Turkmen. After 'minusing' known langs: Portuguese, Dutch,Swahili, Amharic, Arabic,Malay, Thai,Khmer,Burmese Mongolian,Russian,Tamil,Hindi,Urdu,Nepali,Tibetan ,Bengali, Turk men,Persian,Armenian,Georgian,Greek,Albanian,Bulgarian,Roman ian,Hungarian,Slovene,Slova k,Ukrainian,Lithuanian,Latvian,Estonian,Swedish,Icelandic,Ca talan , Abkhaz. Uzbek Hebrew, Kazakh. Urdu and Lao are mutually intelligible but use different script, so mybe I will have to learn it. but for now... So my list is: Portuguese, Dutch,Swahili, Amharic, Arabic,Malay, Thai,Khmer,Burmese Mongolian,Russian,Tamil,Hindi,Urdu,Nepali,Tibetan ,Bengali, Turk men,Persian,Armenian,Georgian,Greek,Albanian,Bulgarian,Roman ian,Hungarian,Slovene,Slova k,Ukrainian,Lithuanian,Latvian,Estonian,Swedish,Icelandic,Ca talan , Abkhaz. Uzbek Hebrew, Kazakh. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5180 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 140 of 299 02 January 2012 at 12:51pm | IP Logged |
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Pushto - 14 pages
Red Shoes by Ch. Andersen (Japanese) I have tried to search for resources on Dzhonkha, without much success. but it seems to not have the diglossia. by the way. I think I can say I know a1 Uzbek. however it's hard for me to asses my own abilities according to CERF. Salom, men Polyakman. O'zbekchani org'anaman. O'zbekistan juda chiroyli respubkikadir. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5180 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 141 of 299 03 January 2012 at 11:05pm | IP Logged |
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Bhutan - according to the Internet, the Dzongkha is the official language, but ...
English is more widely used - even in schools. That's interesting. So Dzongkha is only 'officialy' official? Anyway we will be leaving Bhutan for now. Now our plans center on the Middle East - Farsi, Arabic, Hebrew. That will incorporate to our Union a great deal of new countries. By the way, British Council(or something like this) lists Uzbek as category IV - together with Arabic :O I won't agree. Uzbek is really easy. Easier than Kazakh (I think the hardest Turkic lang - out of those I tried to learn) and Turkish. Uzbek cases: qiz qizning qizga qizda qizdan qizni and that's all, same for most words. There are only few exceptions. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5180 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 142 of 299 11 January 2012 at 5:23pm | IP Logged |
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Completed a short book in English ~34 pages.
And I am reading many more, I like to read amny books at once, so that's why I am not writing any update - I will write when I will end them. But I can say I am somewhat more familiar with Indonesian, Persian, Hebrew etc. Unfortunately it seems I have overlooked a country - the Maldives, I was sure English is official there, but it's not true. So I will have to learn some Dhivehi. Actually I have tried Dhivehi before - learned the script (somewhat), and borrowed a book from the Internet. I think it's the only book for this language 8-0 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5180 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 143 of 299 15 January 2012 at 10:48pm | IP Logged |
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Watch Bible society Japanese book 32 pages have read!
Also listening to Japanese pods! 좋아요 한국어! Learning Korean through Japanese. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5180 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 144 of 299 19 January 2012 at 3:32pm | IP Logged |
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20 pages of Japanese test
6 pages of English learning book. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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