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The last language you would want to learn | ||
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| bellumgero Tetraglot Newbie Canada Joined 6182 days ago 32 posts - 37 votes Speaks: Russian, Ukrainian*, English, Polish Studies: German, French, Spanish, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, Portuguese | Message 105 of 346 25 December 2007 at 2:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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Esperanto. That easy-to-use artificial language never appealed to me. It's like a replica of an ancient coin. Its quality is perfect, it shines in the sun, but it lacks the magnetic charm of history, of the days of yore...
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| bellumgero Tetraglot Newbie Canada Joined 6182 days ago 32 posts - 37 votes Speaks: Russian, Ukrainian*, English, Polish Studies: German, French, Spanish, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, Portuguese | Message 106 of 346 25 December 2007 at 2:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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As for the above-mentioned Welsh, it's one of the Celtic languages I would LIKE to learn. Apart from being totally different from English, that exotic language DOES have magnetic appeal because of its unique sounding and the glorious past behind it (Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Celtic heritage,etc).
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| PolyglotNZ Pentaglot Groupie New ZealandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6205 days ago 71 posts - 91 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, German, Mandarin, Japanese Studies: Polish, Swedish, Hungarian, Russian | Message 107 of 346 25 December 2007 at 3:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hebrew. It is not appealing at all!
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| Lion Newbie Yugoslavia Joined 6179 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English Studies: Spanish | Message 108 of 346 26 December 2007 at 8:10am | IP Logged | ||
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Esperanto ...
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| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6660 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 109 of 346 26 December 2007 at 10:10am | IP Logged | ||
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I find myself changing my opinion on this. At one time I felt that the last languages I wanted to learn were ancient languages. Now I've been in conversations where I find that New Testament (koine) Greek would be a good thing to know and I'm looking at it all quite differently.
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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6551 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 110 of 346 27 December 2007 at 2:47am | IP Logged | ||
Weird. What if you have one foot in the water, and one on land? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| matematikniels Tetraglot Groupie Denmark Joined 6253 days ago 78 posts - 84 votes Speaks: Danish*, English, German, Swedish Studies: Russian, Spanish | Message 111 of 346 15 January 2008 at 5:25am | IP Logged | ||
Unless, of course, you are in Greenland. Or live in Denmark. Or are a polar scientist, a climatologist, a kayaking enthusiast... For me, I guess, the answer will be I don't know. If I don't know it's there, I'll probably never learn it. But who knows if my daughter one day introduces a boyfriend speaking an unknown tribal language from Siberia? Then it would jump high on my list. So I don't know, since I can't say what tomorrow will bring. But I find the thread interesting - it has a lot to tell about us people here and how we perceive languages. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| PolyglotNZ Pentaglot Groupie New ZealandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6205 days ago 71 posts - 91 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, German, Mandarin, Japanese Studies: Polish, Swedish, Hungarian, Russian | Message 112 of 346 15 January 2008 at 5:25am | IP Logged | ||
All? I know some people from Wales who speak English really badly. I am not talking about their accent. They find it hard to express themselves in English and they make grammar mistakes (really bad ones sometimes). I am sure there are more people like that out there in Cymru, especially in the country side. Welsh is a nice language and I might learn it someday. Edited by PolyglotNZ on 15 January 2008 at 5:33am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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