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| Asiafeverr Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6343 days ago 346 posts - 431 votes  1 sounds Speaks: French*, English Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, German | Message 177 of 346 04 December 2009 at 9:42am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't really see the point of this thread. It will only offend learners and speakers of
the languages named by others and not really help anyone learn their own languages any better. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Envinyatar Diglot Senior Member Guatemala Joined 5537 days ago 147 posts - 240 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 178 of 346 04 December 2009 at 9:39pm | IP Logged | ||
I find this thread very educational. We often discuss the numerous factors people like about certain languages, in this thread we can learn what drives people away from languages. But yes, most people seem to take it personal. Languages are often synonyms of cultures or even races but I'd hope most readers of this forum are mature enough to understand that someone can dislike how French sounds (for example) but still be deeply in love with Sophie Marceau, enjoy French cuisine and love their people and culture, or dislike Scandinavian languages (another example) and still love sagas and gorgeous blond women. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Gusutafu Senior Member Sweden Joined 5522 days ago 655 posts - 1039 votes Speaks: Swedish* | Message 179 of 346 04 December 2009 at 10:07pm | IP Logged | ||
You are right! I don't know how I could miss that. Anyway, I'm sure talking to Björk would be rewarding. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| burgler09 Diglot Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6049 days ago 72 posts - 88 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese | Message 180 of 346 07 December 2009 at 4:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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ewwww FRENCH!
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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5482 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 181 of 346 08 December 2009 at 7:46am | IP Logged | ||
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I would have to say something like Vietnamese, or a Native American language. I wouldn't count out all Asian languages, because someday I REALLY want to learn Japanese, but I just don't have time for it right now, and I might be starting YET ANOTHER language so it can get really difficult for someone to pick and choose. I don't have use for Native American languages and I'm not sure if I would enjoy using it as much because many speakers are probably not native or as fluent as I would like them to be.
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| nadia Triglot Groupie Russian Federation Joined 5515 days ago 50 posts - 98 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, French Studies: Hindi | Message 182 of 346 09 December 2009 at 2:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think all cultures and languages are fascinating. I'd love to learn Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Arabic, but the hieroglyphs, tones, and quaint scripts, while being fasinating, really intimidate me. I do hope to get to them one day, as I adore those cultures. And Native American languages - wouldn't it be fantastic to know what they speak like and what concepts their languages include and so on? :)
The only language I wouldn't want to learn is Esperanto, because it doesn't have any culture attached to it. I mean, where's the literature, the cinema? And we already have English as the universal international language. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| freakyqi Newbie United States Joined 6131 days ago 32 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin | Message 183 of 346 09 December 2009 at 3:10pm | IP Logged | ||
Don't be afraid of them! I'm learning Chinese characters and it's not nearly as confusing as it looks. True, there are thousands of characters, but they're all made up of only 214 parts. Once you start learning those parts (which can be grouped into themes, like "body words", "village words", etc) you can see how they're put together in different ways to make new characters. For example the characters for "person" and "other/and", when put together, make the character for "him". Get it? Check out some of those threads here... it's not so bad; remember, people who write hieroglyphs, characters, etc, are humans with the same brains we have! lol :) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| nadia Triglot Groupie Russian Federation Joined 5515 days ago 50 posts - 98 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, French Studies: Hindi | Message 184 of 346 10 December 2009 at 11:49am | IP Logged | ||
Well, you really comfort me. We have a proverb in Russian, "Не боги горшки обжигают", which might be translated as "It is not gods who make pots / Not God but man makes pot and pan / It doesn't take gods to make pots." So I guess this applies to languages. :) 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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