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The last language you would want to learn | ||
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| Quabazaa Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5610 days ago 414 posts - 543 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, French Studies: Japanese, Korean, Maori, Scottish Gaelic, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Written) | Message 185 of 346 10 December 2009 at 10:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Umm.. mine used to be German! Really, never had any interest in it, always hated the sounds etc...
And then my husband wanted us to move to a German-speaking area! So off we went, and then I learnt, and the more nice people I knew who spoke German, the more I liked it!! So for me I think it's all about liking a person who speaks the language, that changes everything :) If you'd told me even 3 years ago that my German would be my second best language I would have fainted in shock and horror. But it happened and now it's not so bad o.O;; 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5336 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 186 of 346 15 June 2010 at 7:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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At first I was going to say something like Mandarin or Japanese because I don't like the sound of them and I'm also not at all interested in the cultures...
..then I remembered those six years of Latin in high school. Brrrrr. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5524 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French | Message 187 of 346 15 June 2010 at 7:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Esperanto, mostly because of how it sounds, and part of my motivation for learning languages is interesting and difficult grammar. IMO Vietnamese sounds awesome. Edited by GREGORG4000 on 15 June 2010 at 7:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| genini1 Senior Member United States Joined 5469 days ago 114 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 188 of 346 15 June 2010 at 7:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Esperanto or a language with only an oral component, my main goal in learning languages is to be able to read the literature in the original format. Esperanto consists mainly of translated works as far as I know.
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| GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5524 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French | Message 189 of 346 15 June 2010 at 7:59pm | IP Logged | ||
Actually, Esperanto does have lots of original literature, and most of it isn't about Esperanto, which is pretty good. If it didn't use 90% Romance vocabulary (*may not be entirely accurate), then that would make it better for me, but the real problem in the sound is the way that it's commonly pronounced - if only it just changed its stress and tones so that it sounded calmer and not very crazy, instead of the "LERRRnu la INterNACiAn LINGvoooOOOOn" that I've heard from pretty much every Esperanto audio source, with that weird up-down tone. That's where the problem stands for me. Edited by GREGORG4000 on 15 June 2010 at 7:59pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| akprocks Senior Member United States Joined 5287 days ago 178 posts - 258 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 190 of 346 15 June 2010 at 8:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think that the last language I would want to learn would be no language. All languages offer a unique look into the culture and psyche of the indigenous people which reflects their will and style to live in a said enviroment. So for me their would be no last language to learn.
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| nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French | Message 191 of 346 15 June 2010 at 8:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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For me it would be German, Urdu, or Pashto.
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| patlajan Triglot Groupie United States Joined 7150 days ago 59 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Turkish Studies: German, Mandarin, French | Message 192 of 346 15 June 2010 at 8:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Klingon - and whatever it is they made up for avatar.
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