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| apatch3 Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6186 days ago 80 posts - 99 votes  Speaks: Pashto, English* Studies: Japanese, FrenchA2 | Message 193 of 346 15 June 2010 at 8:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Artificial and dead languages don't appeal to me. Latin Hell no, MSA (whats the point if im going to sound laughably formal and end up only being able to communicate with the educated arab world), Esperanto .. you've got to be kidding me >_>.
the objectives of learning a language for me are: 1) being able to communicate with its speakers hence in my opinion the country/ies where its spoken should have considerable populations and be places that inspire me, for instance I don't want to learn a tongue clicking African language or something that Eskimos speak because frankly from my point of view such communities have nothing to offer me (an anthropologist maybe but not me).(I'm sorry if my examples offend anybody I'm just being frank) 2) MEDIA -- movies music literature the big three ... the sole reason why I began learning Japanese. Note: the languages I choose to learn have to be popular enough to have decent learning materials too. Edited by apatch3 on 15 June 2010 at 8:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5557 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 194 of 346 15 June 2010 at 8:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Unfortunately there's just not enough time for me to learn all the others first. ;)
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| Tally Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Israel Joined 5609 days ago 135 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English*, Modern Hebrew* Studies: French | Message 195 of 346 16 June 2010 at 1:14am | IP Logged | ||
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Well I wouldn't like to learn an artificial language, like Esperanto. One of the main
reasons of studying a language is the culture and being able to communicate with other people. In fake languages you just don't get that. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| iamrobertyee Bilingual Triglot Groupie Philippines Joined 5295 days ago 48 posts - 54 votes Speaks: Tagalog*, Cebuano*, EnglishC2 Studies: Mandarin | Message 196 of 346 16 June 2010 at 4:23am | IP Logged | ||
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I never heard of this Esperanto language before.. I tried to google it and found out that there is no country adopted this language, now I understand why they call it artificial language.
Yes learning language is like learning the countries culture so if there is no culture this language is of little use. One reason that we want to learn the language is to communicate with the people who are using it, and that is the most important part. I also put Esperanto as my least choice.
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| Tenebrarum Groupie United States Joined 5407 days ago 84 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi | Message 197 of 346 16 June 2010 at 6:48am | IP Logged | ||
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I too would have to go with Esperanto for reasons already mentioned here. I'm also not
very fond of the way French sounds (though it's distinct which is nice), and I wouldn't be very eager to speak it... But nonetheless there are plenty of French speaking countries which interest me, so given the chance to travel, I wouldn't hesitate in bringing back my barely-existent knowledge from high school. Edited by Tenebrarum on 16 June 2010 at 6:50am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5345 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 198 of 346 16 June 2010 at 6:54am | IP Logged | ||
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For me it'd be Spanish. I'm always around it. I guess since I am always around it, I find
it annoying (not trying to insult anyone, sorry if I do) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Qinshi Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5754 days ago 115 posts - 183 votes Speaks: Vietnamese*, English Studies: French, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 199 of 346 16 June 2010 at 10:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Stupid thread but I would go with nothing. Learning a language should have nothing to do with how it sounds - this is a silly idea. Imagine 2nd or 3rd generation children of immigrant backgrounds not learning their own mother language just because they get the conception of it being "ugly".
Anyway, IMO I'm not very fond of many languages, namely: German, Spanish, Italian. Ironically I like Dutch, Portuguese and French. To me every language regardless has its own beauty. Many languages rely on the flow of the sentence, whereas tonal languages have imbued a musical quality into each syllable. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| John Smith Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6043 days ago 396 posts - 542 votes Speaks: English*, Czech*, Spanish Studies: German | Message 200 of 346 16 June 2010 at 5:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Esperanto
^^ I can't believe people think that it's neutral. Not even the name is neutral. It means hope in Spanish (Esperar) He should have come up with a better name. One that doesn't mean anything. One that's unique. Maybe Peto Edited by John Smith on 16 June 2010 at 5:37pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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