celticrover Diglot Newbie Ireland Joined 5207 days ago 10 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, French, Russian
| Message 281 of 346 08 September 2010 at 1:15am | IP Logged |
Lots of contenders but I can't really see myself ever learning Maltese, Pashto or Yoruba.
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Camundonguinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4750 days ago 273 posts - 500 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish Studies: Swedish
| Message 282 of 346 24 December 2011 at 4:32pm | IP Logged |
Arabic and Chinese
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Ellsworth Senior Member United States Joined 4958 days ago 345 posts - 528 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish
| Message 283 of 346 24 December 2011 at 5:55pm | IP Logged |
Lemus wrote:
Interesting idea for a thread. I would have to pick Finnish. Very
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Seriously? Finnish is probably one of my favorite languages. Sounds beautiful and the
grammar is fascinating.
On topic, I would probably like to unlearn English, as it doesn't deserve its role as
lingua franca.
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boon Diglot Groupie Ireland Joined 6160 days ago 91 posts - 177 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Mandarin, Latin
| Message 284 of 346 24 December 2011 at 6:12pm | IP Logged |
A lot of people don't want to learn Esperanto, which is fair enough. I feel I should defend it though, because it helped me establish good learning habits.
I started out learning Spanish, which was great, but I sometimes found it intimidating. Esperanto wasn't at all intimidating. It's a made-up language and the grammar is very easy, with the slight exception of the accusative case. So I took a break from learning Spanish for a couple of months and learned as much Esperanto as I could. That got me into a nice groove for tackling more difficult languages.
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a3 Triglot Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5257 days ago 273 posts - 370 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, English, Russian Studies: Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish
| Message 285 of 346 24 December 2011 at 6:44pm | IP Logged |
Any language that has less than 1000 speakers and 346543534 noun and 23928849032 verb forms.
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pineappleboom Groupie United States languageloft-ashley. Joined 5254 days ago 66 posts - 76 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French, Russian
| Message 286 of 346 24 December 2011 at 8:05pm | IP Logged |
I have to say Arabic. While I love the writing system, I simply can not stand the sound of (any dialect) it. But since I was going to learn Hindi anyway, might as well learn Urdu!
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Rivso Diglot Groupie FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4878 days ago 41 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Dutch, Japanese
| Message 287 of 346 24 December 2011 at 11:07pm | IP Logged |
Most likely esperanto or latin.
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SmilingStraw Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4911 days ago 35 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Arabic (Written)
| Message 288 of 346 24 December 2011 at 11:42pm | IP Logged |
Esperanto and other artificial languajes, I gust don't have any use for them.
I also dont feel any interest towards Slvic languages, Persian, or most African languages.
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