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The last language you would want to learn | ||
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| overscore Triglot Newbie CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4564 days ago 23 posts - 38 votes Speaks: French*, English, German | Message 321 of 346 16 July 2012 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm not a big fan of Esperanto, nor the other conlangs..
High on the no-interest list are Arabic, languages in Asia.. incidentally, around here these would be the most useful.. oh well. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| nuriayasmin70 Diglot Senior Member Germany languagesandbeyoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4522 days ago 132 posts - 162 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: SpanishB1, Portuguese, Czech, Hungarian | Message 322 of 346 16 July 2012 at 10:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hm, I think there's no language I wouldn't want to learn but as it's impossible to learn all languages, I have to make choices. Sometimes I like to make a list of 10 languages I'd like to speak fluently. There's always some variation on this list but there are languages which will never make it even close to my top 10, including all artificial languages (which don't really make sense to me), local African languages because I'm just not very interested in African culture and Chinese because I once attended a course and realized that I'm just not able to distinguish the different ways a syllable can be pronounced.Generally speaking, all non-European languages are of little interest for me, so I won't learn them. Edited by nuriayasmin70 on 16 July 2012 at 10:01pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Duke100782 Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Philippines https://talktagalog.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4489 days ago 172 posts - 240 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 323 of 346 15 September 2012 at 9:42am | IP Logged | |||||
Amen! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4874 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 324 of 346 15 September 2012 at 10:27am | IP Logged | |||||
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For me, it would probably be language too related to the ones I study. Since I study
Japanese, I don't see the need to study Mandarin and Korean. Learning 2000-ish kanji is enough for me, and I kind of like the kanji/kana combo of Japanese. I also want to learn Russian and Spanish, so that would by my logic put other romance and slavic languages further down the list. And the fact that I study German as well would put Dutch further down the list. I think that after Japanese, German, Spanish and Russian, I should focus on the languages of where I end up finding a job. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5961 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 325 of 346 15 September 2012 at 5:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
You might want to take a closer look at the relatedness of those two languages... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4874 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 326 of 346 15 September 2012 at 9:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
When I thought about "related", I thought about the script. I know that those two are vastly different. What I really meant was that I won't prioritise kanji-using languages like Mandarin, Cantonese, etc. Sorry for not being clear enough ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Zimena Tetraglot Groupie Norway Joined 4593 days ago 75 posts - 146 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish Studies: Czech, Mandarin | Message 327 of 346 23 September 2012 at 4:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Probably French or Arabic, as those are the only two languages I can think of that I honestly dislike. Both sound extremely ugly to my ears, whereas most other languages are either beautiful or interesting or both.
Do I have to pick only one that I wouldn't want to learn? Okay, French. Arabic at least has the bonus cool point of having an interesting script. EDIT: I also forgot about the conlangs. While I can understand that the concept of conlanging is fun and also a nice way to explore grammar patterns that may exist in natural languages, it makes no sense to me to learn an artificial language like that. While I might take a look at things like Esperanto or Toki Pona for the FUN of it, I wouldn't actually want to learn them. Edited by Zimena on 23 September 2012 at 4:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4669 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 328 of 346 23 September 2012 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
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ARABIC, CHINESE, KOREAN, VIETNAMESE, JAPANESE, THAI
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