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The last language you would want to learn | ||
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| cymro Triglot Groupie Wales Joined 6455 days ago 76 posts - 98 votes  Speaks: English*, Welsh, French Studies: Italian, Spanish, Latin, Ancient Greek | Message 57 of 346 18 July 2007 at 5:31pm | IP Logged | ||
Take a look at my website in my profile. It is especially for beginners. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 58 of 346 19 July 2007 at 12:24am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks a lot, I will definitely check out the site!
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| leonidus Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6327 days ago 113 posts - 123 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, French Studies: German, Mandarin | Message 59 of 346 31 July 2007 at 12:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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After giving some thought to the original question, it's hard to tell really. There are too many to enumerate here which have little or no use, and since that is one of the main reasons for my choice, it makes no sense if I list them all. To name a couple of large groups: I wouldn't want to learn ancient languages and any languages with less than 10 mln. native speakers. That still leaves too many to master, so I feel safe I have't excluded everything :)
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| Roq71 Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6595 days ago 63 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Haitian Creole | Message 60 of 346 31 July 2007 at 5:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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A geeky sci-fi language like Klingon.
Oh, no. Here come the Trekkies. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Aena Newbie United States geocities.com/mo Joined 7050 days ago 39 posts - 39 votes Studies: Mandarin, English* | Message 61 of 346 01 August 2007 at 6:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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Languages using a lot of Fs, hard stops, cut-off vowels all don't appeal to me.
Guttaral-sounding languages are last. Tonal languages in Asia take second to last, with exceptions to minority groups and island nations. They would start to attract me if used poetically and musically to create beautiful meanings if not beautiful sounds. I don't take to the sound of Spanish, but may learn Portuguese and/or Italian instead of it for communication. Edited by Aena on 01 August 2007 at 6:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Nordlicht Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 6414 days ago 47 posts - 50 votes Speaks: German*, English, Latin Studies: Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto | Message 62 of 346 01 August 2007 at 7:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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French, because I hate the sound of the language and Turkish...due to all the Turkish people in my area I hear it day in and day out and it's become so annoying that I could never feel more than dislike for the language.
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| orion Senior Member United States Joined 7022 days ago 622 posts - 678 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 63 of 346 02 August 2007 at 5:34pm | IP Logged | ||
So I noticed you have Mandarin listed in your profile. Seems like a tonal Asian language to me! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Frisco Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6857 days ago 380 posts - 398 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Italian, Turkish, Mandarin | Message 64 of 346 02 August 2007 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's difficult for me to say I would never study a certain language, but I don't feel too motivated to study anything from the Tai and Mon-Khmer groups. I'm also not too eager to master Finnish or Hungarian (though I am curious about Estonian for some reason).
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