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| mezzofanti Octoglot Senior Member Australia mezzoguild.com Joined 4751 days ago 51 posts - 112 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Arabic (classical), Arabic (Egyptian), Irish, Arabic (Levantine) Studies: Korean, Georgian, French | Message 9 of 15 15 January 2013 at 4:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
Is that Eluveite by any chance? I love their music :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4710 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 10 of 15 15 January 2013 at 4:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yus, it is. Great live too. It explains my username, doesn't it ;)
Anyhow, endangered languages seems like a good answer to this kind of question. But it all harkens back to two things - what you want to learn. People should do what they want to learn. And it would be better if that reflected in our protection of endangered languages because I know there are plenty of people out there being like "yeah I'd like to speak Scottish Gaelic" but they end up not doing it because they are frustrated at lack of people, resources, etc. Edited by tarvos on 15 January 2013 at 4:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5133 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 11 of 15 15 January 2013 at 4:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
I totally agree with this.
I'm within 20 mile of two different Ojibwe reservations, and have decided to take up Ojibwe this year for precisely this reason. One of the reservations also has substantial radio programming in the language, too! I'd also point out that when I originally took a look at the language a year and a half ago, I couldn't find many resources. Within that time, a lot more has begun to appear on the internet, so if it seems that a minority language isn't well represented, that can change, sometimes rapidly. R. == Edited by hrhenry on 15 January 2013 at 4:39pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| mezzofanti Octoglot Senior Member Australia mezzoguild.com Joined 4751 days ago 51 posts - 112 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Arabic (classical), Arabic (Egyptian), Irish, Arabic (Levantine) Studies: Korean, Georgian, French | Message 12 of 15 15 January 2013 at 4:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Great stuff, Rick!
Keep us updated on that. I haven't announced anything yet because plans are still up in the air, but when I'm done here with Korean my aim is to head home to Australia and spend a few months in an outback aboriginal community learning the language (and documenting it). It's very difficult to organize but I have some contacts that are helping me. If that falls through, my Canadian girlfriend is from a town right near a Mohawk community in Ontario which I'd like to connect with to learn their language. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7159 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 13 of 15 15 January 2013 at 5:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
I could but that would mean that I'd have even less time for my beloved Northern Saami, no matter how long it has been since I was in and how far I am now from Sápmi :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mezzofanti Octoglot Senior Member Australia mezzoguild.com Joined 4751 days ago 51 posts - 112 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Arabic (classical), Arabic (Egyptian), Irish, Arabic (Levantine) Studies: Korean, Georgian, French | Message 14 of 15 15 January 2013 at 5:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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How long were you there for? Was it an immersion stay or holiday? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7159 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 15 of 15 15 January 2013 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I was there for a few days on holiday and going there was a fulfillment of one of my dreams after having watched Kukushka with its settings and hearing Ánne Risten Juuso speak only in her native tongue.
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