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nonneb
Pentaglot
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SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name
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Speaks: English*, Ancient Greek, Latin, German, Spanish
Studies: Mandarin, Hungarian, French

 
 Message 41 of 48
06 December 2012 at 7:41pm | IP Logged 
Miskito, but I'll probably be giving it up soon because I'm moving out of the area. It's great fun, even though
resources are pretty scarce.
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daegga
Tetraglot
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Austria
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Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian
Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic

 
 Message 42 of 48
06 December 2012 at 11:00pm | IP Logged 
It's either Proto-Norse or Gothic for me. I have no idea about the relative popularity of those, but I guess Gothic is less popular nowadays, although it has been heavily studied not so long ago (maybe 50 years?).
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Amerykanka
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United States
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Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian

 
 Message 43 of 48
07 December 2012 at 3:10am | IP Logged 
I would have to say Welsh, although I didn't study it for very long. Or maybe Ancient Greek, whichever is less
"popular". Where I live, everyone is shocked when they hear I have reached a decent level of fluency in
Polish. But Polish is pretty commonplace when it comes to this forum!

In the future I would like to learn Irish and probably some African languages - maybe, Swahili, I'm not sure
yet. I am also vaguely interested in Quechua, Aymara, and Nahuatl.
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nonneb
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Speaks: English*, Ancient Greek, Latin, German, Spanish
Studies: Mandarin, Hungarian, French

 
 Message 44 of 48
07 December 2012 at 5:38pm | IP Logged 
Amerykanka wrote:
In the future I would like to learn Irish and probably some African languages - maybe,
Swahili, I'm not sure yet. I am also vaguely interested in Quechua, Aymara, and Nahuatl.


You're interested in Quechua and Nahuatl, but not Mayan?
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laya
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Switzerland
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Speaks: German, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1, SpanishC2, Swedish, Italian
Studies: Russian, Japanese

 
 Message 45 of 48
07 December 2012 at 11:29pm | IP Logged 
I'd like to learn Khmer, the official language of Cambodia.
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Amerykanka
Hexaglot
Senior Member
United States
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657 posts - 890 votes 
Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian

 
 Message 46 of 48
08 December 2012 at 6:10pm | IP Logged 
nonneb wrote:
Amerykanka wrote:
In the future I would like to learn Irish and probably some African
languages - maybe,
Swahili, I'm not sure yet. I am also vaguely interested in Quechua, Aymara, and Nahuatl.


You're interested in Quechua and Nahuatl, but not Mayan?


I am potentially interested in all the languages of Central and South America, although I don't know much
about them. Years ago I looked at a textbook for Aymara and it awoke my interest. I probably won't get a
chance to learn any of these languages any time soon, though, because there are a lot of other languages
higher on my list.

EDIT: I just saw that you're learning Miskito. I met someone in Nicaragua a few years ago who was a native
speaker, and we had a whole conversation about pronunciation, but my Spanish wasn't as good back then
and I didn't understand much.

Edited by Amerykanka on 08 December 2012 at 6:14pm

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Teango
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Speaks: English*, German, Russian
Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona

 
 Message 47 of 48
11 December 2012 at 12:21am | IP Logged 
I've dabbled in some of the rarer indigenous languages of the British Isles, including Manx, Cornish, Shetlandic (many words from the now-extinct Norn language), and Yola (a language spoken in County Wexford, Ireland up until the very early 20th century). I've also spent a few days checking out Chukchee (the language of the indigenous people of northeastern Siberia), and am currently learning Hawaiian and Pidgin. I'm not sure how many people are into Ancient Egyptian, but it also usually raises an eyebrow or two when I mention it's on my study list - sadly not so many "living" native speakers these days though (excluding liturgical Coptic). ;)

Edited by Teango on 11 December 2012 at 12:28am

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jontam
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Italy
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 Message 48 of 48
12 December 2012 at 6:33pm | IP Logged 
Quote:
I study Cantonese, which is so unpopular that Apple doesn't have an input for it on the iPhone (as opposed to
Cherokee) and Google can't translate it (as opposed to Welsh).


It seems there is no Cantonese input on iPhone although I can "write" the Cantonese characters in by switching to
the "traditional characters handwriting" mode. That's what I sometimes do when I write to my sister if I have time (to
sound more like when we actually talk), otherwise I just write in English, it's much easier and faster. :p

Edited by jontam on 12 December 2012 at 6:36pm



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