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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 9 of 29 07 September 2012 at 9:21pm | IP Logged |
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Believe it or not, I have a few languages like that too. I really want to have more enjoyable resources in Belarusian and Karelian and some time for Swedish. Well, Swedish will eventually get more attention but I don't think I'll ever be as fluent in the other two as I'd want to:( Edited by Serpent on 07 September 2012 at 9:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| lilnu Newbie Bahrain Joined 4461 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Studies: Arabic (Gulf)*, EnglishC2 | Message 10 of 29 07 September 2012 at 10:06pm | IP Logged |
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Finnish..my mother tongue never lived there or had anyone to practice with, and portuguese, I always found it
fascinating 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4689 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 11 of 29 07 September 2012 at 10:31pm | IP Logged |
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Japanese, Mandarin and Russian for me.
My goal is to have 5 languages under my belt by my 40th Birthday (I'm 36 right now). I am a native English speaker, C1/C2 in French, B1 in German, and about an A2 in Spanish. My next language will probably be what I like to call a "lifetime" language (Japanese, Mandarin or Russian) as it will probably represent my final language quest. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ZombieKing Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4527 days ago 247 posts - 324 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* | Message 12 of 29 08 September 2012 at 3:34am | IP Logged |
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Hey, it was really interesting reading about all the variety of languages people want to study!
Would any of you choose to trade one of the languages you already know (at an intermediate or advanced level), for the same level in one of the languages you wrote about here? I don't think I would, because I think Cantonese will be easy to learn once I have the time for it. Well I can say maybe a handful of phrases in French (hardly A1, let alone intermediate, but oh well), and I'd gladly trade that for the same amount of canned phrases in Cantonese :3 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5166 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 13 of 29 08 September 2012 at 4:24am | IP Logged |
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I wrote a thread at another forum with the languages that I'd study actively if I could. I sort of set up a queue,
which means that, being studying 4 languages norm whenever I feel happy about my level in a language and deci not to learn it through textbooks anymore, I can replace it by another one. This is likely to happen with French soon, I think I'm about B2 and I'd soon switch to native materials only, with no need for a slot in my schedule for textbook commitment. It just happened with Norwegian when I realized 3 was ok but I could still handle 4 at a time. That said, currently my queue has Papiamentu, Estonian, Russian, Indonesian, Turkish, Arabic and then it gets a little more blurred but the whole list contains about 25. Whatever comes next would be out of curiosity in spare time, or would benefit from a faster process due to knowledge accumulated for other languages belonging to the same family. I've been working hard at turning wanderlust into something productive. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Duke100782 Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Philippines https://talktagalog.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4488 days ago 172 posts - 240 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 14 of 29 08 September 2012 at 5:30am | IP Logged |
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I've been putting off studying Hokkien, in particular the the Nan-lang-oe or the Philippine variant and
Bisaya. These languages represent my parents grew up with. My father spoke Hokkien at home and my mother spoke Bisaya in hers. Currently living and working in Chongqing, China, I'm trying to devote as much time as I can studying Mandarin Chinese, as it will help me immensely in my work. Then there is Chongqinghua, which is the vernacular of this city, which I may be living in on a six year tour of duty. EDIT: started a new thread on languages and heritage, shortened and edited my post to avoid double posting Edited by Duke100782 on 08 September 2012 at 6:24am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ZombieKing Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4527 days ago 247 posts - 324 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* | Message 15 of 29 08 September 2012 at 5:31am | IP Logged |
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That sounds very interesting. I don't think I'd be able to study 4 languages at once though! xP
How long do you think it'll take to get through a good part of your list of languages? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Duke100782 Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Philippines https://talktagalog.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4488 days ago 172 posts - 240 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 16 of 29 08 September 2012 at 6:40am | IP Logged |
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I'm primarily just focusing on Mandarin, as it is necessary for work and will help me live a full life here in
China. There rest of the languages are mostly for my personal satisfaction at this point, so I guess the other languages will have to take a backseat for the next few years. I think it might take me many years to bring the languages I want learn up to a functional level. I'm expecting Mandarin alone with its rich writing system to take me a long time. My dad once told me "In learning Mandarin, don't sprint. Walk. It's a marathon." Edited by Duke100782 on 08 September 2012 at 6:41am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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