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Chung
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Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish

Message 25 of 26

21 August 2012 at 4:48pm | IP Logged

Mae wrote:

Guaraní... is definitely not mainstream, and its sound is great! ;-)

Chung wrote:

some of the "popular smaller" languages (i.e. < 20 million native speakers but "popular" on the forum)
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Guaraní (1 result*)

How did you figure out that Guaraní was "popular" on the forum? According to the Members Language Profiles
there are 8 more members who study or speak this language... That one book on Amazon is not for learning the language.
Unfortunately there are barely any resources in English to learn Guaraní. Most of the material is in Spanish. I have
a few books to learn Guaraní from scratch, but the quality (from a linguistic point of view) has nothing to do with
the stuff we're used to have here in Europe to learn languages.
By the way, here is a useful Guarani Homepage with many links, online-bookshop, lessons, etc.

EDIT: I forgot to add a blog with a podcast in English: Let's talk Guaraníme

It's definitely not mainstream but my sense of its popularity comes subjectively given that there are 7 threads invoking Guaraní and the enthusiasm that it engenders (see here). There aren't many choices among languages of the New World compared to the Old World for learning. Foreigners wanting to teach themselves at least a bit of a South American one seem to be limited to Guaraní or Quechua (I haven't heard of anyone wanting to learn Carib).
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boon
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Message 26 of 26

21 August 2012 at 7:09pm | IP Logged

I met one Irish guy who spoke fluent Polish.

I've got no real desire to learn it. Most of the Polish have left the country now anyway. If I learn a Slavic language
I'll more than likely go for Russian.

I just remembered that I know some Czech. Dobrý večer
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