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Ideas for Asian-themed language hitlist
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SamD
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Message 25 of 28

31 March 2011 at 3:22pm | IP Logged

My first choice would be Korean. I have a brother and sister who were born there, and my brother has studied Korean up to what seems like the intermediate level.

Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken Asian language. Most people agree that it's a challenging language, but it is rather practical.

Indonesian or Malay would be somewhat easier, and either one is spoken by a large number of people.

The way Thai looks has always appealed to me.

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darkwhispersdal
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Message 26 of 28

31 March 2011 at 8:39pm | IP Logged

I like this thread my list includes

Russian
Turkish
Japanese
Vietnamese- I love this language when it's sung especially by Huong Thanh
Mandarin
Hindi

Maybe
Korean
Thai
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Hierbabuena
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Studies: English^B2, Mandarin

Message 27 of 28

31 March 2011 at 9:46pm | IP Logged

I have only 3 of them on my list:

Mandarin: I like how it sounds (erhua included, I think 一点儿，一会儿。。。 sound
especially cool, but I like them without 儿 too), and I found chinese characters
fascinating and useful. I have already started to study it (30 loooooong Pimsleur
lessons and now I'm studing with Assimil) because I think it's the most useful language
on my list.

Korean: I'm interested in Korean media and culture so I already spend some time
listening Korean. Hangul is a script easy to learn (and pretty!) and I'd like to know
more about its grammar. If someday I achieve an intermedium level in Mandarin, I would
like to learn it.

Japanese: I have some friends who speak it and it's very easy to find Japanese students
in my city. Of course, I like the language (how clear it sounds, the different kinds of
characters...).
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kmfw72
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Message 28 of 28

02 April 2011 at 6:48pm | IP Logged

paranday wrote:

kmfw72 wrote:

...The other Asian language I speak is Tetum (or Tetun) which is one of the official languages of East Timor, along with Portuguese, from which it has derived a lot of its vocabulary. Unfortunately, this website doesn't include it in the list of languages. :(

If you PM the administrator, he'll probably add it for you.

Thanks - I went and did that.

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