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| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5403 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes  Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 9 of 14 04 April 2010 at 1:37pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Besides English I only can understand Russian perfectly, meaning I understand every single word and I can read it, although with an accent and I may mistake the location of the stress. (I can actually perfectly understand the No#1 Article of the UDHR in all Slavic languages)
I plan to learn all the UN languages, starting with Chinese, then improving my Russian and then French and Arabic. Spanish I plan to learn last as it is the least appealing to me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5556 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 10 of 14 04 April 2010 at 2:22pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Great goal, and a good variety of popular languages too. Good luck! :) Edited by Teango on 04 April 2010 at 2:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5403 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 11 of 14 05 April 2010 at 12:07am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Well the UN languages are on the top of my list, but there are other major languages I will or would try to learn, like German, Japanese and Portuguese. I am curious why UN doesn't add these languages to its repertoire, since if I'm not mistaken the UN added the languages it has now after WWII when for example German and Japanese was spoken by the defeated side. But that has been long ago, shouldn't they do some sort of update? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5339 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German | Message 13 of 14 17 April 2010 at 11:48pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I can read the English, Spanish and French.
I can make out basically what the Russian is saying. Chinese and Arabic though, are scribbles on the page for me at the moment. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5339 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German | Message 14 of 14 17 April 2010 at 11:50pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
That will probably not happen. They might add German (and they should in my opinion), but its been 60+ years, I doubt they are going to change anything. Maybe on the 100th anniversary? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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