lengua Senior Member United States polyglottery.wordpre Joined 6683 days ago 549 posts - 595 votes Studies: French, Italian, Spanish, German
| Message 1 of 580 13 September 2006 at 7:10pm | IP Logged |
This is a spin-off of the "10" thread - but harder. The question is, if you could learn only 5 languages to perfect (native) fluency (reading/writing/listening/speaking), in addition to any which you already have a native or advanced fluency in, which five would you choose as of today?
For me...
Spanish
French
Mandarin
Arabic
Japanese
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nordantill Triglot Newbie Sweden Joined 6823 days ago 16 posts - 54 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, Mandarin Studies: Spanish, French
| Message 2 of 580 13 September 2006 at 7:21pm | IP Logged |
I'd go for:
English
French
Spanish
Arabic
Mandarin
Edited by nordantill on 13 September 2006 at 7:22pm
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shyopstv Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6719 days ago 86 posts - 91 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Esperanto
| Message 3 of 580 13 September 2006 at 8:06pm | IP Logged |
Mandarin
Swedish
German
Japanese
Esperanto
Edited by shyopstv on 13 September 2006 at 8:06pm
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Raincrowlee Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 6701 days ago 621 posts - 808 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Indonesian, Japanese
| Message 4 of 580 13 September 2006 at 10:10pm | IP Logged |
The first few are easy, because they're on my hit list:
Arabic
Russian
Japanese
After that, I'd probably pick:
Spanish
Chaozhou
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delectric Diglot Senior Member China Joined 7180 days ago 608 posts - 733 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German
| Message 5 of 580 14 September 2006 at 2:18am | IP Logged |
Hmmm,
Mandarin
French
Spanish
Portuguese
Russian
But maybe Portuguese and Spanish could count as one language with two dialects. So maybe I'd have to add Arabic to the list instead.
Edited by delectric on 14 September 2006 at 7:50am
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Frisco Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6855 days ago 380 posts - 398 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Italian, Turkish, Mandarin
| Message 6 of 580 14 September 2006 at 2:46am | IP Logged |
I think I'd be rather content with these:
Mandarin
Turkish
Russian
German
French
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el topo Diglot Groupie Belgium Joined 6759 days ago 66 posts - 71 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 7 of 580 14 September 2006 at 3:32am | IP Logged |
My list would be:
English
Dutch
Spanish
Persian
Italian
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Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6902 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French
| Message 8 of 580 14 September 2006 at 3:55am | IP Logged |
Oh, that's easier for me than "10" thread.
English
Spanish
German
French
The last one is kind of difficult, I'm thinking about Russian/Japanese/sth else, ex. Modern Greek.
// EDIT
I've just seen (well, after 2 years or so ;)) that we shouldn't include the language we already have advanced fluency in. My preferences have also changed. My five would probably be...
(English, German)
French
Russian
Czech
Hungarian
Spanish or Swedish or Norwegian
Edited by Julie on 11 April 2009 at 4:39pm
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