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| Gorgoll2 Senior Member Brazil veritassword.blogspo Joined 5147 days ago 159 posts - 192 votes  Speaks: Portuguese* | Message 1 of 10 11 March 2011 at 2:30am | IP Logged | ||
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I´d this post to know: what´s your predilect Indo-European branche of languages?
Germanic? Italic - Romance include? Slavic? Celtic? Or other languages. I, personally, like very much Germanic languages - I´m of Swedish, German and Dutch ancestry. And because my name´s Germano - It´s a surname, not a second name. I always have a fascination with Germany, Sweden, Netherlands and Belgium. By other side, I also like my Latin roots. Until because I´ve all its things: Catholic religion, mother tongue, brunette hair, among other things. And you? What´s your predilect family. PS: I liked if the Moderator could create a poll at this topic. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6551 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 2 of 10 11 March 2011 at 2:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Hmm...just learned another word. Predilect - to elect or choose beforehand. So I don't understand your question. I
wonder if you meant "favorite" or "preferred" instead? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Gorgoll2 Senior Member Brazil veritassword.blogspo Joined 5147 days ago 159 posts - 192 votes Speaks: Portuguese* | Message 3 of 10 11 March 2011 at 2:52am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, it would mean the which you´ve more "affinity". Which is most interesting for you.
Pardon-me. I´m still learning English. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| seldnar Senior Member United States Joined 7133 days ago 189 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, French, Greek | Message 4 of 10 11 March 2011 at 6:37am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I have a predilection (a preference or a special liking for) for the classical (?) branch. I really like Greek and
Latin. When I was in high school I begged my parents to hire a tutor for me so I could learn Greek. (This was very unusual for a boy in a lower working class family--more unusual in the situation is that my parents found one for me). Edited by seldnar on 11 March 2011 at 6:39am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Saim Pentaglot Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5084 days ago 124 posts - 215 votes Speaks: Serbo-Croatian, English*, Catalan, Spanish, Polish Studies: Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Occitan, Punjabi, Urdu, Arabic (Maghribi), French, Modern Hebrew, Ukrainian, Slovenian | Message 5 of 10 11 March 2011 at 6:59am | IP Logged | ||
I made some corrections to your post, hope you don't mind :) To answer your question, it's hard to choose. I guess the Indo-European languages I'd most like to learn would be French (Acadian dialect) and Punjabi, so perhaps the Indo-Aryan and Romance branches. I do love Slavic though because I grew up speaking Serbo-Croatian (but am not fluent), and would like to master this language. I'm also interested in Celtic languages but more sociologically than in terms of wanting to learn them. I do like the sound of them though, I have some music in Welsh, Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Breton (but not much). I just love languages in general :D ! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6106 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 6 of 10 11 March 2011 at 9:27am | IP Logged | ||
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I have no strong affinity to any one group within the Indo-European branch.
If anything, I like the idea of learning ONE language from EACH. For example: Slavic: Polish (currently learning) Romance: Italian or Portuguese Germanic: English will do! Although Swedish sounds nice. Celtic: Not seriously interested, but if I had to choose one it'd be Scottish Gaelic. Isolate: Modern Greek (sounds great) or Armenian (fascinating culture). Variety - the spice of life. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 10 11 March 2011 at 11:11am | IP Logged | ||
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When the thread is there it is too late to convert it into a poll. But it would also be irrelevant because this question is so closely related to your own native background - and Anglophones are for good or for worse the dominant group here.
For me the logical answer would be the Germanic group because my native Danish is Germanic, plus my 1. and 2. best second languages also belong to this group (English and German). However it is more signifikant to note that I have tried hard to learn all major languages in the Romance group, and because this isn't something my background has dictated the noble and useful word 'prediliction' is truly adequate here. I could have chosen the Slavic languages, which as a group is comparable in size and importance to the Romance one, but when I started out learning languages in the 60s the countries who spoke these languages were mostly behind the iron curtain (with Yugoslavia as the only exception). And now I have to catch up with the political developments which have made this language group much more relevant for me. The Hellenic, Albanian, Baltic and Gaelic groups were not big enough and not prominent enough here in Denmark to catch my attention back then, and it didn't even occur to me to study the Asian Indoeuropean languages. Edited by Iversen on 11 March 2011 at 11:18am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stephen_g Groupie Canada Joined 6330 days ago 44 posts - 84 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Italian | Message 8 of 10 11 March 2011 at 1:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Romance and Indo-Aryan.
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