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| polyglHot Pentaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5071 days ago 173 posts - 229 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish, Indonesian Studies: Russian | Message 9 of 52 12 January 2011 at 7:38pm | IP Logged |
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Moby and Cheese Insider, you totally understood the challenge!
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| Matheus Senior Member Brazil Joined 5086 days ago 208 posts - 312 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, French | Message 10 of 52 12 January 2011 at 7:47pm | IP Logged |
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1 English - useful throughout the world;
2 Japanese - to get around using samurai clothes and talk to them in their native language. Japan is an awesome country, totally different from where I was born. They have all the manga stuff, even though I dislike it. You have a lot of cool things to do in Japan, this country has an interesting history and the girls are pretty. They are developers of many technologies. Beautiful place to know, it's the coolest and distinguished place that I want to travel (in my opinion, ok?); 3 Mandarin - to get around reading hanzi, to know the ancient temples, be able to write, etc; 4 Greek - I like Mythology very much; 5. German - useful in Europe. As you can see, I didn't mention Spanish. My mother tongue is Portuguese, and I can understand Spanish pretty well. They are closer languages. I know that in this challenge you would not have a mother tongue, that makes me do not understand Spanish. But I still with my choices. Edited by Matheus on 12 January 2011 at 7:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6965 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 11 of 52 12 January 2011 at 8:41pm | IP Logged |
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1) English
2) Interlingua 3) Folkspraak 4) Slovio 7) International Sign Language 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5354 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 12 of 52 12 January 2011 at 11:34pm | IP Logged |
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1. Spanish (I love travelling in Central and South America)
2. Russian (I love Slavic languages so I suppose I'd choose the most useful one) 3. Indonesian (I love jungle, remoteness, islands) 4. Inuktitut (I would relish the opportunity to learn the Eskimo way of life with the Eskimos themselves) 5. Basque (I've always had a fascination with the Basque language and country) Edited by hribecek on 12 January 2011 at 11:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7161 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 13 of 52 12 January 2011 at 11:56pm | IP Logged |
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Bosnian
Croatian Montenegrin Serbian Serbo-Croatian Yes, this will do quite nicely... Oh, you meant 5 languages, then: English Finnish French Polish Slovak I pity those who wouldn't understand me on this imaginary grand tour of the world :-P 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5572 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 14 of 52 13 January 2011 at 12:09am | IP Logged |
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French Spanish Russian Mandarin That was easy. Though I suppose it would depend on what kind of traveling you're doing. Depending on the trip, maybe your best combination is Greek/Turkish/Bulgarian/Romanian/Serbo-Croatian or Hindi/Bengali/Kannada/Tamil/Malayalam. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6555 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 15 of 52 13 January 2011 at 3:08am | IP Logged |
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French - To visit the inventors of the kiss
English - What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas Dutch - Wam Bam Amsterdam! Tagalog - Angel City (I think it's named after the band) Thai - Pattaya...nuf said 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6664 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 16 of 52 13 January 2011 at 3:13am | IP Logged |
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I'll start with French. Just think of the Caribbean and South Pacific islands with beautiful beaches where French is spoken.
Arabic provides an opening to Egypt. English is perhaps the most common second language in the world, and many people in the tourist industry use it. There seem to be plenty of Japanese tourists around the world. Japanese wouldn't just be useful in Japan, but it would also help me to communicate with the people I would meet on trains and in hostels. German would be useful for many of the same reasons as Japanese. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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