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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6555 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 25 of 52 14 January 2011 at 2:24am | IP Logged | |||||
Why do you travel so much? Are you a flight attendant? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| polyglHot Pentaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5071 days ago 173 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish, Indonesian Studies: Russian | Message 26 of 52 14 January 2011 at 2:28am | IP Logged | |||||
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L.O.L I am not a flight attendant! I am the slacker that sits on the airplane.
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| Tenebrarum Groupie United States Joined 5411 days ago 84 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi | Message 27 of 52 14 January 2011 at 9:35am | IP Logged | |||||
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English - Pretty self-explanatory. Wide-spread, allowing me to get by with it if
necessary. Spanish - Would give me access to Central America and much of South America. Japanese - I can't help but be drawn in by Japan, and knowing Japanese would be nice for any travelers I come by that speak it. Arabic - Southwest Asia is a region I find particularly interesting, so Arabic would be a good choice. Not to mention it would give me access to north Africa. Thai - Thailand is high on my list of places to visit, and I guess it wouldn't hurt to have some mutual intelligibility with Lao either (if I'm not mistaken...) I would like to travel to nearly every place in the world, so this list wouldn't help me do that exactly, but oh well. Indonesia and Mongolia are another two countries that are pretty high on my list. South Asia interests me more than any other region, but I guess I'd just try to do my best using English! Here I chose 5 languages that would give me at least some geographical spread, but in reality I'd probably end up choosing some more specific or obscure languages to focus on a certain part of the world. 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 28 of 52 15 January 2011 at 1:45am | IP Logged | |||||
A pilot? Then why do you move so often? I think you're the only one I've heard of who moves more often than me. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Nguyen Senior Member Vietnam Joined 5098 days ago 109 posts - 195 votes Speaks: Vietnamese | Message 29 of 52 15 January 2011 at 4:20am | IP Logged | |||||
Interesting language list leosmith. I think i understand your intentions for learning these languages :) My list would be the following: English French Thai Japanese Arabic Pretty much in that order, I like Japan and the culture is unique, not into comics or cartoons though. French is a lovely language that still has ALOT of usefulness even in my country. Thai is a good one for SE Asia and is really difficult. Our countries practically neighbour each other but the languages share absolutely no recognizable cognates. Arabic also facinates me but I suppose that is a little bit imprecise so i would opt for MSA. I think that would get me by in the Middle East. A side note; on my travels to several Middle Eastern Countries I am surprised at how clever the Arabs are with languages. I have met people in Qatar for example that could speak Vietnamese scary good! English for everything else. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| YoshiYoshi Senior Member China Joined 5536 days ago 143 posts - 205 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 30 of 52 15 January 2011 at 4:47am | IP Logged | |||||
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English: for business travel or summer holidays in UK, US, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and India.
French: in France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Quebec (Canada). Italian: worthwhile to learn Italian, though hardly spoken outside Italy. Japanese: only spoken in Japan, but necessary for foreigners to learn it, because English won't work well there. Thai: maybe not an important language, but rather useful for tourists who wanna stay for a long while to enjoy their lives. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| polyglHot Pentaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5071 days ago 173 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish, Indonesian Studies: Russian | Message 31 of 52 15 January 2011 at 11:52am | IP Logged | |||||
I don't have a job so all I do is travel. Certainly not a pilot! 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 32 of 52 16 January 2011 at 3:50am | IP Logged | |||||
Dang you polyglHot - now I'm even more jealous:) Personally, I find 6months/year about all I can handle, so I guess I have no reason. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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