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| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5336 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 1 of 21 18 April 2010 at 7:00am | IP Logged |
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Just another random thought that came to my head.
Say you were given the opportunity to "swap" fluencies with any two languages you know. Example: You are native in English but know nothing of Japanese, you could then become native in Japanese and know nothing of English. I just thought this was an interesting question, and before you answer, don't add where you live into the calculation, just consider the languages. 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 2 of 21 18 April 2010 at 7:39am | IP Logged |
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I would like to know Polish fluently, since I love the language but I find the 7 cases to be difficult. Then I could just learn English and other languages.
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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 3 of 21 18 April 2010 at 1:10pm | IP Logged |
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I would swap English for Chinese and Serbian for German.
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7015 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 21 18 April 2010 at 1:21pm | IP Logged |
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I would swap English for Arabic and Spanish for Russian.
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| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6665 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 5 of 21 18 April 2010 at 1:59pm | IP Logged |
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I would swap Portuguese and Spanish for Arabic and Japanese. Then I would re-learn Spanish and Portuguese.
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| 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 6 of 21 18 April 2010 at 2:10pm | IP Logged |
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Interesting question, it would seem to make more sense I guess to swap an easier language to learn for a more difficult or time-consuming one. Personally, I'd like to get my German up to scratch this year and then swap it for Russian language air-miles... :) Edited by Teango on 18 April 2010 at 2:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5585 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 7 of 21 18 April 2010 at 3:14pm | IP Logged |
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I'd swap English EASILY for Russian, German, Spanish.
It would be a coin toss actually, I would be content with any of them being my native language. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jaguar8311 Groupie Canada Joined 6656 days ago 84 posts - 96 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 8 of 21 18 April 2010 at 6:20pm | IP Logged |
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Id never swap English, sure it would be interesting to speak Russian fluently, but the usefulness of English just makes it so paramount these days.
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