cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5838 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian
| Message 1 of 66 04 August 2009 at 4:57pm | IP Logged |
Let's credit the members who've chosen less obvious languages and are clearly making great progress. Their examples are really inspiring! This is to acknowledge their success and give them extra motivation to stick with it.
The ones that immediately come to mind are:
Ashley_Victrola, learning Romanian in the US
Tupiniquim, learning Swedish in Brazil
Who else?
Edited by cordelia0507 on 04 August 2009 at 5:16pm
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Alvinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 6234 days ago 828 posts - 832 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish
| Message 2 of 66 04 August 2009 at 7:08pm | IP Logged |
I could be included in your wise list as I'm learning Galician....neverthless, I haven't had the chance to speak to anyone in the same language lately....some could say that my target language is pretty close to Spanish and portuguese, but....
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tritone Senior Member United States reflectionsinpo Joined 6120 days ago 246 posts - 385 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, French
| Message 3 of 66 04 August 2009 at 7:47pm | IP Logged |
Alvinho wrote:
I could be included in your wise list as I'm learning Galician....neverthless |
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Whats there to learn? Do you even have to try?
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Gilgamesh Tetraglot Senior Member England Joined 6242 days ago 452 posts - 468 votes 14 sounds Speaks: Dutch, English, German, French Studies: Polish
| Message 4 of 66 04 August 2009 at 8:21pm | IP Logged |
The languagages mentioned are, while not as common as the most commonly studied languages, not THAT extraordinay either.
- Some hear learn Cornish, or I believe even Manx;
- Haven't met anyone on here who's actually learning/has learnt any Berber language/dialect
- I think daristani has a good knowledge of Kurdish, but I'm not entirely sure
- William_Camden seems to have a good grasp of Turkish, which I don't encounter that often, either.
- Some people here (mainly Mexicans, I believe) are learning some of the indigenous Mayan/Aztec languages of their country
So yeah... I don't disagree with your original post, I just think there are even more extraordinary languages being studied and cared about on here. Personally, I don't think I've ever come across anyone trying to learn an Asian or a "Native American" language... A lot of the rarer languages aren't even featured in the list you can pick the languages from to submit to your personal profile, though, so maybe more of us are learning Mundari, Ihsan, Ewe and Eyak than we suspect? :-)
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hanni aka cordelia0507 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5604 days ago 69 posts - 92 votes Speaks: Dutch*
| Message 5 of 66 04 August 2009 at 8:36pm | IP Logged |
Jiwon is in Korea, he is learning German and keeps a log.
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Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6436 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map
| Message 6 of 66 04 August 2009 at 9:04pm | IP Logged |
hanni wrote:
Jiwon is in Korea, he is learning German and keeps a log. |
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Used to be in Sri Lanka, I should add.
Thanks for the mention, hanni.. but I think maybe cordelia thought German isn't that crazy and bizarre.. :)
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Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 7 of 66 04 August 2009 at 9:09pm | IP Logged |
I'm learning Chinese, Modern Greek, Swahili and Maori for no particular reason - haven't made much progress in the latter two though.
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cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5838 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian
| Message 8 of 66 04 August 2009 at 9:34pm | IP Logged |
Jiwon wrote:
hanni wrote:
Jiwon is in Korea, he is learning German and keeps a log. |
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Used to be in Sri Lanka, I should add.
Thanks for the mention, hanni.. but I think maybe cordelia thought German isn't that crazy and bizarre.. :) |
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I am learning German and it IS "crazy and bizarre"(well at least some of the grammar), so Jiwon's mention was correct! :-) and his accomplishements ARE impressive.
Perhaps hani thought it was unusual for someone in Asia to study another European language than English (there was a thread about this topic earlier).
Great to see that people are nominating themselves - why not! I wish I had some language skills worthy of advertising.
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