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| Lizzern Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5909 days ago 791 posts - 1053 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 17 of 66 05 August 2009 at 8:42am | IP Logged | ||||||||
On that note... Swahili? That counts as offbeat and rare (in terms of learners) in my book. Good on you for learning something different! COOL. Our Hungarian learners are also pretty awesome. (I don't include myself in this because I'm not currently studying it - can't change my profile - but I am still biased in favour of the language!) Edited by Lizzern on 05 August 2009 at 8:45am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Rhoda Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5600 days ago 166 posts - 196 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, Swahili, Ancient Greek, German | Message 18 of 66 05 August 2009 at 4:05pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Well, I bet it won't feel that rare when I'm in East Africa haha. But thanks!
I second the awesomeness of Hungarian learners; there might be quite a few of them on here, but I've never met one in real life. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5838 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 19 of 66 05 August 2009 at 4:48pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Lizzern deserves a mentioning herself for her discipline and progress with Italian which is NOT at all a commonly studied language in Scandinavia.
Iversen is a law unto himself so I will not mention him ---- if there was a language equivalent of walking on water, he'd be doing it... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 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 20 of 66 05 August 2009 at 6:09pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I will just in all modesty mention that after two years of intermittent, but comprehensive study of Russian I still can't speak it or formulate a post that SII or Anya can't pluck to pieces before you could say 'knife'. The linguistical equivalent to getting wet feet is apparently to try to learn Russian without giving it your individed attention. The most exotic language I have ever tried to learn was - or is- Tagalog. Right now while I'm trying to get a decent passive knowledge of Serbian in a month I can't spend time on that project, and my dictionaries have also proven themselves to be too small, but as soon as I get time I will learn that language. Edited by Iversen on 05 August 2009 at 6:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6436 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 21 of 66 05 August 2009 at 6:57pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
My German is nowhere near impressive. I only got a B1 certificate just now.. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Lizzern Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5909 days ago 791 posts - 1053 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 22 of 66 05 August 2009 at 7:35pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Thanks Cordelia - having studied Spanish and learned Catalan, it feels like Italian must look like taking the easy way out and everyone knowing that's what you're doing! But it's not, and I just love Italian.
I agree with Iversen... Russian looks pretty intense - so well done to all of you who are learning it. I'm not sure I could do it myself. Someday I'd like to see a non-Indo-European language in the "speaks" part of my profile in the left-hand bar... Liz 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5838 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 23 of 66 05 August 2009 at 7:54pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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If Iversen can't learn Russian, what hope is there for me? :-(
There is a Swedish girl blogging (in English) from Yekaterinburg in Russia. She has been studying full time for 5 years and she still doesn't think she's very good. Josefina's Russian Culture/Language blog A Polish (slavic speaker) said she was no good, after 3 years of Russian at university. All these reports about Russian are discouraging. Yet so many non-Slavic people in ex USSR speak great Russian. Perhaps they started learning at a very young age, or what's the secret? I was not aware it was THIS hard when I got started. Edited by cordelia0507 on 05 August 2009 at 7:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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