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| MLSUSA94 Groupie United States linguisticventures19 Joined 5710 days ago 50 posts - 53 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 1 of 44 23 April 2009 at 2:40am | IP Logged | |||||
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Has anyone here ever felt a certain dislike for a language family? To be quite honest, I absolutely despise Romantic languages; they are just so boring! That is just my opinion, though.
Any Germanic, Slavic, Tibetan, etc. haters here? Edited by MLSUSA94 on 23 April 2009 at 2:41am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jbbar Senior Member Belgium Joined 5802 days ago 192 posts - 210 votes Speaks: English | Message 2 of 44 23 April 2009 at 2:49am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have to admit I've grown pretty tired of the Romance languages as well. They are interesting for their history but they're plain dull to study and often rather overrated. The only Romance language I still care about these days is French because of my interest in France, its political importance, and its relevance to me. Other than that, I'm not fond of the Austro-Asiatic languages spoken in South East Asia. No offense but Khmer and Vietnamese just sound plain awful to me. Same goes for most other languages there for that matter. However, I don't hate any of these languages because they're all interesting in their own right.
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| sprachefin Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5748 days ago 300 posts - 317 votes Speaks: German*, English, Spanish Studies: French, Turkish, Mandarin, Bulgarian, Persian, Dutch | Message 3 of 44 23 April 2009 at 3:48am | IP Logged | |||||
I agree that I have kind of exhausted my interest in Romance languages. I have a need to learn French (not like "I need" it but it is kind of a requirement"), and I learned Spanish by going to Spain for about a year (I have basic fluency). These languages are the ones you should knock off early to get them out of the way. However, I do not understand how South East Asian languages sound 'awful'. I find Thai to be interesting and I would like to learn that someday while learning Korean. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jbbar Senior Member Belgium Joined 5802 days ago 192 posts - 210 votes Speaks: English | Message 4 of 44 23 April 2009 at 4:09am | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, but I did say Austro-Asiatic rather than Tai-Kadai, didn't I? Come to think of it, I'm not too fond of how those languages sound either. :P For some reason I do like most of the North East Asian languages. Must be some brain quirk. jbbar 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7158 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 5 of 44 23 April 2009 at 4:16am | IP Logged | |||||
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Romance languages for me too. I did my time with Latin for a few years in high school and French for even longer. Like jbbar, I'm tired of their hype and now get faintly annoyed when coming across clichés about these languages (e.g. French is sophisticated, Spanish is sensual, Italian is cultured).
I can't really get bothered by morphology, syntax, phonology or lexis in isolation, but definitely speakers' attitudes and dubious extrapolations tied to such "dry" aspects of language can bother me. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| heartnsoul Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5723 days ago 45 posts - 47 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English*, Spanish Studies: Italian, German, Greek | Message 6 of 44 23 April 2009 at 4:37am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm going to have to disagree... Personally I am fascinated with romance languages, especially Spanish and Italian. Not because they are 'sensuous' or whatever the cliche's are, but I just like them and the culture.
I am interested in German, etc.. also but don't really have a desire to learn Japanese or Thai or Vietnamese... maybe because I already speak Chinese so the asian culture is something I've grown up with and thus it's not as fascinating to me. It interests me, sure, since I am part chinese, but it's just not something I can see myself dedicating hours of study to. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Loopy Newbie United States Joined 5713 days ago 37 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, French | Message 7 of 44 23 April 2009 at 5:42am | IP Logged | |||||
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I dislike the Slavic languages. I'm pretty apathetic to the Romance languages.
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| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6680 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 8 of 44 23 April 2009 at 6:45am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm not interested in Romance languages either really. I dislike how they sound and grammatically they are dull, but I have an interest in Romanian and hope to learn it one day.
I kind of dislike the sound of Germanic languages as well, but those I do find interesting (culturally, historically, grammatically), together with Slavic languages (that I like in many ways). Asiatic languages never appealed to me either. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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