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| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5772 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 17 of 44 24 April 2009 at 12:12am | IP Logged |
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I wish.
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| sprachefin Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5752 days ago 300 posts - 317 votes Speaks: German*, English, Spanish Studies: French, Turkish, Mandarin, Bulgarian, Persian, Dutch | Message 18 of 44 24 April 2009 at 1:42am | IP Logged |
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Even though I already posted, I just wanted to say that I don't hate any particular language. Yes, I may not want to
learn it, but that does not mean I hate it. When I say I have exhausted my interest in Romance languages, I am saying that I just don't want to learn any more. Once I am done with French I'm done, but I don't hate it. It just annoys me that I have to learn it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Lindsay19 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5827 days ago 183 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC1 Studies: Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic | Message 19 of 44 26 April 2009 at 4:04am | IP Logged |
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I've never really had an interest in the romance languages.
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5930 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 20 of 44 26 April 2009 at 4:30am | IP Logged |
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This thread is taking an intriguing turn. I have to disagree, I've liked the sound of Spanish and French for a long time, but Germanic languages were hard for me to listen to until I became interested in Afrikaans and Dutch a few years ago. I haven't lost interest in Spanish or French, but I struggle to pronounce the gutteral French "r" correctly. Edited by mick33 on 26 April 2009 at 9:20am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| TheBiscuit Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 5929 days ago 532 posts - 619 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Italian Studies: German, Croatian | Message 21 of 44 26 April 2009 at 5:17am | IP Logged |
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I wouldn't say I hated a language/language family either. There are languages that don't do it for me like Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc. I can't see myself learning them in this lifetime. Romance and East European languages more than do it for me for now.
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| rlf1810 Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6346 days ago 122 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English*, German, Slovak | Message 22 of 44 26 April 2009 at 9:26am | IP Logged |
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I'll hop on the 'I don't care for romance languages' bandwagon. For me, and probably for many people, it's not any particular language I really don't like (except French), but rather the fact that the Romance languages are so familiar in the western world. Were Navajo a major language which I heard and heard about constantly I would surely grow tired of it too.
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| Snesgamer Groupie Afghanistan Joined 6617 days ago 81 posts - 90 votes Studies: English*, German, Spanish, Norwegian, Scottish Gaelic | Message 23 of 44 26 April 2009 at 10:26am | IP Logged |
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I'll have to say that the Romance languages are quite tiresome as well.
On the aesthetic side, sometimes they certainly can be beautiful, but are too "feminine" for me (I just can't shake the image of effeminate French butlers going oui! oui!, and stuff like that - blech!). On the other side, I'm tired of people regurgitating the same old spoonfed lines like "They're the most useful since they're spoken everywhere" (being widespread makes them overexposed and kind of boring), or "They're the most beautiful in the world - that's why they're called the Romance languages!" (totally subjective opinion, and they're called ROMANce languages because of the Roman/Latin influence). My favorite language branches are the Germanic (powerful, have a nostalgic, fairy tale feel to them, and sound ancient and mysterious), and the Celtic (magical, Tolkien-ish feel) language families. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| roy2005 Diglot Groupie Hong Kong Joined 6556 days ago 70 posts - 75 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, German | Message 24 of 44 26 April 2009 at 10:55am | IP Logged |
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I don't dislike a particular language family. As for Romance languages, I think I'm only a bit tired of French, which seems so "popular" and everyone seems to learn it. However, I like Spanish and Portuguese, especially the former, since it is spoken in so many countries and therefore has a diverse culture.
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