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| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5385 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 17 of 34 08 August 2010 at 1:55am | IP Logged |
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I don't have dreams :) I live them.
honestly, my dream languages are the one's I'm currently studying, and maybe japanese in addition. I'm in no hurry, I'm focusing on a language every one-two years depending upon the difficulty :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5566 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 18 of 34 08 August 2010 at 3:10pm | IP Logged |
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Before I go onto the "dream list" or so, I want to get my German, Italian and Russian to a level I'm happy with. After those, my "dream" is to be able to speak Greek, Japanese and Chinese. Japanese because I loved certain Japanese programs as a kid and Chinese because I want to be able to read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in Chinese. That will take many, many years, but that's fine. And Greek I want to learn because I love the country - I can already read Greek but that's far from enough. Also, Greek is so far the only script I can read which for me doesn't lose its wonder and beauty after you can read it. Perhaps it's just me :P
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| mattrossi Newbie Australia Joined 5022 days ago 3 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* | Message 19 of 34 08 August 2010 at 3:12pm | IP Logged |
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I speak English natively and can speak some Esperanto.
I would love to study Italian for mainly practical reasons. Half of my family speak Italian, so it would be good to be able to speak their language to them as well as in English (especially for my grandparents who are fluent but nowhere near a native level of English). Within a couple of months I'll also have Italian citizenship (to go along with my Australian citizenship), so a command of Italian would be useful when dealing with the bureaucracies. Realistically, French would be a good language to learn, due to the number of countries in which it can be spoken. I'm a fan of European foreign films (in Australia one channel plays foreign films with English subtitles free to air), so a knowledge of French (even Italian) would be helpful. I've never considered Spanish before, but the glowing praise that this website gave it, as well as my grandfather being able to speak it (after living for a few years in Venezuela), it would be one to consider. In a perfect world, I would like to be able to learn Greek to speak with the other side of my family, but even my Greek speaking mother thinks there isn't much point in me learning it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5145 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 20 of 34 08 August 2010 at 4:47pm | IP Logged |
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These are the languages I've considered learning at one point or another, including the ones I already speak:
portugués español Italiano francés inglés neerlandés alemán danés sueco noruego islandés finés estonio polaco lituano checo húngaro serbocroata rumano búlgaro griego moderno ucraniano georgiano ruso francés antiguo inglés antiguo alemán antiguo nórdico antiguo antiguo eslavo eclesiástico amárico hebreo moderno latín griego antiguo arameo hebreo antiguo egipcio acadio sumerio turco árabe estándar moderno y clásico persa moderno y clásico hindi urdu panyabí bengalí guyaratí maratí telugú canarés malayalam tamil antiguo y moderno cingalés pali y prácrito sánscrito tailandés malayo indonesio vietnamita chino mandarín chino clásico coreano japonés Choosing a realistic and manageable number among these and hence making up my mind to give up hope for ever learning the rest has proven to be as hard as actually learning any of them. Edited by Juаn on 08 August 2010 at 4:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5127 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 21 of 34 09 August 2010 at 5:40am | IP Logged |
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Languages I'm learning:
Spanish and German I guess you could count English too, since I'm still learning new words and still required to take English in school (funny thing, we never learn about the language itself) Languages I'd like to learn in a perfect world: All of them 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5144 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 22 of 34 09 August 2010 at 7:40am | IP Logged |
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Languages I'm learning: German
I absolutely love this language because the way it's pronounced is very beautiful more so than French. My dream languages would be Russian because it's the next language that I find very beautiful after German. The Cyrillic alphabet is amazing to look at and read (if I knew how). It is similar to the other Asian languages like Japanese, Korean and Chinese. The last one I tend to learn would be Japanese because the Samurai history is simply amazing and their values they had is nothing but respectable for what they believed in. Also because the Japanese video games have so much better content and what not than you would ever have in American and European video games. So I want to have full knowledge of German, Russian and Japanese besides my English. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6503 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 23 of 34 09 August 2010 at 11:19am | IP Logged |
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My goal (not dream) is to be able to speak, read, write, think in and understand every Indoeuropean language in Europe (plus Afrikaans) - those in India and in between are so far just dreams, because I don't think that I'll have time to learn them. And of course I'll have to sacrifice a few small languages with too few resources - such as Sardic, Romantsch, Faroese and Frisian.
Outside the Indoeuropean languages I'll learn Bahasa I + M, but I also have a dream about reverting to Filipino, which I only dropped because my dictionaries weren't sufficient. I would also like to learn other non-Indoeuropean languages later, but these remain dreams which may never materialize. If they do then Finnish would be on top of my agenda. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| noriyuki_nomura Bilingual Octoglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 5140 days ago 304 posts - 465 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Japanese, FrenchC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, SpanishB2, DutchB1 Studies: TurkishA1, Korean | Message 24 of 34 09 August 2010 at 11:57am | IP Logged |
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For me, I would love to learn languages in terms of language families, so as I could understand better their shared histories, how/why/when their languages diverged etc. Take the romance language family for instance, I am learning French (currently, I am reading Le Comte de Monte Cristo in French - as they come in 2 thick volumes, these 2 books will serve as my French texts to further improve my French and understanding of French literature), Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Corsican (I would like to learn a rare language, and hopefully it might give me clues to further understanding the romance languages as a whole).
I am also very interested to concentrate on East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean, as the countries speaking these languages shared so much history together, and the amount of literature coming out from them is impressive too. Furthermore, I would like to include a Southeast Asian language such as Cambodian or Indonesian, both regions having rich cultures and histories. Edited by noriyuki_nomura on 09 August 2010 at 5:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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