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| chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5245 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes  Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French | Message 1 of 53 15 February 2010 at 4:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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What is a very hard language for English speakers (or better yet, objectively) that its speakers can brag about? I know there are Mandarin and Japanese, but I'd like to hear about some lesser known stuff as well. Edited by chucknorrisman on 15 February 2010 at 4:54pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5320 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French | Message 2 of 53 15 February 2010 at 5:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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Navajo Korean : P seem to be the most well-known "hard" languages, aside from Mandarin & Japanese though most speakers of English can brag about knowing any second language that isn't French or Spanish Edited by GREGORG4000 on 15 February 2010 at 5:02pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5382 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 3 of 53 15 February 2010 at 5:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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And Americans can brag about knowing just ONE other language hahahahah :D
What about Russian? and Vietnamese 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| lynxrunner Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States crittercryptics.com Joined 5719 days ago 361 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Swedish, Haitian Creole | Message 4 of 53 15 February 2010 at 6:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Russian is a bragging language (I can tell you ;] ) but it's not the best you can do.
Swahili Yoruba Zulu Xhosa If it's "African", it can be admired (especially click languages. Even something like Zulu, which doesn't have THAT many clicks, will cause people to lick your boots in respect as you walk by). Basically, non-Indo-European languages earn you coolness points. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5219 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 53 15 February 2010 at 8:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Learn a click language like lynxrunner said. Or learn something no one has ever heard of eg. a tribal language. The hard part would be finding materials to learn them with.
Anyway, good luck. Especially if you want to learn a click language, I want to learn one (maybe to intermediate fluency) eventually, mainly as a party trick or something to inflate me ego:D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Toufik18 Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Algeria Joined 5541 days ago 188 posts - 202 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)*, Arabic (classical)*, French, English | Message 6 of 53 15 February 2010 at 9:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Although it's not so hard, Americans like to brag about French.
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| Saif Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5409 days ago 122 posts - 208 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Levantine)*, French | Message 7 of 53 16 February 2010 at 1:38am | IP Logged | ||
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I would add languages associated with hot political issues. So Arabic, Persian, Mandarin,
Russian carry bragging rights if you can speak them well. Also any Asian language. Korean, Thai, Vietnamese. Even Malay/Indonesian. Most people won't know if they're difficult or not, it sounds exotic so people will assume it's tough.
I second that. Italian too. Chic languages associated with sophisticated culture seem to impress people. Edited by Saif on 16 February 2010 at 1:40am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| snoppingasusual Quadrilingual Hexaglot Groupie Lebanon Joined 5364 days ago 49 posts - 65 votes Speaks: Arabic (Egyptian), French*, English*, Arabic (Written)*, Arabic (Levantine)*, Spanish | Message 8 of 53 16 February 2010 at 7:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think that the following languages can assure that you will be respected for knowing
them: Nahuatl Lithuanian Rapa Nui Turkish Greenlandic Scottish Gaelic Navajo Latvian Gaelic Irish Basque Icelandic Wolof Hindi Georgian Albanian Armenian Burmese Quechua Czech Finnish Greek Polish Igbo Slovak Hausa Zulu Xhosa Vietnamese Aramaic Korean Avar 1 person has voted this message useful |
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