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| PaulLambeth Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5170 days ago 244 posts - 315 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Hindi, Irish | Message 49 of 53 21 August 2010 at 8:29pm | IP Logged | ||
That's almost my whole hitlist right there. Sheesh I didn't know my aspirations were that high. I guess I just enjoy hard languages. I didn't pick these for bragging rights or anything, their respective countries are just interesting places to visit. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pfwillard Pro Member United States Joined 5496 days ago 169 posts - 205 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 50 of 53 22 August 2010 at 5:52am | IP Logged | ||
No, no, no! You have assistants to do that for you! Otherwise, excellent post. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| COF Senior Member United States Joined 5628 days ago 262 posts - 354 votes Speaks: English* | Message 51 of 53 23 August 2010 at 5:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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People will generally be impressed by those who can speak Russian, Mandarin, Arabic, Persian, etc. However, in general people will not be particularly impressed by people who know languages like Zulu, Navajo, Xhosa, Nepali or even Japanese, they'll just think you're an odd person and keep their distance.
I think this is because as far as British culture is concerned, you have to have a legitimate reason for doing something. Knowledge can't be attained for the sake of having more knowledge, you must be aiming for something specific, be it a qualification, to move abroad or for a top paying job that requires that language. However, as more unique languages as the ones mentioned don't really have any specific purpose to the average person, most people will just think you're a weirdo for wasting your time on what they regard as a fruitless persuit. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5178 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 52 of 53 23 August 2010 at 5:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's not so much the language that impresses me, but rather the level of profiency they reach.
If someone tells me they learned Inuktitut while they lived in the North for 6 months, I'm not impressed. Potentially, anyone can go live with people X and learn their language in Y amount of time. However, if you worked hard and reached a near-native level, then I'm impressed, whatever the language. Becoming (not growing up) near-native in any 2 languages, related or not, is an impressive achievement in itself. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| akprocks Senior Member United States Joined 5083 days ago 178 posts - 258 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 53 of 53 28 February 2011 at 6:18am | IP Logged | ||
I would be very impressed if they learned more then a few words as Inuktituit is rarely spoken around white folks unless they already know it. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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