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| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4909 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 9 of 21 16 March 2011 at 5:22am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Study Russian. It's perfectly masculine. :) I'm just kidding... unless you want to.
I took a language personality quiz once. As I recall, my love for reading, museums, and dark colors (and things I can no longer remember) suggested that I might like French, which is my favorite foreign language. This is not one the one I took, but it's kind of fun. http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=top20langu ages Ew, Greek, Latin, and Norwegian were my top matches. That's just terrible. I would never seriously study a dead language (although I do want to dabble in Biblical Greek) and Norwegian is spoken by like two people (no offense, everyone from Norway, it's a hyperbole). Edited by Darklight1216 on 16 March 2011 at 5:28am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5765 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 10 of 21 16 March 2011 at 7:21am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Honestly, I do not think these are language issues you are being troubled by. I could say more, but it would be misplaced here in a language forum. On the off chance that it is the language that is a little too "gay" for you, rather than the speakers or the life choices (actual, perceived or implied) on the part of the speakers, then just out of interest, how much "gay" would be okay by you in a language? This might help in knowing which manly, masculine language would better suit you. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5190 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 11 of 21 16 March 2011 at 3:19pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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It's hard to become or remain motivated to learn a language spoken by a culture that doesn't interest you, but I never thought one would stop wanting to speak AFTER reaching fluency because they thought the language didn't suit their personality. The culture may no longer interest you, but there are manly and womanly men and women in every language and in every culture.
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5143 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 13 of 21 16 March 2011 at 4:47pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Learn Norwegian anyway! There may not be more than 5 million Norwegians, but we talk a lot and we are very friendly to anyone trying to learn our language! Besides once you know Norwegian you will also understand Swedish and Danish. Go for it! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6512 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 14 of 21 16 March 2011 at 4:48pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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A few languages in certain cultures have special features used only by men or women, but apart from that I can't see any justification for dividing languages into masculine and feminine. However on a purely practical level it may be difficult to find suitable materials in certain languages (for instance scientific stuff in certain languages), so if you are the scholarly type this would speak against specializing in tribal languages. Learning to speak languages with many dialects or an opaque writing system will probably also be easier if you are willing to live abroad and speak all day long to the locals. And if you have a deeptly rooted egalitarian mind this might speak against learning Korean or Javanese (i.e. languages with intricate levels of politeness).
However you can learn languages in spite of any of these factors. For instance I do study Bahasa Indonesia although science is restricted to Wikipedia, I have learnt English even though I find the constant mutilation of foreign place and person names abhorrent, and I have spent a lot of time on Latin even though I am deeply sceptical about the Roman culture. There will normally be pockets of relevant materials and examples of decent behaviour which you can thrive on, and any language can be used in different ways - if you don't want to sound like one group of native speakers then you just find some other persons to emulate. PS to Solfried: your message above illustrates my last point - with two Norwegians in one room there will be at least two ways of speaking Norwegian, probably more! Edited by Iversen on 16 March 2011 at 4:59pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5765 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 15 of 21 16 March 2011 at 5:07pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Hmmn, I've given it a night in the hope that would provide me the wisdom to figure out how a language can be "gay", or alternatively, to see either some explanation from the original poster, or to see that the post had been moderated. Malakhim, unless you meant to suggest that the Japanese language itself might be having sexual relations with some other male language, I am assuming you are referring negatively about the speakers rather than the language itself, and you just plain do not like any behaviour which appears to suggest homosexuality or a lifestyle different than your own? If that is the case, good luck finding a language which is only spoken by straight people. In any event, I am very surprised that it is still considered okay to use "gay" as a negative reference. 10 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5227 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 16 of 21 16 March 2011 at 5:11pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Nettopp. :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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