Metaphrastis Triglot Newbie Australia Joined 4239 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, French Studies: Korean, Esperanto, Spanish, Mandarin
| Message 97 of 109 01 May 2013 at 4:48am | IP Logged |
ScottScheule wrote:
Metaphrastis wrote:
I wish I could speak the following
languages:
And I know it can never happen, but if there were a course available and I had the time
(and ability?) I'd love to learn Proto-Indo-European. |
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Well, I'm sure you have the ability. I'd love to as well, but there's just no good
training material. There's the Dnghu (http://dnghu.org/en/indo-european%20revival/)
folks, but, crazy dreams of more than a handful of people ever learning the language
notwithstanding, their material simply isn't very user-friendly.
One of these days, somebody will simply have to write a beginner's guide to PIE. If I
had time, I'd do it, but I don't see that happening soon. |
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Thank you for that cool link!
I'd never heard of Dnghu before.
I can see myself spending many happy hours reading and rereading their website.
Regards,
Pete
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zerrubabbel Senior Member United States Joined 4601 days ago 232 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin
| Message 98 of 109 02 May 2013 at 8:00pm | IP Logged |
Everything already on my list has some element of "for fun" in it lol...
In descending order of importance to me: Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish, Korean, Indonesian, German, Cantonese,
Ainu, Klingon, and maybe Thai... but pretty much after Spanish, I dont really care to take them into the B range even.
If I do get there its bonus, but as of now thats my importance
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Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6869 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language
| Message 99 of 109 02 May 2013 at 9:02pm | IP Logged |
Materials for Ainu would be fun to acquire, though I imagine most of them are in Japanese (which is on my list, although one that's further down the pike).
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clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5179 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi
| Message 100 of 109 02 May 2013 at 9:40pm | IP Logged |
So...
Zhuang
Wa
Somali
Moroccan Arabic
Maltese
Aramaic
Sumerian
Yi
Yawalapiti
Guugu Yimithr (or any other Native Australian language).
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Paco Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 4278 days ago 145 posts - 251 votes Speaks: Cantonese*
| Message 101 of 109 03 May 2013 at 1:07am | IP Logged |
Sawhili: sounds lovely. Fun to speak? Hakuna matata
Korean: one of the most difficult - for fun!
Czech: a Czech fellow assures me I will never make their 5 different r
Tagalog: to eavesdrop hundreds of thousands of Filipino workers around
Malay: to acquire the ability to overhear the Indonesians
Māori: Pōkarekare ana, ngā wai o Waiapu; Whiti atu koe hine, marino ana e
Sign Language: I wish I had the time. Should be both funny and inspiring
Elvish: quite obvious isn't it?
Finnish: for pure fun this is my first pick!
And the last candidate is - Cantonese. On a sunny day, mild wind, while my fellow and I
walking down the street, they out of the blue found me unintelligible, for 30 seconds.
It turned out to be that I had been mispronouncing a word for 20 years. But that was
not what caught my attention...
By the way, I have an affection for:
Classical Chinese/Japanese/German/Russian/Italian
Persian/Sanskrit/Greek/Arabic/Latin
Edited by Paco on 03 May 2013 at 10:08am
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7157 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 102 of 109 03 May 2013 at 5:14am | IP Logged |
Chung wrote:
10 new languages for fun: (random order)
1) Indonesian
2) Mongolian
3) Turkish
4) Finnish
5) Russian
6) Basque
7) Quenya :-P
8) Rusyn
9) Cantonese
10) Sumerian |
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7 years later two of these languages are in the lineup. I think that my practical and professional needs being fulfilled by English means that any languages that I study can only be fun ones.
Future languages (which very likely would be "fun" ones using the same logic) on the list are:
1) Afrikaans
2) Azeri
3) Kazakh
4) Macedonian
5) Mongolian
6) Rusyn
7) Uzbek
I can't make the list longer than that for the time being since other languages seem like they'd be too much of a chore.
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lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5961 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin
| Message 103 of 109 03 May 2013 at 6:23am | IP Logged |
Here are some languages that I like but wouldn't learn because they are of little use to
me:
Norwegian, Icelandic, Latvian, Estonian, Modern Greek
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Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6869 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language
| Message 104 of 109 03 May 2013 at 6:38am | IP Logged |
Journeyer wrote:
Just ten? :-) Well, ok. For me, I'll choose the first 10 that come to mind...
French
Portuguese
Swahili
Arabic
Icelandic
Japanese
Ancient Greek (Attic and Koine dialects)
Latin
Finnish
Chinese
Honorable mentions were Norwegian and Esperanto, but while I still have a lot to learn regarding them, I've already studied them a little bit. French I did in high school, but learned very little. |
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Update:
Finnish
Hungarian
Aramaic
Swedish
Norwegian
Old English
Hebrew (Modern and Biblical)
American Sign Language
Nahuatl
Lakota
Quechua
I'm cheating a bit though because some of those languages are ones I hope to use professionally, not just strictly for fun.
This list is of course subject to change. They usually are. :-)
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