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| WadeE Newbie United States Joined 4840 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean | Message 49 of 94 27 September 2011 at 1:37pm | IP Logged |
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Korean. I've been riding the Hallyu for over a decade.
It's been rough. I'm considering picking up Spanish again, just so I can feel what it's like to progress. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| drp9341 Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 4709 days ago 115 posts - 217 votes  Speaks: Italian, English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French Studies: Japanese | Message 50 of 94 03 October 2011 at 2:52am | IP Logged |
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Arabic. But I managed to avoid it as the dialects and lack of anywhere to learn dialect is putting me off.
I did attempt Egyptian for about 4 months... but the fact that I was 15 and had barely any materials put me off haha. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Dreey Newbie Canada Joined 4620 days ago 17 posts - 21 votes Studies: Spanish, German | Message 51 of 94 03 October 2011 at 6:57am | IP Logged |
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German! That language makes me crazy. The prononciations, the words, the accent, eveything! I am actually studying German at school and I enjoy it really much. I really wanna master that language.
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| Kounotori Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 5141 days ago 136 posts - 264 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Russian Studies: Mandarin | Message 52 of 94 05 January 2013 at 1:21pm | IP Logged |
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Russian. There's just something in the language that I can't resist... Maybe it's the sound, the grammar, the speakers and their "mysterious" souls... But anyway, I love it.
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| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4155 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 53 of 94 05 January 2013 at 2:15pm | IP Logged |
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Russian and french for me to learn. But don't ask me why.
Italian for me to listen to. I adore to hear them talk. Culture and history attract to a language like nothing else. The entire feeling you get, even your mood and behaviour sometimes changes when you speak different languages. When I speak greek, I use lots of body language, sometimes instead of a word. When I speak English I never do that, so I always end up being more verbal. Which is odd, of course. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ling Diglot Groupie Taiwan Joined 4383 days ago 61 posts - 94 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Indonesian, Thai | Message 54 of 94 05 January 2013 at 4:35pm | IP Logged |
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Years ago, I had an unbridled passion for Mandarin. I still love it and use it every day,
but my new passion is Thai. I can't resist anything Thai now. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 5939 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 55 of 94 05 January 2013 at 5:16pm | IP Logged |
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Persian. I don't even know why, I just love it. It's pretty much guaranteed that I'll instantly fall in love with someone if I hear them speaking Persian.
(Alright, that may be a slight exaggeration, but you get the idea.) Edited by ellasevia on 05 January 2013 at 6:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Rosen93 Diglot Newbie Denmark Joined 4197 days ago 34 posts - 42 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 56 of 94 05 January 2013 at 6:18pm | IP Logged |
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I often get hit by wanderlust when I look up info about languages online. If I don’t know where a language is spoken or how it sounds I want to look it up. Then I always end up wanting to learn the language myself. And being a regular visitor of this forum doesn’t help... I’ll see another user is learning maybe Hindi and I’ll think “Oh, I don’t know much about Hindi, I want to find out more…” Then Google it and think “Wow, what a beautiful script – I want to learn Hindi!”
As late as yesterday I was looking for videos in Portuguese on Youtube because I wasn’t sure how it actually sounds. I've always assumed it was very similar to Spanish, but it has a hardness to it that reminded me of German or Russian mixed with Spanish. Currently I have like 10+ languages on my personal hitlist, so I guess I'll be fully occupied the next 20 years or so... :) 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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