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| rivere123 Senior Member United States Joined 4630 days ago 129 posts - 182 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 9 of 53 09 November 2011 at 3:32am | IP Logged |
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I want to be a fluent Francophone, and a skilled, if not fluent Spanish speaker.
By the time I am 65, I will be done studying either of those languages full time, and will likely need another. The possibilities are sadly narrowed down to Germanic and Romance languages, as since I'm a unilingual I don't have too much confidence in going for a language like Greek, Russian, or Mandarin. Perhaps I'll do just a bit of Italian, and even more likely Swedish. Yet more likely, I think I'll go after Portuguese- by then Brazil will be a much more attractive place on top of what it is now, and maybe Catalan. If Spanish and French give me enough confidence, maybe I'll try Greek. Perhaps I'll make a huge venture into Arabic, or into Mandarin. Perhaps I'll go with German. All the same, I wish you you good luck to achieving your goals! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ihaveacomputer Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 6633 days ago 21 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English*, Hindi, Punjabi Studies: Urdu, Italian | Message 10 of 53 09 November 2011 at 4:30am | IP Logged |
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I decided some time back that my goal is to eventually have eight languages under my
belt at the C2 level. Whichever other languages I study will not get the necessary attention for developing writing and speaking skills. They'll probably be languages like Ecclesiastical Latin, Classical Sanskrit, Biblical Hebrew or Koine Greek, anyway. The eight C2 languages are as follows: 1) English (native) 2) Punjabi 3) Hindi 4) Urdu 5) Italian 6) Brazilian Portuguese 7) French 8) Arabic (w/ Tunisian or Iraqi dialect) or Persian I also want to try to develop oral skills in Neapolitan and Sicilian, but I don't see either happening without immersion (though my Italian is already taking on a bit of a Neapolitan tinge thanks to a lot of time spent on Youtube). Anyway, I think it's a realistic goal. I'm 21 and I've already spent quite a lot of time studying #2-#7, including a year's immersion period over in India. #2-4 are closely related, as are #5-7. There's considerable lexical overlap between both choices for #8 and #4. The obvious difficulty is in polishing writing skills in seven foreign languages! Edited by ihaveacomputer on 09 November 2011 at 4:31am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5647 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 53 09 November 2011 at 6:32am | IP Logged |
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WHICH LANGUAGES TO LEARN BEFORE YOU ARE 64?
For me this is 14 years away and I want to put another 8 years into my Danish, but I refuse to make further plans ahead. I am only quite sure that I will still be learning my languages at age 64. :) After my Danish project it could be that I prepare a language exam in one of my Romance languages or that I get back to Turkish or start with Portuguese, but these are just ideas. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 09 November 2011 at 12:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Alexander86 Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom alanguagediary.blogs Joined 4781 days ago 224 posts - 323 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, Catalan Studies: Swedish | Message 12 of 53 09 November 2011 at 9:03am | IP Logged |
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Ooh.
So I'm 25, which gives me a good period of time to learn. I've got my languages decided too, although the way Basque jumped out at me may mean there are a few excursions on the way, but without further ado: English (native), then: Spanish German Catalan Swedish French Basque I'm advanced in the first three, can read the fourth and have done studies in the next three, so I'm pretty confident. But at the same time I know that it takes lots of study, time, effort and appreciation for the language and culture so my aim is to not be C2 in all, but to be C2 in perhaps 5? (excluding French and Basque which probably will be conversational/intermediate) Nice thread, and I think you'll surpass yourself with your Russian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6382 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 13 of 53 09 November 2011 at 9:31am | IP Logged |
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By the time I'm 64 automated, real-time translation will have been perfected, meaning language learning is a pointless but still fun pastime. I'll have a lot of spare time, since robots are doing all the work, so I'll be tinkering with some fun language-learning software recently installed in my brain. Besides Mandarin, the official language of my planet, I'll have a decent knowledge of Arabic, Latin, ancient Greek, Xorblaxian and Dolphin.
This is just an educated guess, based on science fiction and the accuracy of future predictions in the past. 7 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Iwwersetzerin Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Luxembourg Joined 5469 days ago 259 posts - 513 votes Speaks: French*, Luxembourgish*, GermanC2, EnglishC2, SpanishC2, DutchC1, ItalianC1 Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 14 of 53 09 November 2011 at 11:33am | IP Logged |
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Still over 30 years left to study, so:
Languages I want to learn to a high level (C1 or C2): Dutch, Italian, Russian, Portuguese Languages I want to reach a solid intermediate level in (B2): Indonesian, either Norwegian or Swedish, Greek, Catalan Languages I want to study some time but without any specific goal, just for the fun of discovering a new language: Arabic, Japanese, Mandarin, Icelandic, either Nahuatl or Maya, Thai I'm curious how these goals/dreams will change 10, 20 and 30 years from now! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| July Diglot Senior Member Spain Joined 5073 days ago 113 posts - 208 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishB2 Studies: French | Message 15 of 53 09 November 2011 at 11:59am | IP Logged |
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I'd have more than 30 years too, should I be so lucky (and I want to look like Solfrid
when I'm her age!) Native level (the accent will probably never be perfect, but...) Spanish is a must. I want to be at least C1 in French and Italian, be able to read ancient and medieval Latin, understand Catalan and have at least a B1 level in German. Realistically, I'll probably have to learn Mandarin to help my possible future kids with their homework and to be able to talk to my kids' future significant others after they move to China because that's where the last remaining jobs are located. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5149 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 16 of 53 09 November 2011 at 12:22pm | IP Logged |
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I'm exactly half way there and only started learning languages 8 years ago so that means logically I should be able to have 5 times as much language ability as I do now, a wonderful thought but obviously it's not realistic.
REALISTIC AIM - Czech (C2), Spanish (C2), Hungarian (B2), 2 or 3 more languages to B2. UNREALISTIC DREAM - Czech, Spanish (C2), Hungarian, Slovak, Polish, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin, Serbo-Croat, Italian, Portuguese(B2), Kiribati, Inuktitut and many more A2-B1. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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