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| gerry Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5050 days ago 22 posts - 23 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: Spanish, Latin, German | Message 49 of 53 15 December 2011 at 12:38pm | IP Logged |
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Wow that's 40 years from now for me. By that point I hope to know near fluent: French,
Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedish. For an intermediate level I hope to know Latin, Greek, Russian, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese. And if there's time maybe I would try out Arabic, Polish, or Czech. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5203 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes  Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 50 of 53 16 December 2011 at 2:37pm | IP Logged |
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I hope to be fluent in French, German, Russian, Persian and either Mandarin or Japanese
when I reach that age. For other languages, like Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Arabic, Korean, Latin, I could settle with advanced and for some, like Turkish, Portuguese, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, just intermediate. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| SueK Groupie United States Joined 4551 days ago 77 posts - 133 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 51 of 53 16 December 2011 at 5:17pm | IP Logged |
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I'm 46, something which I can say for only 2 more days, but I'm sticking to it until the very last moment!
I'm learning Mandarin for business purposes, hoping to acheive somewhere in between an A2 and B1 - I wish to travel securely, make very brief small talk, and communicate some basic business questions. From there, I should learn Spanish, which would also be good for me professionally, but I think instead I'll try Arabic. I lived in Libya as a small child and it's a life's dream to return there someday. Now that I begin to suspect I'm capable of learning a language (something I never beleived possible), I think it should support that dream. I've recently noticed that dreams I once thought impossible, are now within grasp, but I've lost the habit of reaching. It's time to reconsider. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Lianne Senior Member Canada thetoweringpile.blog Joined 4915 days ago 284 posts - 410 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Toki Pona, German, French | Message 52 of 53 16 December 2011 at 6:14pm | IP Logged |
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That's 41 years away for me, so I can't even imagine what my goals should be for that kind of time frame. With my level of Wanderlust, who knows what language I'll study by the time I'm 64?
By the time I'm 30 (a more manageable 7 years), I'd like to be at a C2 level in French (currently A1, maybe A2 for reading) and Esperanto (no idea of my current level since I know a whole lot of words but can't really say much). By that time I hope I'll also be seriously working on my German again, which has unfortunately been brushed aside. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6397 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 53 of 53 16 December 2011 at 6:28pm | IP Logged |
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oh, a bit sad to think of when I'm 30... it's 9 years away for me.
but hopefully it'll be Advanced Fluency - Finnish (maybe nearing native fluency if I move there), English, German, Portuguese Basic Fluency - Italian, Spanish, Belarusian (on the way to advanced in these three), Danish. maybe also Indonesian but it doesn't feel realistic right now Intermediate, passive basic fluency - Catalan, Croatian; Polish and/or Czech plus one language I'm not yet studying. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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