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clumsy
Octoglot
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Poland
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| Message 265 of 361 29 December 2011 at 1:53am | IP Logged |
a3 wrote:
clumsy wrote:
I don't want to join any team - I am too lazy.
but my plan for this year is: to complete the world map - learn all the official
languages up to beginner's level.
with an important note that one language is enough, if the country has more than one
official language.
Including Kosovo, but excluding Abkhazia.
because my country does not recognize Abkhazia.
it has nothing to do with my political views, it's just that that would make me learn
Abkhaz, which is the sole official language of the republic, and it's said to be very
very hard.
No problem with Kosovo - I have to learn Albanian any way.
Mutually intelligible ones are counted as one - like Azerbaijani and Turkish.
Persian, Dari, Tajik are also counted as one.
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How would you learn more than 100 languages and maintain them all? |
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I don't think the number is so big.
Most of Africa speak English , French and Arabic.
Moreover I want to learn only the beginner level - A1
Edited by clumsy on 29 December 2011 at 1:54am
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| senor_smile
Diglot
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United States
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Studies: Latin, Russian
| Message 266 of 361 29 December 2011 at 2:56am | IP Logged |
clumsy wrote:
a3 wrote:
clumsy wrote:
I don't want to join any team - I am too
lazy.
but my plan for this year is: to complete the world map - learn all the official
languages up to beginner's level.
with an important note that one language is enough, if the country has more than one
official language.
Including Kosovo, but excluding Abkhazia.
because my country does not recognize Abkhazia.
it has nothing to do with my political views, it's just that that would make me learn
Abkhaz, which is the sole official language of the republic, and it's said to be very
very hard.
No problem with Kosovo - I have to learn Albanian any way.
Mutually intelligible ones are counted as one - like Azerbaijani and Turkish.
Persian, Dari, Tajik are also counted as one.
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How would you learn more than 100 languages and maintain them all? |
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I don't think the number is so big.
Most of Africa speak English , French and Arabic.
Moreover I want to learn only the beginner level - A1 |
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This sounds like a very fun goal. I myself want to at some point do this, maybe after
mastering a few more myself.
What materials do you plan to use? Do you have any detailed plans of how to execute
this?
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| Ellsworth
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| Message 267 of 361 29 December 2011 at 3:24am | IP Logged |
This is to announce I will be joining Team Sputnik for Russian. I am a complete beginner
to Russian and I just want to learn as much as possible in the coming year. More
information can be just found on my log, which will be for Irish and
Russian.
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=30541&PN=1
Edited by Ellsworth on 29 December 2011 at 3:26am
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| ellasevia
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Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian
| Message 268 of 361 29 December 2011 at 4:32am | IP Logged |
clumsy wrote:
a3 wrote:
clumsy wrote:
I don't want to join any team - I am too lazy.
but my plan for this year is: to complete the world map - learn all the official
languages up to beginner's level.
with an important note that one language is enough, if the country has more than one
official language.
Including Kosovo, but excluding Abkhazia.
because my country does not recognize Abkhazia.
it has nothing to do with my political views, it's just that that would make me learn
Abkhaz, which is the sole official language of the republic, and it's said to be very
very hard.
No problem with Kosovo - I have to learn Albanian any way.
Mutually intelligible ones are counted as one - like Azerbaijani and Turkish.
Persian, Dari, Tajik are also counted as one.
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How would you learn more than 100 languages and maintain them all? |
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I don't think the number is so big.
Most of Africa speak English , French and Arabic.
Moreover I want to learn only the beginner level - A1 |
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I was curious as to just how many languages this goal would require, and which languages those would be, so I made a list. It turns out that "only" 47 languages would be needed:
Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bulgarian*, Burmese, Catalan, Czech*, Danish, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, Estonian, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian*, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao*, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian*, Malay*, Mandarin, Mongolian, Nepali, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhala**, Slovak*, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil**, Thai*, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese
* Bulgarian/Macedonian, Czech/Slovak, Indonesian/Malay, and Lao/Thai are all considered mutually intelligible, so only one of each pair would be required. Swedish would be required for the Swedish/Norwegian pair because Swedish is official in Finland but Norwegian is not.
** Either Sinhala or Tamil for Sri Lanka.
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| blackdahlia
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| Message 269 of 361 29 December 2011 at 5:45am | IP Logged |
deleted. confused myself :)
Edited by blackdahlia on 29 December 2011 at 5:48am
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| akprocks
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| Message 270 of 361 29 December 2011 at 6:16am | IP Logged |
I would be interested in creating an Icelandic TAC challenge, is anybody else going to learn Icelandic in 2012?
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| hrhenry
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| Message 271 of 361 29 December 2011 at 7:41am | IP Logged |
ellasevia wrote:
| I was curious as to just how many languages this goal would require, and which languages those would be, so I made a list. It turns out that "only" 47 languages would be needed... |
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A couple years ago there was someone out there that had made a Yew Year's resolution to learn 52 languages in 52 weeks and was blogging about it. It looks like that particular blog has been taken offline, but it was interesting to see just how much he learned in a week for each language.
R.
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| a3
Triglot
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| Message 272 of 361 29 December 2011 at 8:23am | IP Logged |
ellasevia wrote:
clumsy wrote:
a3 wrote:
clumsy wrote:
I don't want to join any team - I am too lazy.
but my plan for this year is: to complete the world map - learn all the official
languages up to beginner's level.
with an important note that one language is enough, if the country has more than one
official language.
Including Kosovo, but excluding Abkhazia.
because my country does not recognize Abkhazia.
it has nothing to do with my political views, it's just that that would make me learn
Abkhaz, which is the sole official language of the republic, and it's said to be very
very hard.
No problem with Kosovo - I have to learn Albanian any way.
Mutually intelligible ones are counted as one - like Azerbaijani and Turkish.
Persian, Dari, Tajik are also counted as one.
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How would you learn more than 100 languages and maintain them all? |
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I don't think the number is so big.
Most of Africa speak English , French and Arabic.
Moreover I want to learn only the beginner level - A1 |
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I was curious as to just how many languages this goal would require, and which languages those would be, so I made a list. It turns out that "only" 47 languages would be needed:
Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bulgarian*, Burmese, Catalan, Czech*, Danish, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, Estonian, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian*, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao*, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian*, Malay*, Mandarin, Mongolian, Nepali, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhala**, Slovak*, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil**, Thai*, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese
* Bulgarian/Macedonian, Czech/Slovak, Indonesian/Malay, and Lao/Thai are all considered mutually intelligible, so only one of each pair would be required. Swedish would be required for the Swedish/Norwegian pair because Swedish is official in Finland but Norwegian is not.
** Either Sinhala or Tamil for Sri Lanka. |
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Still 47 languages is a impossibly big number to maintain. By the time one has started to learn the 40th one, by no doubt he would have forgotten some of the first ones.
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