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| neok Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4001 days ago 14 posts - 17 votes Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 17 17 May 2014 at 7:19pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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If you could choose to learn one language from each continent what would they be? Mine
would probably be: Africa - Egyptian Arabic Antarctica - N/A Asia - Japanese Australia - English Europe - Italian North America - French South America - Portuguese Edited by neok on 18 May 2014 at 10:49pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5030 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 2 of 17 17 May 2014 at 7:42pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Isn't Arabic technically Asian? Also the Antarctica is the South Pole, so why would it be associated with Russian? ;-) Anyway, I'll play, but with only 6 geographical continents. Africa :: French Europe :: Italian Asia :: Mandarin (although I really wouldn't mind Tibetan... sigh) North America :: Choctaw South America :: Chiquihuitlán Mazatec Australia :: Pama–Nyungan 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| neok Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4001 days ago 14 posts - 17 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 17 17 May 2014 at 7:54pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
*Egyptian Arabic and it says here that Russian is the most spoken language of Antarctica: http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Languages_of_Antarctica_(Gr eat_White_South) Edited by neok on 17 May 2014 at 7:56pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5030 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 4 of 17 17 May 2014 at 7:57pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Interesting! Thanks, learn something new everyday. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| yantai_scot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4596 days ago 157 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 5 of 17 18 May 2014 at 1:21am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I want to play, too!
Today's list (as opposed to yesterday's or tomorrow's) Africa :: Twi Europe :: German Asia :: Arabic North America :: Yupik South America :: Guarani Australia :: Mandarin (cheating a bit- but handy for immigrant communities/tourism) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4894 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 6 of 17 18 May 2014 at 2:38am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Unrealistic, just for fun version:
North Amererica: Navajo Africa: Swahili Europe: German Asia: Mandarin Australia: French Antartica: English Realistically: Africa: French Europe: German Asia: English North America is a tricky one because I'm probably not going to reach a conversational level in any Native American language and Cajun/Canadian French doesn't count as a language separate from French (same with American English). I have not included South America on either list because I have a seething hatred for the Spanish language and no interest in Portuguese Edited by Darklight1216 on 18 May 2014 at 2:41am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Lakeseayesno Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico thepolyglotist.com Joined 4128 days ago 280 posts - 488 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Japanese, Italian Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 7 of 17 18 May 2014 at 3:11am | IP Logged | ||||||||
There are several countries that speak languages in South America unrelated to Spanish or Portuguese (such as Suriname, which speaks Dutch), not to mention the 200+ indigenous languages spoken there, too. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Dragon27 Diglot Groupie Russian Federation Joined 4035 days ago 41 posts - 71 votes Speaks: Russian*, English | Message 8 of 17 18 May 2014 at 10:08am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Europe and Asia are too thick with interesting languages to choose only one.
Native Antarctic indigenous languages? Ognia? WTF? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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