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| vell Newbie United States Joined 3578 days ago 17 posts - 44 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 9 of 22 17 November 2015 at 5:05am | IP Logged |
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Warlpiri is probably the best language.
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4794 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 10 of 22 17 November 2015 at 7:32pm | IP Logged |
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Nope, Sindarin is the one.
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| jeff_fontaine Newbie Canada learnlanguageso Joined 3087 days ago 10 posts - 13 votes Studies: Portuguese | Message 12 of 22 17 November 2015 at 10:07pm | IP Logged |
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To know what is the best language, someone needs to establish some criteria. In other words, "best" in what ways ? Here's an idea of different criteria:
1. A language whose written form is an accurate representation of the spoken language (which means the written language would need to evolve constantly) 2. A different word for every meaning 3. Ability to express any idea with the least amount of words as possible 4. Economy of energy when pronouncing sounds of the language 5. A language which has no dialects (to facilitate being able to communicate with people across regions where language is spoken) And more criteria could be added... 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| meigui2108 Newbie Russian Federation accounts.tsu.ru/Prof Joined 3063 days ago 11 posts - 7 votes | Message 13 of 22 06 December 2015 at 1:44pm | IP Logged |
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I think the best language is your native language in which you learn to speak from birth
... my native language is Russian ..and many friends who study Russian say it is a very difficult language to learn. I invite all of you to learn it there - http : //www.tsu.ru/, faculty of Philology http://philology.tsu.ru/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4453 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 14 of 22 10 December 2015 at 9:40pm | IP Logged |
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Assamese is the best
it should be called AWESOMEase 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| caam_imt Triglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4647 days ago 232 posts - 357 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, Finnish Studies: German, Swedish | Message 15 of 22 11 December 2015 at 12:18pm | IP Logged |
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@jeff_fontaine I agree about the need for selection criteria, but I think everybody will have different opinions on the matter. For example, your suggestions sound to me very pragmatic, a sort of efficiency meter. But someone may appreaciate languages which are full of synonyms, have written systems at odds with the spoken language and have multitude of dialects and variants.
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| Mad Max Tetraglot Groupie Spain Joined 4836 days ago 79 posts - 146 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, Russian Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 16 of 22 18 December 2015 at 7:09pm | IP Logged |
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The best language is a language spoken, or at least understood, by an important amount of
people as mother tongue and as foreign language, in different countries, and not very difficult. The most spoken languages are Chinese (Mandarin), English, Spanish, Arabic and Hindi. Languages spoken in at least 3 Continents: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese. The hardest languages in the World are Chinese, Arabic, Japanese and Korean. So, English and Spanish are a good answer. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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