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The last language you would want to learn | ||
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| Cage Diglot aka a.ardaschira, Athena, Michael Thomas Senior Member United States Joined 6406 days ago 382 posts - 393 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Portuguese | Message 1 of 346 06 July 2007 at 3:41am | IP Logged |
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There has been much discussion about what languages that we would most like to learn. How about what language would one least want to learn and why?
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| furyou_gaijin Senior Member Japan Joined 6168 days ago 540 posts - 631 votes Speaks: Latin* | Message 2 of 346 06 July 2007 at 4:24am | IP Logged |
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Anything artificial like Esperanto.
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| Lemus Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6163 days ago 232 posts - 266 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese, Russian, German | Message 4 of 346 06 July 2007 at 4:44pm | IP Logged |
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Interesting idea for a thread. I would have to pick Finnish. Very difficult, limited usefullness, and let's not forget the sixteen cases.
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| LilleOSC Senior Member United States lille.theoffside.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6473 days ago 545 posts - 546 votes 4 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 5 of 346 06 July 2007 at 4:50pm | IP Logged |
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Mandarin.
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| orion Senior Member United States Joined 6803 days ago 622 posts - 678 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 6 of 346 06 July 2007 at 5:00pm | IP Logged |
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Vietnamese. I do not like the way it sounds and in my opinion it looks terrible written with all those diacritics. The cuisine is good though!
@Cage- what language would learn last? You brought it up after all ;) Edited by orion on 06 July 2007 at 5:06pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Raincrowlee Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 6484 days ago 621 posts - 808 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Indonesian, Japanese | Message 7 of 346 06 July 2007 at 7:49pm | IP Logged |
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You know, this is acually a little hard to answer. I think the last language that I'd study would be a native American language because they would have very little utility, but I hear they're interesting in terms of grammar and structure. I just have so many other languages that I would think about studying first that I would never get the time.
Other than that, there are probably a lot of African and Polynesian languages that I would never have the time to get around to, and have made little to no impression on me. Oh, and Australian aboriginal languages. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6938 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 8 of 346 06 July 2007 at 8:53pm | IP Logged |
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Mandarin. It sounds brutal to me, I prefer an alphabet over pictographs and have little interest in Chinese culture.
Like Raincrowlee, I have little enthusiasm for learning thousands of other languages. I'm not really singling out Mandarin as I could easily replace it with some other language which doesn't inspire any enthusiasm in me. (e.g. Vietnamese, Serbian, Navaho, Spanish, Romanian, Greek, Dutch, Tuareg, Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Fula, Swahili, !Kung, Farsi, Russian, Laotian, Tamil, Ainu, Welsh, Georgian, Inuktitut, Malagasy etc.) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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