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The last language you would want to learn

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Yishay
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 Message 161 of 346
24 November 2009 at 12:18am | IP Logged 
Any language that's not marginally useful. Pretty much any Native American language, for
instance.

I could put up with struggling through a difficult language if I knew I'd get to use it.

Edited by Yishay on 24 November 2009 at 12:19am

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zarathustra
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 Message 162 of 346
24 November 2009 at 1:48am | IP Logged 
Any language with a small amount of speakers and/or lacking learning materials or media.
i.e. most Native American and African languages

I can also say I would never learn French, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, and Esperanto or other artificial languages.
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kyknos
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 Message 163 of 346
24 November 2009 at 12:44pm | IP Logged 
lloydkirk wrote:
Croatian. I can't stand listening to it and it's usefulness, well...isn't exactly bountiful.


Strange. I really love the sound of Croatian. And it is useful - it (albeit under different names) is official language in 4 countries and you can get along with it in many other Slavonian countries. You can probably successfully use it to communicate even with people speaking Russian.

And Croatia is one of the best places in Europe to go sailing.

I would love to learn it - if I had time.

Edited by kyknos on 24 November 2009 at 12:47pm

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franzwa
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 Message 164 of 346
25 November 2009 at 2:03am | IP Logged 
Who came up with this idea? :) I actually have think about this now. That comes down to if you have to learn to write it as well. Then in that case, I probably won't want to learn any of the languages that has writing that looks like an art. The challanges out weight my interest for them. I'm talking mainly the language of the east
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JS-1
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 Message 165 of 346
25 November 2009 at 7:36am | IP Logged 
Spanish. It's the only language I truly dislike.
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QHealer
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 Message 166 of 346
26 November 2009 at 6:56pm | IP Logged 
JS-1 wrote:
Spanish. It's the only language I truly dislike.

Why do you dislike it? Well I'm in the process of learning Spanish but I find it to be a very annoying language, i like it but i hate it at the same time, I bet i hate it from the constant nagging from other hispanics that "Your hispanic and you don't speak Spanish?"

I wouldn't really like to learn the really hard languages with very little reward (my reward is speakers i can converse with)

Something like icelandic.

Edited by QHealer on 26 November 2009 at 6:58pm

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Guido
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 Message 167 of 346
27 November 2009 at 3:59am | IP Logged 
Esperanto. It's so artificial and unnatural.

(If you have read all the 22 pages, Esperanto has the most votes, including mine :P)
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Deshwi
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 Message 168 of 346
27 November 2009 at 4:05am | IP Logged 
If I had the time, I would probably like to learn some lesser studied languages, like Inuktitut or Wolof. So I wouldn't rule those out. However, of all the languages that I can think of Esperanto would be a definite no. No interest at all.


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