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The last language you would want to learn

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snoppingasusual
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Lebanon
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 Message 169 of 346
27 November 2009 at 7:57am | IP Logged 
I am going to learn every single one of them!
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JS-1
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 Message 170 of 346
27 November 2009 at 8:13am | IP Logged 
QHealer wrote:
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.


I like the amazing amount of culture from the Spanish-speaking world, but there's just
something about the sound of the language that turns me off. Maybe it's because I was
force-fed Spanish in school -I'm not too fond of Irish either, and that's the other
language I had to learn as a child.



Edited by JS-1 on 27 November 2009 at 8:13am

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mick33
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Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish

 
 Message 171 of 346
27 November 2009 at 9:36am | IP Logged 
Most of the auxiliary/constructed languages, such as Interlingua or Klingon, don't interest me right now. I also doubt I'll ever learn any of the 800 languages spoken in Papua New Guinea; I think most of them are unwritten and could only be learned by total immersion.

Edited by mick33 on 27 November 2009 at 9:41am

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Vinbelgium
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 Message 172 of 346
27 November 2009 at 10:16am | IP Logged 
First I did not want to learn Arabic. I had no interest in the language at all. I have been talking to a muslim (who obviously speaks Arabic) and now I am intrigued by the language. I would love to learn it when I have finished the languages I'm learning now.

I am not very inclined to learn Esperanto or any other artificial language. I would like to tackle Finnish & Hungarian too, but it seems too difficult to me. I don't know! In the time I would have learnt those languages, I would be fluent in twice as many easier ones!

Anyway, it's an interesting discussion.
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Blaziken
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 Message 173 of 346
03 December 2009 at 10:14pm | IP Logged 
The last language I would learn?
Well, I really don't want to learn Esperanto. It isn't difficult. The grammar is very simple. But it's useless...

I don't want to learn Spanish or French, either. I don't like how they sound.

Edited by Blaziken on 03 December 2009 at 10:15pm

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Gusutafu
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 Message 174 of 346
03 December 2009 at 10:27pm | IP Logged 
QHealer wrote:
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.


Icelandic is a bad example, considering that it gets you very close to being able to read the Sagas. Plus, if you ever feel like studying Old Norse linguistics, or even Germanic linguistics, you need Icelandic.
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Envinyatar
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 Message 175 of 346
03 December 2009 at 11:06pm | IP Logged 
I think he clearly stated that his reward is speakers he can converse with, not literature or linguistics.
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Chris
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 Message 176 of 346
04 December 2009 at 4:42am | IP Logged 
English.

Where's the fun in learning a language I already speak as a native?


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