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| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5198 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes  Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 217 of 346 18 June 2010 at 1:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
Good thing I didn't say anything then. :-D Edited by Delodephius on 18 June 2010 at 1:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| justberta Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5380 days ago 140 posts - 170 votes Speaks: English, Norwegian* Studies: Indonesian, German, Spanish, Russian | Message 218 of 346 20 June 2010 at 8:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Any language within a country I can't travel to, for instance because it's too expensive
or they don't allow foreigners at all. I second Esperanto. I have never heard it spoken out loud, it has no culture, and we already have English and Spanish. I could probably do without Norwegian and German, except for their literature. Something spoken by very few native peoples in the Americas, when would I ever need that... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5122 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 219 of 346 21 June 2010 at 5:10am | IP Logged | |||||
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Esperanto-It's useless
or Japanese-No need for it, I don't want to learn 3 alphabets, the only people to talk to are Japanese (very few here) and weeaboos (Americans who are obsessed with Japan because of anime, they are usually annoying and bad at Japanese) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5131 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 220 of 346 21 June 2010 at 5:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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I would actually like to learn Esperanto as a stepping stone... but whatever. On to the
point. 5. Korean - Number system, but this one is mild because I love the alphabet and the accent. 4. Xhosa - I would much rather learn Zulu, and Zulu has very little resources to begin with. 3. English - Even though it is probably the world's most useful language and I already know it, I almost hate everything about it linguistically. It is just not enjoyable for me. 2. Native American languages - Almost no resources, the writing systems are illogical and the time needed would be a waste for such little result, but they sound pretty awesome. 1. Maori (or any Aboriginal language) - Similar to Native American languages, but these don't sound awesome. They are far from it. Not to mention the ridiculous length and orthography of words. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5491 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 221 of 346 21 June 2010 at 6:14am | IP Logged | |||||
This is just a general comment and by no means directed just at you, but... I'd really wish people would stop bringing up that Japanese has three (omg three?) alphabets like it's some huge impediment or big thing. Japan has one really hard writing system (Kanji) with two sets of very analagous and fairly trivial syllabaries. Phrasing it this way is like saying: Man! English has two different alphabets that you have to learn. In English you even mix these two alphabets in the same word (crazy!). I do mildly agree with your Esperanto and anti-weaboo sentiments though, haha. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5122 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 222 of 346 21 June 2010 at 6:19am | IP Logged | |||||
Sorry, I did kind of make it seem like I didn't know what I was talking about there. Ironically I am trying to learn Mandarin with Traditional characters, so I guess for me the three alphabets isn't the main impediment. But I don't really like Asian languages too much (although I'm learning Mandarin and will learn Korean) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| apatch3 Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5980 days ago 80 posts - 99 votes Speaks: Pashto, English* Studies: Japanese, FrenchA2 | Message 223 of 346 21 June 2010 at 12:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I despise the stereotypes against anime fans. Simply because we share a hobby that's greatly enriched by being able to speak Japanese doesn't make every second anime fan who learns japanese a "weaboo". In fact in the long run we're more likely to be successful than people who have no interest in the home country/ies of their target language and are just learning for the sake of learning.
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| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5699 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 224 of 346 21 June 2010 at 2:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
Actually you picked all the languages I am learning or want to learn... ^_^ Zulu actually is easier than Xhosa, pronunciation wise, but vocabulary and grammar wise very similar... actually all Nguni language are mutually intelligible... if you hear them talking here you hear things like "Zulu is just lazy Xhosa" and "Swazi is just Zulu with all "t" turned into "z"... but about resources, there actually are a lot for both Xhosa and Zulu in southern Africa, but getting them outside the region probably is very hard. Zulu is kinda more useful cause there are just more people speaking it and it's used as a lingua franca in many places. The funny thing is that your reasons for not wanting to learn Native American langs or Maori are exactly the reasons why I would want to learn them 1 person has voted this message useful |
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