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If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be?
#14604386 - 06/13/11 02:50 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be?
You'd be fluent to the point of reading high brow literature, telling jokes successfully and understanding most local dialects of that language.
If 16 is too much, limit it to the ones you'd like most.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
#14604415 - 06/13/11 02:56 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Spanish,French, Japanese, Hindi, Latin, Greek, Native American/Inuit, Dutch, Italian, and then basically enough to get by in Africa. I didn't list anything specific about africa because there's like 3,000 languages. They fall into 6 families though so I figure they must have similarities with other languages in that family.
What about you Wiccan Seeker, you didn't provide a list.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: IamMatt]
#14604432 - 06/13/11 03:00 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Latin, Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Sumerian, Dutch, German, Nahuatl, Russian, Old English, Yiddish.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
#14604433 - 06/13/11 03:01 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Aw fuck and Tibetan! Once you get going it's hard to stop at 16
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
#14604443 - 06/13/11 03:03 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Well i had a hard time thinking of 16 really but you just named a bunch that i would like to learn as well. I think everyone would love to be fluent in every language haha. Where are the babel fish?
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Asante
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
#14604447 - 06/13/11 03:04 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Lets see..
Dutch (check) English (check) German (reasonable) French (only a little bit) Malay (even less) Swahili (way too little)
Spanish Portugese Italian Hindi Chinese Japanese Arabic Kikongo International Sign Language Braille
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
#14604493 - 06/13/11 03:19 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Old English is pretty easy once you understand structure.
Could always work backwards and try Middle English but that might just end up biting you.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Adden]
#14604509 - 06/13/11 03:27 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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German,sign language,Hidi, and any smaller tribal languages.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Distorted Vision]
#14604550 - 06/13/11 03:53 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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latin arabic german dutch Hungarian - FAV spanish the main Chinese one french and the rest made up of african and south american languages.
Edited by druqs (06/13/11 05:14 AM)
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
#14604903 - 06/13/11 07:51 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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spanish(know a little for my job),Sumerian,Portuguese,french,Mandarin Chinese,dutch,german,sign language(also know a little for my job),russian,l33t speak,gilgamex, and the language of the crab people. Forgot to add Lithuanian.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: love2shpongleIRL]
#14604923 - 06/13/11 07:58 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Russian (Somewhat fluent) Croatian (Somewhat fluent) Greek Hindi Icelandic Sign Spanish (Very little) German (Very little) French (Very little) Enochian Iroquoian
Eh.. I can't think of anymore.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
#14605036 - 06/13/11 08:46 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Arabic Farsi Hebrew Japanese French Spanish Sanskrit Hindi Portugese Dutch Cantonese Yiddish Russian English German Latin
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: MisterMuscaria]
#14605195 - 06/13/11 09:38 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Japanese Cantonese Mandarin Korean Thai Tagalog Arabic Hindu Urdu Spanish Portuguese French Dutch German Russian Vietnamese
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Ballerium]
#14605202 - 06/13/11 09:41 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Why does everyone have a urge to learn dutch?
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Ballerium]
#14605228 - 06/13/11 09:46 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ahhh I forgot Thai.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: virus1824]
#14605280 - 06/13/11 09:57 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Nou, mits goed gebruikt en met de juiste tongval gearticullerd is Nederlands een prachtige taal hoor! In het Nederlands heb je erg veel nuance, bijvoorbeeld het onderscheid tussen U en jij die beide "you" betenenen, maar dan bezien vanuit hogere en lagere rangorde. Nederlands geeft je ook een ingangetje naar het Vlaams, een prachtige gevoelsrijke taal die eenvoudiger te leren is vanuit het Nederlands dan vanuit het Engels.
Hier is een goed voorbeeld van Vlaams wat in het Nederlands perfect te verstaan is:
Het zijn prachtige talen, en innig verwant.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
#14605310 - 06/13/11 10:04 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I only speak english and some french, if I was going to put effort into learning another full language I would go with Japanese. And with the time it would take to learn 13 other languages I would spend doing japanese type stuff
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
#14605711 - 06/13/11 11:31 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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In no particular order.
German French Spanish Japanese Mandarin Chinese Russian Korean Persian Arabic Turkish Lakota Italian Latin Sanskrit Egyptian* Sumerian*
*Yup those languages used many thousands of years ago.
And Portuguese got expelled, that would have been 17, dammit.
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: Asante]
#14605794 - 06/13/11 11:48 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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French, Italian, Spanish, German, Icelandic, Hindi, Afrikaans, Estonian, Russian, Mandarin, Swedish, Dutch, Latin, Greek, Portuguese, Coptic (or rather I'd like to be able to read Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics)
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Re: If you could speak/read/write 16 languages fluently, which would they be? [Re: robbyberto]
#14605850 - 06/13/11 12:02 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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german (still know a good amount from my exchange there) french (beautiful language) dutch (awesome language) mandarin japanese russian norwegian (heard it's easy to learn) icelandic (heard the grammar is more complicated than german) spanish (spanish speakers are cool)
anddddd
the elven languages that Tolkien created (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ronald_Reuel_Tolkien#Languages_and_philology)
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