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Currently sick with the flu...
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Post by BҽɾɾყႦʅσσɱ on Feb 13, 2024 2:27:48 GMT -5
French and Japanese. I also still have multiple books on Latin because I love this so called "dead language".
Sign Language would indeed be very useful and practical to learn as well. Although there are different/differing versions for each country.
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Post by Brownie on Feb 13, 2024 2:42:35 GMT -5
Practically, Spanish and ASL
I'd love to learn how Arabic works, it has awesome sounds and grammar
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Feb 13, 2024 10:14:47 GMT -5
My native tongue is English. I learned Latin for eight years (4th-12th grade) and became a fluent reader/writer, but nowadays it's pretty rusty. I also become semi-fluent in Italian during college.
I would like to spend time re-learning Italian since it's fresher in my mind and simpler than Latin, and I don't want to lose it. The problem with living in America is that, with the exception of Spanish, you will pretty much never have opportunities to organically practice a second language in your daily life with native speakers. We're linguistically pretty isolated. So retaining my Italian will take a lot of work.
I've also dabbled in Russian and would like to learn more of it someday. It's quite complex though.
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Feb 13, 2024 10:57:25 GMT -5
Also, fun fact! English is one of the few languages in the world that does not really have other languages with which it is mutually intelligible. I believe the closest we get is with Frisian (a small Germanic dialect) and Scots (not to be confused with Scottish Gaelic).
This is because English is essentially four language families stacked in a trench coat: Old English, which is an Anglo Germanic dialect; Scandinavian (Norman), which greatly influenced our grammar structure; Celtic, which gave us interesting bits like splitting "did" from the main verb to form negations and questions (e.g. "Did you like it?"); and French/Latin, which mostly affected our vocabulary.
(This is also why, unlike most European languages, English speakers cannot understand older, medieval versions of their tongue at all without prior study; Old English makes up only a fraction of currently spoken English).
The affect is that English is such a weird mish-mash that we did not retain enough of any one of those four family groups to share mutual intelligibility. This can make learning a second language more intimidating for native English speakers in academic settings, as there is no option to learn from a language that already shares some familiar features, and thus learning a major foreign language requires starting completely from scratch. Especially when combined with the fact that many native English speakers don't grow up naturally exposed to other languages, it's not really a surprise that many of us struggle with learning fluency in foreign tongues.
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Post by brooksie on Feb 13, 2024 11:22:00 GMT -5
im a weeb so japanese, but right now im taking italian classes in college. my great grandparents are from there and im technically a legal citizen, just have to do some paperwork, so id love to retire their one day. so italian is at the top of my list
id also love to learn mandarin
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and even all the smiles on kid's faces bring you pain, when you think of what they'll face
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Post by dal on Feb 13, 2024 11:51:25 GMT -5
im a weeb so japanese, but right now im taking italian classes in college. my great grandparents are from there and im technically a legal citizen, just have to do some paperwork, so id love to retire their one day. so italian is at the top of my list id also love to learn mandarin may i recommend an app for learning mandarin.... it's called immersive chinese
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Post by کیوان on Feb 13, 2024 12:38:31 GMT -5
As passionate I am about languages, I think myself more like the linguist type than the polyglot type. I just want to focus on the three languages I do know (English, Chinese, Spanish), and that's enough for me.
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Post by Tealraven on Feb 13, 2024 14:20:02 GMT -5
currently learning asl, want to learn spanish
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Post by Fireleap on Feb 17, 2024 22:36:04 GMT -5
ASL, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean.
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Post by *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* on Feb 21, 2024 12:49:59 GMT -5
all of them jk mostly hawaiian, irish, welsh, hebrew, greek, russian, asl, arabic, romanian, and finnish. i wanna be a polyglot though not sure how feasible it is without extensive in person practice. i currently speak english and czech fluently and i'm conversational in french.
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Post by Leapkit on Feb 21, 2024 20:00:35 GMT -5
I second all of them, realistically though latin, hebrew, and japanese always seem fun.
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Post by whiteflight on Feb 22, 2024 2:12:57 GMT -5
Japanese, Korean, and Hmong. Sad part is that my parents could teach me hmong but they keep making fun of me whenever I say a word so I rather have someone else teach me.
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