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11 Jul 2012, 3:48 pm

Italian and Welsh. I'll always end up going into an obsession where I learn more of it. I speak very little though

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15 Jul 2012, 8:18 pm

Greek sounds beautiful but I don't understand it.

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15 Jul 2012, 10:05 pm

German.

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16 Jul 2012, 4:02 am

I'm currently trying to learn Dutch, but I'd love to learn German and Hebrew as well. My favourite language to listen to is German, it just sounds 'right' to me. I also like the sound of Arabic, but it's not something I would learn.

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16 Jul 2012, 4:39 am

SilkySifaka wrote:

You should live in my country. We learn german in school from the 7th grade.
I also like arabic thats why I call myself AspieSharaf. Sharaf means "honor" in arabic.
I have studied arabic for 3 years or so. Its really a hard language. The verbs are really a challenge, and I wont even talk about how hard it is to learn the alfabet. :wall:

If you want to study a middle east language, then I would recommend farsi, its much easier to learn for a person with an indoeuropean language as his or hers native language.
And also the verbs on farsi are 10 times easier than on arabic, IMO

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16 Jul 2012, 7:04 am

AspieSharaf wrote:

SilkySifaka wrote:

I did learn German at school, but only for two years and the standard of teaching was not great. We had a school exchange programme and some German girls came to visit us, but they couldn't understand what our teacher was saying to them in German, which was a bit worrying! That was a long time ago and I have forgotten all of it, except how to say 'The dog has eaten my homework'.

Farsi sounds interesting, perhaps I shall add that to my list of languages. Arabic does sound very difficult, and I must admit I struggled with the Hebrew lettering system even though it is quite simple in many ways I find it quite difficult to learn a new script so for the time being I am going stick to languages that use the Latin alphabet.

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16 Jul 2012, 9:23 am

SilkySifaka wrote:

Hmm.. I would like to come and teach german in that school of yours, it dosent sounds like it require a lot of work. But... The obstacle here is though, that my psychiatrist strongly recommend that I dont work as a teacher.
If you want an "exotic" somewhat middle-east language with a latin alphabet, then there is always turkish! But be aware :!:

It's structure is totally different from our danish, dutch, german or english
and its an agglutinate language

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16 Jul 2012, 7:00 pm

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16 Jul 2012, 8:11 pm

Lakota and German. I would kill to be able to fluently speak either. I took a tiny amount of German in high school and I regret not sticking with it.

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16 Jul 2012, 10:32 pm

Japanese and Korean.

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17 Jul 2012, 1:21 am

esperanto, since i heard william shatner speaking it in the movie "incubus"

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17 Jul 2012, 2:22 am

I guess a tie between Japanese and Mandarin although Korean is starting to piq my curiosity as well as Cantonese and Vietnamese!! I am semi fluent in Mandarin and starting to catch up on bits and pieces of Japanese. I am half tempted to take a Japanese class next quarter.

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17 Jul 2012, 3:52 pm

I like hebrew, although I've only ever managed to learn the alphabet and a few basic prayers. I like sanskrit too. And latin.
Maybe I just like languages I've used for prayers.

German is one of my least favourite languages. And I find arabic difficult to listen to. Both have an aggressive sound to me.

French sounds quite beautiful, as does spanish.