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LonelyJar
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13 May 2014, 5:56 pm

What languages do you wish you could write/read/speak/understand/etc.?



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13 May 2014, 6:33 pm

Italian, because I think it's beautiful.
And I wish I could speak English well.


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13 May 2014, 6:44 pm

Spanish, because a vast majority of people in the U.S. speak it.



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13 May 2014, 7:49 pm

Sign language... ..so I can teach it to my closest friends, and we can communicate secretly... even in loud, crowded rooms... without others eavesdropping on us!



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13 May 2014, 9:27 pm

Spanish would be a really useful language to know, as it's spoken in all sorts of different countries and it has connections to other languages like French and Italian, which would make those easier to learn.

Japanese would be a nice language to know, if only so that I could watch anime without subtitles in its original language, or play games from Japan that have never been translated. It would be a lot of effort to learn for such a narrow set of circumstances though.



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16 May 2014, 5:03 pm

I'm learning Japanese. It's such a beautiful language to hear and speak!

I want to learn Cantonese too. I love the sounds of Cantonese and wish to be able to communicate with my Chinese family.


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18 Jun 2014, 2:11 pm

Spanish
French
Hungarian
Portuguese
Italian
American Sign Language


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18 Jun 2014, 10:27 pm

French would be a great language to know as well. It would open the doors to a lot of job opportunities here, and I'd be able to visit Quebec without being treated like a second-class citizen. :P

I also want to learn German so I can sing along to my favorite Rammstein songs. :D



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28 Jul 2014, 11:59 pm

- Estonian
- Norwegian
- Spanish or Italian
- Japanese



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29 Jul 2014, 12:05 pm

probably some non-tonal east asian language, or hebrew. i really like the sound of hebrew.

or i could muster the knowledge to make up my own language.


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29 Jul 2014, 12:27 pm

Russian, the cyrillic alphabet is pretty to me and I like the sound.
Sign Language.



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30 Jul 2014, 2:15 pm

Maybe I could learn Slovak, as I've been to Slovakia many times (often on bicycle), like the country, have some Slovak ancestry myself, and like the current political atmosphere better than ours in Hungary... I already know a few words and expressions and can count. Can order beer, for example. :)


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30 Jul 2014, 6:48 pm

^if you're hungarian, do you know what my username means?? :)


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31 Jul 2014, 12:24 am

Kiprobalhato wrote:
^if you're hungarian, do you know what my username means?? :)

Of course. Can I translate it? :)



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02 Aug 2014, 5:16 am

I'd like to have some proficiency in Danish, Gaelic, Greek, Portuguese, Spanish, Finnish, Swedish, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Czech, Slovene, Slovak, Bulgarian, Romanian, Croatian, Mandarin, Hindi, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Malay, Tagalog, Javanese, Sundanese, Balinese, Madurese, Ilocano, Cebuano, Cantonese, Hokkien, and Hakka. :P


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02 Aug 2014, 2:04 pm

OJani wrote:
Kiprobalhato wrote:
^if you're hungarian, do you know what my username means?? :)

Of course. Can I translate it? :)

sure. :P


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