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Dear all,

What languages do you wanna learn in your lifetime?

mine would be.....

1. Russian
2. Hindi
3. Chinese
4. Japanese
5. Italian
6. German

Last but not least Hebrew

Arabic, Urdu, French and if I live long enough Latin.

shafique wrote:Arabic, Urdu, French and if I live long enough Latin.

isnt latin a dead language now?

Latin is dead - but some great books were written in Latin - in fact all the languages I've listed are primarily so that I can read books in those languages.

Thinking about it, I might add Persian before Latin though... should be easier to learn if I know Arabic and Urdu!

Only just started learning Arabic though - so a long way to go yet!

cheers,
Shafique

1- Spanish
2- German
3- Japanese

1.German
German has the most written translations into and from a language

2.Latin
Closeness to any Romance language so being able to speak what most of the americas,Europe n africa can understand.

3.Chinees
Most commonly spoken language in the world.

4.Sanskrit
Divinity and following the roots of civilization.

I think that would b a tough task to learn these many itself..

Arabic (bec Im in the Middle East )
Farsi (just in case...)

Other than these two I cant think of anything more...to be honest I cant see a reason for me to learn other language aside from what I already mentioned .

oh it has to be Arabic, without a doubt the most beautiful language in the world.
i am passionate about it,
i have to learn it.

...Ana baheb Arabi

Arabic
French
German
Spanish
Dutch

Unfortunately I am a complete idiot when it comes to languages, I can dream though

Im already studying Hebrew, so that knocks one off my list.

Italian, just because its such a lovely language -- so full of life.

I also want to learn Lari, since my mums family is from there and while i know farsi and 3eemi, i should still know Lari.


and ummm, thats all i can think of at the moment

Studying Hebrew, now that is interesting. May I ask the purpose of your study?

sage & onion wrote:Arabic
French
German
Spanish
Dutch

Unfortunately I am a complete idiot when it comes to languages, I can dream though

Why would you want to learn Dutch?? No offense but I find it a barbaric language! Hurts my ears Or maybe it has something to do with the 9 hours I had to spend at $#%$%@ Schiphol each and every time I came back from L.A. .... Honestly I hate the damn language!

bushra21 wrote:Im already studying Hebrew, so that knocks one off my list.

Italian, just because its such a lovely language -- so full of life.

I also want to learn Lari, since my mums family is from there and while i know farsi and 3eemi, i should still know Lari.


and ummm, thats all i can think of at the moment

Lari?? Is it a dialect? Persian I presume?

sage & onion wrote:Studying Hebrew, now that is interesting. May I ask the purpose of your study?

Well my dad is originally from Palestine and I want to go there some day. The language in Israel is Hebrew as well as Arabic. Since I've got Arabic well under my belt I figured it would only make sense for me to know Hebrew...since I am Palestinian.

I like to be able to speak the languages of the countries that my parents come from.

Nick81 wrote:

sage & onion wrote:Arabic
French
German
Spanish
Dutch

Unfortunately I am a complete idiot when it comes to languages, I can dream though

Why would you want to learn Dutch?? No offense but I find it a barbaric language! Hurts my ears Or maybe it has something to do with the 9 hours I had to spend at $#%$%@ Schiphol each and every time I came back from L.A. .... Honestly I hate the damn language!

I must say it can at times seem a very harsh language (with the throat sounds) however I have made quite a few Dutch friends over the years and it would be good to reply to them in their own language.

1-Italian "i love anything italian , food ,music , country ,men "

2- french "so $exy"

bushra21 wrote:

sage & onion wrote:Studying Hebrew, now that is interesting. May I ask the purpose of your study?

Well my dad is originally from Palestine and I want to go there some day. The language in Israel is Hebrew as well as Arabic. Since I've got Arabic well under my belt I figured it would only make sense for me to know Hebrew...since I am Palestinian.

I like to be able to speak the languages of the countries that my parents come from.

Respect Bushra

Corcovado wrote:1-Italian "i love anything italian , food ,music , country ,men "

2- french "so $exy"

i used to know french, then it started to fade away


i hope to bring it back after im done with Hebrew. Perhaps a stay in France for a couple months would help


oh and thank S&O

bushra21 wrote:Im already studying Hebrew, so that knocks one off my list.

Italian, just because its such a lovely language -- so full of life.

I also want to learn Lari, since my mums family is from there and while i know farsi and 3eemi, i should still know Lari.


and ummm, thats all i can think of at the moment

you study it too, i have a book from the US "Hebrew for dummies", its kinda easy to pronounce because it arabic and hebrew are similar. How much do you know of hebrew dude?

sage & onion wrote:Studying Hebrew, now that is interesting. May I ask the purpose of your study?

it all started when i was with my family and we met with an isreali family in frisno, the guy's son was speaking to my father in correct arabic (old arabic), plus he was memorized the whole quran although he is jew.

Arabs and Isrealies have a bad history and i do consider them an enemy of mine.....if they make an effort in learning my language then i would make an effort to learn their language.

Bleakus wrote:
you study it too, i have a book from the US "Hebrew for dummies", its kinda easy to pronounce because it arabic and hebrew are similar. How much do you know of hebrew dude?

7bebi 7bebi 7bebi....im not a dude! lol

and i need a couple more months before i complete the program i have set for myself. i learn languages pretty easily so it takes me around 3-4 months to be able to be fluent in a language. it is really easy since its similar to arabic in pronunciation. right now though im reviewing my spanish since im being tested on that language in december.

On this note if anyone knows of any Greek teachers then please let me know, I think it's about time I learnt this, although I'm terrible at learning languages.

Bleakus wrote:Arabs and Isrealies have a bad history and i do consider them an enemy of mine.....if they make an effort in learning my language then i would make an effort to learn their language.

Know what this reminded me of IMMEDIATELY?

“Know thy enemy and know thy self and you will win a hundred battles.”
Sun Tzu Wu

bushra21 wrote:

Bleakus wrote:
you study it too, i have a book from the US "Hebrew for dummies", its kinda easy to pronounce because it arabic and hebrew are similar. How much do you know of hebrew dude?

7bebi 7bebi 7bebi....im not a dude! lol

and i need a couple more months before i complete the program i have set for myself. i learn languages pretty easily so it takes me around 3-4 months to be able to be fluent in a language. it is really easy since its similar to arabic in pronunciation. right now though im reviewing my spanish since im being tested on that language in december.

when i mean dude, i mean in both sexes, so its all good

good luck on the spanish test in december, im still looking for someone to learn hebrew with

Bleakus wrote:
when i mean dude, i mean in both fun, so its all good

good luck on the spanish test in december, im still looking for someone to learn hebrew with

we can still learn it together...

Italian it's so S.E.X.Y

Nick81 wrote:


Why would you want to learn Dutch?? No offense but I find it a barbaric language! Hurts my ears Or maybe it has something to do with the 9 hours I had to spend at $#%$%@ Schiphol each and every time I came back from L.A. .... Honestly I hate the damn language!

wat zeg je nou man?, Nederlands is een heel leuke taal...

(oh yeh, and your avatar is sooooo gorgeous...)

poppy wrote:

Nick81 wrote:


Why would you want to learn Dutch?? No offense but I find it a barbaric language! Hurts my ears Or maybe it has something to do with the 9 hours I had to spend at $#%$%@ Schiphol each and every time I came back from L.A. .... Honestly I hate the damn language!

wat zeg je nou man?, Nederlands is een heel leuke taal...

(oh yeh, and your avatar is sooooo gorgeous...)

Aaaaargh! Even reading it gives me the creeps! I can still her Schiphol's female announcer voice in my nightmares!! I have no idea what she used to say but it drove me crazy!


EDIT: And thanks for the compliment... Good thing you missed my previous avatar... You might've been one of the persons to have a problem with it...

ermm, i vaguely remember it being a flag of an Arab country, with a 'twist', .... nah?

and actually i used to hate the language too, but after living in Amsterdam for 10 + years, it sort of grew on me

i learned arabic, and now im back to my spanish lessons.

later, it might be german, but i have to become fluent with the 2 languages first.