These are languages that I want to learn. Well, in theory I’d like to learn EVERY language, but these are the ones I’m actually going to start studying. I’ll check them off once I feel I have I’ve reached a certain degree of fluency. Probably once I can understand 70% of what is being said.
rangutan
München
... a nice list. I think that if everyone learnt the basics and cultural background to about 10 languages, everyone would then be a diplomat and there would be no wars anymore.
I will be using this list too (if I may) but marking those languages I have enough experience with, say more than 100 words or able to:
greet and introduce
count and bargain
ask about and undertand the way
joke or small chat
sing a folk song or part of it?
This experience comes manly from people I have lived with or worked with but also from travelling.
Writing, neither grammar was much use when travelling as much as understanding and speaking the basics, say that equal of a 4-6 year-old child. Except French! If one cann’t speak French PERFECTLY one is ignored and/or treated as an absolute idiot, not occasionaly but always in all “departments”. They also have a secret way of mubbling softly that makes communicating even worse. I therefore refuse to learn anymore about it. To avoid any embarassement, humiliation and human degradation, I recommend that all contact with that language be avoided! In all other countries and regions around the world I was always encouraged and helped with patiently and understandingly when learning the local language or dialect.
I have added some of my own target languages like Mandarian. There about 30 Chinese languages just like there are African languages or European languages. Chinese is not a language but a group of languages!
I have never mastered any language. Born in South Africa learning bush English and moving to Germany, cannot understand proper German grammar either after 15 years of living in Bavaria. My mother was from Czechoslovakia and my wife is from the Philippines, that does’nt help much either :-)!
Rudi
Munich
PS: Language names are always written with a Capital letter (in English both in Britain and the USA). How to we correct this?
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