04-24-2003, 05:30 PM | #21 |
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If you can, and have the time to do it. try to learn every language you can. It will be a great help to you. you'll learn more about other peoples culture and history and you'll grow to accept them. thus avoiding any " culture crash " when someday you do meet them or go visit their country.
I've made an effort to learn every asian language ( part of my job requirement actually ). currently learning Arabic. I already learn like 16 language. Korean is one of them. The benefit is while people overhere say the Koreans are so and so and so. I don't see anything wrong with Koreans. |
04-24-2003, 07:27 PM | #22 |
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Well, of the three if you want something really different, I would vote for Hebrew. I studied Hebrew, and you do have to learn a new alphabet......and read from right to left. But since the alphabet if completely different, it doesn't bother you to read right to left. Or me it didn't anyway. Grammatically, it is a very simple language. It's not inflected like German or Russian, and verbs are not congugated. There are only two tenses of the verbs...that which shows completed and incomplete action. Only two grammatical genders as well, as opposed to German and Russian that have three.
I think Hebrew is cool and if you ever had the occasioin arise to want to read the Old Testament in the original language you could. My teacher told me that Hebrew as a language is unchanged to what it was throusands of years ago except for adding new words for things like computers and such. Let us know what you decide.
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05-26-2003, 12:39 PM | #23 | |
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Vesi hiisi sihisi hississä(which is a common toungue twister here in Finland) Seriously, finnish is a cool language(though it may not be a completely neutral answer since im Finnish), but im not quite sure how useful a language it is to the common (wo)man... edit: shucks, this isnt exactly a new thread, is it? [img]smile.gif[/img] [ 05-26-2003, 01:09 PM: Message edited by: Raistlin Majere ]
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05-26-2003, 01:34 PM | #24 | |
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No worries though, I still havent decided. I agree, Finnish is a pretty cool language, I think Finland as a whole is pretty cool. The language, Culture, landscape. People? I dont know any Finns, so I couldnt say. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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05-26-2003, 01:41 PM | #25 |
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Didn't Tolkein say that Lord of the Rings fit most properly into Finnish than any other language? That alone would be my deciding factor.
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05-26-2003, 03:38 PM | #28 |
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How about Chinese (Mandarin)? It could be easier on you if you should decide to travel to China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and certain part of asia. By any means, learning Chinese is though as hell.
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