language learning

[hindupridemn]

Hello. I am looking for people who speak the following languages: Konkani, Marathi, Gujarati, Oriya, Punjabi, Romanian, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Japanese, Bodo, Inuit, Basque, Hawaiian, Chinese, Icelandic, Portuguese, Bengali, Urdu, Arabic, Armenian, Swahili, Tulu, Thai, Malay, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Navajo, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Turkish, Dutch, German, Italian, Russian, Indonesian, Amharic, Serbian, Kurdish, Assamese, Lakota, Burushaski, Esperanto, Korean, Farsi, Hindi, Nepali, Dogri, Hebrew, Albanian, Kashmiri, Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit.

 

[Koldo]

Hello. I am looking for people who speak the following languages: Konkani, Marathi, Gujarati, Oriya, Punjabi, Romanian, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Japanese, Bodo, Inuit, Basque, Hawaiian, Chinese, Icelandic, Portuguese, Bengali, Urdu, Arabic, Armenian, Swahili, Tulu, Thai, Malay, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Navajo, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Turkish, Dutch, German, Italian, Russian, Indonesian, Amharic, Serbian, Kurdish, Assamese, Lakota, Burushaski, Esperanto, Korean, Farsi, Hindi, Nepali, Dogri, Hebrew, Albanian, Kashmiri, Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit.

What a long list....
What is this about?

 

[horizon_mj1]

I am using a program to learn Eastern Arabic. Is this what you are looking for, a suggestion?

 

[hindupridemn]

Yes suggestions and people to learn from. I want to be a hyperpolyglot.

 

[Koldo]

Do you want to learn all those languages?!
How about starting with 2 or 3?

 

[horizon_mj1]

Pimsleur works well. (I hope there is nothing wrong with me sharing this, infringement etc.)

 

[Valjean]

LOL -- Several in your list are mutually intelligible, a couple the same language, and one of them is two + different languages.

 

[Levite]

Hello. I am looking for people who speak the following languages: Konkani, Marathi, Gujarati, Oriya, Punjabi, Romanian, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Japanese, Bodo, Inuit, Basque, Hawaiian, Chinese, Icelandic, Portuguese, Bengali, Urdu, Arabic, Armenian, Swahili, Tulu, Thai, Malay, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Navajo, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Turkish, Dutch, German, Italian, Russian, Indonesian, Amharic, Serbian, Kurdish, Assamese, Lakota, Burushaski, Esperanto, Korean, Farsi, Hindi, Nepali, Dogri, Hebrew, Albanian, Kashmiri, Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit.

Whoa, dude. You want to learn all of those languages?! You must have a lot of time and money on your hands.

I took Hebrew classes from a young age, but still only achieved real fluency after taking advanced grammar and literature courses in rabbinical school, and living in Israel for a year. Aramaic was easier to pick up, but only because I was alreay nearly fluent in Hebrew, and Aramaic uses the same alphabet and is a close sister language.

Similarly, I taught myself Middle English and Anglo-Saxon, just by picking up a couple of grammars and a lot of literature, and piecing it together over the course of a year or so. But of course, I already knew English in its modern and its Elizabethan forms, and I had some Latin, and a bit of Yiddish (which is at least half Middle High German), which made it much easier going.

Latin, which I only have imperfect knowledge of, was much harder. Years of courses, reading grammars and literature, and I thought it quite complicated. I sometimes think about polishing it up, and maybe picking up some Greek, too. But I can't imagine being able to learn more than just a couple more languages.....

 

[Bismillah]

Some of these would complement each other within the categories they fall i.e the Semitic languages or the Indo-European languages. However, to learn all of these languages to the degree of fluency would be impossible and insensible (in my opinion) unless taken as a full time job.

 

[Valjean]

Some of these would complement each other within the categories they fall i.e the Semitic languages or the Indo-European languages. However, to learn all of these languages to the degree of fluency would be impossible and insensible (in my opinion) unless taken as a full time job.

It goes further than that. Some, Hindi and Urdu for example, are pretty much the same language, while Cantonese and Mandarin are quite different 'Chineses'.

 

[Bismillah]

Yup I pretty much tack on both Hindi and Urdu to my resume wherever I apply And once you learn them understanding Punjubi is not much of a stretch at all.

Though just as a general guide book he should at least try to compartmentalize the languages i.e the roman languages the Semitic languages etc. etc.