Okay, you are a language learning prodigy! You have any number of resources at your disposal, you have infinite time for learning. You forget about "usefulness" and the need to maintain your primary languages and whatever other reasons you have for your current language exploits. You can learn languages purely for their beauty (subjective, of course) or because. No reason, just "because".
Which four would you pick in addition to the ones already on your study list?
Me:
Armenian
Romanian
Tibetan
Twi
Languages you would learn purely for their beauty
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Re: Languages you would learn purely for their beauty
Welsh, dutch, one of the slavic ones (polish/russian), and the north american indian one that involves lots of 'shu-shu' noises. 
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Re: Languages you would learn purely for their beauty
Finnish
Tibetan
Irish
Norwegian
Oh well, at least I can still dabble in them.
Tibetan
Irish
Norwegian
Oh well, at least I can still dabble in them.
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Re: Languages you would learn purely for their beauty
Swahili (I only just found out how beautiful it is and am seriously considering it).
German (but I'm already doing it for other reasons).
Amharic
Yoruba
Can't see myself ever having time for those last two. Norwegian almost made the cut, perhaps one day I might pick up a bit.
German (but I'm already doing it for other reasons).
Amharic
Yoruba
Can't see myself ever having time for those last two. Norwegian almost made the cut, perhaps one day I might pick up a bit.
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Re: Languages you would learn purely for their beauty
DaveBee wrote:Welsh, dutch, one of the slavic ones (polish/russian), and the north american indian one that involves lots of 'shu-shu' noises.
I'm intrigued! Anyone able to identify this mysterious shu-shu language?
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Re: Languages you would learn purely for their beauty
Random Review wrote:Swahili (I only just found out how beautiful it is and am seriously considering it).
German (but I'm already doing it for other reasons).
Amharic (looks stunning)
Yoruba (sounds awesome)
Can't see myself ever having time for those last two. Norwegian almost made the cut, perhaps one day I might pick up a bit.
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Re: Languages you would learn purely for their beauty
In addition, for no other reason than I like the way they sound:
French
Lakota
Mohawk
Spanish
Japanese
French
Lakota
Mohawk
Spanish
Japanese
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My swimming life.
My reading life.
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My reading life.
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Re: Languages you would learn purely for their beauty
You said:
You also didn't specify human, or non-fictional.
Blue Whale
Dolphin
Wolf
Sindarin (tolkien)
you have infinite time for learning. You forget about "usefulness"
You also didn't specify human, or non-fictional.
Blue Whale
Dolphin
Wolf
Sindarin (tolkien)
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