Had you asked my 10 years younger self, she would have answered "German" immediately, with a list of reasons.
And of course the other one on the list would have been "Russian", with a similar list of reasons. My younger me didn't know Lukyanenko.
Curiously, there are few of these, since I went through the usual craziness after joining HTLAL "I wanna learn them all". I'd say languages that I've never heard of qualify. Yeah, and Uzbek and similar languages, Native American languages, most Chinese languages,and surely many more. Would be funny, finding this post ten years from now, trying to get to intermediate Uzbek
Languages you have never had any interest in learning ??
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Re: Languages you have never had any interest in learning ??
Esperanto holds no interest for me either, as I too am absolutely not interested in deliberately created languages.
Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese or any other Chinese language) and Japanese don't interest me either. Almost all Asian languages hold little interest for me, except maybe Vietnamese simply because I come across it quite frequently where I live, and would find it very useful here. I'm sure this lack of interest would change if my exposure to Asian cultures increased, which is exactly why I won't encourage myself. I honestly don't want to open that can of worms, because I have battled enough just to learn ONE European language with many similarities to English, which i'm far from finished with despite massive amounts of time dedicated to learning it. Then other languages that interest me are all in the same geographical area, purposely to a large degree, as I'm not a multi-millionaire, it makes sense to focus on one region of the world, the one that holds the most interest for me. I simply don't have the time in my life to open up a can of Asian or Arabic worms, despite the fact I'm sure I'd fall in love with the scripts, languages and beauty of these cultures, given enough time and exposure.
Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese or any other Chinese language) and Japanese don't interest me either. Almost all Asian languages hold little interest for me, except maybe Vietnamese simply because I come across it quite frequently where I live, and would find it very useful here. I'm sure this lack of interest would change if my exposure to Asian cultures increased, which is exactly why I won't encourage myself. I honestly don't want to open that can of worms, because I have battled enough just to learn ONE European language with many similarities to English, which i'm far from finished with despite massive amounts of time dedicated to learning it. Then other languages that interest me are all in the same geographical area, purposely to a large degree, as I'm not a multi-millionaire, it makes sense to focus on one region of the world, the one that holds the most interest for me. I simply don't have the time in my life to open up a can of Asian or Arabic worms, despite the fact I'm sure I'd fall in love with the scripts, languages and beauty of these cultures, given enough time and exposure.
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Re: Languages you have never had any interest in learning ??
None of the conlangs for numerous reasons, Afrikaans, most of the languages spoken in Africa that aren't Indo-European, Arabic (because the amount of diglossia is just too much for me to handle). I don't know I think it's be easier for me to list the languages that I'd have any interest in learning.
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To be perfectly honest, only the ones I've never heard of.
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Re: Languages you have never had any interest in learning ??
I'm not interested in learning any of the endangered languages, mostly because they tend to be difficult with comparatively little reward to be had from conversations with native speakers or their literature.
Other than those, I'd say Basque, Finnish, and to a lesser extent Korean.
Other than those, I'd say Basque, Finnish, and to a lesser extent Korean.
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I might get a headache trying to think of ones I have never contemplated learning.
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I have never had any interested in any conlang such as Esperanto or Klingon. To me, Klingon sounds like you are cleaning your throat.
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Re: Languages you have never had any interest in learning ??
The list goes something like this:
Basque (I live in the Basque country, the more I hear of it, the less I like it)
All Asian languages apart from Japanese
Arabic
Finnish
Esperanto
And probably a few others that I have never even heard of before
Basque (I live in the Basque country, the more I hear of it, the less I like it)
All Asian languages apart from Japanese
Arabic
Finnish
Esperanto
And probably a few others that I have never even heard of before
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Re: Languages you have never had any interest in learning ??
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For me it's Manga and Anime. I really like comics, so it's really an obvious choice
LesRonces wrote:Yeah i have no desire to learn any Asian language but Japanese has always been there as something i would like to maybe learn one day. Don't know what makes it different.
For me it's Manga and Anime. I really like comics, so it's really an obvious choice
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Re: Languages you have never had any interest in learning ??
Turkish, Cantonese, Korean, Basque come to mind. Also, all Slavic languages outside of Russian, Polish, and Czech
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