What is the language that you would like to learn?

I do do that. I actually meant going to Arabic speaking countries and talking with local people.
But you've listed a few things that I had not considered before. Thanks mate

 

If you don't already (and you live in the United States), you and your kids better learn to speak fluent Spanish -- and like pronto!

Happy Cinco de Mayo

 

I had the opportunity to learn french when I was young and passed it up, in hindsight a really dumb move on my part...

I hope to move to Spain/Barcelona region for retirement so Catalan is on my list of things to learn...

 

I've known a few people who picked up Dutch in only a couple years of living there...most difficult thing about living there and learning the language is many locals are very very good at english and will converse in English rather than waiting for you to find the words in dutch...

 

mrs wyly speaks Taishanese the language of Chinatowns everywhere in N America it's related to Cantonese, she's has tried to teach me but the tonal requirements do me in every time...I'm good at pronunciation of French and Spanish and I can understand some Norwegian, German and very good at Dutch, but the tonal stuff of "Chinese" seems insurmountable at the moment...

 

I want to learn Sindarin, just because.

 

I'm learning Swedish, but I really wants to learns Scots Gaelic, though there's more material on Irish Gaelic and I'll probably start with that first. I'd also like to learn a dead language, and since I already know Latin I'd like to learn Old Norse or ancient Greek, but I'm leaning towards Old Norse.

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ooh, Dwarven! Or maybe Draconic!

 

You have to beg 'em to speak Dutch. It is like Cymraeg here at home in that way - they all speak English, so why should they tolerate your fumbling attempts at their language?

 

It is not a synthetic language, but re-constructed Indo-European is the original tongue of millions of people. It spread from India to Ireland. Since I suffered hearing loss in Vietnam, I'm not very good at spoken languages. I like the detective-story enjoyment of discovering probable linkages between the Indo-European languages. I have little respect for the escapist academics who disagree with me:

I think dog is pretty obvious, though not accepted by the Ivory Tower. It is related to Latin digitus, meaning "finger" and Greek deiknumi, meaning "point out." So dog originally meant "pointer." Hound, of course, is related to hunt.

Many is related to manus, Latin for "hand." Before there were specific numbers, primitives denoted "more than two" by waving their hand. Further confirmation comes from the fact that mathematics comes from the Greek root manthano.

Moon originally meant "get smaller" and is related to minus.

Within English, slip and spill are related by transposition. Both are related to the Greek sphallein. Further confirmation is the fact that the adjective is sphaleros, rather than the expected sphales, just as English uses slippery rather than "slippy."

 

What is the language I'd like to learn?

English

 

Then the Diploma Dumboes would call you a "Grammar Nazi" for exposing that their college education is a fraud. Getting a job by going four years without a job is so stupid that only stupid people think that college graduates are smart.

Another stupid thing is that their poorly educated and negligent teachers tell them they don't have to learn accurate and structured English, but "just imitate the way educated people speak." First, passive learning doesn't work. Second, "educated" people weren't recruited for college, so they had no more right to be there than they had to be on the college football team, which is based on talent.

 

Cosentino and maybe Greek and Arabic

 

German

 

I'd like to learn languages like Ugaritic, Sanskrit, Ainu, coptic and Inuit. Manx gaelic would be fun too.

 

I would like to learn Turkish. I know some arabic, but would like to learn more common colloquial arabic, I can't understand lebanese or jordanians too well.

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Ugaritic is an awesome choice. What about hittite?

 

None. English is good enough for me.

 

All of them. Really.

But if I had to pick, I'd say probably Icelandic. I was in Iceland and learned a little bit, but I'd love to become fluent. I've got the accent and pronunciation down...now if I could just figure out what exactly I've been saying...

Other Germanic and Scandinavian languages have always held a lot of appeal to me. I already speak some German, but Old Norse, Old English, Swedish, or Faroese would be really cool to learn as well.

I'm a geek for really old, epic poetry- I would be ecstatic to learn to read Beowulf or the Poetic Edda in their original languages.

Also, Native American languages sound really cool as well. Cherokee, maybe?

From a practical standpoint, none of these would be particularly useful (especially since many of them are dead languages) but I'd still love to learn them...

 

Mandarin.

I'd like to try Welsh.

 

I really wish the Babel fish was a real thing.

 

Arabic or Russian.

 

There's a lot i'd love to learn.

Spanish, Latin, Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), Russian, Japanese, Ancient Egyptian, Greek, The language of Cuneiform, Arabic, Hindi, Afrikaans, and so many others.

 

I speak four languages: Creole English (first language), Dix (American English), Spanish, and Garifuna.

 

Is that an English word of a Maori word?

 

What about Inuit interests you? Ive watched people speak it on youtube, and it has dozens of verb forms and the sound structure is literally mind boggling.