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Poll: Imagine you can instantly learn three new languages. Which three do you pick?

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) Apr 22 '13, 08:06

I will say Spanish, Italian, Arabic.

Responses:

Japanese ... Spanish (get fluent, I know a little now) ... and, oh, I'll take Italian for 1000 Alex -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Apr 22, 08:46
Mandarin, Russian, Italian -- nm - Jovian Apr 22, 08:37
esperanto, jive, fluent kangaroo...nm - x Apr 22, 08:33 2
- L3! -- nm - Epiphany Apr 22, 08:41
- I thought you already were fluent in jive? -- nm - Don Homer Apr 22, 08:40
Practical and benefical: Mandarin, Spanish and Arabic Wishful fun: French, Japanese and German -- nm - Walt_Disney Apr 22, 08:28
Spanish, Japanese and russian -- nm - amoxy Apr 22, 08:26
not sure if French and German that I took in school count as already knowing but in addition to those I'd like to know Spanish, Japanese, Ukrainian - zork Apr 22, 08:25
Italian, Arabic, Mandarin. (I speak Spanish already - although I may like to use that to become fluent) -- nm - MDH Apr 22, 08:21
that I don't already speak? mandarin, arabic, and probably cantonese. maybe hindi instead of cantonese. -- nm - mafic Apr 22, 08:19
Spanish, Portuguese, Elven -- nm - ceregon Apr 22, 08:18 3
- Elven, nice! Surprised nobody said Klingon - zork Apr 22, 08:27 2
  - reading is hard. -- nm - loosilu Apr 22, 08:38 1
    - d'oh! - zork Apr 22, 08:39
Mandarin, Spanish, Japanese. -- nm - Ender Apr 22, 08:13 1
- this -- nm - Diva Apr 22, 08:43
Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin. - spamlet Apr 22, 08:12 3
- Why waste two slots on basically the same language? (This also goes for everyone who said French and Italian) -- nm - Roger More Apr 22, 08:20 2
  - Because our biggest foreign subsidiaries are Mexico and Brazil. - spamlet Apr 22, 08:31
  - yeah, I think I need to switch out Italian with Russian. -- nm - loosilu Apr 22, 08:23
In this neighborhood - Vietnamese, Korean, Spanish. -- nm - Meg Apr 22, 08:12
Spanish, German, Irish. -- nm - ty97 Apr 22, 08:12
Spanish, and two that are in danger of going extince -- would have to do some research. -- nm - mara Apr 22, 08:11 3
- Ooh, right - I should pick a couple of the local native dialects...but there are so many. -- nm - Meg Apr 22, 08:24 1
  - Yeah, I should do that too. I probably have native blood so it would make sense. -- nm - zork Apr 22, 08:28
- actually, if it's instant, I might learn an extinct one. linear A, here I come! -- nm - mafic Apr 22, 08:24
Mandarin, Spanish, Farsi. -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord, koozie aficionado Apr 22, 08:11
Mandarin. Italian. Spanish.. -- nm - Andie Apr 22, 08:11
farsi, greek, russian -- nm - amanda Apr 22, 08:10
French, Spanish, Arabic -- nm - Beaker Apr 22, 08:10
Japanese, Korean, Spanish. -- nm - Was Bar Was Apr 22, 08:10
Mandarin, Russian, Arabic -- nm - Roger More Apr 22, 08:09 1
- This, for varying definitions of Arabic -- nm - Beryllium Apr 22, 08:18
Spanish, Mandarin and French. -- nm - Krusty Apr 22, 08:08 2
- I know enough Italian to get by but I'm far from fluent. - Krusty Apr 22, 08:10
- this is me as well. -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 22, 08:09
spanish -- nm - James Bond (on phone) Apr 22, 08:08 3
- tres -- nm - ty97 Apr 22, 08:13
- math is hard. :) -- nm - loosilu Apr 22, 08:09 1
  - he just wants people to stop asking him "you don't speak Spanish?" -- nm - Roger More Apr 22, 08:13
russian, arabic, chinese -- nm - colin Apr 22, 08:08
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- I'm that way with Italian too. Sounds like an ST trend. -- nm - loosilu Apr 22, 08:09
Chinese, Spanish, Arabic. -- nm - LMS Apr 22, 08:08
Spanish, French, Klingon -- nm - Epiphany Apr 22, 08:08
Spanish, Vietnamese, Japanese. -- nm - Don Homer Apr 22, 08:07
Italian, Chinese, Arabic. - Mel Profit Apr 22, 08:07 4
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  - I'm going to need a VP in '16... - Mel Profit Apr 22, 08:10
  - ML Profit -- nm - loosilu Apr 22, 08:09 1
    - ...in 2016! -- nm - Inigo Apr 22, 08:10
Spanish, Chinese, German -- nm - oblique Apr 22, 08:07
Spanish, Chinese,Tagalog - decline Apr 22, 08:07

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