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I'm surprised nobody said Klingon.

Nope, it really does sound beautiful to my ears.

And actually, I don't. I live in Finland, which is often mistaken as a part of Scandinavia, but it's not.

yIDoghQo !

I always thought of Scandinavia as Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland. My apologies.

I completely forgot about sign language; I suppose I'll have that replace... Okinawan? Yup. And if morse code counts as a languge then that could take the place of Ainu.

...I should think things through before I post.

Also wondering how you function during the winter with it being dark for so long every day. I think I'd go nuts.

The same way some people can live in areas that have a 30 C temperature regularly: one just gets used to it since it's what they've always lived with.

You think 30C is hot??? You've never lived in the American Southeast, that much is clear.

In Mississippi 37C for days on end is more like it.

My mother tongue is Turkish.

I speak
1- English - advanced
2- Czech - intermediate
3- Japanese - intermediate

Would like to learn
4- Finnish
5- Mongolian
6- Hungarian
7- Swedish
8- Icelandic
9- Danish
10- Norwegian

Another interesting one would be the language spoken by the Gullah--a cultural island of sorts, of black people who live on the coast of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. My understanding is that their language is a fusion of English, Creole French, West African dialect, Spanish, and Native American dialects. It is probably the closest to the way the American slaves spoke of any living language.

For pure use, Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, Turkish, English, Spanish, German, French, Russian, and Chinese.

Amusement:
1. Aramaic
2. Basque
3. Georgian
4. Tocharian
5. Burushaski
6. Esperanto
7. Gothic
8. Quechua
9. Nahuatl
10. Amharic

the leading 10 languages that future [or past] galactic travelers have discovered on various ET planets a long ways from earth.

Well I've lived my whole life in Finland so I haven't exactly gotten used to heat like that... except in a sauna of course. For a sauna, around 80 degrees is the best but 100 isn't exactly a problem, either.

I'm curious, what's your idea of cold? Mine would be around -20, but that's still tolerable if I'm wearing the right clothes and not just standing still.

Nuq'Nech Terra'nan!


I'd pick:
* Spanish (Spoken throughout many countries)
* Portugese (Mostly used in South America, and Portugal obviously)
* Russian
* Mandarin (Chinese)
* Hindi (Indian)
* 3 specific ones of the Arabic languages.
* German (Majorly spoken in several European countries)
* French, to impress women.

This would include the ability to read the languages since i'm mostly interested in reading forums in some countries and frankly, some things are lost in Google Translate when translating non-western languages, and pretty much everything is lost when using Bing which is total crap for translation.

I already know a few words here and there, i haven't taken many courses, but for example some German words are close to Swedish ones and i did fine in Berlin. Some Spanish words are similar to English ones and i've picked up a few from series, mom is from Finland and i know a few words there too (mostly curse words). I've taken Chinese and Japanese so i got some vocabulary there.

Danish/Norweigan/Swedish people can understand eachother quite well so, no need there - and we also speak English, there used to be a third language option in at least Sweden, like French, German and Spanish, but i'm not sure if it is still an option in colleges nowadays.

Spanish
French
Italian
German
Greek
Norwegian
Portuguese
Japanese
Hindi
Arabic

For me, 10C or lower is uncomfortable. I do live now in North Dakota, and the winters here are miserable for me.