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wonderinglinguist
Lorien
Oct 21 2014, 4:57pm
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My dad's family is all from Slovakia...and while I grew up around the language and can converse in it easily enough, I'm hardly a "master" of it, so that's what I'd pick. It's still so hard to choose, though! It's like when someone asks what your favorite book is --how do you pick just one? 
Keep smiling! 
"Do not spoil the wonder with haste!" Tolkien
"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth." Satre
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joec_34
Rivendell
Oct 21 2014, 5:03pm
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Being an American, this would be really useless, but it sure is an intriguing language.
"Happy painting and God bless, my friend." - Bob Ross
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wonderinglinguist
Lorien
Oct 21 2014, 5:11pm
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Min, Yue, Hakka, Wu, etc?
There are many varieties/dialects in the 'Chinese' (Zhongwen) language group. 
Keep smiling!
"Do not spoil the wonder with haste!" Tolkien
"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth." Satre
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Ataahua
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Oct 21 2014, 5:31pm
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*adds to list of useful phrases*
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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Starling
Half-elven
Oct 21 2014, 5:40pm
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I was looking for an emphatic 'ae'.
There are supposed to be macrons though. Hopefully I didn't say anything weird by mistake. 
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Ataahua
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Oct 21 2014, 8:58pm
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are a pain in the bottom - especially as I can't figure out how to get them to appear on my work computer.
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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Bracegirdle
Valinor
Oct 22 2014, 3:12am
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I have a great-grandfather Shem who was Welsh.
But the Welsh to English accent – WHEW! My wife and I were in London years ago, in one of those stand-up pubs. I had a Welshman to my left and my wife had an Englishman to her right. I could not understand a single word the Welshman was saying (in English), and the Englishman, laughingly, had to translate for me. It was just a real hoot!
I caunaut yustaund a weirrrd he sayes………….
He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.
-Gandalf
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Misto
Lorien
Oct 22 2014, 11:24am
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Spanish would make most sense to learn, but I guess I have a chance to do that without magic.
So my pick would be either French or Russian. I really like French and keep trying to learn it but I have a hard time with it. And Russian is one of those "would love to speak but don't think I will ever even try to learn" sort of languages for me.
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Annael
Immortal
Oct 22 2014, 5:14pm
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still kicking myself that I let it go after high school (when I was so fluent I was dreaming in it).
Then Italian, because it's so beautiful, and so I could read Dante in the original.
Then Scottish Gaelic to honor my roots.
To be sane we must recognize our beliefs as fictions.
- James Hillman, Healing Fiction
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NARF and member of Deplorable Cultus since 1967
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dernwyn
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Oct 23 2014, 4:34pm
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Like trying to understand someone speaking with a heavy Scots brogue!
And there are plenty of regional accents here in the States that can flummox a visitor...
I wonder if other languages have similar problems?
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
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Cuwen Maegmacil
Rivendell
Nov 3 2014, 12:54am
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I'm studying Elvish so it'd be nice to have that mastered and maybe Klingon amd Wookie since you CAN learn those too!
Realistically, though, Spanish would be handy, French would be nice. I'd love Chinese/Japanese and Russian because they're such difficult languages and a wonderful braggin right to possess!!!
Also Latin and Greek! Such old languages would be fun!
"The Ring is Mine!" ~ Frodo Baggins
It is our fight!~ Tauriel
I fear neither death nor pain! ~Eowyn
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Meneldor
Valinor
Nov 3 2014, 2:32am
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They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep. -Psalm 107
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MechaGodzilla
Rivendell
Nov 11 2014, 2:43am
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Part of it is I enjoy a lot of Russian cinema, and Andrei Tarkovsky is one of my heroes, so it'd be fun to understand the language.
After that it'd be Finnish (because I'm 1/4 Finnish), German and Japanese.
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Foedhrass
The Shire
Nov 18 2014, 12:38am
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Just one? Do extinct languages count, too? Then my choice would be Etruscan.
Otherwise probably Basque. Or Gaelic. Or....
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