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Poll: If you could instantly speak any language fluently, which would it be? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "If you could instantly speak any language fluently, which would it be?".
This poll was originally submitted by Iulia Parvu. View the poll results »
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Baran Keki 
Türkiye
Local time: 12:47
Member
English to Turkish
I don't much care for the speaking part, but I'd have liked to be able to translate from Swedish or Norwegian so I could make more money.
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It would be 3 languages: Dutch, German and Arabic...
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Zea_Mays
Italy
Local time: 11:47
Member (2009)
English to German
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I've always loved listening to this language, it's a very sensory/sensual thing. I can read it, but I would like to be able to use it actively in writing and speaking. It would be my third native language.
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 11:47
Spanish to English
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I voted for Mandarin Chinese, as it seems to be on the up and up in the world today. I already have a degree in Russian, but I've never been a fluent speaker, although I can do a convincing accent.
My second and third choices would be Hindi and Urdu.
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:47
Member (2008)
Italian to English
ProZ.com Staff wrote: This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "If you could instantly speak any language fluently, which would it be?". This poll was originally submitted by Iulia Parvu. View the poll results »
Arabic, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian.
And then others.
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Just to see 😂😂
PS Why isn't English on the list?
[Edited at 2024-02-23 09:22 GMT]
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Iulia Parvu
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:47
Member (2022)
English to Romanian
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Christopher Schröder wrote:
Just to see 😂😂
PS Why isn't English on the list?
[Edited at 2024-02-23 09:22 GMT]
Because if it were, they wouldn't have been able to read the question anyway 🤭
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Sebastian Witte
Germany
Local time: 11:47
Member (2004)
English to German
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It's a beautiful language, like French.
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expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 10:47
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
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Aramaic, Hebrew, Basque, Greek and Coptic Egyptian.
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Would be nice to be able to communicate better with the majority of humankind.
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Baran Keki
Türkiye
Local time: 12:47
Member
English to Turkish
Sebastian Witte wrote:
It's a beautiful language, like French.
I think you need to have your hearing checked.
I've always found German a beautiful language, though I must say that my impression was mostly informed by the German dubbed erotic movies I watched (or tried to watch) on RTL+ when I was very young in the early 90s... Those nasty movies from the 70s tend to have long lasting effects (I wish my parents had exercised more control), but sadly they didn't translate into my making the effort to learn the language...
[Edited at 2024-02-23 10:28 GMT]
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Alex Lichanow
Germany
Local time: 11:47
Member (2020)
English to German
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Baran Keki wrote: Sebastian Witte wrote:
It's a beautiful language, like French. I think you need to have your hearing checked. I've always found German a beautiful language, though I must say that my impression was mostly informed by the German dubbed erotic movies I watched (or tried to watched) on RTL+ when I was very young in the early 90s... Those nasty movies from the 70s tend to have long lasting effects (I wish my parents had exercised more control), but sadly they didn't translate into my making the effort to learn the language...
From what I hear nowadays, many if not most people's first contact with actual spoken (well, sung) German is Rammstein, which, let's be honest, is not exactly the most flattering representation of the language of the poets and thinkers.
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Baran Keki
Türkiye
Local time: 12:47
Member
English to Turkish
| Hell with Rammstein | Feb 23 |
Alex Lichanow wrote:
From what I hear nowadays, many if not most people's first contact with actual spoken (well, sung) German is Rammstein
My first introduction to sung German was this song, and it's still a kick-ass song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGXeJS8jIeM
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Baran Keki wrote:
I don't much care for the speaking part, but I'd have liked to be able to translate from Swedish or Norwegian so I could make more money.
Coincidentally same here, adding Danish, and in my case not only for money (not sure if into Italian there is much work)
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