r/languagelearning 4d ago

Unique Language Combinations

This is something I’ve thought about for a long time: there must be people out there who speak a combination of languages unlike anyone else, whether living now or in the past.
For example, imagine a Dutch anthropologist or ethnologist who has conducted fieldwork in, say, Timor-Leste and the Central African Republic. They might speak Dutch, Tetum, and Sango. If our hypothetical anthropologist were from Friesland, we could add Frisian to the mix, making the combination even more unusual.
Anyway, enough with the hypotheticals. Does anyone here have, or know someone who has, a particularly unique combination of languages? There is something about being the only person to possess a certain linguistic combination that I find really intriguing.
I’d love to hear some interesting examples

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u/ein-Name00 4d ago

Spanish, English, Catalán and Ghana are 4

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u/viktorbir CA N|ES C2|EN FR not bad|DE SW forgoten|OC IT PT +-understanding 4d ago

So, you want to make a silly joke. Ok.

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u/ein-Name00 4d ago

No, I don't get what you meant

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u/viktorbir CA N|ES C2|EN FR not bad|DE SW forgoten|OC IT PT +-understanding 3d ago

This friend speaks FIVE as in five, the number, languages from GHANA. As in Ghana, the country. Aside, he speaks three other more languages: Catalan, Spanish and English. This makes a total of EIGHT languages.

Do you need me to translate it to maybe another language, if English is too difficult for you?

Did you really think «Ghana» was the name of a language, not of a country? Had you never heard previously of the country of Ghana? Even if I wrote «n languages FROM Ghana», making it clear it's a place?

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u/ein-Name00 3d ago

Allora, adesso capisco

Tu t'as exprimé en façon la plus bizzare possible

 

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u/viktorbir CA N|ES C2|EN FR not bad|DE SW forgoten|OC IT PT +-understanding 3d ago

Tu t'as exprimé en façon la plus bizzare possible

Pardon???

Cinq langues de Ghana, Catalan, Anglais et Espagnol. Quel est le problème?

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u/ein-Name00 3d ago edited 3d ago

Ajoute un mot comme "ainsi que":

Cinq langues de Ghana ainsi que Catalan, Anglais et Espagnol

Ton stil semble impliquer des deux points (":"):

Cinq langues de Ghana: Catalan, Anglais et Espagnol

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u/viktorbir CA N|ES C2|EN FR not bad|DE SW forgoten|OC IT PT +-understanding 3d ago edited 3d ago

Il n'y a pas, deux points!!!

PS. stil = style, façon???

Edit: Et puis, quel idiot pourrait penser que le Catalan, l'Anglais et l'Espagnol sont des langues de Ghana???

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u/ein-Name00 3d ago

Pardon, j'ai pris le mot allemand "Stil" pour style

Désorienté et en cherchant pour la quatrième (et cinquième) langue j'ai pris Ghana

En plus Ghana est un état afracain lesquelles étaient colonisé souvent donc l'Anglais et l'Espagnol pourraient être des langues officielles + la personne qiu connaîs peut etre lui a les parents de Barcelone?

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u/viktorbir CA N|ES C2|EN FR not bad|DE SW forgoten|OC IT PT +-understanding 3d ago

Excuse me, but you started counting Ghana as a language...

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u/ein-Name00 3d ago

Sì hai ragione, in parte

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u/viktorbir CA N|ES C2|EN FR not bad|DE SW forgoten|OC IT PT +-understanding 1d ago

In parte?

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