Would you like to learn every language in the world?

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Would you like to learn every language in the world?
 
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I've considered learning several, but every might be a bit much, specially since there are several dialects that are specific to a small group of people.

I have an interest in history, so I've thought about learning languages such as Hebrew, Arabic, Hindi, or Chinese...
 
Yes, every one, all i have is a little Greek.
 
No, I'd rather we all put together one language.
 
Dremmer said:
Would you like to learn every language in the world?
Yes. It'll take a while though.
 
Would you like to learn every language in the world?
Yes. but I won't have the time/memory to do so. I'd learn/do/write something good to share and rely on translators.
 
wolram said:
Yes, every one, all i have is a little Greek.
I understand every language in the world except Greek.
 
mayhaps find a babel fish.
 
Jimmy Snyder said:
I understand every language in the world except Greek.
It looks Greek to me. :-p
 
I'm fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon. - Weird Al

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If you learn Votic, you can give the 20-odd remaining native speakers someone new to talk to.

But it's too late for Livonian. The last native speaker died in 2009.

The Estonian composer Veljo Tormis wrote a cycle of choral songs using various Balto-Finnic languages: Livonian, Votic, Izhorian, Ingrian, Vepsian and Karelian, based on research including interviews with surviving native speakers. Tormis wrote in the booklet accompanying a 2-CD set (Forgotten Peoples) in 1992, "I still get a Christmas card every year in Livonian, but for how much longer?"
 
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i would not like to learn every language. i would like to magically know every language, but frankly I'm having a hard enough time learning biological terms.
 
Jimmy Snyder said:
I understand every language in the world except Greek.
See? It's all Greek to me, which is why I have problems with non-Maine English.
 
Proton Soup said:
i would not like to learn every language. i would like to magically know every language, but frankly I'm having a hard enough time learning biological terms.
You're having trouble learning your native language. :-p
 
If I were to be paralyzed, I suppose I would spend time learning more languages, but I can't imagine the time input required to learn every language, sort of like not being able to fathom the mass of a galaxy.

First two on my list (after paralysis): Scots Gaelic and Japanese. No reason other than I like the way they sound (I love Kurosawa films).
 
FtlIsAwesome said:
You're having trouble learning your native language. :-p

if only my "native" language were but one