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Which One Language Would You Choose And Why?

Okay, I've decided. It's going to be Japanese, unless I choose some other language at the last moment at the Rosetta Stone website. (You know, if my mouse gets possessed by an unknown presence . . . :eek:.) I think if I had a past life in Japan, it was probably a nice quiet one. :) Don't let my final decision dampen the conversation here, though. It's interesting to read the choices of others and why those choices were made, past life or otherwise.
 
Signed up for Japanese and my lessons will go on until 2099. No joke! That's how long a lifetime subscription lasts. Too bad I'm going to be long gone from this lifetime by 2099. :p By the way, glia21,one reason I decided against British English was because the accents of the instructors weren't posh enough. I wanted to sound like some blue blood on a PBS television program. ;)
 
I would love to speak, think and dream in As Gaeilge. I wish I was fluent in it. Unfortunately languages are a weak point for me and I found the teaching of them at school to be lacking back then.

I guess in the grand scheme of things the marginalisation of a language doesn't matter. No language is lost to history thanks to reincarnation.
 
Signed up for Japanese and my lessons will go on until 2099. No joke! That's how long a lifetime subscription lasts. Too bad I'm going to be long gone from this lifetime by 2099. :p By the way, glia21,one reason I decided against British English was because the accents of the instructors weren't posh enough. I wanted to sound like some blue blood on a PBS television program. ;)

:D alright.. too bad you didn´t choose brit english. I´ve got friends from GB - she´s originally from Scotland/Edinburgh (great place to visit!) and he is from the Manchester area. Had a hard time to understand him at all. Totally different language :p. No really, took me some time to get into the flow. :cool:

But japanese will be great too, you have lots of time to learn it. Tell me how it is going!

I had latin for 6 years at school -- there are only a few who can actually speak latin since it´s more about translating old Ovid lines and such.

Here´s what I know:
Glia in silvam cantat. Cave canem. Veni vidi vici. Alea iacta est. Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube ;).
 
I would love to speak, think and dream in As Gaeilge. I wish I was fluent in it. Unfortunately languages are a weak point for me and I found the teaching of them at school to be lacking back then.

I guess in the grand scheme of things the marginalisation of a language doesn't matter. No language is lost to history thanks to reincarnation.

Jim78, Rosetta Stone has Irish, but after listening to some lessons, I didn't even dare think about taking that. It's like Welsh. My chances of enunciating either is zilch. Do you think you had a past life in Ireland.
 
:D alright.. too bad you didn´t choose brit english. I´ve got friends from GB - she´s originally from Scotland/Edinburgh (great place to visit!) and he is from the Manchester area. Had a hard time to understand him at all. Totally different language :p. No really, took me some time to get into the flow. :cool:

But japanese will be great too, you have lots of time to learn it. Tell me how it is going!

I had latin for 6 years at school -- there are only a few who can actually speak latin since it´s more about translating old Ovid lines and such.

Here´s what I know:
Glia in silvam cantat. Cave canem. Veni vidi vici. Alea iacta est. Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube ;).

I should have taken British English. Japanese is not going well. It's not that hard to enunciate the words, but I just can't stay interested in the lessons. I dislike repetition, and like going forward in life with new ideas and thoughts. Japanese is of course new to me, but learning a language is like learning to talk all over again, like a child has to do. I fear this lifetime Rosetta Stone is going to be wasted on me. :(

Six years of Latin! Impressive. The only people I knew who took Latin in school did so because they thought they would need it to get into a certain college or college program.

According to an online translation, you said: "glia in the forest sings. Beware of the dog. I came, I saw, I conquered. The die is cast. Others wage, happy Austria, marry".

That is as confusing in English as it is in Latin! o_O
 
:D alright.. too bad you didn´t choose brit english. I´ve got friends from GB - she´s originally from Scotland/Edinburgh (great place to visit!) and he is from the Manchester area. Had a hard time to understand him at all. Totally different language :p. No really, took me some time to get into the flow. :cool:

But japanese will be great too, you have lots of time to learn it. Tell me how it is going!

I had latin for 6 years at school -- there are only a few who can actually speak latin since it´s more about translating old Ovid lines and such.

Here´s what I know:
Glia in silvam cantat. Cave canem. Veni vidi vici. Alea iacta est. Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube ;).

Glia in silva cantat. Cave canem. Veni vidi vici. Alea iacta est. Bella gerunt alii, tu felix Austria nube...
 
Glia in silva cantat. Cave canem. Veni vidi vici. Alea iacta est. Bella gerunt alii, tu felix Austria nube...

See, six years of latin wasted on me. I didnt choose it, it was obligatory at my type of school which I attended because my brother did too.
Gerunt is probably right, i'm not sure about silva/m -- since its the accusativ (rosa rosae rosae rosam rosa ... and so on). :)
 
I should have taken British English. Japanese is not going well. It's not that hard to enunciate the words, but I just can't stay interested in the lessons. I dislike repetition, and like going forward in life with new ideas and thoughts. Japanese is of course new to me, but learning a language is like learning to talk all over again, like a child has to do. I fear this lifetime Rosetta Stone is going to be wasted on me. :(

Six years of Latin! Impressive. The only people I knew who took Latin in school did so because they thought they would need it to get into a certain college or college program.

According to an online translation, you said: "glia in the forest sings. Beware of the dog. I came, I saw, I conquered. The die is cast. Others wage, happy Austria, marry".

That is as confusing in English as it is in Latin! o_O

I would like to encourage you to stick to japanese a little longer, i'm sure its most difficult to learn but like any language - as soon as you know the basics it ll be easier ... you had good reason you chose it :) i'd try the enunciation and such while doing dishes or cleaning something or driving if possible.
Ha! Latin -- i needed it to study psychology but 2 years would have been enough to do so. As I said it was obligatory at my school. Unfortunately. :)
 
See, six years of latin wasted on me. I didnt choose it, it was obligatory at my type of school which I attended because my brother did too.
Gerunt is probably right, i'm not sure about silva/m -- since its the accusativ (rosa rosae rosae rosam rosa ... and so on). :)

Don't you worry, Glia21, it's very easy to make mistakes in a language that you never use in your life.

I understand your mother tongue is German, so I'll put it directly:

in silva = im Wald, in einem Wald (in a forest) - Dativ in German, Ablativus in Latin
in silvam = in den Wald, in einen Wald (into a forest) - Akkusativ in German and in Latin

Glia21 in silva cantat = Glia21 singt im Wald/in einem Wald (Glia21 sings in a forest)

We also take into account, that whereas in German and English the normal order of words requires the verb to be in the 2nd place, in Latin it should be at the end.

Here you can find the conjugation of "gerere":

https://latin.cactus2000.de/showverb.en.php?verb=gerere

Good luck !
 
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For me it would be Latin.
I don’t know why, currently I can’t speak a word of it but I feel a strong connection so definitely want to learn it.
That is fascinating to read! I have an interest for Latin aswell, that I learned at school. I find it wonderfully interesting to understand the origins of our European languages (I have a passion for etymology).

If you want to learn more about what Latin sounded like, I strongly recommend to watch the video named "What Latin sounded like" from a linguist on Youtube. I sadly can't find the link now, but I strongly recommend his super interesting channel.
 
That is fascinating to read! I have an interest for Latin aswell, that I learned at school. I find it wonderfully interesting to understand the origins of our European languages (I have a passion for etymology).

If you want to learn more about what Latin sounded like, I strongly recommend to watch the video named "What Latin sounded like" from a linguist on Youtube. I sadly can't find the link now, but I strongly recommend his super interesting channel.

Wow thank you I will certainly have a look for that.
 
Hi SundayAtDuskReturns.

I have had three past lives in Ireland that I know of.

I am also Irish in my current life. I did Irish for thirteen years at school so I'm not unfamiliar with the language. Also official documents are in both English and Irish, road signs are in English and Irish as are things like toilet signs at times and such.

Yet when I was a kid languages that weren't English were a hated subject for me. I'd no interest in learning them. I never really paid much attention in those classes. Besides, the way it was taught never felt engaging to me. They should have had us conversing in the languages instead of sitting around listening to the teacher drone on about them.

Its a regret for me now though. I can generally get the jist of spoken Irish if they speak slowly and clearly ( although not Donegal Irish because of the accent ) and I have an Irish vocablury of a small native speaking child but I'd love to be able to converse in it as I do English.
 
I would like to encourage you to stick to japanese a little longer, i'm sure its most difficult to learn but like any language - as soon as you know the basics it ll be easier ... you had good reason you chose it :) i'd try the enunciation and such while doing dishes or cleaning something or driving if possible.
Ha! Latin -- i needed it to study psychology but 2 years would have been enough to do so. As I said it was obligatory at my school. Unfortunately. :)

Well, I haven't given it up. I just haven't been back lately to try another lesson. As I said, I dislike repetition. And when my mind is free to think of whatever I want, like when doing the dishes and cleaning, I like to think of ideas . . . and daydream! :) While it's easy to daydream about a foreign country, it's hard to daydream about a foreign language.;)
 
Hi SundayAtDuskReturns.

I have had three past lives in Ireland that I know of.

I am also Irish in my current life. I did Irish for thirteen years at school so I'm not unfamiliar with the language. Also official documents are in both English and Irish, road signs are in English and Irish as are things like toilet signs at times and such.

Yet when I was a kid languages that weren't English were a hated subject for me. I'd no interest in learning them. I never really paid much attention in those classes. Besides, the way it was taught never felt engaging to me. They should have had us conversing in the languages instead of sitting around listening to the teacher drone on about them.

Its a regret for me now though. I can generally get the jist of spoken Irish if they speak slowly and clearly ( although not Donegal Irish because of the accent ) and I have an Irish vocablury of a small native speaking child but I'd love to be able to converse in it as I do English.

Jim78, this is interesting. Okay, do you think you chose all your Irish lifetimes? And do you want to come back Irish in your next lifetime?
 
Yea SundayAtDuskReturns. Most Irish people have a similar relationship with their native language.

I don't know if I choose to be Irish but my soul seems to be linked in some way to Irish unity. Here is a topic S&S wrote on such occurances in reincarnation:

http://reincarnationforum.com/threads/super-soul-groups.7492/

It also seems to me that being Irish in my current life means I had an altered perspective on 'heroism'. I've had those walls torn down for me.

While its true I'm used to being Irish it doesn't really matter to me if I'm Irish again. I've been other nationalities too in my past lives.

I have a feeling though, that I don't need to incarnate as Irish again. My soul work here seems to be done.

I hope this clarifies things for you.
 
Thanks for the explanation, Jim78. I haven't read or heard that much about those who believe they incarnate back into the same ethnic group every lifetime, or many lifetimes, and wondered if doing so was "good" or "bad" or "neutral". One time when I read about it, I firmly felt the person who claimed he kept incarnating into the same ethnic/religious group was simply prejudice against other groups.
 
Greetings Everybody!

If I could choose to learn and use just one language it would be Old Norse because I am really interested in, I really know a whole lot about, and most of all...I really love the Vikings! PS: I also really want to learn and use Old Norse one day because I am going to become a Viking/Norse Living Historian/Historical Reenactor one day and hopefully one day become a historian/college professor that specializes in Old Norse/Viking/Early Medieval Scandinavian studies also. (Crosses fingers and knocks on wood!).

Peace! :) ;)
 
Greetings Everybody!

If I could choose to learn and use just one language it would be Old Norse because I am really interested in, I really know a whole lot about, and most of all...I really love the Vikings! PS: I also really want to learn and use Old Norse one day because I am going to become a Viking/Norse Living Historian/Historical Reenactor one day and hopefully one day become a historian/college professor that specializes in Old Norse/Viking/Early Medieval Scandinavian studies also. (Crosses fingers and knocks on wood!).

Peace! :) ;)
So wonderful to see how you use your past life memories as a positive tool to your future job :)

Best Wishes
Li La

P.S. I would like to learn Italian more ... (was Italian in a past life).
 
For me, Japanese.
I've been studying it since my sophomore high school year and am still not fluent and don't know if I'll ever be.
Well, then again, I've taken many years' hiatus from learning it but am just picking it back up again.

Anyway, I would love in my next life to be fluent in Japanese AND English. My most desirable scenario is to be a half-Black, half-Japanese girl with maybe Japanese being my first language and then English being my second? I dunno... but it's a fun idea for me to play with! :p
 
I am at work on learning French and if I could speak only one language, French is it. To my ears, it sounds so familiar. Inside, it resonates in a deep, powerful way.
-Grel
 
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