2004-10-23, 23:34 | Link #24 |
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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Well its easy to type chinese since we have online translators... like babel fish, i preffer SPEAK chinese. Anyways for those who didn't know, chinese is one of the most impostant language in the world:
The following list is from George Weber’s article “The World’s 10 Most Influential Languages” in Language Today: (number of native speakers in parentheses) Mandarin Chinese (1.2 billion) English (330 million) Spanish (300 million) Hindi/Urdu (250 million) Arabic (200 million) Bengali (185 million) Portuguese (160 million) Russian (160 million) Japanese (125 million) German (100 million) Punjabi (90 million) Javanese (80 million) French (75 million) However, in terms of secondary speakers, Weber submits the following list: (number of speakers in parentheses) French (190 million) English (150 million) Russian (125 million) Portuguese (28 million) Arabic (21 million) Spanish (20 million) Chinese (20 million) German (9 million) Japanese (8 million) Thus, if you add the secondary speaker populations to the primary speaker populations, you get the following (and I believe more accurate) list: (number of speakers in parentheses) Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billion) English (480 million) Spanish (320 million) Russian (285 million) French (265 million) Hindi/Urdu (250 million) Arabic (221 million) Portuguese (188 million) Bengali (185 million) Japanese (133 million) German (109 million) The following is a list of these languages in terms of the number of countries where each is spoken. The number that follows is the total number of countries that use that language (from Weber, 1997): English (115) French (35) Arabic (24) Spanish (20) Russian (16) German (9) Mandarin (5) Portuguese (5) Hindi/Urdu (2) Bengali (1) Japanese (1) ps. taken from some web page. |
2004-10-23, 23:57 | Link #26 | |
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gently (duo) force or hide your self saturday (jiao) call out or on your foot ? please use àáéêÍÎÏòôúÙû |
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2004-10-24, 00:06 | Link #27 | |
天使我爱你
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: With My Hime Natsuki-sama
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2004-10-24, 00:11 | Link #30 | |
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: World overloaded with fun
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???, you suck.
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Please go easy on me" (or literally "please-many-many-point-teach" ) |
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2004-10-24, 00:23 | Link #33 |
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Unknown Land
Age: 21
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Yes i do suck, so many languages on my head. beside i use a french keyboard, that's why i can put accent. I wonder how you peoples can type chinese or japanese on a board.
I wonder how yous keyboard looks like. Beside, my first language is spanish Second French third english and then chinese and japanese i try to teaching my self with books and video, just for fun ! |
2004-10-24, 00:29 | Link #34 | |
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2004-10-24, 00:29 | Link #35 | |
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2004-10-24, 00:30 | Link #36 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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I (Points to self) own all you fuckers! My new legit way of speaking is totally fucking cool, and you know it. Bitch, I took your ass out Shay. |
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