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Which one is a good second language to learn?

Chinese
5 (22.7%)
Arabic
3 (13.6%)
Russian
2 (9.1%)
Hebrew
12 (54.5%)

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Offline SavetheWest

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Re: Which is a good second language to learn?
« Reply #25 on: January 20, 2009, 12:59:54 AM »
Forest Nenets.  That way if an Obama regime decides to press charges against free speech against Obamunism, they have to legally find an interpreter which won't happen since there are 8 people who speak it. 

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Re: Which is a good second language to learn?
« Reply #26 on: January 20, 2009, 10:17:19 AM »
Yes, Arabic and Hebrew both stem from Aramaic. I don't know if it would be as similar as Italian to Spanish.. maybe more like Italian to French.

Hebrew preceded Aramaic. Adam used Hebrew to name the animals.
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Re: Which is a good second language to learn?
« Reply #27 on: January 20, 2009, 10:21:03 AM »
Yes, Arabic and Hebrew both stem from Aramaic. I don't know if it would be as similar as Italian to Spanish.. maybe more like Italian to French.

Hebrew preceded Aramaic. Adam used Hebrew to name the animals.

I thought the Torah and Talmud were written in Aramaic?

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Re: Which is a good second language to learn?
« Reply #28 on: January 20, 2009, 10:52:51 AM »
Yes, Arabic and Hebrew both stem from Aramaic. I don't know if it would be as similar as Italian to Spanish.. maybe more like Italian to French.

Hebrew preceded Aramaic. Adam used Hebrew to name the animals.

I thought the Torah and Talmud were written in Aramaic?

I think you have to differ between the language and the font at least in the case of the Torah.

Old Hebrew was written in the old-Hebrew font. Look here:

Todays Hebrew is a font that developed from the Aramaic.

I hope this is correct.

Talmud was written later so it could be written in Aramaic.
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