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What new language other than English

Poll: What new language (16 member(s) have cast votes)

What language, other than English, would it be best to learn so one can read the bridge literature originals in that language. Either the originals are not available or their translations are not very good. Original literature could also be web content.

  1. Chinese (2 votes [6.45%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.45%

  2. Spanish (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  3. Hindi (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  4. Arabic (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  5. Portugese (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  6. Russian (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  7. Japanese (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  8. German (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  9. French (1 votes [3.23%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.23%

  10. Italian (7 votes [22.58%])

    Percentage of vote: 22.58%

  11. Turkish (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  12. Polish (12 votes [38.71%])

    Percentage of vote: 38.71%

  13. Dutch (5 votes [16.13%])

    Percentage of vote: 16.13%

  14. Greek (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  15. Swedish (2 votes [6.45%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.45%

  16. Bulgarian (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  17. Danish (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  18. Finnish (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  19. Norwegian (2 votes [6.45%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.45%

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#1 User is offline   qwery_hi 

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Posted 2011-February-08, 01:28

Feel free to suggest for the language(s) you select what you think are some of the best examples of bridge literature.
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Posted 2011-February-08, 07:06

I voted for Polish, but you might get more bang for your buck learning a Scandinavian language, because then you will be able to get by, more or less, with all of them.
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Posted 2011-February-08, 08:38

Polish seems obvious, as is Italian. I've not personally seen any myself, but I think there exists the possibility of some gems in Chinese somewhere.
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Posted 2011-February-08, 09:16

Hi

I am danish so I can read both norwegian and swedish as well.
There are a lot of interesting material in swedish but some of this is translated,
so it is possible to get a good flavour of it before you learn swedish.

What I would like is a comprehensive english treatment of SEF or to learn french overnight.
(Actualy there is a little danish book about SEF, so that comes as a bonus if you learn a scandinavian language).
Polish is obvious of course but a lot of the new polish stuff gets translated, so I will wait
a decade or two and see if not the translations get better before I learn polish.

Kristian
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