Comments on: Mission complete! Partial success – What will Benny’s next mission be?

By: Geoffrey

Geoffrey — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:35:57 +0000

Why not Estonian? Beautiful, vowel-rich language, musical culture like in Ireland, beautiful countryside, beautiful girls, polyglot culture and they have a statue of Oscar Wilde I love it there, perhaps you might too Benny.

By: Benny the Irish polyglot

Benny the Irish polyglot — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:45:17 +0000

Ive given the answer on my facebook page!! Check it out: here

By: Pak

Pak — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:39:54 +0000

Considering that budget is also a parameter, I think that we can rule out Scandinavia, Switzerland or Austria. Germany might be more affordable though, but I would not bet on German right now.
In light of the recent article about romance languages, I would say Romanian.

By: Rafaella

Rafaella — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:26:13 +0000

Parabens!!

Acompanho seu blog faz um tempo, pois estou aprendendo inglês e gostei muito do seu modo de aprender novos idiomas. Fiquei muito feliz em saber que você veio ao Brasil para aprender.

Aguardo ansiosamente suas próximas missões, mas acho que a melhor foi aprender o português..rsrsrs

Bjs,

Rafa

By: polyannar

polyannar — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:39:14 +0000

Benny!!!
Tô super feliz por vc querido!
Nos vemos em breve!
beijão, Poly

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:16:33 +0000

Since you suggested you were interested in chatting up girls in the new language, this time I'll guess at a Scandinavian languge – Somebody just said Swedish so I'll go for Norweigan.
If we get to have a 3rd guess than mine will be Bahasa Indonesia/Malaysia – supposed to be quite simple so could manage it in 2 months.
4th guess will be Romanian or Catalan.
There are too many options!

By: Balint

Balint — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:04:50 +0000

yeah I'd say hungarian too.

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:02:08 +0000

Maybe Romanian? Or Polish?

By: Gilles

Gilles — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:54:35 +0000

Sorry for double commenting but I also really like the suggestion of Hungarian, somebody gave before, or Finnish, OMG so many great languages!!

By: Gilles

Gilles — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:52:21 +0000

Great Job Benny, congrats on completing your mission. As for your next mission I don't know what it will be but IMO its about time you move away from Indo-european languages, I'm thinking, Thai, or perhaps Hebrew. LOL

By: Elthyra

Elthyra — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:30:45 +0000

Congratulations on your goal Even if it's only a partial success, it's already amazing! As for your next destination..hmm… somewhere in Scandinavia? Sweden maybe?

By: Benny the Irish polyglot

Benny the Irish polyglot — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:28:52 +0000

Great guesses so far everyone!! I can now reveal that I have not e-mailed anyone to confirm their correct language choice!! Nobody has gotten it yet
Those who already guessed can have another try! I'll e-mail you if you get the right answer. Otherwise, check out my facebook page on Saturday (or twitter shortly after). Time to pack my bags; I'm going to miss Brazil!!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:42:06 +0000

I'm going to have to take a wild and crazy stab in the dark and guess that your next language will be: Dutch! I assume that it will be something close to English since you will only be spending 2 months on this upcoming mission. I really hope I'm right!

By: NASTARAN

NASTARAN — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:44:46 +0000

hey,i think you can never learn some languages in 3 months.
i bet!
like my language:PERSIAN.

By: Scott Young

Scott Young — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:51:09 +0000

Fantastic Benny! Your an inspiration

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:43:44 +0000

Congratulations! I'm very much looking forward to finding out what the next language will be, and for some reason I'm thinking it is German…

By: Benny the Irish polyglot

Benny the Irish polyglot — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:49:56 +0000

Great comments so far! So I'm seeing a preference for German; Your logic is spot on (both of you) – you'll find out on Saturday if that “near future” is now
@Lorenzo – I'm intentionally not giving too many clues to keep people guessing
Any other guesses?

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:51:28 +0000

Hi Benny. Congratulations! Você está de parabéns! More importantly, I'm so happy that we share the same passion for the Portuguese language as well as the same interest in Brazil, which is also my favorite country. You've made excellent progress in the language in recent months, so now please keep it up, don't let it fade away with time, it would be such a pity! As for your mission, sorry for making such an obvious guess, but I suppose that one of the three languages you plan to take on over the next few months will be my own, i.e. Italian. Is that very far from the truth? And as far as the VERY NEXT language you're going to try your hand at, I guess it may be Greek. Totally wrong? Sorry but I'm not really good at guessing when there are so few clues available!

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:07:42 +0000

Congratulations on the Brazil mission! I'm glad that you were at least partially able to achieve your goal if not all the way. It's still amazing that you were able to perfect your accent enough that you fooled Brazilians, even for a short amount of time. Great job!

I'm going to agree with the last post and say you're going to learn German. I remember reading somewhere that you'd struggled with German in high school but that you were planning on fixing that problem in the near future. So you're going to be in either Germany, Austria, or Switzerland. I think Switzerland would give you too many opportunities to speak French or Italian. If I were you, I'd personally want to go to Austria. My parents have been to Vienna several times and say it's wonderful. It's definitely on my list of the top ten places I want to go to in Europe!

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:33:03 +0000

I predict German based on you saying that you wanted to go back to that language in the future and also that you are only giving yourself 2 months so it would need to probably be an Indo-European and familiar one.