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| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4850 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 1 of 11 08 August 2011 at 1:45am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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Hello everybody. I'm Peter (or Piotrek, the Polish equivalent), currently 21 years old (it's time to drink some vodka in the U.S.A.). My language passion has born somewhere around 2006, mostly because of foreign music and, largely, by Eurovision Song Contest (it's kinda funny how this, considered corny, competition can influence bunch of people in many ways). It's been regularly and rapidly growing and the effect is that now I cannot imagine my life without languages, job without using foreign languages, simply - the world without foreign languages. To point out my target languages clearly:
* English - learned since 1997, but due to being always something extra (not a school subject - this one was German) is not on the level as it should be - somewhere around B2. And now, when I'd love to have extra English classes and to pass CAE exam (it's kinda annoying situation when there are people who have FCE or even CAE and are not much better than me or even worse! But the had just enough money to have private lessons preparing to exams...), but my budget protests... * German - as a school subject it should've been now close to perfection. But the truth is that since junior-high I've learned just for grades - learning by heart and forgetting quickly. And the approach of teachers haven't helped as well. The result - at the moment I cannot even say that it's entirely A2. Want to come back to this language, just don't know when and how... * Latin - learned for three years during high school, only basics remembered ;) But definitely helps with... * Italian - my 2nd language at my first faculty * Bulgarian - accidentally a bit, I'm finish the first year of Bulgarian philology ;) * Macedonian - 1 year of the lecture + almost a month in Macedonia due to seminar of Macedonian language. And the funny thing is that I prefer Macedonian. Maybe because It's closer to... * Croatian - that's what I can call yugo-nostalgy. I really wanted to get to the Croatian philology, but unfortunately it has ended "only" with Bulgarian. Unfortunately there is no open lecture of Croatian at my Uni, how it is with... * Slovene - the first language i wanted to learn after English * Dutch - on again, off again. My first attempt was in 2009 and since then from time to time I'm trying to do sth. I can say that I know somewhere around 200-300 words... but that's all. * Portuguese - there was a free course, so I said: "why not to enroll?" But I cannot even say that I know basics. * Slovak - started very recently - just 2 weeks ago, encouraged by "Krizom krazom" - the most friendly language coursebook I've ever seen! Besides, it's not difficult for a Polish native speaker * Ukrainian - I guess It's a mix of affection and kind of shame that I'm not bilingual - I was born very close to the Ukrainian border. Last week I had my (absolutely accidental!) Ukrainian lessons and I hope to fish out as much as i can. From time to time I also read the news at Radio Svoboda * Persian - I'm very careful with writing about it, but I've enrolled myself for the Iranian philogy. It's very riskful to take the third facculty, nevertheless, If things turn out well, 1.10.2011 will be my beginning of adventure with Farsi and Dari. I know that my plan is very challenging. Some people consider me as a little bit crazy and freak in this case. But what would be our life without achieving our goals? I know that my main problem is a toxic mixture of laziness, lack of motivation (sometimes), disbelief in myself and getting stressed too often ("Oh God, I know too little, I've learned too little, I should be better in this and that" etc.) P.S. All comments are appreciated :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5057 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish | Message 2 of 11 08 August 2011 at 2:12am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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Welcome to HTLAL and good luck with any and all language learning! You certainly seem to enjoy languages and I
wish you the best with them. Anyway, I'm curious by what you mean when you mentioned that some of your target languages are 'accidental'. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4850 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 3 of 11 08 August 2011 at 3:13am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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Well, Bulgarian was not my goal, my goal was Croatian, but unfortunately due to lack of points i got "only" to Bulgarian philology
And with Ukrainian, fortuity consist in the fact of incidental meeting of Ukrainian woman living in Poland, who wanted to give me some lessons for few weeks. Very nice of her, anyway. By the way, I can see that you're a native speaker of Bulgarian, I hope you wouldn't mind If I'll get in on this fact ot vreme na vreme? P.S. Enjoying is "a little to little" ;-) Though there always must be the first step. P.S. I've finshed, not I'm finish, of course. Too late, too late... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5057 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish | Message 4 of 11 08 August 2011 at 4:30am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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Awesome, I'd be glad to help you any time :)
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| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6096 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 5 of 11 08 August 2011 at 9:44am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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Witaj Piotrek, jesteś bardzo dzielny!
I agree, music is a great way to aquire and maintain interest in languages. One of my favourite Polish artists is Ryszard Ryncowski (ok, I know it's 'old-style' music!). What are you planning to do after University? Powodzenia! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5000 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 6 of 11 08 August 2011 at 5:14pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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Welcome Peter,
your language list is a really interesting one, the more as it consist mostly of less popular languages (that is a true sign of a language lover). Hopefully you'll find these forums both useful and fun but be careful to not spend too much time here (an advice from a slight forum addict:-) ) Welcome. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6774 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 7 of 11 08 August 2011 at 6:00pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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Pretty good, man. I see you're taking a breadth first approach. Reminds me of this blog
where a guy was gonna check out 37 (or something) languages to decide which one of them he really wanted to learn. That's dedication. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4850 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 8 of 11 12 August 2011 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
Dziękuję, acz nie jestem pewien, czy aby na pewno zasługuję na takie słowa :)
Don't worry. I like some of Polish oldies music too (ex. Anna Jantar).
And we head for to the merits of the case. I'm really afraid of my future. I still think about it how little I know, how much I have to/I must do and that the time goes by so rapidly. One thing I'm sure about - I cannot imagine myself in a job which is not connected with languages.
You're absolutely right. That's why recently I try not to spend even 12 hours (it's not a joke, unfortunately) like it used to happen before. Learning languages instead is much more useful :)
Haha, interesting case. To be honest, it's not my very first attempt, but now it's absolutely serious. I'm aware it won't be easy nad it requires the regular repitition - my Achilles' heel. Thanx for all of your comments :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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