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| Wilco Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6332 days ago 160 posts - 247 votes  Speaks: French*, English, Russian | Message 1 of 29 21 February 2010 at 7:14am | IP Logged |
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..if you had no chance in the near future of visiting the country where it is spoken, or even interact with a native speaker?
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| ember Triglot Groupie CyprusRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5405 days ago 63 posts - 101 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, German Studies: Spanish, French, Greek, Polish | Message 2 of 29 21 February 2010 at 8:51am | IP Logged |
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I'm doing it (Finnish) ;)
I study it just because I like the way it sounds and because it is refreshingly different from the other languages I have been studying so far (all Indo-European) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6472 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 3 of 29 21 February 2010 at 9:17am | IP Logged |
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Yes. I did so for Esperanto (little knowing I'd find people to speak it with) and I also
started studying Swahili and Maori. I don't expect to use these languages in any way in the near future, though I'd love to of course. For me, what's important with these languages, and this is pretty much the same reason I started Esperanto, is to discover a different way of seeing the world. Another point is to become familiar with very different grammars in order to make my work as a computational linguist easier. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| nescafe Senior Member Japan Joined 5411 days ago 137 posts - 227 votes | Message 4 of 29 21 February 2010 at 10:27am | IP Logged |
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Yes, I am studying Mandarin as my main target language, but sometime listen to Spanish just for fun or refreshing mind, and also attemtping to learn Esperanto just for intellectual curiosty. To see how languages are different is realy interesting. I learned English for practical benefits, but thanks to this experience I came to love learning language itself. Edited by nescafe on 21 February 2010 at 10:31am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Katie Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6720 days ago 495 posts - 599 votes Speaks: English*, Hungarian Studies: French, German | Message 5 of 29 21 February 2010 at 11:39am | IP Logged |
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Learning a language "just because you like it" is fun!
I tried so many times to learn languages because they were 'practical' or would be useful... and I failed miserably. As soon as I began to choose languages that I am interested in (in the way they sound, in the culture, in the country), all of a sudden I can stick to my studies! Besides, don't you think it'd be interesting to see how far you could go on your own and one day test it out???? :) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6013 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 6 of 29 21 February 2010 at 12:40pm | IP Logged |
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"no chance"... no.
A very slight change is enough, because the way I see it, the more I learn of a language, the more likely I am to get on a plane to that country or to seek out someone to speak to! 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| John Smith Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6044 days ago 396 posts - 542 votes Speaks: English*, Czech*, Spanish Studies: German | Message 7 of 29 21 February 2010 at 1:16pm | IP Logged |
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Yes. I wouldn't try to become fluent though. I'd just learn enough to understand the way the language works. I love grammar :) Edited by John Smith on 21 February 2010 at 1:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6124 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 8 of 29 21 February 2010 at 1:31pm | IP Logged |
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Yes, ancient languages for the purpose of textual criticism.
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