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| glidefloss Senior Member United States Joined 5959 days ago 138 posts - 154 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 1 of 15 11 July 2014 at 8:06am | IP Logged |
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Best job for learning? I'm thinking more along the lines of a job that offers a lot of free time, or good listening time,
but another type of job might fit too. I deliver pizza, and can get about 3 hours of listening done in an 8 hour shift. I usually know where I'm going on a delivery, so I can often concentrate on what I'm listening to. This time is helping me with L-R, since I L-R a few chapters before work, and then relisten to them while driving. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4524 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 2 of 15 11 July 2014 at 8:53am | IP Logged |
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I reckon working at a bar would give you a massive boost, but you'd probably have to be B2 to cope.
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| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5382 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 3 of 15 11 July 2014 at 9:21am | IP Logged |
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Night Audit at a hotel and many other graveyard shift jobs.
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| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5366 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 4 of 15 11 July 2014 at 2:06pm | IP Logged |
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My wife has a cousin that works the night shift at a toll booth. He basically sits there in his booth for eight hours watching TV on his computer or reading. Only a few times an hour does he need to stick his hand out the window to collect a toll.
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| glidefloss Senior Member United States Joined 5959 days ago 138 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 5 of 15 11 July 2014 at 7:53pm | IP Logged |
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Does he use the time to learn something?
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| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5590 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 6 of 15 11 July 2014 at 10:12pm | IP Logged |
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While I deliver newspapers, I always listen to audiobooks the whole time.
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| glidefloss Senior Member United States Joined 5959 days ago 138 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 7 of 15 11 July 2014 at 10:32pm | IP Logged |
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Does that help your fluency a lot?
I'm getting into a good groove now studying Spanish. I do some before work. Then I do 3 hours spaced out during work. Then I come home and do a little more. And then I listen to something while I'm falling asleep. Listening all day has been much more helpful for me than what I was doing before, just doing all the studying during one time. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4038 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 8 of 15 02 August 2014 at 1:20am | IP Logged |
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Now I'm much more serious by the way.
You want so much to learn languages that you accept to do any job that can give you more time for this, even if this is not your passion. But it turns out that we should love our work, because it's something we do for an incredible amount of hours. I'm glad I love mine, because I will have to do it for at least 35 years, let's say 72.000 hours!!! I made my passion (computer science) my work. It costed a lot of strain and study. If foreign languages are your passion you should make it your work. (Unless this is already what you're trying to do it with your plan, in that case, well done bro!) Edited by tristano on 04 August 2014 at 5:52pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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