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| elvisrules Tetraglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5471 days ago 286 posts - 390 votes  Speaks: French, English*, Dutch, Flemish Studies: Lowland Scots, Japanese, German | Message 9 of 71 17 January 2010 at 11:51am | IP Logged | |||||
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I feel kind of old and unaccomplished now :(... (I'm 20) Edited by elvisrules on 17 January 2010 at 11:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| yawn Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5428 days ago 141 posts - 209 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, FrenchC2, SpanishC2 Studies: GermanB1 | Message 10 of 71 17 January 2010 at 9:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
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To Halie: I had doubts that I was actually the youngest member of this forum. When it comes to superlatives, you can never be too sure... ;)
To Fasulye: Yay! Now I can help bridge the gender gap. You're pretty impressive yourself. Perhaps you could act as a mentor of sorts to me; I don't know any other girls besides myself, let alone girls who are my own age, who are as genuinely interested in learning languages as I am. I do help tutor people at my high school who are struggling in their Mandarin, French, or Spanish classes, but I'm pretty much alone in this endeavor. To elvisrules: From the looks of your profile, you're incredibly impressive for a 20 year old; don't put yourself down like that! Believe me when I say that employers will be FIGHTING over you when it comes time to get a job. Edited by yawn on 17 January 2010 at 9:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5849 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 71 17 January 2010 at 9:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yawn, this forum gives you the unique chance to experience that you are not alone with your language goals and enthousiasm. I can imagine that some average teenagers in your class have other interests like parties, discos, cinema and so on. I can tell you that the more languages you learn the more fascinating the hobby becomes, because you will see more and more similarites and differences between languages, rather than regarding each language in isolation.
You can watch me speaking my foreign languages on You Tube (www.youtube.com/user/fasulye2009), among a nice group of enthousiast polyglots I am the only female there, all the others are guys. This should give you some extra inspiration for your own language learning projects. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 17 January 2010 at 9:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| yawn Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5428 days ago 141 posts - 209 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, FrenchC2, SpanishC2 Studies: GermanB1 | Message 12 of 71 18 January 2010 at 2:02am | IP Logged | |||||
That's exactly right! That's also the reason why I end up not being able to relate well with some people in my grade whose interests are just as you described. I like to have fun too once in a while, but when a person isn't really interested in anything except parties and rarely cracks a book, I find it hard to become friends with said person. Again, thanks for the welcome! In the meantime, I will also check out your videos. :) Edited by yawn on 18 January 2010 at 2:47am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| yawn Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5428 days ago 141 posts - 209 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, FrenchC2, SpanishC2 Studies: GermanB1 | Message 13 of 71 18 January 2010 at 4:49am | IP Logged | |||||
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Something funny I noticed under the "Basic Guide" to learning languages on this website (separate from the forums): one of its recommendations as to how to retain a language included "marrying a foreign wife". Hmmmmm... this hints at a discrepancy between the number of males and females here.
Being one of the few members of this forum who possesses two X chromosomes, I hereby request that the aforementioned phrase be changed to "marrying a foreign spouse". ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6438 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 14 of 71 18 January 2010 at 7:25am | IP Logged | |||||
Haha.. I can so sympathise with you. I'm only 19, starting university this March. My high school classmates were all about clubbing and getting wasted in general. Not me, I'll sit quietly in my room with a German book. :) Even my collegemates-to-be seem to be entirely crazy about wasting their first year of university. :S... No fellow language learner so far.. Everyone seems to hate taking their foreign language requirements because they are scared of getting crappy grades. HONESTLY! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| yawn Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5428 days ago 141 posts - 209 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, FrenchC2, SpanishC2 Studies: GermanB1 | Message 15 of 71 18 January 2010 at 6:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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To Jiwon: That gets REALLY annoying after a while! Too bad I still have to put up with it for at least another year. One of the many reasons why I'm looking forward to the day when I can go to college... I just hope my future college friends will have reached a higher level of maturity, haha.
By the way, German is an awesome language! I'm actually planning to double major in German and French in college, with plans to attend law school afterwards. I hear that foreign language degrees provide a solid liberal arts foundation, and that such a foundation is in very high demand among law schools in particular. To all those language enthusiasts who are reading this right now, going to college and getting a degree in a foreign language before becoming trained as a lawyer isn't a bad idea. Just my $0.02... :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6438 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 16 of 71 18 January 2010 at 11:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
Mmm... My guess is that, you wouldn't find too many mature people in college as well. Everyone seems to associate "awesome" party lives with universities. Anyways, you won't find that many language enthusiasts, that's for sure. Yup yup, German is a really cool language. People say it sounds harsh and cutting, but for me it sounds so elegant and mystical. *HUGE GRIN* And I just love reading books in German. My long-term goal is to read Hamlet and Faust in German. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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