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Ex-Languages: reasons for divorce? | ||
Tags: Discouragement from learning | Burn-out | ||
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| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6868 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 57 of 75 22 March 2011 at 8:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I thought it was helpful. :-P
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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5967 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 58 of 75 22 March 2011 at 8:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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I try not to use the relationship metaphor for my languages because I do so much of my study online.
Does that make sense? Sure it does. I really don't ever want to get myself into a situation in which I meet the real thing for the first time, and then have to retreat, slowly, awkwardly, and mumbling: "sorry, but you, uh, well . . . you just looked so much better on the Internet . . . " (but in all fairness, the language might say that to me, too!) Edited by meramarina on 22 March 2011 at 8:18pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5693 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 59 of 75 23 March 2011 at 12:52am | IP Logged | ||
And so it was, indeed. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5100 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 60 of 75 23 March 2011 at 5:15pm | IP Logged | ||
My relationship wasn't as much of a failed romance as involutary enslavement so I can't really relate. I'm not trying to insult you, but shouldn't you thoroughly investigate your target language before you decide to spend so much time an effort on it? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6868 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 61 of 75 23 March 2011 at 5:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oh dearie me, ilperugino, what language hurt you so badly? Or are we talking hypotheticals?
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| ilperugino Pentaglot Groupie Portugal Joined 5174 days ago 56 posts - 75 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Mandarin | Message 62 of 75 23 March 2011 at 8:19pm | IP Logged | ||
Not insulted, but unless you´re a fantastic wizard of relations, you can´t really predict what is coming of a relationship, can you? (whatever the investigations you do) Edited by ilperugino on 23 March 2011 at 8:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ilperugino Pentaglot Groupie Portugal Joined 5174 days ago 56 posts - 75 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Mandarin | Message 63 of 75 23 March 2011 at 8:21pm | IP Logged | ||
Russian did the thing Journeyer, and it was mentioned some pages ago. But no hardfeelings, and we are even talking about a just-friends relationship, by phone. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6868 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 64 of 75 24 March 2011 at 12:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Off ilperugino, I can see how someone would be ecstatic about learning a language, only to find that your interests change over time, and you want to move on, but you've invested so much work in it that you don't want to just cut it out of your life. That's my experience with Esperanto, although I certainly would not call what I have just linguistic sand. I'm just not nearly as good as part of me still wants to be, but the rest of me isn't as interested.
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