CaitO'Ceallaigh Triglot Senior Member United States katiekelly.wordpress Joined 6860 days ago 795 posts - 829 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Russian Studies: Czech, German
| Message 1 of 18 30 June 2006 at 9:53am | IP Logged |
We are autodidacts!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodidacticism
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Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6871 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language
| Message 2 of 18 30 June 2006 at 11:22am | IP Logged |
And proud of it, too. :-)
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patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7018 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map
| Message 3 of 18 30 June 2006 at 11:41am | IP Logged |
Journeyer wrote:
And proud of it, too. :-) |
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Too right!
Edited by patuco on 30 June 2006 at 4:06pm
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Sir Nigel Senior Member United States Joined 7107 days ago 1126 posts - 1102 votes 2 sounds
| Message 4 of 18 30 June 2006 at 12:40pm | IP Logged |
If you're asked "Why aren't you joining a language class?" You could simply say "I have Autodidacticism" and see if they understand you!
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CaitO'Ceallaigh Triglot Senior Member United States katiekelly.wordpress Joined 6860 days ago 795 posts - 829 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Russian Studies: Czech, German
| Message 5 of 18 30 June 2006 at 12:48pm | IP Logged |
I haven't even figured out how to say it yet, but I'll try it. It's probably the best ism to have.
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Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6871 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language
| Message 6 of 18 30 June 2006 at 1:55pm | IP Logged |
Sir Nigel wrote:
If you're asked "Why aren't you joining a language class?" You could simply say "I have Autodidacticism" and see if they understand you! |
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Damn I love that! They'll probably think it's like ADD though or something that prevents us from learning in school. It can be a "how-to-learn-any-language.com" inside joke. :-P
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patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7018 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map
| Message 7 of 18 30 June 2006 at 4:08pm | IP Logged |
Journeyer wrote:
They'll probably think it's like ADD though or something that prevents us from learning in school. |
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And when they realise that we can speak languages better than they can, they'll all want to have it!
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Alfonso Octoglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 6864 days ago 511 posts - 536 votes Speaks: Biblical Hebrew, Spanish*, French, English, Tzotzil, Italian, Portuguese, Ancient Greek Studies: Nahuatl, Tzeltal, German
| Message 8 of 18 03 July 2006 at 12:26am | IP Logged |
Autodidacticism! That's why I'm afraid to join an English course (or French, Italian, German, Portuguese or Hebrew) to improve my skills in these languages. I think I would waste my time and money (even though having a teacher assistence in person is always very helpful). In fact I'm sometimes so busy and my schedule is so irregular that I think it wouldn't work for me.
So I prefer to learn myself. I've come to the conclusion that if I have access to internet, I have everything to learn many languages myself.
Edited by Alfonso on 03 July 2006 at 12:27am
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