RedRabbit Newbie United States Joined 5835 days ago 17 posts - 17 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 57 of 141 06 December 2008 at 10:21pm | IP Logged |
Spanish - I never really wanted to learn this language. I personally think Spanish sounds ugly, and although there is a large Latino population, most of them are fluent in English, and I've never found myself in a situation where I couldn't communicate to someone because they spoke Spanish and not English. However I had to take a foreign language and I was never able to get into German or French, so I ended up taking Spanish for 3 years. I'm still continuing to self study, mainly because I don't want 3 years of study to go to waste.
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maya_star17 Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5915 days ago 269 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English*, Russian*, French, Spanish Studies: Japanese
| Message 59 of 141 07 December 2008 at 9:30pm | IP Logged |
Alisa wrote:
Your passion is contagious. I see why you are on this site.
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Take it easy. Would you really want to learn a language that you found ugly and didn't really need?
Edited by maya_star17 on 08 December 2008 at 1:22am
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maya_star17 Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5915 days ago 269 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English*, Russian*, French, Spanish Studies: Japanese
| Message 61 of 141 08 December 2008 at 8:17am | IP Logged |
Point taken.
But for some people (i.e. myself, and appearantly RedRabbit), the sound of the language and its usefulness both have a say in how likely it is that I'll learn it.
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irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 6050 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese
| Message 62 of 141 09 December 2008 at 2:15am | IP Logged |
I didn't choose Mandarin....it chose ME :)
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tryllid Groupie United States Joined 6053 days ago 58 posts - 60 votes Studies: Japanese
| Message 63 of 141 09 December 2008 at 7:42am | IP Logged |
My language today is Japanese.
I chose it because I wanted to watch anime / Samarai movies in the original language. I am still going because I am fascinated by the visual nature of the language and I am beginning to love the culture.
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Oleg Triglot Groupie Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5829 days ago 57 posts - 95 votes Speaks: Russian*, Polish, English Studies: Spanish, French, Italian
| Message 64 of 141 10 December 2008 at 3:55am | IP Logged |
I don't have to explain why I learn English. And as for Spanish... It's just very rich and diverse, in contrast to English, for instance.
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