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| Wulfgar Senior Member United States Joined 4672 days ago 404 posts - 791 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 14 28 September 2012 at 7:55am | IP Logged | ||
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I have read many posts where people say they are mainly interested in the learning process. Personally, I don't hate
or love the learning process. My desire is to reach my goals in my languages, which have nothing to do with the learning process itself. How about you? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6583 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 2 of 14 28 September 2012 at 9:35am | IP Logged | ||
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I love the process. Some people learn languages in order to use them; I use them in order to learn them. I suspect that to be a successful polyglot one really needs to love the process of learning. I recall Arguelles has written something to that effect, too.
EDIT: Okay, not really NEEDS to, but I suspect it's a plus. And I suspect it becomes more important the more languages one acquires. Edited by Ari on 28 September 2012 at 9:36am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6152 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 3 of 14 28 September 2012 at 9:58am | IP Logged | ||
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I really enjoy the learning process, but goals are more important to me. With goals I can use a variety of techniques, courses and strategies, but the goal itself never changes.
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| Jenne:) Tetraglot Newbie Netherlands polyglotquest.wordpr Joined 4468 days ago 38 posts - 56 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French Studies: Norwegian | Message 4 of 14 28 September 2012 at 11:31am | IP Logged | ||
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As a very ambitious person, I think the goals are more important to me. While I like learning, I can easily get discouraged when a session does not go well, because it makes me think I will not reach my goal. I do love language learning because I am curious, but mostly because it results in improvement. Improvement is a goal, so I guess this means that achieving set goals is what I like most about language learning.
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5010 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 5 of 14 28 September 2012 at 12:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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I like the process but I need to see results. So, the goals are the priority. I need the
moments "I did it!" more than just the feeling of a nice learning session. But of course, some of the goals are of the kind "give this not too fun topic at least half an hour". :- ) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 6 of 14 28 September 2012 at 12:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't think about this, I set goals as and when I need them and they change. I just
think in terms of "this is the project" and during the process I'll notice if it's good and if not I'll f**k about with it. I think it's both and neither. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| arturs Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 5272 days ago 278 posts - 408 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian, English | Message 7 of 14 28 September 2012 at 2:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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It depends on the language. For some languages I really have set goals that I need to reach. For other languages I just enjoy the process without any stress. For example, I really pay attention how I progress in German and it is important that I reach certain level of fluency, etc., but with a language like Dutch I fill my spare time, when I don't need to learn German and I really don't stress about how fast I will or I will ever reach some kind of fluency.
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| Jenne:) Tetraglot Newbie Netherlands polyglotquest.wordpr Joined 4468 days ago 38 posts - 56 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French Studies: Norwegian | Message 8 of 14 28 September 2012 at 3:11pm | IP Logged | ||
That's a good point. What I said above actually only goes for languages I learn from scratch, such as Norwegian. I really want to achieve fluency as fast as possible, just because I want to know a language hardly anyone can speak where I live. Also: because I chose to learn this language myself - without the help of a teacher, I feel some kind of responsibility. It is extra cool as well: I picked Norwegian because I really love the language, not because someone else decided I should learn it. So I become disappointed after a not-so-successful session because I absolutely want to learn Norwegian and feel that I have slowed down the progress when I 'fail'. With languages like German and French, in contrast, I would probably enjoy the process just as much as the goal. There is no feeling of urgency when learning these, because I already reached a reasonably good level at secondary school. I can already use these languages reasonably comfortably, so learning speak, read and write them even better will just be fun. I will never feel hopelessly useless at them, however bad a session might go. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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