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| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4640 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 25 of 111 10 August 2014 at 8:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
I guess it depends on the person. I'm not sure if anyone else listens to a lot of hip hop in other languages, but I never realized how much of a pain it was to try to decipher certain songs from certain artists. I'm basically aiming for near-native comprehension rather than just "advanced". My Italian goals are listed because I don't see myself having a lot of free time for 3 languages for the time being. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5338 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 26 of 111 10 August 2014 at 9:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It does indeed depend on the person, and on the level. 5 years ago, reading any sort of Russian text outside
a text book was an extremely hairy and fuzzy goal for me. Now I am considering the classics :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5399 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 27 of 111 10 August 2014 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
To be conversational in all the major Romance, Germanic, and Slavic languages, plus Korean, Japanese, Turkish, Modern Greek, Thai, and maybe Mandarin. To be at a B2-ish in most of them, and C1 in a few of them. Wow, when I group all the families together, it doesn't look like such a big task. One or two things at a time though. :) Also, to have my kids fluent in at least 3-4 languages eventually, and for them to realize the importance of communicating with other people in their own languages and the importance of understanding other cultures through language. Plus, I heard that university is free in Norway for anyone and everyone, so I think they will have to learn Norwegian. :D Edited by Kerrie on 10 August 2014 at 9:58pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5134 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 28 of 111 10 August 2014 at 10:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Possible to do in the long run but very difficult to actually achieve? That would be speaking Ojibwe for me.
I can understand quite a bit of the Ojibwe that's spoken on the radio and I can also read a fair amount, at least from the written materials available to me. But speaking? For a lot of reasons, I just don't see it happening. Regardless, I'm content with being able to understand more than I can (or get to) speak, at least for now. R. == 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Xenops Senior Member United States thexenops.deviantart Joined 3829 days ago 112 posts - 158 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 29 of 111 11 August 2014 at 7:53am | IP Logged | |||||
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Least Hairy Goal: to be conversationally proficient in Spanish, Italian, Japanese, French and German by the time I'm 45 (I'm 27 now).
Hairy Goal: to pass the JLPT I test for Japanese (the hardest). Hairiest Goal: to become a medical doctor, and pass the Japanese medical doctor license exam to practice in Japan. Since the European languages are supposedly easier for a native English speaker, I don't consider them hairy, just time-consuming. Languages on the "wouldn't it be nice if I had time" list include Irish, Ancient Greek, Old English, Latin, Basque, Korean and Hindi(or Urdu) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5211 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 30 of 111 11 August 2014 at 10:44am | IP Logged | |||||
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C1 active skills in anything is a bit of a pipe dream for me. I'd love to reach a level where I could consistently talk about most everyday subjects without really having to think about it, without having to pay a ton of attention just to avoid basic mistakes, and without needing significant time to "warm up". That sort of level always seems so near yet so far, especially without living in the country.
I suppose I was getting close in French before I stopped learning it: on a good day I could converse about many things without really thinking about it. But I was still far from any kind of consistency, and certain topics made me struggle. I might eventually get there in Italian, given the amount of effort I put in and the fact that I use it socially very regularly, but even at this rate it feels like it will take years. My current long-term "hairy goal", one that I feel is possible but barely: reaching the level described above in Italian and Spanish, not losing my current semi-fluent but rusty French, and being able to get by (something like B1 active, B2 passive) in Greek. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4051 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 31 of 111 11 August 2014 at 8:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I like these topics :D
Soooo, dreaming doesn't hurt anyone: - English: A grade in Cambridge Proficiency - Learn 10 languages at high level. These languages can be - English - French - Dutch - German - Russian - Polish - Arabic - Mandarin - Spanish - Portuguese Simply impossible. Then I would like to "chew" some - Swedish - Romanian - Persian - Greek (modern) and of course some obscure language like - Icelandic - Mongolian - Turkish - Macedonian - Indonesian - Burmese (obscure from the point of view of a south European person, I know that those are not obscure at all). Seriously speaking, if I can manage to learn English, French, Dutch, Spanish and German at a high level I will be more than happy and proud of myself. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| miertje Diglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 4073 days ago 21 posts - 27 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: German, Russian, French | Message 32 of 111 11 August 2014 at 9:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I like these topics as well :)
What is a hairy goal for me, probably wouldn't for a lot of you.. but here are mine. - To speak (and be able to use) these 3 languages on a high (and comfortable level): English, French, German - Understand and be able to read Russian As for the other languages I'm interested in, I don't really know what I want with them yet, so no hairy goals yet for those. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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