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| Tollpatchig Senior Member United States Joined 4008 days ago 161 posts - 210 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Maltese | Message 9 of 51 27 September 2014 at 10:04pm | IP Logged |
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That's me. I live in the Southern United States, the only language of use to me other than my native English is Spanish and I'm not even learning it! LOL. I learn for fun and I only learn languages that strike an interest with me.
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| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4254 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 10 of 51 27 September 2014 at 11:33pm | IP Logged |
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I learn exclusively for fun. I have absolutely zero necessity to learn any languages, all of it is fueled by passion and interest.
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| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4534 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 11 of 51 27 September 2014 at 11:41pm | IP Logged |
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I am super grateful that life has conspired to put me in a situation to finally learn a language. I had French and a bit of Mandarin at school, and later studied Arabic at university, but never brought these languages forward to a point where I felt comfortable with them.
I couldn't learn German just as a hobby. I am just too busy. I want/need it as a tool to use in my life, and as it requires such a long-term time commitment, it needs to be a pretty useful one. So language learning for me is not for fun, though I get a lot of joy out of it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4048 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 12 of 51 28 September 2014 at 1:19am | IP Logged |
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well, good question.
learning a language for me is like to find a key to open a door. Until now I'm having huge troubles being consistent in studying languages that are not immediately useful for me. I would love to know Persian and Mandarin, but my English is still halfway, with French even less and with Dutch less then them all. Then I will need Spanish and German, pragmatically speaking. And for fun I would like to study other 20 languages at least. Learning a language is a serious commitment. At the least, 3 month of at least 1 hour per day in average. 100 hours are a lot, you must be sure that you're going to use that language. but we all know that usually a useful level is reachable in 300 hours of study. So that is how it works for me. Hopefully, improving myself as a language learner will eventually make me capable of learning new languages in much less time. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5101 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 13 of 51 28 September 2014 at 2:41am | IP Logged |
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I sure am and so is just about every single American who is not studying Spanish (and
many of those are probably doing it for fun too). I am not referring to those who are taking obligatory classes in school, by the way. As an American and a native English speaker there is simply no need whatsoever for me to learn a foreign language so, although I might someday benefit financially from learning French, I'm really just in it for fun and anything else is just icing on the cake. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 14 of 51 28 September 2014 at 3:09am | IP Logged |
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Hard to reply... I need to be able to create opportunities for myself, I guess. I failed to do that with Esperanto for example.
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| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3908 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 15 of 51 28 September 2014 at 4:32am | IP Logged |
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It depends what you mean by "for fun". If you mean learning for myself with no outside forces (work, school, environment) requiring me to learn it, then yes. But I do take it seriously and plan on being able to use it (them) in the future.
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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4445 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 16 of 51 28 September 2014 at 5:41am | IP Logged |
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Most people in N. America (including US & Canada) who came from other places or have parents that came
from other places would speak English and learn their mother-tongue at home. The second language is part of your heritage. In Canada you learn French in primary school by default because it is 1 of the official languages. Whether you like French or not, it is in the curriculum. Any language you learn outside your mother-tongue and the one you use for your daily correspondence can be for interest. In a part of the world like Europe where you live close to countries with different languages, you tend to pick up a few for practical reasons. I know 2 people who moved to Europe to work and acquired Spanish, French, Italian & German along the way. You can learn ancient Greek or Egyptian for fun since you have no opportunity of ever speaking the language. You can even learn 1 of the few native languages in N. America with so few speakers left that you'd not be using the language outside a tiny geographic area. Edited by shk00design on 28 September 2014 at 11:57am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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