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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7158 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 9 of 20 24 February 2015 at 9:48pm | IP Logged |
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I can divide my wanderlust into two with one set containing my target languages as well as those that I've been interested in because of their genetic similarities to a language that I've already studied. It largely encompasses Balto-Slavonic, Turkic, Mongolic, and Uralic languages. The second set of languages would be languages outside these families/subgroups.
Wanderlust-triggers for the first set of languages include seeing old friends (or making new ones) who are fluent, a marked-down set of learning material, food associated with the respective speech communities, or hearing (not so much seeing) it spoken (this need not be live as I became fascinated by Northern Saami after hearing it in “Кукушка” although Ánne Risten Juuso being the native speaker didn't hurt either ;-)) For the second set of languages, the triggers are almost the same. It's just that seeing learning material at a deep discount doesn't apply. I've seen cheap books and courses for Arabic, Dutch, Mandarin, Welsh, Zulu among others at a second-hand bookstore or online and haven't done more than look through them cursorily. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Woodpecker Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5813 days ago 351 posts - 590 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian) Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 10 of 20 24 February 2015 at 9:50pm | IP Logged |
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Going on this forum.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 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 11 of 20 25 February 2015 at 12:49am | IP Logged |
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I don't really experience much wanderlust, I just got started early with nearly all languages I want to learn. And I added new ones only when I couldn't live without them, or without encountering them.
Nowadays the closest I get is wanting to go back to languages I once abandoned, like Indonesian, Yiddish or Esperanto. This usually happens when I see HTLAL'ers learn/use them successfully. I love Radioclare's ironic attitude to Esperanto, for example. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3909 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 12 of 20 25 February 2015 at 3:07am | IP Logged |
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For me it usually begins with appreciation with the culture/history of a nation/region. That alone only sparks interest, but factor in the possibility of future travel (do I see myself ever traveling to that country/region?) and the wanderlust begins.
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| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5884 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 13 of 20 25 February 2015 at 5:55am | IP Logged |
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My biggest trigger is hearing a language out in the real world. For example, a week ago I was at the Korean food market I go to, a few people walked by me in one of the aisles speaking Chinese to each other (I'm guessing it was Mandarin, but it could have been Cantonese or some other tonal language for all I knew). All I wanted to do in the moment was rush home and begin studying Chinese.
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| leroc Senior Member United States Joined 4313 days ago 114 posts - 167 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 14 of 20 25 February 2015 at 6:35am | IP Logged |
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Meeting attractive members of the opposite sex.. It's like I'm just trying to properly learn German over here and all
the exotic Eastern Europeans at my work keep making me want to learn their language! Edited by leroc on 25 February 2015 at 6:37am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5168 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 15 of 20 25 February 2015 at 2:41pm | IP Logged |
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I believe my Wanderlust is under control, but what triggers it is realizing a language has good resources like when a new Duolingo or Assimil or pod101 course is released (or I become aware of it, all the same).
It is also triggered by reading some logs here, though this reading also helps control the wanderlust at the same time, because I start following the log and am ok with just those sporadic notes on that language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5209 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 16 of 20 25 February 2015 at 6:09pm | IP Logged |
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I seem to be one of those rare people who's relatively immune to language wanderlust. I suppose that, a bit like Serpent, I decided what I wanted to learn quite early on (although unfortunately not quite as young as she did!) and I've largely stuck to it since. Around five years ago, I decided that I wanted to be able to speak French, Spanish, and Italian at a high level; that project has kept me busy since then and likely will continue to do so for another few years. Thinking about the time and effort that it takes to reach a decent level in one language, and the difficulty of juggling several at once, tends to discourage me from adding in any more! For me the hard part isn't choosing which languages to learn, it's choosing how to learn them: when to start each one, which one to focus on, etc.
I do have a mental list of a few other languages that I'd like to study at some point, when or if I have time and probably with less ambitious goals, but that's for the future. My plans aren't rigid, I'll happily spend a bit of time learning some phrases for travel, and who knows what the future has in store in terms of things like moving country or a partner. But I'll think about these if they happen. Yeah, maybe I'm a bit boring. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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