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ellasevia
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Message 17 of 20

26 February 2015 at 5:19am | IP Logged

So many triggers... Here are just a few that have come up lately:

Travel opportunities for sure. I'm considering going to Morocco in August, so of course I'll need to learn some Arabic. Likewise, I was in Bulgaria and Latvia last summer for only a day each, but I still felt compelled to study Bulgarian and Latvian in advance (and then kept Bulgarian for some reason).

Topics of study in some of my classes at uni are triggers too. I'm doing a project on Hungarian for a phonetics class, and of course that's tempting me to start Hungarian. I'm also taking a course in Buddhism, and like to write the Sanskrit and Pali terms in my notes in Devanagari script, which makes me want to study a language that uses that script, probably Hindi.

What else? My boyfriend is currently studying Polish for the 6WC, and I find myself having to explain a lot of concepts to him since it's his first Slavic language. I can already understand so much of it, would it really be such a bad idea to...?

Yes, yes it would.
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Message 18 of 20

04 March 2015 at 2:02pm | IP Logged

sabotai wrote:

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.

You're username in Italian means "I sabotaged"
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Message 19 of 20

06 March 2015 at 5:08am | IP Logged

My trigger seems to be that feeling of despair when I realize that I haven't made as much progress as I would like and have been neglecting my studies. This leads me to searching for that feeling of accomplishment that comes from getting through a few chapters of a new language book or being able to say a few new phrases or list conjugation/declension tables (am I the only one who finds this fun?).
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Message 20 of 20

17 March 2015 at 12:41pm | IP Logged

Pretty much anything can trigger wanderlust in me, so I just give in. A lot of times, my
curiosity is satisfied and then I can go back to doing what I was supposed to be doing.

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