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| Tyrion101 Senior Member United States Joined 3919 days ago 153 posts - 174 votes  Speaks: French | Message 17 of 19 26 December 2014 at 5:08am | IP Logged | |||||
Wasn't intending to sound like I was learning a language through signs. I was wondering if this meant I had an aptitude for language learning? Sorry about being misleading, I tend to have a roundabout manner of asking questions that confuses people. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6603 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 18 of 19 26 December 2014 at 5:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, language learning is a multifaceted task with many subskills. Almost everyone has some sort of advantage somewhere, many just never actually use it (for example "technically-minded" folks). It's certainly good if you can learn something from bilingual signs - sounds like you'd do well with parallel texts, then. Try to think of other things you're good at and/or enjoy, and how you can apply that to language learning.
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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4450 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 19 of 19 27 December 2014 at 4:28am | IP Logged | |||||
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This is an interesting topic worth further investigation. Part of language learning is a person's talent or skill but part
of it is your environment as well. A while ago I read an article in the Obituary section of a local newspaper. A local doctor living in Thunder Bay, Canada died. He was well respected in his community because he spoke many languages. He was born with Russian & Ukrainian parents so naturally he picked up the 2 languages. During the War, he cross the border into China and lived in Shanghai for a while before moving down to Hong Kong. While in Shanghai he learned to be fluent in Mandarin. He studied in a university where French was the language of instructions and he worked hard to master his French. While in Hong Kong he picked up Cantonese. More recently, an African-American Jerome White who adopted the shortened version of his name JERO became a hit singer in Japan. His Japanese grandmother got married to an American GI after the War and moved to the US. He always felt connected to the Japanese culture and grew up singing Karaoke with his grandmother. Being fluent in English and Japanese, you can say he has a talent for languages. On the other hand, learning languages isn't his interest. I don't think he intends to learn other languages such as Chinese or Korean. Being a quarter Japanese, he feel Japan is his ancestral homeland. People who moved to another country would try to master the local language to get around. Unless some people who are not good at learning languages would always rely on other people close to them to do the translating when necessary. Edited by shk00design on 29 December 2014 at 5:45am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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