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| timwatt Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 6632 days ago 7 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Indonesian, English*, French Studies: Mandarin | Message 1 of 32 02 October 2014 at 2:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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How much money do you spend per year on your language learning hobby? This includes any classes you take, studying abroad, subscriptions, books, language programs, and anything that has to do with learning languages. I'm learning Mandarin right now, and I spend about $500 per year on Chinese language subscriptions (ChinesePod, FluentU, etc). Very expensive hobby, indeed!
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4908 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 2 of 32 02 October 2014 at 2:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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I do spend a bit on buying courses, probably £100 per year, but I spend a lot more on things like DVDs, Netflix, music, literature, etc. It is likely that if I wasn't studying languages, I would spend that much money on films, music and books anyway.
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| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4348 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 3 of 32 02 October 2014 at 2:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, technically I bought Assimil for Japanese and Chinese, and one other beginner's textbook
only for Japanese, but I didn't use it much. I mainly use free resources, such as my favorite - Anki (not free only on iOS). However I am considering buying "the Chinese Text Analyser" (10 AUD) if I'll still be interested in preparing vocabulary from books, though I've already prepared over 10k words before the free trial ran out. Would you count buying books in your target languages as a language learning expense? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| AlexTG Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 4637 days ago 178 posts - 354 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 4 of 32 02 October 2014 at 2:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've been spending a hell of a lot more since I became a believer in L3 via L2 :( Edited by AlexTG on 02 October 2014 at 2:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4143 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 5 of 32 02 October 2014 at 2:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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At one point, I would have answered "almost nothing!". But a few months ago, I tallied up all of the money that
I've spent since May 2013, and I was a bit surprised by the results. - Two Tagalog courses: $85 - 15 Spanish novels and four Tagalog picture books: $189 - italki credits for tutoring: $300 So I've spent $574 in a year and four months. It could easily have been a lot more, except that I taught a lot of French classes on italki and used the credits that I earned for Spanish and Tagalog tutoring. I'm almost out of credits now, so I may or may not purchase more in the next few weeks. I'm moving to a major city next month (I currently live in a very rural area with limited foreign language books in the library system), so I expect to save a lot of money on books in the future. Edited by Stelle on 02 October 2014 at 2:38pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5235 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 6 of 32 02 October 2014 at 3:18pm | IP Logged | ||
I totalled up the money I spent on Mandarin so far, works out to about $35. I have spent a lot more on French and Italian because I've paid for tuition, so I think about $300 per year for ~ 5 years. I don't pay for Italian anymore, but I still spend money on it buying books in Italian or going to Italy. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 4098 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian | Message 7 of 32 02 October 2014 at 3:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't even know how to count.
On language learning courses and materials, next to nothing. My parents bought me all of my French learner's books when I was 10-13, except for the Larousse Difficultés du français that I picked up for 2€ at a back to school sale this year. I have spent probably 90€ on Breton, for an Assimil course, a grammar book and a dictionary. But anything else, I don't know how to count. I spend 10€ per year on a library membership that allows me to read as many French and Breton books as I'd like. Does that count? I also use that membership to do work-related research, and the books are not intended purely for language-learning. I spend probably 40€ per year on other books in French and Breton per year, but that includes instructional books on apiculture, building chicken coops, etc that I want to read regardless of language. I spend probably 60€ per year on DVDs in French. Part of the reason that I don't know what to count, I suppose, is that I spend less than 10€ per year now on books and maybe 15€ per year on DVDs in native level languages (Swedish & English). If I didn't spend that money on French and Breton, chances are I would be spending it anyway on the same types of material. Does it become "language learning money" by default if I learn something from it? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4582 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 8 of 32 02 October 2014 at 3:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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In two years I've been learning Croatian I have spent:
- $300 on a year of classes (complete waste of money, the teacher was dreadful) - $80 on textbooks - $50 on novels However in a way that's misleading because I have asked for some of the resources I use as presents. So last year my parents probably bought me $80 worth of textbooks for Christmas and my boyfriend bought me $80 worth of dictionaries for my birthday. And that's not counting the thousands I have spent on five holidays in the Balkans to practise what I've learned :) Perhaps it depends on the language. I might have spent more on Croatian if there were more resources available to buy! When I learned Esperanto, however, I didn't really spend anything at all. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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