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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7207 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 33 of 111 11 August 2014 at 11:45pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Win the lottery!
Which will of course provide time and funds for things like Middlebury Language School. Edited by luke on 11 August 2014 at 11:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5102 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 34 of 111 12 August 2014 at 1:12am | IP Logged | ||||||||
That clarifies things a bit. I was thinking that for a native English speaker, being "better" in those Indo-European wouldn't really be that difficult, but specifying "near-native" is a different story. Still though, I'm confident that you can do it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5962 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 35 of 111 12 August 2014 at 4:26am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Near-native level in Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish, Portuguese, Persian, Korean, Russian,
Turkish, Hindi, and Thai. ~A1 in French, Arabic, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and one Dravidian language. Strong passive understanding of Norwegian and Greek. A dabbler's understanding of dozens of languages that I encounter from time to time and ones that interest me. Should be a fun journey. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Meggie Diglot Newbie Norway Joined 3768 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Russian | Message 36 of 111 12 August 2014 at 6:57pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Be able to comfortably carry on a conversation in French. This is a hairy goal for me mostly because my oral skills
are much weaker than my written skills even in Norwegian. So i feel it will take a lot for me to get to that point in a second language. And also to be able to understand most texts written in French, Spanish or Russian without too much trouble. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4670 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 37 of 111 12 August 2014 at 8:17pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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my goals:
English: get my vocabulary size from around 20K to 30 K, get better at spelling words, pronunciation drills to sound less formal Norwegian: being able to write in radical Bokmaal and read works of writers who write in it (like Per Petterson), learn how to write Nynorsk Swedish: being able to write it and speak it fluently Chinese: being able to speak fluently and write using pinyin, learn 3k basic characters Japanese: being able to speak fluently and write using kana, and know how to write 5k most common words in both kanji and kana Bengali: being able to write it and speak it fluently Assamese: being able to write it and speak it fluently Indonesian: being able to write it and speak it fluently (Vietnamese: being able to master the written language, to read and write in Vietnamese, I'd given up spoken Vietnamese) (Spanish: continue working though Portuguese-Spanish dictionaries to minimize making interference mistakes in Spanish) (Hindi: being able to write it and speak it fluently) Edited by Medulin on 12 August 2014 at 8:28pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5336 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 38 of 111 12 August 2014 at 8:32pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
These goals were hairy, indeed :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4670 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 39 of 111 13 August 2014 at 12:13am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I know, but I think I should always strive for more. I was really happy when I talked to a tourist from Larvik last week, in a mix of Nynorsk and Swedish . :) I do feel sad when I have to ''discard'' a language, due to lack of time; money spent on dictionaries, books and courses is not a problem, but emotional ''loss'' is huge (I do miss Tamil, Malayalam and Lao...) Edited by Medulin on 13 August 2014 at 12:14am 1 person has 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 40 of 111 15 August 2014 at 12:18am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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To reach emk's % level of reading comprehension in French...in Georgian!
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