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| Tyrion101 Senior Member United States Joined 3915 days ago 153 posts - 174 votes  Speaks: French | Message 1 of 17 17 September 2014 at 4:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I know which languages I want to learn, and am open to learning others, if I achieve my goal, and I've planned out at least what languages I want to learn, but I'd like to know if the plan is something that I should have done? I haven't decided on my "last" language target, I figure since most of the languages I've decided to learn are gendered in one form or another, I'd like to see if there are any other Asian languages that are gendered besides Hindi? Would Tagalog be worth learning? I've know Filipinos in the past, and had the occasion to learn a handful of words. Any other suggestions?
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5132 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 2 of 17 17 September 2014 at 5:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Are you asking whether or not you should have planned out which languages to learn, or what your next language to learn should be?
Planning out what to learn is fine, but realize that your plans will probably change at some point based on any number of things. If you're asking what your next language should be, that's really something only you can decide. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4146 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 3 of 17 17 September 2014 at 5:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I can't answer your "big" question re: planning out language learning. I'm not a polyglot, nor do I intend to become
one, so I don't have a "hit list" the way that so many language learners do. But I'm learning Tagalog (which, by the way, isn't a gendered language), and am enjoying the process. "Is it worth learning?" - well, that depends on your reasons, as it would for any language. It's worth it for me. Edited by Stelle on 17 September 2014 at 5:53pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| osoymar Tetraglot Pro Member United States Joined 4738 days ago 190 posts - 344 votes Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Spanish, French Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 17 17 September 2014 at 6:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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If having a list of all the languages inspires you to focus on the one you're working on
now, good. If having that list tempts you to skip to the next one when the going gets tough, bad. From seeing other people's posts and knowing my own weaknesses, this is in my opinion the main downside to having a "hit list." It can inspire wanderlust during those "plateau" periods when you don't feel yourself making progress. And then you jump ship and start your third language, arrive at the same plateau and repeat. I suspect that most of us have at least an unwritten list of languages we'd be interested in, but don't let that distract you from the task at hand! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5958 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 5 of 17 17 September 2014 at 11:05pm | IP Logged | ||
I have a written list. More precisely, I have a painstakingly-revised and re-revised list of languages which have been charted, flowcharted and Exceled so much over the years that they have become near-lifeless and thread-worn versions of themselves. I can be found on occasion sitting in the dark corner of rooms caressing the list while muttering (in English, still the only language I know) "My precious!" obsessively. Despite all that, instead of working through a language on the list (of 20), I am currently working through two languages that have never made it on the list, not even in the footnoted "if I have time" small print section of the list. So yep, plans change. Edited by Spanky on 18 September 2014 at 1:24am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| WeetBixKid Newbie Australia Joined 3727 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Studies: Persian | Message 6 of 17 17 September 2014 at 11:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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At the moment, I'm learning via dictation. I have a program designed to teach Farsi
speakers English (Nosrat) and it's roughly at my level. I probably won't comment much - this log will just be a wall of Finglish, entered as I attempt to dictate what I hear each day. But, having somewhere to post and log my progress helps. It's worked for my strength training so why not a language? For those interested, you can download Nosrat here: http://selflearning-english- language.blogspot.com.au/2011/02/download-amozesh-zaban-nosr at-1.html The password is zabon. *Could a moderator please move this to the Language Log forum ... I was unable to create a new topic there. Thanks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5264 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 7 of 17 18 September 2014 at 1:35am | IP Logged | ||
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It can be fun to plan, but instead of worrying about what future languages to learn, I think it would be best to learn at least one second language to a high level first. Doing so makes learning the next one so much easier. It may be "boring", and not nearly as much "fun" as wanderlust, but it makes the task much, much easier, at least in my experience. YMMV.
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| Retinend Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4310 days ago 283 posts - 557 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), French | Message 8 of 17 18 September 2014 at 9:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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What's your plan?
How much free time do you have to devote to languages in your current lifestyle? Can you be secure about this free time staying constant in the years to come? Can you eventually move to work in the native countries of each of your listed languages? Which languages do you know already? Perhaps the best advice that could be offered by others on here would be about the realism of your plan in light of these considerations. Asking us whether it's wrong (as in "shameful"? "naiive"?) to have a plan depends on the details of that plan, and whether or not they are feasible. Edited by Retinend on 18 September 2014 at 9:47pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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