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| 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 9 of 17 19 September 2014 at 12:50am | IP Logged | ||
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As long as you know what language you want to study, go for it.
You will probably find that your hit list changes anyway so it's not important to have everything planned out from the start. Whatever you do, just don't fall into the trap of paralysis by analysis. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| robarb Nonaglot Senior Member United States languagenpluson Joined 5061 days ago 361 posts - 921 votes Speaks: Portuguese, English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, French Studies: Mandarin, Danish, Russian, Norwegian, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Greek, Latin, Nepali, Modern Hebrew | Message 10 of 17 19 September 2014 at 6:54am | IP Logged | ||
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Aside from good motivation to study and bad motivation to wander, lists have another purpose for me: they help
with planning sequential language learning. If you want to learn five languages, you need to start one after another, but not all the possible orderings are equally easy. I like to stagger closely related languages, so ideally I'll start a Germanic language, then a Slavic language, then an East Asian language-- not three Slavic languages in a row which I'll confuse. When three languages are on the list and one is in some way "intermediate" between the others (e.g Swedish-Norwegian-Danish) I like to learn the intermediate one last. So if my next language or three are ordered this way, I can focus on studying my current languages in a way that'll facilitate most and interfere least with the next one on my list. As for the OP's comment on gender: I'm curious, what makes you want to learn languages with gender systems in particular? I have never heard anything like that before... most people find gender systems a bother to learn, and if they care about grammatical features of target languages at all, tend to seek out novelty or similarity to L1. Anyway, the Dravidian languages of Southern India have gender. In addition to Hindi, many of the other Indo- European languages of the Indian subcontinent have gender (which they've inherited from Sanskrit), although some have partially lost it (e.g. Nepali) or completely lost it (e.g. Bengali). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4891 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 11 of 17 19 September 2014 at 10:35pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm glad I'm not the only one! I think my spreadsheet has 12 tabs now, with 21 languages scattered throughout. Though some of my lists are kind of sad - "Georgian Resources" has exactly zero items on it, and I have a great and detailed plan to learn Russian that I have been putting off every year since 2011. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7207 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 12 of 17 19 September 2014 at 10:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just dig in and start learning. You're plans will change soon enough and many times if you try to attain your goal. Edited by luke on 19 September 2014 at 11:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4049 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 13 of 17 20 September 2014 at 10:25am | IP Logged | ||
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making plans is great fun.
but then you will be the opposite. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5011 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 14 of 17 20 September 2014 at 2:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Making such plans is fine, fun and useful as long as it doesn't take away too much time from actual learning and as long as you don't make unrealistic plans leading to disappointment in my opinion.
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6584 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 15 of 17 22 September 2014 at 8:49am | IP Logged | ||
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I daydream about my next language all the time. I don't have a big list of languages
I'm going to learn, but the next one, once my Spanish reaches a good enough level ... I was pondering Japanese, and Czech, and Arabic, and Thai, and then suddenly I found myself doing Portuguese, for various reasons. So my plans changed abrubtly, but now I'm daydreaming about what to take up after Portuguese (which I expect will be fairly quick to learn). And Japanese still looks tempting ... Planning and dreaming about future languages is fun, and sometimes I even try out a few lessons. I actually tend to have the opposite problem of people who suffer from wanderlust. Every language I learn tends to have a few false starts. I start learning the language, then I go back to my "familiar" languages. Then I try again, get a bit further, and then stop. And then finally I reach "escape velocity" and my study takes off. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5768 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 16 of 17 22 September 2014 at 11:28am | IP Logged | ||
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I also have a list. It serves as a good reminder of what will happen if I give in to wanderlust ... again.
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