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| Sir Nigel Senior Member United States Joined 7107 days ago 1126 posts - 1102 votes  2 sounds | Message 9 of 27 11 December 2005 at 2:20am | IP Logged | ||
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I know with me it's just hard work. Sometimes it feels like I'm doing one of the hardest things out there. So no, I don't think I have a knack for languages, in the sense of "being gifted", other than trying to do something different from everyone else.
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| winters Trilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 7047 days ago 199 posts - 218 votes Speaks: Croatian*, Serbian*, Russian*, English, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek Studies: Greek, French, Hungarian | Message 10 of 27 12 December 2005 at 4:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think that it is possible to have some advantages at the beginning (for example, growing up in multilingual family, living in various countries, etc), but finally, it all comes up to your personal desire to learn the language and amount of effort and will you put into this. This is the way it worked for me, at least.
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7018 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 27 12 December 2005 at 4:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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| vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6963 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 12 of 27 16 December 2005 at 9:51am | IP Logged | ||
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Polyglots put together talent and hard work.
But when you have passion it is not a work...it is a pleasure ..... Maybe it is better to know few languages and use it than to know tons of words and grammars without usefulness.... Cardinal Mezzofanti in the 1850....with how many Quicha,Bimbirra,Chippewa, Lappish and Tibetan had a significant relationship between Vatican and Bologna ?? In today world if you some english, french, Spanish, portuguese you are at home almost everywhere ... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7018 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 13 of 27 16 December 2005 at 1:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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| vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6963 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 14 of 27 17 December 2005 at 3:24am | IP Logged | ||
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..except for the Far East.
Patuco I have said ALMOST everywhere .... I assume that Patuco is considering Far East as Japan and China ......but even there foreigners communicate in english to make business...... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7018 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 15 of 27 17 December 2005 at 4:26am | IP Logged | ||
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I know you said ALMOST everywhere but there are quite a few people in that part of the world! I didn't mean to only consider Japan and China but also Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, etc. Perhaps I should have left it as "the eastern nations", although that's a bit vague.
In any case, as you pointed out, they probably use English as their lingua franca, especially for business, although not having travelled (or engaged in business dealings with anyone from those countries) I wouldn't know for sure. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| andee Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7080 days ago 681 posts - 724 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Korean, French | Message 16 of 27 17 December 2005 at 4:46am | IP Logged | ||
That's right, the ASEAN countries at least conduct business through English most of the time. ASEAN countries being: Brunei Darassalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philipines, Singapore, and Thailand. Edited by andee on 17 December 2005 at 4:47am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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