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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes  Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 40 13 March 2014 at 12:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I wouldn't travel more than I already do, but I would spend more time and money on activities involving local people - like excursions with just me and a local guide to national parks, museums, mansions and other sights, maybe also visits to local clubs with relevant themes. Like when my travel club received a visit by members of a similar club in Germany, and those of us who spoke German stuck to German instead of just resorting to English. I would not want to stay in a family - I like to have some privacy. But the staff at my hotel should be willing to speak the local lingo to me, and otherwise the hotel would have to supply some more sympathetic and helpful staff members (money can do miracles in such cases).
And no, I wouldn't want to get a girlfriend for each language I had to learn. That trick is only for people with one major target language. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5334 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 10 of 40 13 March 2014 at 1:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
I pray to differ, I have used it with French, Italian and Spanish with great results, and given the right circumstances I would be interested in trying it with Russian. But of course to use it whith your amount of languages, might be a tad stressful, even if Danes have the reputation of having a great appetite for life :-) Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 13 March 2014 at 1:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 40 13 March 2014 at 2:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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To Solfrid: you have probably used the method for one language at a time. And sailors may have had one girl friend in each harbor. That may function. But put all those persons in the same house and you would need a whole gallery of black eunuchs (like the one the sultans of Istanbul had) to keep the girls from fighting. Or they would decide that they all would like to learn each others' languages first instead of teaching them to me, and then I would just stand there with an empty bank account and a bunch of chattering females behind a closed door and no language assistance to me at all on this side of the next week with two Sundays.
I think I'll go back my books. They may not be as pretty and entertaining as a dozen voluptuous mentoresses, but I know where I have them and what each of them can do. And they don't ask for fur coats and diamond rings. Edited by Iversen on 13 March 2014 at 2:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5334 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 12 of 40 13 March 2014 at 4:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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One at the time is definitely recommended, for both linguistic, moral, ethical, practical and emotional reasons.
I do not remember ever having been asked for diamond rings or furs though :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| yantai_scot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4802 days ago 157 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 13 of 40 13 March 2014 at 7:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'd definitely go back to China for a year and do a university year for foreigners with
some travel on the side. I spent 5 months working in Shandong Province and it's sort of my Chinese home- hence my username. Although, I'd be very tempted to spend at least a couple of months studying on Hainan- the Chinese Hawaii... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| rlnv Senior Member United States Joined 3951 days ago 126 posts - 233 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 14 of 40 13 March 2014 at 10:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'd rent an apartment in Lyon, and then pretty much do as I'm doing today only increasing the hours spent. I'd introduce two of the best tutors that I could find to my studies, and probably also take on a class at one of the local schools. Then I'd just immerse myself into daily life in Lyon.
At the conclusion of the year, I'm fairly certain I would not return to the US though. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4828 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 15 of 40 13 March 2014 at 10:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
Not to mention financial
You had to wait to be asked? I dunno - what's happened to Romance these days ... :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5766 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 16 of 40 13 March 2014 at 11:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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For a new language? Find a host family who's willing to let me stay as a family member for the time, work with a tutor 3-4 times a week, get an internship with a supervisor who speaks English, but in a place where the company language is my target language, attend lectures in the language. Nothing fancy or outlandish, really; I fare better having tasks to work on (read: be anxious about) besides the language. And I cried enough during my au pair time, I can't see how forcing more of the language and culture down my throat would make that any better. Edited by Bao on 13 March 2014 at 11:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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