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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 9 of 14 14 April 2014 at 6:06pm | IP Logged | ||
And in many other countries learning a language is required at school even if it's not the country's official language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6061 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 10 of 14 14 April 2014 at 7:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Language learning is an useful and socially approved hobby.
In some instances, you can earn money with it, and / or meet people. It can make you feel good and increase your self-esteem. Apparently, by keeping your brain active, it has a lot of health benefits, too. It can be pursued with relatively little money. It's one of the first things you do and you may keep doing it all your life. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4253 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 11 of 14 14 April 2014 at 8:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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It is completely useless and I'm only doing it because I have no better way to spend my time.
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| holly heels Groupie United States Joined 3886 days ago 47 posts - 107 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 12 of 14 14 April 2014 at 10:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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I study Mandarin because it happens to be what they speak in Taiwan, a country I love.
If everyone there spoke Urdu, I would be studying that. So much to like about Asian culture. Japanese art and architecture, Thai cuisine, Korean alphabet. I can't learn all of their languages. So Mandarin is a kind of compromise of all of those and also the most useful at the moment. Edited by holly heels on 14 April 2014 at 10:30pm 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 13 of 14 15 April 2014 at 5:01am | IP Logged | ||
I'm going after the new soul that Marcos_Eich mentioned! That, and perhaps a few more options for retirement. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 5100 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai | Message 14 of 14 22 April 2014 at 7:09am | IP Logged | ||
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When I was studying music I kind of came up with the idea that I'm learning languages too
because this world has voices and the only way we can use them is by speaking in the words (or lyrics if you want to be philosophical) to communicate to another person. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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