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| smallwhite Pentaglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5306 days ago 537 posts - 1045 votes  Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin, French, Spanish | Message 9 of 20 23 September 2013 at 6:32pm | IP Logged |
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Like The Count, I like to count things, and it gives me satisfaction to see the numbers grow. Eg. number of SRS words learned (or attempted), number of mp3s understood (or collected), number of grammar rules learned (or written down).
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| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4634 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 10 of 20 23 September 2013 at 8:38pm | IP Logged |
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Being able to understand something that I previously couldn't or express myself more fluently/naturally than a month ago.
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| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4142 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 11 of 20 23 September 2013 at 8:38pm | IP Logged |
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I love the fact that my personal life, my professional life, and my "hobby" life are carried out in three different
languages. I really enjoy talking to people. I doubt that I'll ever be a polyglot - my long-term goal is C2 in two languages, plus the 2 languages I grew up with, all of which will take time to maintain - but I love putting time into learning a language, and being able to see my progress. I love being able to understand what I read! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Duke100782 Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Philippines https://talktagalog.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4486 days ago 172 posts - 240 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 12 of 20 24 September 2013 at 2:49pm | IP Logged |
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Having an actual conversations in Chinese without having to resort to English or to my iTouch's English-
Chinese dictionary makes my day. Sitting at a meeting or formal event and understanding what is being said in Chinese before I hear the translation puts a smile on my face. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4637 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 13 of 20 25 September 2013 at 2:29pm | IP Logged |
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One thing that gives me satisfaction is when I reach the level where I can meaningfully read native material such as newspapers or books. For me language is culture, and as a politically interested person I would not want to rely only on Norwegian and British newspapers or websites to understand what goes on in German for example. When you can go directly to the source language and see what the Germans themselves think and say, you get a totally different perspective on things.
I do also get satisfaction from those moments when, for the first time, I am able to say something to a native and they understand me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| s_allard Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5428 days ago 2704 posts - 5425 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Polish | Message 14 of 20 25 September 2013 at 5:01pm | IP Logged |
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Like most people around here, there are two things that make me feel that all that effort was worth it:
1. Hearing for the first time something that I've read and can now recognize and totally understand, especially if it is an idiomatic expression. 2. Being able to interject in a conversation an entire sentence that is just perfect for the occasion. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5343 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 15 of 20 25 September 2013 at 7:13pm | IP Logged |
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Everything. I enjoy the entire process of learning a language from the moment where I first encounter the verb, declension and writing systems along with some basic vocabulary all the way to the point where I'm reading original literature and listening to newscasts with close to full understanding and beyond. It is quite a peculiar thing language learning. Nothing else I have found dispenses bliss so plentifully and unremittingly as it does.
It is true, we are meant to derive pleasure from learning. I pity those who don't. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 16 of 20 25 September 2013 at 10:58pm | IP Logged |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a7cHPy04s8
The wanderlust victims' anthem. :-) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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