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Beware of becoming polyglot | ||
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| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4359 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes  Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 9 of 17 12 March 2013 at 7:43am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm still struggling with wanting to learn more and more. However, reality hit me on the head recently and I calmed down (I hope), figuring out what I want for the next few months.
Not that I gave up on my language dreams, but it takes time which a 24 hour day does not have. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 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 10 of 17 12 March 2013 at 9:58am | IP Logged | ||
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So far reality hasn't forced me cut back on my plans because they have never been unrealistic, just ambitious. In fact the only major case where I have temporarily put languages on halt would be the Slavic family, where I had started on Polish and dabbled into Serbian, but realized that my Russian hadn't developed into a truly ACTIVE language. When it does I'll return to those languages.
I see two main problems: getting enough conversation practice with native speakers and dealing with the problems inherent in starting a new language family. Right now I have halflearned languages which represent four new families: Modern Greek, Russian, Irish and Indonesian. And I have a couple of languages which represent old families (Germanic, Romance) or special cases like Latin (dead) and Esperanto (artificial). Once the first language in a family is secure it should be much easier to add more members from the same family (except maybe in the Greek case, where the only possible additions are complicated earlier stages of the same language). So for the moment my language list doesn't grow as fast as I might wish, but at least I know the reason. I could add a few more Romance and Germanic languages, but those that remain are not essential so I prefer taking the trouble to add some new families through one member in each family. And sometime in the future I'll be through the bottleneck and can start adding other members of those families. Edited by Iversen on 12 March 2013 at 11:21am 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4640 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 11 of 17 13 March 2013 at 10:46am | IP Logged | ||
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Spending a lot of time on this Forum can prevent you from becoming a true polyglot. Sometimes when I should have studied a language, I am here instead reading about other people studying other languages. In the time I have spent reading logs by members learning Gerorgian, I could probably have learnt at least the Georgian script. But then again, if I had not read about other people learning Georgian, I would probably never have considered learning it myself. Then I think I should rather have spent that time working harder on Russian, or Greek, or improve my written German, or refresh my knowledge of Latin, or....
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 12 of 17 13 March 2013 at 2:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Why would I beware of something I want to become?
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5382 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 13 of 17 13 March 2013 at 2:44pm | IP Logged | ||
To become or not to become, that is the question. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 14 of 17 13 March 2013 at 2:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Bestow thy wisdom upon me, Arekkusu.
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5382 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 15 of 17 13 March 2013 at 3:00pm | IP Logged | ||
Fear not what you have already become. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4359 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 16 of 17 13 March 2013 at 3:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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So, we could say instead: beware of wanting to become a polyglot?
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