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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6153 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 11 11 July 2012 at 3:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you didn't download or purchase any new courses, how long would it take to complete all the courses you own ? Which ones would consume the greatest amount of time ? If I didn't pick up anything new, I reckon I've at least eight years worth of study material left. The courses I imagine taking the greatest length of time are,
Alexander Schenker - Beginning Polish. Volume 1 (Not yet started) Clayton.L Dawson - Modern Russian 2 (Not yet started) Szábo - Learn Hungarian (Unit 6 of 30) Linguaphone - Russian Complete Course (Unit 7 of 30) Assimil - Russian with Ease (Still not yet started) I imagine these taking the longest length of time, but I still have Italian, Portuguese, French, Estonian, Czech, Indonesian and Dutch courses also to contend with. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5132 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 2 of 11 11 July 2012 at 4:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have books and courses that I bought on a whim years ago that I've not even cracked
open yet, apart from an initial page flip after purchase. Afrikaans is one of these. I'll get to them eventually, I just don't know when. And I imagine I'll buy more as I find them. Thrift stores and garage sales are my weakness when it comes to language learning materials. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 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 3 of 11 11 July 2012 at 5:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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the rest of my lifetime :) I download anything that looks useful :)
The ones that would consume the most time are those that are boring and below my level. I've not completed any of the Portuguese courses I own and I don't intend to, though I'll do individual chapters to polish some of my grammar. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Raincrowlee Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 6704 days ago 621 posts - 808 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Indonesian, Japanese | Message 4 of 11 11 July 2012 at 7:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Depends largely on how much time I would be given. If it's the time frame the courses were intended for, it would amount to a long, long time. I have 3 or 4 DLI courses that would be 12-15 months each, full time. Assimil is, what, five months? (100 passive days + 50 active that don't overlap), and I have at least five of those. Then I have about a dozen Teach Yourself or Colloquial sets, which I'd recon to take about 3-4 months each. Then there are the FSI courses that were free to download, and the Army "Survival Kits" that have hundreds of generic sentences to dig through, and who knows how many one-off titles for the various languages I've tried to or wanted to learn. That doesn't even get into the 30 gigs of learning material for Korean that I got from the program I graduated just a couple of months ago, though that's not all official "courses."
I think I could easily go at least 10 years without buying anything else, maybe longer. Hopefully I won't have to unless I land in some unexpected part of the world. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6911 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 11 11 July 2012 at 8:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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I second Raincrowlee. I have five Assimil sets, a couple of Linguaphone courses, a dozen Teach Yourself books, a few FSI courses, at least 50 grammars/readers/textbooks.
It would be a real challenge to finish everything I have, even in ten years. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7158 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 6 of 11 11 July 2012 at 9:03pm | IP Logged | ||
I can tell you after I've actually done it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5768 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 7 of 11 12 July 2012 at 12:39am | IP Logged | ||
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I can't stop myself from getting new ones, especially when my library gives away old books. But with the material I currently have ... maybe three or four life times, at my current pace?
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5593 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 8 of 11 12 July 2012 at 3:51am | IP Logged | ||
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I should only live that long
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