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| 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 25 of 49 06 September 2012 at 10:43am | IP Logged | |||||
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... combo breaker: Not really. People I consider as friends because we have some similar interests often enough say they really wanted to learn languages before but didn't have the self-confidence to try, and apparently I'm good at sharing my enthusiasm and giving encouragement in such situations. =)
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| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4859 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 26 of 49 06 September 2012 at 12:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
That's what I have problem with. I mean, with encouraging other people. How there are people ho can do it so easily?! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 27 of 49 06 September 2012 at 1:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, it's easier to encourage people who are already passionate about something, for example music or football. I mean something from another country. Edited by Serpent on 06 September 2012 at 1:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| arturs Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 5271 days ago 278 posts - 408 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian, English | Message 28 of 49 06 September 2012 at 3:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Though I don't know actually other people who are passionate about languages, I have stopped worrying about it long ago. One good thing is that my friends usually like to tell other people about my enthusiasm towards languages. Of course, it would be great to meet people who like to learn languages, because they like actually the process of learning languages, not just because "they need it for professional reasons".
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| Veel Tetraglot Newbie Norway Joined 4693 days ago 23 posts - 41 votes Speaks: Lithuanian*, Latvian, English, NorwegianC1 Studies: Greek, Estonian | Message 29 of 49 06 September 2012 at 6:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Sometime ago I used to think that a good chance to stumble upon other true language enthusiasts or even language-soul mates might be taking courses in certain languages, especially majoring in it/them at university, but after having done so with at least seven different languages, to my greatest disappointment, I only ended up disenchanted. For whatever reason, we perceive "being passionate about languages" in so many ways that this sometimes leads to not having a mere thing common. But that's fine with me now.
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| 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 30 of 49 09 September 2012 at 5:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
It's not easy. At least for me, learning it required a lot of work, and doing it requires quite some effort. I tried writing down how I do it but that would be too long and too off-topic. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| leonidus Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6326 days ago 113 posts - 123 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, French Studies: German, Mandarin | Message 31 of 49 10 September 2012 at 7:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It's one thing when you have nobody around sharing your interest in learning a popular foreign language. It's relatively easy to find friends in that case. It's another thing when you're learning a not so popular language, then Internet is the only place to find someone who thinks alike. But it's not the same as real life, so guys tell me a few motivating words to go on with my Mandarin :)
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4844 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 32 of 49 18 November 2012 at 3:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, I have been thinking about this issue for the last few days and I'm really asking myself: What possibilities are there for language learners to meet each other? Where is the so-called 'community'? Well, yes: Obviously, there are the YouTube polyglots hopping all over the globe, meeting each other, and making videos about it so that we mortals can take part in their lifestyle, but what about ordinary language learners?
I have studied a couple of languages, but I'm none of these perfect-accent, perfect-idioms, perfect-grammar polyglots. I would rather describe myself as a humble pedestrian among the language learners. Is there anywhere I could go to meet other people like me? Well, obviously there's this forum, but what else? Has anybody ever had contact to other language learners via Skype? Or should I start a blog or join LingQ? I don't know if there are any easy answers to my questions (the previous responses in this thread seem to say: no!), but this has been bothering me for some days now. And yes, I have considered taking part in the Polyglot Conference in Budapest, but the way it looks right now I won't be able to afford the trip. That would of course be an excellent opportunity to meet other language enthusiasts, but not for me... 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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