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| ZombieKing Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4527 days ago 247 posts - 324 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin* | Message 49 of 59 27 August 2012 at 12:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Not unless they loved me back xD
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| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4715 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 50 of 59 27 August 2012 at 5:59am | IP Logged | ||
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My wife is Russian and I started learning it for real only after meeting her. After more than 2 years, I'm still an intermediate student and I feel a little embarrassed about it, since she's learned Portuguese really fast.
Anyway, the answer is yes =) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5904 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 51 of 59 27 August 2012 at 1:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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well... not learning a language for love is that big a deal... I'd try and learn a language for a lot less than that... a random news article online will pretty much do it.
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| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5219 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 52 of 59 27 August 2012 at 8:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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You mean you have other reasons ?
French .... failed at first two attempts (teacher & sister of exchange partner) but later on Check, Check, Check, Check, Check. Italian. Check, Check, Check. (one was Swiss but not double counting) German. Check, Check. Russian. Check Arabic. Check (she was American but Arabic got us together) Japanese. Check,Check, Check (one was Chinese but we could only talk in Japanese) Norwegian. Check wanted help with her English Latin; bit of a dead end - so to speak. Vietnamese: no but I did meet someone in French Spanish. Not yet - unless you count Colombia but I didn't have much Spanish... 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| atama warui Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 4701 days ago 594 posts - 985 votes Speaks: German*, English, Japanese | Message 53 of 59 28 August 2012 at 7:13am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm doing it right now. What better reason for doing _anything_ can possibly exist? :)
When she opens her mouth and speaks, it's just pure music. Been like this for 2 years now. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 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 54 of 59 28 August 2012 at 10:22am | IP Logged | ||
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Pardon me for not being romantic, but I sincerely hope I'll never become so infatuated with anybody that it will affect my study plans. That's like falling in love and then discovering half a year later that you can't leave a sock on the floor any more and that your chosen one simply adores Justin Bieber (in between watching Xfactor and Friends).
But that being said, the availability of somebody to speak to certainly is a relevant factor when choosing a new target language. Edited by Iversen on 29 August 2012 at 2:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5219 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 55 of 59 28 August 2012 at 5:13pm | IP Logged | ||
Half a year to find out she leaves her socks on the floor? Iversen, really. (its a joke before you all get huffety !) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| nonneb Pentaglot Groupie SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4751 days ago 80 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English*, Ancient Greek, Latin, German, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, Hungarian, French | Message 56 of 59 28 August 2012 at 5:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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My wife is German. I never wanted to learn the language before I met her, so I think
that counts. Also, learning a language for this reason went much faster than other languages. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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