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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 9 of 18 13 August 2012 at 6:27am | IP Logged | |||||
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About 4 years ago, I started learning Japanese, ending a period of almost 10 years without learning any
languages. I regret not having continued studying during that time. 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 10 of 18 13 August 2012 at 10:19am | IP Logged | |||||
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I began studying Tagalog/Filipino, but stopped it because my dictionaries weren't sufficient. Since then I have got one slightly larger dictionary, but instead of Filipino I'm now studying Bahasa Indonesia, and I intend to take on Bahasa Malaysia afterwards (I postponed the latter in favor of INdonesian beccause there are more texts in Indonesian on the internet, and besides my guide booklet to Singapore turned out to be in Indonesian). I would probably regret Filipino more if the pinoy weren't so intent on destroying their language by mixing it with English.
I put Polish on the shelf because I got interested in among other things Indonesian and Irish, and my Russian should also be activated to a larger extent before I return to Polish and the other Slavic languages. But the intention is still to give Polish and maybe a couple of other Slavic languages some time when I feel I have the time. And I do regret that Russian here and now is the only Slavic language I spend time on, but there are limits to what I can do. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 11 of 18 13 August 2012 at 5:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
Not that I wish to share.
Up until recently, Polish seemed to evoke the strongest sense of yearning in me when I was focusing on Finnish and Northern Saami at the expense of the other languages. These days, I'm satisfied with my choice in target languages. For the ones that I'm not currently studying I don't feel strongly enough about them to continue studying them, but I do miss the people and travelling associated with those languages. It's been quite some time since I was last in Estonia, the former Yugoslavia, Lithuania and Romania. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5009 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 12 of 18 14 August 2012 at 3:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I know these "regrets". Every time I work more intensively on another language, I
realize my French is still unfinished and I have a sudden urge to go back to it. When I do, I usually don't keep to it for too long due to 1.lack of time 2.difficulty finding a structure of studies that would ensure the progress I want. It has just happened again. I'm currently in Berlin but I use French the most and I know I will go back to it, when I am back. Not only I will maintain French with the fun means I use most of the time. I will use the time in September to do some of the more time consuming and boring tasks that will move me forward. So, if you miss Russian, you can take it back as a studied language. But you may need to decide which of the languages has got priority to avoid spreading yourself too thin. There is nothing wrong in doing just bits of Russian on the background and coming fully back to it later. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Heriotza Groupie Dominican Republic Joined 4680 days ago 48 posts - 71 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 13 of 18 14 August 2012 at 6:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I miss Arabic once in a while. It's a language that I really love and find absolutely charming, but I just don't the time and years right now that Arabic need from me. German, Latin and Ancient Greek are more important priorities for me. Only after having mastering these three languages plus French to a comfortable level, I will be able to study Arabic without worrying me about how much time I would need to do so.
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| Rykketid Diglot Groupie Italy Joined 4833 days ago 88 posts - 146 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: French | Message 14 of 18 15 August 2012 at 7:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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In my highschool, as in many Italian highschools, Latin was a compulsory subject. I had
to study it for 5 years: grammar & literature. I had to translate a lot of passages from works of our wise Latin ancestors, such as Cicero, Julius Caesar, Lucretius, Catullus, Virgil, Sallust, Juvenal and so on and so forth. I kind of hated that, I've never been into dead languages and when I finally graduated, one of my first thoughts was: "thank God I won't have to open up a Latin book anymore in my life!". Three years later (which is today), sometimes I wouldn't dislike brushing up my Latin. I know that I will never talk to anyone in Latin, unless I get hired by the Vatican (whose likelihoods tend to zero); nonetheless I see many reasons not to let my few left knowledge of it die. Such as that Latin is like the mother of my language (as well as the one of many other ones) and heavily influenced languages of other linguistic groups too. Knowing Latin is a bit like knowing an important part of languages history. Furthermore there's also a direct benefit which is that you can guess words meaning because you know their etymology, and this is rather useful especially at university, with those professors who like throwing around big words that no-one knows :-). So yes, I would have never imagined to say that but sometimes I do miss Latin, even though for now it is just a mild feeling. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5034 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 15 of 18 15 August 2012 at 10:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I had studied Hungarian for a while and stopped so I could learn Finnish. I spent years without Hungarian and even though I didn't like it any more. Yet in May I started looking at it again, and I am doing it for the current Six Weeks Challenge. I'm surprised how much I still remember after so many years of not using it, and it doesn't seem obscure any more.
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5556 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 16 of 18 15 August 2012 at 10:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I studied a little bit of Spanish and Swedish over 2 years ago and I've been missing both ever since. And even though I'll be maxed out with work and PhD over the next 4 years, I remain hopeful that my "Before Sunrise" episode in these two languages will eventually be followed by a "Before Sunset"...
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