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| Jarvis1000 Diglot Groupie United States want2speakthai.com Joined 4879 days ago 74 posts - 101 votes  Speaks: English*, Thai Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 4 25 June 2012 at 7:33am | IP Logged |
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Its been awhile since I posted an update. Yeah alot has changed since I started this
log. I have moved back from new zealand to the US. I have a new job and I study Spanish on my way to work. I didn't get my goal of fluency by june of 2012, but I am unofficialy at an intermediate level. My new goal is to get to Fluency by the end of the year. After I am fluent I want to start another language project. This would either be Mandarin, Samoan, or ASL. What does everyone think of those? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5325 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 4 25 June 2012 at 7:37am | IP Logged |
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They seem to have very different fields of use. I would have chosen Mandarin, but if you need to
communicate with someone who uses ASL or Samoan, then I guess they may be a better choice for you. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4859 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 3 of 4 25 June 2012 at 12:57pm | IP Logged |
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I vote for Samoan! I plan to one day take that up myself, because it's so interesting culturally and sounds great. I've already started a log for it, too, and collected all resources I could find. It would be great if someone else at the forum was studying it... Of course, Mandarin is also extremely interesting. I also plan to study that soon :D And ASL seems like the perfect language for when you want to study 2 languages at the same time.
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| Jarvis1000 Diglot Groupie United States want2speakthai.com Joined 4879 days ago 74 posts - 101 votes Speaks: English*, Thai Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 4 25 June 2012 at 2:17pm | IP Logged |
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Maybe I should have mentioned my reasoning for each. Since learning Thai, I have
wanted to learn another Asian language and Mandarin just seems the most interesting to me. Samoan is part of my family, by law. My father in law is from Apia, though he didn't pass the culture/language to my wife. I am proud to say my kids are 1/4 samoan, but I want them to be able to really understand that they are Samoan, and I think language would go along way to helping that. Showing off to my father in law would help too. ASL, comes from when I got conversational with Thai Sign Language. I have since lost it, but that exposure has led me to be fascinated with ASL ever since. There is a isolated group of people that we don't understand. Most people don't even realize that ASL is not signed English. None of this is a need. out of all of them, Mandarin would have the most potential to be beneficial for work, but I don't learn languages for that reason. Anyway They all seem difficult choices to decided between. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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