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| dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5022 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 38 29 June 2012 at 6:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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What sacrifices are you making, or have you made, in order to learn your TL?
I have pretty much given up listening to music, and reading books in English, both activities I love. I simply need that time to work on Spanish. To me these aren't small sacrifices either, I have noticed my written English suffer terribly as a result, and I miss the quick pick-me-up that listening to music provides. NB I like listening to fast non vocal music, so listening to music in my TL doesn't always cut the Mustard. 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| eggcluck Senior Member China Joined 4701 days ago 168 posts - 278 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 2 of 38 29 June 2012 at 7:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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My sanity, really.
This is one crazy place I am in right now. Logic does not apply. 15 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5051 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 3 of 38 29 June 2012 at 7:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I got back into reading books and listening to music thanks to Spanish.
What kind of "fast non vocal music" do you like? You mean like trance and techno? What about house? There's good house music from Spain, with like three Spanish words in it being repeated over and over again... that can count. :) Everything counts! Edited by espejismo on 29 June 2012 at 7:36pm 3 persons have 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 4 of 38 29 June 2012 at 10:55pm | IP Logged | ||
Sometimes I can't listen to music with vocals while reading so I listen to instrumental music :) Not classical either but for example Apocalyptica etc. The only moments that feel like a sacrifice are when I sacrifice language learning for the sake of, say, university studies. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5532 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 38 30 June 2012 at 12:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Intelligent, nuanced conversations with the native French speakers in my life. We're too
busy speaking French, which is often our weaker shared language. But the payoff is huge, too. There's something special about speaking to people in their mother tongue. 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4707 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 6 of 38 30 June 2012 at 12:46am | IP Logged | ||
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None, it's not a sacrifice. I don't feel that I can't do anything because I have to study
languages - I like doing it and would have done it this way anyway. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5375 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 7 of 38 30 June 2012 at 1:48am | IP Logged | ||
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A good question. I think about this in terms of "what would I be doing with my extra time if I was not spending an hour a day on Spanish?" I would be working more and spending more time with my other hobbies. I do miss some of my other hobbies a bit, but, all things considered, I am spending time on Spanish because I, of course, think it is worth it.
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| rivere123 Senior Member United States Joined 4830 days ago 129 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 8 of 38 30 June 2012 at 2:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah, my English has definitely suffered. I found myself struggling to remember "Relatively'(it wasn't until hours later I figured it out :P), and this is no...errr....what's that word? isolated incident. I've been stripped of my vocabulary gains from this year (for the most part at least, I have good passive knowledge). I ought to fix that when I'm at the point where I'm just maintaining one or both of my languages (a few years or so).
In addition, my knowledge on current events is dismally less specific and all-reaching since most of my formal/news reading is in Spanish (my worst language), and I can't understand quite enough French to know as much as I'd like on the radio/television. On top of this, it cuts into the time I would spend doing these activities. Thankfully these are ephemeral troubles so it's certainly worth it. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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