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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4665 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 17 of 38 30 June 2012 at 7:48pm | IP Logged |
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I don't think I've "sacrificed" anything to get started with Japanese.
I'm watching less TV and I'm no longer listening to the car radio during the commute, but I find it difficult to see these as anything other than a gain. My reading of books from the library (English, Italian and French) has slowed down considerably, but they'll still be there in a few years time. 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 18 of 38 30 June 2012 at 8:32pm | IP Logged |
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I've sacrificed money to buy materials and time to study. I didn't mind doing any of it.
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| dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5022 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 19 of 38 02 July 2012 at 11:59pm | IP Logged |
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I suppose I should hasten to add that I don't mind making these sacrifices, I
love doing what I'm doing, it has enriched my life in innumerable ways. I'm surprised how few people say they are making sacrifices though. Language learning takes so long, I would of assumed a lot of people would have to set things aside in order to make progress, there being only so many hours in the day. In particular, I imagine that those learning cat.4 languages like Mandarin or Japanese would have to set aside nearly everything should they wish to achieve proficiency anytime in the next 5 years or so. I suppose it hinges on your definition of "sacrifice". @espejimo yes I like those kinds of music, and most other types of electronic music. I loved being able to understand a few Spanish sentences dropped into a tune I was listening to recently. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tanya b Senior Member United States Joined 4778 days ago 159 posts - 518 votes Speaks: Russian | Message 20 of 38 03 July 2012 at 1:37am | IP Logged |
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What sacrifices have I made for the sake of language learning?
All the time I would have normally spent posting my lame observations on this forum. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5207 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 21 of 38 03 July 2012 at 10:52am | IP Logged |
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The main sacrifice I've made is not spending anywhere near as much time as I used to
studying music and practising guitar, since languages have made a big dent in my already fairly limited "hobby time". I'm still trying to find a balance between the two; I love both but languages have very much taken over in the last year or two. I sometimes think about how good I'd be at guitar by now if I hadn't discovered languages, but then I realise that I prefer being a decent guitarist who can converse in French and Italian than an awesome guitarist who can't :). Also, the limited time forces me to make my music practice more focused and efficient, and so I'm still improving reasonably despite only picking up the guitar a couple of times per week. 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 22 of 38 03 July 2012 at 12:05pm | IP Logged |
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I spend a lot of time on languages, but it can't be seen as a sacrifice as long as I enjoy it. For many years I was just as busy writing, playing and listening to music (classical sheet music), and I have also painted surrealistic paintings for more than 30 years in a row. But for various reasons I dropped my active involvement in both things several years before I began my current involvement with languages - and therefore I had some free time to spend.
The only tiny minuscule and quite insignificant circumstance that could be seen as a partial sacrifice is that my travels have had a tendency become more focused on Europe because that's where I find the largest diversity of languages which I can speak. Edited by Iversen on 03 July 2012 at 12:10pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5349 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 23 of 38 03 July 2012 at 4:24pm | IP Logged |
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I limit the amount of time I spend with my native English friends, I've given up English books (except for language based ones like 'Babel No More') and only watch films in English with my family or English friends, never voluntarily.
I've also refused many extra teaching hours and therefore money, because I didn't want it to take time away from my language studies. I also have to put up with a bit more stress, because my wife gets irritated with me devoting more time to languages than to her. As other people have said though, it's not really a sacrifice, because I wouldn't have it any other way. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5334 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 24 of 38 03 July 2012 at 4:43pm | IP Logged |
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What do I sacrifice for my language studies?
- Listening to the radio - Watching TV - Reading newspapers or books in Norwegian - Reading books in English - Sleep - Time with my friends - Marital quality time - Gardening - Cleaning (a heavy sacrifice indeed :-) - Ironing (even worse...) - Organizing family pictures - Time with my extended family It is an easy sacrifice to make, but if somebody drops another bomb on Oslo I am unlikely to notice because I am listening to some language course at the time... 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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