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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6151 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 25 of 38 03 July 2012 at 5:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Last year I spent a lot more time in the gym and a bit less studying languages. This year I haven't been to the gym, so unfortunately, I've sacrificed my waistline.
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| 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 26 of 38 03 July 2012 at 5:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
...and then there is that. I've put on 20 pounds this year, and I am blaming it all on my language studies :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4678 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 27 of 38 03 July 2012 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
Sorry, won't be that easy: I've lost the same amount since I've started being more intense on languages, i.e. the beginning of the year. Perhaps it has to do with the languages involved? ;) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6151 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 28 of 38 09 July 2012 at 10:29am | IP Logged | |||||
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I've never seen a 3-D film, and I haven't been to the cinema in nearly two years. All the films I watch now, I own on DVD, and nearly all of them are in a language I've studied.
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| Travod Newbie United States Joined 4586 days ago 17 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 29 of 38 10 July 2012 at 11:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Wow, so for you guys learning languages is full time? For me it's a hobby where the only time I do it is
45 minutes a day in school, and this summer maybe 20 minutes a day. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5391 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 30 of 38 10 July 2012 at 11:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Not exclusively my desire to learn French but my desire to make a future and integrate into France has
been the worst financial decision of my life. I'm going to fight like hell, though, to make sure the experience isn't reduced to just a happy memory and my French just a nice hobby while I work to pay for it but rather an investment in a future I couldn't have even imagined for myself or that could have been possible a few years ago without it. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jumpman Jr. Diglot Newbie Canada howtostudykorean.com Joined 4591 days ago 7 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English*, Korean | Message 31 of 38 11 July 2012 at 5:15am | IP Logged | |||||
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I sacrifice a lot of TIME to learn the language that I am currently learning (Korean). Especially as of lately, because I will be writing a proficiency test in a few weeks, I'm spending most of my day at work and almost all of my night (from 5pm to 10pm or so) just studying.
The thing is, I wouldn't call it a sacrifice. Am I loosing that time? I would say 'no.' The only thing I am sacrificing is the learning of other languages, which I would be doing if I had more of this 'time'. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6903 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 32 of 38 11 July 2012 at 12:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, I definitely read less in Polish and watch less Polish TV/movies. But it's not
really a sacrifice, as I can read and watch amazing stuff in other languages I wouldn't have the access to but for my language skills. I don't really see learning languages as a sacrifice apart from some very rare situations when I have to (or want to) learn something very specific in a short amount of time, and I feel like I would prefer to learn something else. The only sacrifice I make is sacrificing one language for another, as it's sometimes difficult to find enough time to improve all my languages (or simply keep them, for that matter). Actually, it is learning languages that gives me a nice excuse to read bad literature, watch stupid TV shows and spend too much time on the internet ;). I am exaggerating now but you get the point. If I was doing all this stuff in Polish, it would probably feel like such a tremendous waste of time. /All corrections of my English are welcome and desired :) - send me a PM, please./ 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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