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| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5961 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 1 of 12 02 February 2012 at 9:51pm | IP Logged |
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Are any of you intent on not starting on any further languages? If so, what's your reasoning behind it? Personally I'd like to stop adding languages at some point (hopefully sooner rather than later) so that I can just concentrate on improving and maintaining the languages I already have and enjoy making use of them. However my hunger for new languages is still far from being satisfied.
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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5035 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 2 of 12 02 February 2012 at 10:07pm | IP Logged |
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I felt like that for more than 10 years, until I discovered Japanese. I thought it was too much to maintain what I already had. And it still is, but I've added Japanese and French into my language mix. I'm telling myself I don't want anything beyond this. I just want to do well what I already do.
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| vikavictoria Pentaglot Groupie United States Joined 5050 days ago 49 posts - 74 votes Speaks: Persian, English*, German, Spanish, Tajik Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 12 03 February 2012 at 3:31am | IP Logged |
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I said no more langs after Russian, but I somehow fell in love with Kazakh. I think if I get the time to learn another one, it'll be that one. As we say in Russian, "lyubov' vstrechetsya" (love finds itself...idk how to perevesti lol).
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6583 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 4 of 12 03 February 2012 at 6:41am | IP Logged |
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I'm the other way around. I keep trying to add more languages, but it's really difficult; I just fall back to studying more Mandarin and Cantonese.
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| Alexander86 Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom alanguagediary.blogs Joined 4982 days ago 224 posts - 323 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, Catalan Studies: Swedish | Message 5 of 12 03 February 2012 at 8:46am | IP Logged |
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It depends what you mean by 'starting'... I'm not going to start any languages that I haven't studied before, but as
I've studied 8 I've got my work cut out anyway... But I will now concentrate heavily on the ones that I speak well, before slowly bringing up those that I've studied less - no more! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4977 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian | Message 6 of 12 03 February 2012 at 1:29pm | IP Logged |
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I don't have all that many on my plate, so far, and since I have many more I want to learn, I can't imagine that this
will be happening to me anytime soon. I suppose eventually I might want to pause or take a breather, but who knows? At the moment my current state of mind compels me to move around this planet like an eternally migrating bird without a nest. 2-4 years is plenty of time, I think, to dedicate to one particular place. After that, I'd hop elsewhere, and elsewhere after that, and so on so forth. Since I'd like to live on every world "region" at least once (ex: 'traditional' Western Europe, the European North, Eastern Europe/Russia, Central Asia, South Asia, an island in the Pacific, the Maghreb, Southern Africa, Central America, South America, etc.), I think I'll be kept occupied for a good portion of forever. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6551 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 7 of 12 03 February 2012 at 1:34pm | IP Logged |
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I have 5 more to go, then I'll call it quits. I'm getting old, and can't maintain that many girlfriends anymore.
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| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5208 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 8 of 12 03 February 2012 at 2:57pm | IP Logged |
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I love learning languages as much as the rest of you, but it's such a time and energy suck when I also work full time and have other interests. In particular, my language learning time has significantly cut into my music practice time, and being around my musician friends who're forever writing new material, starting new projects, and learning new theory makes me a bit sad that these days I don't have time to do much more than maintain my current skill level. Once I've reached a good level in the main languages that interest me (French, Italian, Spanish, and maybe Russian or German) I might well decide that that's enough languages for me and, apart from maintaining them, my time would be better spent in other ways. I'll never say never though; maybe I'll develop an interest in more languages, or on the other hand maybe I'll find new interests. I wasn't very interested in languages a few years ago, and was a lot more interested in computers than I am now, so who knows what my interests and priorities will be in another few years. Edited by garyb on 03 February 2012 at 2:59pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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