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| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5312 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 9 of 12 03 February 2012 at 8:26pm | IP Logged |
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I've studied enough languages which are also sufficiently different -- I think learning any new one won't add much to my understanding of the internals of language, languages and language learning, which from my point of view is much more interesting than the particularities of any of them. Thus, any further studies of a new language will have to be based on its particular beauty, usefulness or some other special circumstance, and I can't foresee that happening right now. Meanwhile, I already have enough languages that I want to study to a deeper level for their own sake. Edited by mrwarper on 03 February 2012 at 8:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Superking Diglot Groupie United States polyglutwastaken.blo Joined 6729 days ago 87 posts - 194 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin | Message 10 of 12 03 February 2012 at 8:50pm | IP Logged |
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Having only gotten very deep into my fourth so far, I don't have any plans to stop adding new languages anytime soon. I am very much a "one at a time" learner, by habit if not by design, so I only have Mandarin on my plate at the moment, but that might change once I get sufficiently good at it that I'm comfortable taking on something else. We'll see, but for now, my answer is a definitive NO.
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| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6745 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 11 of 12 03 February 2012 at 9:07pm | IP Logged |
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I’d rather learn a lot and forget than learn only a few and keep them alive.
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| wv girl Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5325 days ago 174 posts - 330 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish | Message 12 of 12 03 February 2012 at 9:43pm | IP Logged |
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You know, I hate start something and not finish it. But when I started learning foreign languages, I had NO IDEA
how long it would take to "finish." My French isn't perfect and my Spanish skills lag behind French, so I don't feel that I've "finished" either. Both I try to maintain/improve to the best of my ability. At the same time, I may be tempted by other languages, presently Italian and Greek, and there is a lovely Catalan group in the TAC ... but I seriously hesitate to even look at them too much. Even if Italian and Catalan are similar to my other languages, I know just how much time it will take, which is more than I have at the moment. So I want to say no, no more languages for the moment. But peeping at the others a little bit can't hurt, right? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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