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| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5336 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 25 of 39 08 May 2011 at 6:22am | IP Logged | ||
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Inspiring post, but the last bit I feel differently. You can get tired and bounce back if
you take a break. Depends on how tired you get really. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| outcast Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member China Joined 4949 days ago 869 posts - 1364 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English*, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Mandarin Studies: Korean | Message 26 of 39 08 May 2011 at 6:35am | IP Logged | ||
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I agree. I should have added that everyone is different.
I'm the type that either does something well or does not start at all. A bit inflexible approach at times, but other times it helps you make rapid progress or reach higher than anyone expected. It is totally cool to start and then stop for a time. If you know you will get back to it then it's fine. As long as you really learned things well the first time, you may forget quite a bit but when you review it will come back MUCH FASTER than the first time. One thing is to never get discouraged if you comeback to a language and you think you forgot many things you knew. That's normal, and not a sign that you failed to learn. Your brain is just a busy guy so things you don't use it will store in deeper levels, but again if you learned it right, it will come back much faster the 2nd time around. Eventually if you review it enough times it never leaves! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| pj1991 Newbie United States Joined 4953 days ago 29 posts - 49 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 27 of 39 10 May 2011 at 3:10am | IP Logged | ||
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A language doesn't have to be useful for you to enjoy it, but if you're questioning whether you even like it then maybe it's not for you. If you're looking for a useful language and living in the US what's practical? Pretty much only Spanish. Maybe Mandarin years down the road, but even then (excluding some specific professions) there probably won't be a point in your life where you're getting turned down for job opportunities or anything like that because you don't speak Chinese
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| JLA Triglot Newbie France Joined 4897 days ago 25 posts - 33 votes Speaks: French*, English, German Studies: Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 28 of 39 10 August 2011 at 5:35pm | IP Logged | ||
That's funny :) It is the exact same reason why I do plan on learning Swedish in the near future, to be (hopefully) able to watch the original Wallander series and reread the books. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5219 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 29 of 39 10 August 2011 at 6:20pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, there is a moral in there. The ham-shank pot noodle is not the best supper. I suspect a)the girls had enough talent to pick from should they be looking... b) your buddies weren't where they said they were ..... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5838 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 30 of 39 18 August 2011 at 2:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well I am Swedish and I agree with the reasons for learning Swedish listed here.
I can't think of a good reason to learn Swedish for business reasons unless you were actually planning to live there. But there are plenty of solid cultural and social reasons to learn it, as listed here. The important thing is that the language and its associated culture etc inspire you enough to keep struggling year after year until you have a good level of fluency, grammar and vocabulary. If you feel that way about Swedish, then definitely go for it, and you'll be able to find lots of support online. If you prefer to learn a bigger and more useful language from a business perspective, then go for German as you mentioned initially 1 person has 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 31 of 39 18 August 2011 at 5:29pm | IP Logged | ||
Didn't they change that for non-EU citizens? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| floydak Tetraglot Groupie Slovakia Joined 4854 days ago 60 posts - 85 votes Speaks: Slovak*, English, German, Spanish Studies: French | Message 32 of 39 18 August 2011 at 6:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would say.. If somebody needs US to convince HIM he shouldn't start with that language
and pick another one when he doesn't need to be persuaded on the forum to study it. learning language is long somehow difficult journey where lot of energy and willingnes have to be sacrificed. and if you aren't 10000% convinced in the beggining there is chance you stop half-way after couple of weeks/months. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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