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| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5345 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes  Speaks: Spanish* | Message 9 of 41 08 May 2011 at 4:28am | IP Logged | ||
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USD10,000 on a couch is an obscenity. In fact, that much money spent on any one individual object is an obscenity. I can't think of anything I'd want that costs that much.
What I do need though, costs much more than that - a spacious, noise-free home. Other than this, were regular living expenses otherwise met, I'd separate some money for the time when I am ready to read this, save some for an emergency, give some it away to someone close to me who might need a hand. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6550 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 10 of 41 08 May 2011 at 6:38am | IP Logged | ||
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I already travel 6 mo out of the year to practice/study languages. It usually costs 30-50k, and covers 4-6 countries.
So if you gave me an additional 10k, I guess I'd spend it on stuff that makes the vacation more fun. Like booze and women. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5766 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 11 of 41 08 May 2011 at 7:41am | IP Logged | ||
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I'd fly to Hong Kong. Well, no, I probably would use it for schooling, but if I really had 10k just to spend, I'd fly to Hong Kong.
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5924 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 12 of 41 08 May 2011 at 9:52am | IP Logged | ||
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First, I am very curious to know what sort of sofa one could purchase for 10k, although I doubt I could ever rationalize paying that much for one piece of furniture.
I'll have to give two answers to the actual question. In reality, $10 000 would be very helpful in paying for my education and that is most likely how I will spend it. That is a very practical answer but it's no fun, What if I had the money to spend on anything I wanted? Well, I just thought of 3 choices: 1. Go to Mexico for 3 months and find out just how good (or bad) my Spanish is. 2. Visit South Africa and Namibia, though the cost of a round-trip plane ticket from the Northwestern US would be around $2 000 (or more) which might mean spending only a month in each country but hopefully this would be the perfect chance to improve my Afrikaans by interacting with native speakers. 3. Spend part of the summer in Iceland traveling the Ring Road on a bicycle. Edited by mick33 on 08 May 2011 at 9:57am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6011 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 13 of 41 08 May 2011 at 10:52am | IP Logged | ||
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6011 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 14 of 41 08 May 2011 at 10:55am | IP Logged | ||
Well personally, if I had $10,000 to burn, I might well spend it on education... in a foreign country. Degrees are a lot cheaper in places like Peru, and I always did fancy getting a masters and/or phd.... 3 persons have 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 15 of 41 08 May 2011 at 11:02am | IP Logged | ||
Of course we have to keep in mind that the cost of living, including furniture prices are high in Norway, but this is actually not even a flashy, or particularly beautiful sofa. It is a good quality, light grey, very average looking sofa. I would never have deared to buy something like that even if I had had the money for it, as I know that 5 minutes after we had brought it into the house we would spill ketchup or blueberry jam on it, and ruin it forever. The thing I like with my sofa is that I can wash the covers, and if something unspeakable were to happen to it, I can just buy a new cover for 50 bucks. Hence more free money for language learning material and trips :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6582 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 16 of 41 08 May 2011 at 11:06am | IP Logged | ||
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I spent a bit more than 10k USD on my year in China learning languages and martial arts. If I got 10k
more, I'd pile them up with other savings (right now I have about none, just having come back from China) and try to think of where I want to go next. Part of me wants to go to South America, but I didn't have enough time in HK last time, so six months in Hong Kong would be pretty sweet, as Cantonese is my favorite language ever. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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