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| Thatzright Diglot Senior Member Finland Joined 5673 days ago 202 posts - 311 votes  Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: French, Swedish, German, Russian | Message 10 of 27 15 April 2011 at 10:20pm | IP Logged | ||
Exactly, the same thing pretty much happened to me, and it just gets worse and worse when you keep thinking day and night about when you can switch that one language from "Intermediate level" to "Basic fluency" just to feel satisfied with yourself... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| wv girl Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5240 days ago 174 posts - 330 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 27 15 April 2011 at 11:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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I know that if you already know French and Spanish, Italian should come easily, like buy 2 get 1 free! So, out of
mild curiosity, I recently peeked into Italian. Sure enough, many things are similar and I could understand and read pretty easily. However, 2 languages seem to be enough for me, because I know I don't have the time to give to learning a 3rd language, even a "free one." I might dream of learning others, but my life now really doesn't give me the time, so I'm satisfied with maintaining my 2. That's enough of a challenge sometimes! Also, I don't want to start something that I can do just a little bit of. If I begin a language, I want to do it really well and I know I just don't have the time. Now, if I won the lottery and suddenly had lots of free time ... Edited by wv girl on 15 April 2011 at 11:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5346 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 12 of 27 16 April 2011 at 1:19am | IP Logged | ||
It's too late for me. Save yourselves. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5568 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 13 of 27 16 April 2011 at 4:55am | IP Logged | ||
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Too late for me too. I don't think I can die happy unless I know at least 10 languages.
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| Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5567 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish | Message 14 of 27 16 April 2011 at 7:41am | IP Logged | ||
I guess you'll be living for a while then. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5172 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 15 of 27 16 April 2011 at 3:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think I'll always be learning languages just because I enjoy it so much. I don't have any set number I want to learn, but I'll be adding more languages as soon as I can fit it into my schedule. As other people commented, this forum doesn't help much in regard to wanderlust - every time I come on here I see some fascinating new language. Right now Slovak looks really interesting . . .
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| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6126 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 16 of 27 17 April 2011 at 4:16am | IP Logged | ||
Only a couple languages, is not a small matter. Really, I find I always have something to do on either Finnish or Japanese. Only a couple of languages is a lot of work. Even one is a lot of work.
I've been thinking about when to upgrade myself to intermediate in Japanese, but I think I've decided I won't do this until I get past JLPT2 or so, which optimistically might happen in a year or two. So far I don't think I suffer too much from Wanderlust. I am working on both Finnish and Japanese, but I feel like I have good reasons for both. At one time I entertained ideas of resurrecting my high school German, but I've tossed that language into the wood chipper for now to make more time for Finnish. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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