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| 843 Tetraglot Newbie Singapore Joined 5443 days ago 16 posts - 22 votes Speaks: Indonesian*, English, Malay, Mandarin Studies: French, German | Message 121 of 161 10 March 2010 at 5:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's great keeping language learning a secret. My parents aren't aware that I know decent
Japanese and Russian. I'm just hoping to encounter that random chance to practice them. Bonus points if your language doesn't use latin characters. :-P Edited by 843 on 10 March 2010 at 5:45pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5590 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 122 of 161 10 March 2010 at 5:49pm | IP Logged | ||
I can't wait until my Russian is good, It seems like such an exotic language to me :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Carisma Diglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 5627 days ago 104 posts - 161 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC1 Studies: Italian, Mandarin | Message 123 of 161 11 March 2010 at 7:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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When I said I wanted to learn a third language, my mother said "Why? You already speak English... English is all you need!" but I don't think so. Yes, English is useful because it is a universal language. But a good quantity of the influence that English has is because of US power. US is an empire, and all the empires sooner or later fall. And the day it happens to the US, people are going to need translators of, say, German and Japanese (I'm just saying the ones I think are going to be the languages of the future. It's likely that you think differently) and people are going to pay BIG bucks for these translators.
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| Carisma Diglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 5627 days ago 104 posts - 161 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC1 Studies: Italian, Mandarin | Message 124 of 161 11 March 2010 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | ||
Haha. I'm just thinking about how would it be to find out that your kid speaks Japanese and Russian... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6557 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 125 of 161 13 March 2010 at 9:59am | IP Logged | ||
One negotiates things and finds compromises. I don't have a girlfriend with a great circle of friends... I have a wife and four daughters with greater circles of friends and very happy life where we are. But we are a travelling family and everyone knows the score from the onset... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ewomahony Diglot Groupie England Joined 5587 days ago 91 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian, French, Afrikaans | Message 126 of 161 15 March 2010 at 12:10am | IP Logged | ||
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If ever anyone mocks me for being a language nerd, I'm motivated even more so to achieve my goals. I'd imagine giving them a taste of their own medicine in a language they can't understand would frustrate them greatly :)
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| crackpot Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6306 days ago 144 posts - 178 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 127 of 161 19 March 2010 at 10:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Don't worry about what others say or think. If I tell some of my friends I'm studying a
language they ask me what I am going to do with it, as if being able to converse with millions of people and seeing the world anew were not enough. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Rabochnok Diglot Newbie Colombia Joined 5615 days ago 37 posts - 59 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Turkish, Persian | Message 128 of 161 20 March 2010 at 12:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Make lots of cash with your mad language skills?
Hah, I guess that's something but not everyone learning a language does it for that (certainly I don't). And keeping language learning a secret is great. My dad has a vague idea that I was dabbling in Turkish (but thinks it's some sort of Arabic.... hah!), and the rest of my family doesn't know at all; it doesn't come up and I do feel a bit uneasy announcing it in case I have to drop it afterwards. But I guess it'd be fun to be speaking Turkish "out of the blue" around them if the chance came up. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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