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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5339 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 43 01 January 2011 at 11:14am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I've always been crazy about languages. For family reasons I had however put them on the back burner, until I found this place. I love being here, and I get lots of ideas and positive feedback. My problem is that my wanderlust goes into overdrive!!!
The other day in the basement, I found material that I want to use for the languages I will deal with in TAC, and some of my old "language loves" literally fell on my head. Out came books in Hebrew, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese and I felt like taking them all up and start working on them. And if that were not enough, you guys make me want to learn new and horribly difficult languages like Japanese and Mandarin and I would like to learn Mongolian, as I have decided that before I die, I will go to Ulan Bator. Had I had the time and capacity I would have gone for Polish, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Dutch, Hebrew, Arabic, Mongolian, Japanese and Mandarin right now. I am struggling against the want to do that, but I have three questions for the rest of you: 1) Which extra languages would you like to do, if you had the time and capacity? 2) How do you resist the temptation? 3) And those of you who instead of resisting the temptation, embrace it, how do you cope? Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 01 January 2011 at 7:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5852 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 43 01 January 2011 at 11:25am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I never have this temptation of wanderlust because it doesn't give me satisfaction to just have a superficial look into an unknown language.
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| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6110 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 3 of 43 01 January 2011 at 11:40am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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So far, my inability to decide is restraining my wanderings.
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| LittleBoy Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5315 days ago 84 posts - 100 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 4 of 43 01 January 2011 at 12:02pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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1. Italian and Icelandic. Those are the ones at the top of my hitlist, really fighting for attention. I occasionally think about Indonesian, Korean, Ancient Hittite and various others as well...
2. By not resisting the temptations of Spanish, Esperanto and Toki Pona! And then knowing I've got too much to do... 3. By not doing very well at any language. Seriously though, this year I'm going to be going at each for a few weeks, then moving onto the next. So I'll see how that goes. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Yashinka Diglot Pro Member SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5214 days ago 29 posts - 37 votes Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2 Studies: Japanese, German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 43 01 January 2011 at 12:40pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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1. I would like to learn Mandarin, but I know my limits all too well, even though it would divert my focus from
japanese that i'm starting to become comfortable in, I would really like to give Mandarin an honest chance. 2. Like I said, I would want to give Mandarin an honest effort, and that is simply not possible within the foreseeable future, one day though, I will take up the challenge, hopefully :) 3. I embrace it in one way, but its a planned wanderlust, my final ambition when it comes to languages is to be fluent in 7 languages, I have my first 5 clear to me, and i'm working towards them right now, the other two is still something that remains to be decided, but it gives me a an excuse to look up languages that I might take an interest in studying after my current languages are natural to me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6914 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 43 01 January 2011 at 12:44pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
In the Twenty languages thread, I posted a list of those I've studied formally, and those I've studied on and off/flirted with/had a look at for some time. Apart from the ones I'm now devoting time to (on a reasonably regular basis), I'd want to cover Cantonese and Irish, the rest of the Celtic languages, some of the Slavic languages, Dutch...
I don't. See below.
This results in chaos. A little of this, a little of that, not much of anything. But I still have my major languages. As long as I'm focusing on them, I can squeeze in 15 minutes here and there, even if it's only skimming through a grammar book. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| thephantomgoat Groupie United States Joined 5476 days ago 52 posts - 103 votes | Message 7 of 43 01 January 2011 at 1:37pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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1. I'm finding Turkish and Portuguese really tempting right about now. Arabic has also
appeared on my radar for the first time, and my childhood desire to learn Swahili has returned with a vengeance. 2. I don't. I'll begin Turkish as soon as my Teach Yourself book arrives in the mail. :D 3. Like jeff lindqvist said, chaos. I flit from language to language, playing in all of them without making real progress in any which one. It's a new year, though, and with that, new study habits. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6708 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 43 01 January 2011 at 3:18pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I don't find it difficult to resist Wanderlust because I don't try. Instead I just succomb to it, but for a limited time span and with a strictly limited goal, and then I stop again when that's done. For instance I have read Kauderwelsh booklets about just about anything from Estonian to Quechua, and I have not only bought, but also read grammars for languages like Georgian, Albanian and Bulgarian. In a few cases I have studied something in detail without aiming for fluency, such as the verbal system of Filipino or the position of the adjectives in Old High German, but there are also a few cases where I have had to to turn down the amount of time and effort I can spend on a certain language. For instance I have postponed learning Irish because I got caught up with Bahasa, and 'within Bahasa' I have decided to concentrate on Indonesian because my main sources have turned out to be in this language, not Malaysian. But both Irish and Malaysian are still on my priority list.
Apart from Indonesian I'm so far limiting my serious studies to Indoeuropean languages, so anything outside this realm is by definition just a flirt. And within the Slavic languages I have also chosen to focus on just Russian, but they are so close that I also to some extent can get the gist of texts in other Slavic languages. In spite of this I do not try to rearn them properly right now. And Chinese? I'm not tempted - due to the writing system. Edited by Iversen on 02 January 2011 at 1:11am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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