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| OlafP Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5440 days ago 261 posts - 667 votes  Speaks: German*, French, English | Message 17 of 43 02 January 2011 at 1:11am | IP Logged | ||||||||
1. Hungarian and Greek 2. Very easy: I only need to think of any state or of a prevalent delusion in a region where a language is spoken and my desire to learn it is gone. The Greek have ruined their country and are on the brink of a civil war. Given the amount of debts they have piled up they won't get out of this mess in the forseeable future. Hungary has a right-wing extremist government with a 2/3 majority in the parliament that just a few days ago abolished freedom of press from their constitution. That method works with every language. If you really want to learn one then you need to create an exception, a backdoor. This is an active step, i.e. it requires energy to get you out of a stable equilibrium. As a result you're not susceptible to whims or tempers but in control of your own life. Edited by OlafP on 02 January 2011 at 11:45am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Aineko Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 5453 days ago 238 posts - 442 votes Speaks: Serbian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin | Message 18 of 43 02 January 2011 at 1:33am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Irish (next year, maybe...together with Arabic...this year is for Mandarin)
I just remind myself how much I still have to improve in Spanish and Russian.
I fall partly in this category since I listen Irish songs a lot thus 'learning' the words before I know what they mean :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6130 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 19 of 43 02 January 2011 at 2:30am | IP Logged | ||||||||
1. Some day I'd like to get back to German. I have fantasies of meeting my old high school German teacher and actually knowing the language. I took it for 3 years, and there are some words in my brain, but I am non-fluent. It is tempting because I look at German and after working on Finnish and Japanese I just feel like this would be so easy in comparison-- at least as far as developing passive abilities. 2. I have a bullet-proof system. I just start writing simple sentences or emails in Finnish. I get to work, and then when I'm done I look up at the clock, and oops, it's 11PM and I need to get in some Japanese before I pass out. Finnish is a time vortex of some kind. I attempt to form simple thoughts, and then hours pass like minutes. 3. Sometimes on sharedtalk.com I pop open the 'German' chat room. Mostly it's dead there so it's not a distraction, but now and then I post some cringe-inducing, horrifically malformed, beginner German sentences, but I do this only to gain the unearned respect of people who don't know any better. Now and then I'll listen to a German language learning podcast, or dig into my collection of German movies that I've been leeching off of the internet. Really it's all for fun. It's not really a problem. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6664 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 20 of 43 02 January 2011 at 3:04am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Which extra languages would I like to do?
I'd add Russian, Greek, Indonesian, and maybe Croatian and Dutch. How do I resist the temptation? I look through things written in German and Italian, two languages I've studied in the past and realize how difficult it is for me to keep up my fluency in so many languages. On the other hand, I made a New Year's resolution to get more serious about Portuguese in 2011. I've got a Brazilian friend who has shamed me with his English. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6555 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 21 of 43 02 January 2011 at 3:35am | IP Logged | ||||||||
You found this place, and now your family isn't important? That's so sad:)
1) Korean, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, Italian, German, Vietnamese, Cantonese, Tagalog 2) I'm systematically studying 5 languages right now. I have a plan. I'm saturated, so additional languages don't fit into my schedule. Hence, there is no temptation. There are some advantages to being logical. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6147 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 22 of 43 02 January 2011 at 4:08am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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1) Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Czech, Welsh, Georgian, Mandarin...
2) I try to remind myself of how many other unfinished projects I have going and how much I want to focus on and properly learn the other languages. But then this unruly new language pries itself into my mind and convinces me that I love it too, and then chaos ensues. In other words... I usually don't/can't. That's why I have this ridiculous list of studied languages under my name. Just last night I gave in to the temptation and officially added Polish... 3) I come up with absurdly complicated schedules and rotations for study that accommodate all my linguistic pursuits and attempt to stick with them. Unfortunately, they're usually a pain to use. Sometimes I'll replace one of my previous languages which I decide I don't wish to continue with or doesn't need much more work with a shiny new one. I did this last night, replacing Esperanto with Polish. Edited by ellasevia on 04 January 2011 at 4:20am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| nuriayasmin Senior Member Germany Joined 5248 days ago 155 posts - 210 votes | Message 23 of 43 02 January 2011 at 4:35am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I'd love to add Russian and Japanese. Well, Catalan, Finnish, Italian, Irish, Indonesian and Quechua are also very tempting ...
I gave in to wanderlust last year and it led me nowhere so this year I'm determined to stick to my four languages. My particiapation in TAC 2011 will surely help. If I reach my goals for 2011, being allowed to add another language in 2012 will be my reward :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Asiafeverr Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6347 days ago 346 posts - 431 votes 1 sounds Speaks: French*, English Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, German | Message 24 of 43 02 January 2011 at 1:49pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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1) Every existing Chinese dialects!
2) I don't. 3) I do not cope with my chaotic wishes very well and I just study what I want when I feel like it. I can communicate in a variety of dialects with people from all over China but I am not fluent in any Chinese language yet. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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