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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5386 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 9 of 12 10 January 2011 at 5:55pm | IP Logged |
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Most of our problems, on a planetary scale, come from humans misunderstanding humans. I consider that learning another language is the least a human can do to try to understand his fellow human beings.
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6587 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 10 of 12 12 January 2011 at 10:28am | IP Logged |
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Honestly, the information available on the Internet in English is so vast that there's no way I could exhaust it on almost any topic. I find it rare to find information in a non-English language that's not available in English, with the exception of topics closely tied to a specific country or language (and there's still a lot more info on written Cantonese on the English Wikipedia page than on the Cantonese one). I sometimes read in other languages on the web, but that's really just to practice them. The Internet, to me, it a mostly English-language network.
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| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5408 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 11 of 12 12 January 2011 at 12:52pm | IP Logged |
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Due to my specific interest in history I often find English resources on the internet quite limited. For example, the information about Old Church Slavonic in English is minor compared to that in most Slavic languages. Although I use Wikipedia primarily in English, I always check the same article in other languages and many times I have found those more informational then the English version.
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| Lapislazuli Tetraglot Senior Member Austria Joined 7041 days ago 146 posts - 170 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, ItalianB1 Studies: French, Hungarian, Esperanto, Czech | Message 12 of 12 12 January 2011 at 4:16pm | IP Logged |
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I can only agree to what Delodephius just said. I have also had lots of experiences of not finding enough informations in English on the subjects I am looking for. Being very interested in cultural topics, what I am curious about is often also tied to a certain region, country or language and so there would also be more interesting information to find on them in those languages.
Of course when inquiring about a topic of general interest one might often find most information in English, but then it is still often worth looking at things in another language and might at the same time show things from a very different point of view. So knowing more languages then German and English, I would find it a waste not to use them for this kind of research. This is one of the aspects that I really love about knowing and learning different languages. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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