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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5481 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 1 of 25 03 January 2010 at 8:54am | IP Logged |
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Has anyone here ever felt torn at the seams as I have? I feel like one language is pulling me to lead my life through THAT country and THAT language, but another is doing so as well. For example, I really want to go to university in a foreign country whose language is one of those that I am studying. I feel that it would set me up for living in THAT country for pretty much a good half of my life, and it seems unfair to me when I think about my other languages and how much I love them as well. Hopefully my situation makes itself solved by offering a compromise once the time comes, but I just wanted to know if anyone else felt this way. If so, in what way? What was the reason?
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| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6294 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 2 of 25 03 January 2010 at 10:48am | IP Logged |
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Set clear goals and a time limit before you go. Easier to move on to the next country and language once you've
achieved your goals. Don't forget to go back home to your friends and family. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Iolanthe Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5641 days ago 410 posts - 482 votes Speaks: English*, DutchC1 Studies: Turkish, French | Message 3 of 25 03 January 2010 at 12:35pm | IP Logged |
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If you're fluent in many languages, you're basically free to go live wherever you want within those language speaking zone since there's no worries about not being able to get a job or not being able to integrate. I wouldn't worry about being stuck in one place for half of your life since if you really had wanderlust you could always move to the other countries for a shorter amount of time and then return to the place where you are settled if you so wish. You could even study abroad while you're studying abroad (for a semester or year).
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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6142 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 4 of 25 03 January 2010 at 6:26pm | IP Logged |
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You could move to a country that is multilingual so as to satisfy as many of your languages as possible. If you go to Switzerland, you can use French, German, and Italian at least. If you go to Belgium, you could use Dutch (Flemish), French, and German. Of course, this would have to mean that these are languages you study, and in your case it wouldn't apply.
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| John Smith Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6042 days ago 396 posts - 542 votes Speaks: English*, Czech*, Spanish Studies: German | Message 5 of 25 04 January 2010 at 9:11am | IP Logged |
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^^ America is probably one of the most multilingual areas in the world.
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| apatch3 Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6185 days ago 80 posts - 99 votes Speaks: Pashto, English* Studies: Japanese, FrenchA2 | Message 6 of 25 08 April 2010 at 10:40pm | IP Logged |
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lol isnt this thread the story of all of our lives
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| global_gizzy Senior Member United States maxcollege.blogspot. Joined 5703 days ago 275 posts - 310 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 7 of 25 09 April 2010 at 12:52am | IP Logged |
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Goal setting is good, that way you can go, work on and achieve a set number of goals and then move on. Also, try and see if you can find a community of XYZ speakers in ABC-land.
For example: Go to a Russian community in Germany, or a Georgian community somewhere in Russia (assuming that there are some.) Thay way you can go to school in Lang-2 and do recreational things in the neighborhood in Lang-3. (Lang-1 is English, of course.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5585 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 8 of 25 09 April 2010 at 1:07am | IP Logged |
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I've picked out 6 languages that I want to study to fluency (I'm still thinking about Japanese)
Spanish, German, Russian, Italian and Portuguese. Spanish I have a pretty good grasp of (I want to be near native like in German, Russian, and Spanish, which I don't think will be difficult. I have a lot of time ahead of me) Italian and Portuguese shouldn't be difficult either because of my knowledge of Spanish (Romance family :D) I made my goals short, clear, and simple. I would rather know a small amount of languages very well than know a lot to a sub-par level. However, it is ALL about what you want. The biggest problem I have is sticking to one language, I can't stay away from them all. I've been mixing Italian and German study together lately, and plan to study Russian later in life. Portuguese is there just in case I need to learn it :) I can pick it up VERY quickly if I need to, I know the basics. My advice would be to stick to one until you master it, it's the best way to achieve your goals :) 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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