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| Woodpecker Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5815 days ago 351 posts - 590 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian) Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 17 of 25 11 April 2010 at 2:56pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Whoever came up with the tag for this thread is, simply put, a genius.
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| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5589 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 18 of 25 11 April 2010 at 3:07pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I don't even know what the tag means lol
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5560 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 19 of 25 12 April 2010 at 8:13pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When you find yourself repeatedly having to restitch your language plans together, for love of one two many languages, don't worry too much. There's no need to throw in the towel with your resources or feel guilty about your fickle infidelities. It's perfectly normal when you truly love languages, and you're in great company here on this forum, where so many of us feel exactly the same from time to time (or all the time).
I find it helps to think of learning languages using something like this simple tailor analogy. Yes, we aim to sew together some beautiful clothes, but this takes time and patience, suitable patterns and good materials, a good eye for details, building on skill with every new stitch and darn over the year, and all to be individually tailored with dedication and love. On the other hand, it's fun and useful to take time out to play with languages too. We can learn to sew together so many new and amazing layers of language, like pieces of cloth with different designs, colours and textures. A little similar to one of the wonderful comfort blankets or patchwork quilts that gets passed down through generations of families perhaps. With this analogy in mind, I like to separate languages into: a) a set of linguistic clothing I'd like to prepare for my next 5-year journey ahead, i.e. what I'll need for my career, for the country and climate where I'm living, or just something fashionable, new and fitting to replenish my wardrobe perhaps, but all enduring and good quality; and b) a comfort blanket of language hopes and dreams, a patchwork quilt of linguistic wanderings and many fun hours spent on languages I enjoy, just little scenic detours from the path, that are useful altogether to keep me warm during those long winter months or moments of the soul when learning these 5-year-plan languages becomes an uphill struggle. If you look at many successful polyglots out there, like Laoshu or Professor Arguelles, who manage to really juggle an impressive number of languages, you'll notice that they employ similar methods. Perhaps it's time to draw up and commit to a 5-year-plan like I did recently, just jotting down your priorities and targets for the coming 5 years or so; and then use a time during the week (perhaps the weekend) when you can simply kick back, relax, and pick from a growing list of new, exotic and fascinating languages to study or play with - all of which expand your horizons, help you see the interrelatedness and patterns between languages of the world, and inevitably aid you in acquiring languages more easily in the future. So just pick up your needle and thread and get stitching! :) Edited by Teango on 12 April 2010 at 8:40pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ManicGenius Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 288 posts - 420 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, French, Japanese | Message 20 of 25 12 April 2010 at 8:52pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I am young and healthy (at least I think), but I do not have enough life to live to learn all the languages I wish.
That is the true dilemma. Any longevity researchers on this forum want to solve my quandary?! :-P Edited by ManicGenius on 12 April 2010 at 8:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| dolly Senior Member United States Joined 5794 days ago 191 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin | Message 21 of 25 12 April 2010 at 9:12pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I can't wait to study Turkish, but I've only been studying Italian for three weeks. There is no way I'm going to do beginner level with two languages at once. Minimum of six months before I start a new language.
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| ManicGenius Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 288 posts - 420 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, French, Japanese | Message 22 of 25 12 April 2010 at 9:33pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Wait... explain. Do you mean you learn only one language for six months, or that you take a six month break? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| dolly Senior Member United States Joined 5794 days ago 191 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin | Message 23 of 25 12 April 2010 at 9:37pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6146 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 24 of 25 12 April 2010 at 11:54pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
That would actually be a very good system for restraining myself from taking on any new "major studies" languages. The only problem with this is that once the six months have elapsed, I will feel entitled to start new language each time, and that will just be too overwhelming. [sigh] These Romance languages need to go so that I can have room for new stuff. Or [gasp, what a novelty] having time for the other stuff that I'm already doing! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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