sansan2010 Newbie Belgium Joined 5090 days ago 7 posts - 9 votes
| Message 9 of 23 16 December 2010 at 6:12pm | IP Logged |
No French, I never liked it.
Fluency in: English, German, Spanish, Polish and Dutch. The other 2 are Italian and
Greek.
I have a Latinum as well, don't know if that's of any use.
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5379 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 10 of 23 16 December 2010 at 6:15pm | IP Logged |
I guess jobs that require many languages in Belgium would also require French...
I take it you don't know what you want to do in life just yet. Finding a job that would take advantage of your language skills is okay, but I recommend you find your passion and find a job that matches that instead.
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hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5128 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe
| Message 11 of 23 16 December 2010 at 6:16pm | IP Logged |
sansan2010 wrote:
@ hrhenry: Passion (for some of them), coincidences, travels, international schools,
multinational family, and the ability to soak them up easily.
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There are some good ways to use those languages in that answer.
Most people don't simply learn a language for no reason.
R.
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sansan2010 Newbie Belgium Joined 5090 days ago 7 posts - 9 votes
| Message 12 of 23 16 December 2010 at 6:20pm | IP Logged |
Belgium is sort of linguistically divided into two parts, with the majority being Dutch.
I'm not looking for a job - I'm rather looking for something interesting to do with them,
maybe some philological research or... I don't know!!!
I'm actually studying something entirely different, which is Marine Biology. But if in
the meantime I can make use of my languages as well - why not.
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5379 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 13 of 23 16 December 2010 at 6:25pm | IP Logged |
Fluency is so many languages implies that you get to use them regularly.
Perhaps you should be telling us what to do with so many languages, no the other way around.
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sansan2010 Newbie Belgium Joined 5090 days ago 7 posts - 9 votes
| Message 14 of 23 16 December 2010 at 6:33pm | IP Logged |
Good question. I use them all frequently to communicate with family and friends. I also
use them when I work or do internships - but those jobs are not specifically connected
with languages.
I've studied all of them (except for Italian, which I've learned because it's similar to
Spanish and I had to deal with a lot of Italians at work).
I'm currently doing a minor in Modern Greek at Uni.
I mostly use them just to communicate, though. I'd like to do much more with them.
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5379 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 15 of 23 16 December 2010 at 6:36pm | IP Logged |
sansan2010 wrote:
I mostly use them just to communicate, though. I'd like to do much more with them. |
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... but isn't that exactly what languages are for?
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sansan2010 Newbie Belgium Joined 5090 days ago 7 posts - 9 votes
| Message 16 of 23 16 December 2010 at 6:41pm | IP Logged |
Yes... but the level remains the same. That's why I would like to participate in some
research program or something that sort of forces you to push your skills to another
level.
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