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| ^veganboy^ Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5925 days ago 51 posts - 51 votes  | Message 1 of 39 05 June 2009 at 2:24am | IP Logged | ||
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After having learned an array of foreign languages to a basic level, I am wondering if somebody here has ever learned a foreign language to fluency and regretted it afterwards due to whatever reasons (political, lack of oportunity to use it, etc...).
If so, how did it go? what language did you learn? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| miguelsantiago Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5686 days ago 36 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese | Message 2 of 39 05 June 2009 at 3:03am | IP Logged | ||
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This could be interesting. I wish I had input. I'm pretty decent at Spanish. I wouldn't regret the time I spent learning it in a million years.
But anyway this is a forum about regrets not joys and benefits. So now I will sit back and watch the replies. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ^veganboy^ Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5925 days ago 51 posts - 51 votes | Message 3 of 39 05 June 2009 at 3:48am | IP Logged | ||
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I'd be interested to see somebody who learned a minoroty/not so popular language such as Welsh/Basque/Occitan... I'd like to know what their views are and how they feel now they have reached fluency.
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| Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5683 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish | Message 4 of 39 05 June 2009 at 4:42am | IP Logged | ||
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I learned Arabic as a child. It was sort of forced upon me and became a hellish experience I never enjoyed. Long story short, it's a language I try to avoid.
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| sprachefin Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5752 days ago 300 posts - 317 votes Speaks: German*, English, Spanish Studies: French, Turkish, Mandarin, Bulgarian, Persian, Dutch | Message 5 of 39 05 June 2009 at 5:30am | IP Logged | ||
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I regret learning English sometimes. I remember going to the Netherlands a few years back and I felt horrible for not learning Dutch. It made it feel like I was in England. I wish I hadn't learned I English so I would have the excuse to learn whatever language I need. English ruins one's fun while traveling from a linguistic perspective.
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7162 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 6 of 39 05 June 2009 at 5:36am | IP Logged | ||
It certainly didn't feel that way for me when I was staying at the home of my friend's parents in Slovakia. They couldn't speak English and at that time I couldn't speak Slovak. We got by on three-way conversations involving German, Hungarian and Polish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ashley_Victrola Senior Member United States Joined 5712 days ago 416 posts - 429 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Romanian | Message 7 of 39 05 June 2009 at 12:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think unless it is as a child like in Paskwc, you won't get many who have achieved fluency and regretted it, There are too many chances to turn back. It's like getting a college degree. Maybe you would choose a different major or have done things in a different order or wish that you'd known certain things were available but you are still glad you have it, it still doesn't detract.
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 Keith Diglot Moderator JapanRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6783 days ago 526 posts - 536 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 39 05 June 2009 at 2:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wish I hadn't learned Japanese. But once you start, there's no turning back. You just have to keep pushing forward and hope that someday it will be easy.
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