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Ashley_Victrola
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 Message 57 of 94
30 June 2009 at 7:16pm | IP Logged 
Um, not actually a polyglot but I would imagine that sometimes a lot of money goes into learning materials, and not all of it is well spent. The odd book that looked promising but sucked...the language you haven't gotten to yet but the deal was too good to pass up on the learning materials.

Also, having to deal with all of the crazy personalities on this site, haha.
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 Message 58 of 94
30 June 2009 at 8:52pm | IP Logged 
japkorengchi wrote:
Some people are not very friendly to Polygot. They just can't accept someone can speak a foreign language which they can't. Unfortunately, this kind of person may knock your door and ask for help when they need a help in translation, for example.

There are ways to prove your language ability. For Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Korean etc, I am sure there are some public exams that serve as a qualification of your language performance. Even for "minor" languages you can still look for a public exam. I basically set a goal for all the languages I learn, and prepare to sit in their repsective public exams to check my progress.

Unfortunately, I also receive some harsh time of being able to speak some languages - some people just don't know how to appreciate others' effort.


Being a polyglot I don't feel so much accepted by my family. I have to struggle hard to earn my living at all and some of my family members find it a waste of time that I put my intellectual efforts into learning uncommon languages that don't fit into our family tradition and reading about astrophysics, kosmology and paleontology.

I have the impression that they would rather see me reading fashion magazines, watching hollywood films and playing with children like "normal women".

Fasulye

Edited by Fasulye on 30 June 2009 at 8:53pm
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chloem14
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 Message 59 of 94
01 July 2009 at 12:49am | IP Logged 
Ashley_Victrola wrote:
Um, not actually a polyglot but I would imagine that sometimes a lot of money goes into learning materials, and not all of it is well spent. The odd book that looked promising but sucked...the language you haven't gotten to yet but the deal was too good to pass up on the learning materials.

Also, having to deal with all of the crazy personalities on this site, haha.


AAARGH, so true! The amount of money I have spent on materials for languages I "just want to dip my toe in" is actually ridiculous - I must have resources of some shape or form for near on 30 by now! Theres also the additional cost I find now of wanting both advanced learning materials and native resources, which can be really quite costly.

Edited by chloem14 on 01 July 2009 at 12:50am
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reineke
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 Message 60 of 94
01 July 2009 at 6:52am | IP Logged 
Taking it seriously...
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 Message 61 of 94
01 July 2009 at 11:18am | IP Logged 
reineke wrote:
Taking it seriously...


It's really the worst mistake one can make.
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patuco
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 Message 62 of 94
01 July 2009 at 3:18pm | IP Logged 
gogglehead wrote:
Has anyone ever experienced gross ignorance on such an incredible level?

Yes, various times and I'm not even a "proper" polyglot. I think it comes down to the old "nerds vs jocks" argument and wanting to fit in and be popular, not to mention the fact that being seen to enjoy studying is much more uncool nowadays than it used to be (believe me, I see it every day amongst my students).



ExtraLean wrote:
reineke wrote:
Taking it seriously...


It's really the worst mistake one can make.

Indeed it is.



P.S. William, I like your concept of being in the foothills of polyglottery.
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William Camden
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 Message 63 of 94
01 July 2009 at 4:56pm | IP Logged 
patuco wrote:
gogglehead wrote:
Has anyone ever experienced gross ignorance on such an incredible level?

Yes, various times and I'm not even a "proper" polyglot. I think it comes down to the old "nerds vs jocks" argument and wanting to fit in and be popular, not to mention the fact that being seen to enjoy studying is much more uncool nowadays than it used to be (believe me, I see it every day amongst my students).



ExtraLean wrote:
reineke wrote:
Taking it seriously...


It's really the worst mistake one can make.

Indeed it is.



P.S. William, I like your concept of being in the foothills of polyglottery.


This is my 1,000th post - every one a pearl of wit and wisdom, and of course modesty as well.
In the Anglophone world, knowing foreign languages can be seen as either proof of intellectual superiority, or pointless geekishness (pointless because "everyone speaks English"), or even both at the same time. I don't know about elsewhere.
Foothills - well, I see mastering lots of languages as like climbing a series of mountains, or at least very steep hills.
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 Message 64 of 94
01 July 2009 at 8:46pm | IP Logged 
Roger wrote:
Would it help if I told you I am dyslexic. I didn't gain any GCSE's becuase of fear of my terrible spelling. But now I don't care about it, so that's why the spelling is so bad.

PS. I am not self diognosing, I have been battleing it since primary school. It's a pain, but I feel my spelling has improve a bit over the years. I'll do my upmost to improve my spelling on this forum, but I do feel you could have approached your feeling's of my spelling with a more appropraite mannar.


You have done nothing wrong. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Even without the condition there's no need to explain yourself. I know that I'm replying to a 2-year-old post but I've got really upset when I read it. That was unnecessarily harsh.

Edited by Suriya on 01 July 2009 at 8:58pm


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