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| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5129 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 1 of 65 01 May 2010 at 4:09am | IP Logged | ||
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Breaking Mezzofanti's record is definitely a dream of mine, but I am wondering if I
started too late for that to be physically possible... I have the will. I just need to know, is it possible? *I am 13 and started this year by the way Edited by Akao on 01 May 2010 at 6:38am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5132 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German | Message 2 of 65 01 May 2010 at 4:15am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't think it is ever too late.
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| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5129 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 3 of 65 01 May 2010 at 4:17am | IP Logged | ||
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I mean to learn all of those languages. Did I start too late to have the life time
necessary to learn them all? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5316 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French | Message 4 of 65 01 May 2010 at 4:38am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I'd say that the hardest challenge would be having the motivation for it. Mezzofanti spent a LOT of time studying, and you'd have to commit your life in the same way to it...
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| Saif Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5405 days ago 122 posts - 208 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Levantine)*, French | Message 5 of 65 01 May 2010 at 4:55am | IP Logged | ||
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Learning 40 languages to fluency? I think you'd have to live like a monk to learn that
many languages. How many hours of study and practice would be required? You'd have to be extremely dedicated. I don't think it's practically possible. Edited by Saif on 01 May 2010 at 4:58am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tracker465 Senior Member United States Joined 5145 days ago 355 posts - 496 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 6 of 65 01 May 2010 at 5:51am | IP Logged | ||
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You would definitely have your work cut out for you, but if you really had the time and energy, perhaps it could be done, to learn 40 languages to some sort of fluency. Let's think about this a moment:
English German Dutch (West) Frisian Swedish Danish Norwegian Icelandic Old English Afrikaans Yiddish French Spanish Italian Portuguese Romanian Latin Polish Czech Russian Ukrainian Croatian Bulgarian etc Just by learning these you would be over halfway there! The trick would be to learn the languages by family groups, and work the major family groups. In this way, one does not have to spend as much time memorizing vocabulary, and would be able to learn the languages to some sort of fluency at a faster rate. It would still require a lot of time and dedication, but if someone really wanted to do so, it could perhaps be done. The paradox with languages is that they are most easily learnt when one is young, but one has the most freedom to learn languages (financially, independence, etc) when one is older. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5129 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 7 of 65 01 May 2010 at 6:37am | IP Logged | ||
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I have the will and the time, I just need to know if it is physically impossible to learn
them all when I start at 13... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Saif Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5405 days ago 122 posts - 208 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Levantine)*, French | Message 8 of 65 01 May 2010 at 6:52am | IP Logged | ||
I didn't know you were so young. I suppose if you learn a lot of related languages, it could be done in a lifetime. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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