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| markchapman Diglot Groupie Taiwan tesolzone.com/ Joined 5265 days ago 44 posts - 55 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Portuguese | Message 9 of 65 01 May 2010 at 9:43am | IP Logged | ||
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As some people have said, if you chose related languages you may be able to. But why is this important to you?
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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 10 of 65 01 May 2010 at 9:45am | IP Logged | ||
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@mark
Admittedly, it might be out of my competitive nature, but that is not to say that I have no love for languages or to want to speak them all. If I am able to beat Mezzofanti, however, I will probably die content. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mafouz Diglot Groupie Spain Joined 5118 days ago 56 posts - 64 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: German, Japanese, French | Message 11 of 65 01 May 2010 at 9:46am | IP Logged | ||
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I would be happy with seven, including my mother tongue ;) Saif's example is closer to what I would dream of
And at... lets say thirty-something I still think it is posible. But I would not really think in Mezzofanti as a goal. I understand languages as basically a way of communication and knowledge about others (yes, and thought also). I imagine father Mezzofanti as a very lonesome man, probably with capacities making him bright and separating him from the world around. This kind of super-human habilities have a strong cost... Edited by Mafouz on 01 May 2010 at 9:47am 2 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 12 of 65 01 May 2010 at 9:55am | IP Logged | ||
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@Mafouz
Not exactly if the languages are closely related, like they said it would be faster and memorization would be easier in the long run. If I get overwhelmed at about 10 I might slow my pace but I am definitely not setting a goal like 11. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5127 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 13 of 65 01 May 2010 at 10:15am | IP Logged | ||
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Possible? Certainly, but the cost is heavy. You would probably have to sacrifice a normal life with a career, dating, children. Do you think it is worth it? Why not just study as many languages as you can - keeping a normal social life - and see how far you get?
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| Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5132 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German | Message 14 of 65 01 May 2010 at 10:16am | IP Logged | ||
Bravo! here's a possible list? 0. English 1. Esperanto ---Latin?--- 2. Spanish 3. French 4. Italian 5. German 6. Portuguese 7. Dutch 8. Afrikaans 9. Frisian 10. Norwegian 11. Swedish 12. Danish 13. Russian 14. Slovak 15. Czech 16. Serbian-Croatian 17. Bosnian 18. Bulgarian 19. Modern Greek 20. 1st Semitic (Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Maltese, Amharic, Ge'ez, etc) 21. 2nd Semitic (Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Maltese, Amharic, Ge'ez, etc) 22. 3rd Semitic (Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Maltese, Amharic, Ge'ez, etc) 23. 4th Semitic (Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Maltese, Amharic, Ge'ez, etc) 24. Ancient Greek 25. Irish 26. Welsh 27. Navajo/Apache 28. Swahili 29. 1st Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, etc) 30. 2nd Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, etc) 31. Japanese 32. Korean 33. Thai 34. Vietnamese 35. Other Just a possible list. I went with the assumption you'd want to go family-wise. I did not include other beautiful languages, most notably Catalan, Galician, Manx, Basque, Lowland Scots, etc. 1 person has 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 15 of 65 01 May 2010 at 10:17am | IP Logged | ||
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@Solfrid
That is kind of what I hoped to do. I don't wish to dedicate my entire life to it, but for the next few years I will have so much free time that I don't expect to know less than three foreign languages at a B2 level or higher two years from now. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5462 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 16 of 65 01 May 2010 at 10:18am | IP Logged | ||
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Oh - to be 13 again! Imagine if I had started learning languages seriously back then. That is a whopping 32 years ago for me.
If you can devote 2 hours a day for those 32 years to language study, by the time you have reached my ripe old age of 45 you will have put in more than 23,000 hours of study. 23,000 hours is plenty of time to reach a high standard in lots of languages, and by then you will "only" be 45. There will still (hopefully) be decades ahead of you for more improvement. I am jealous of your youth :-) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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