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Foreign language as a source of happiness
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Aineko
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11 December 2010 at 9:49am | IP Logged

Arekkusu wrote:

What about you? What part of language learning brings you happiness?

I totally understand the feeling you are describing, although it is coming from a
different source for me. I get that feeling of real, overwhelming happiness from
understanding foreign language (no matter is it in written or spoken form). I get
something similar from learning new alphabet (or new Chinese characters). When something
that had no meaning for me suddenly gets a meaning, that's just amazing.
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Luai_lashire
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14 December 2010 at 4:00am | IP Logged

Aineko wrote:

Arekkusu wrote:

What about you? What part of language learning brings you happiness?

Same here, it feels like you're breaking a code. There's this sense of suddenly comprehending something once
secret and mysterious.
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Hanekawa
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15 December 2010 at 5:14am | IP Logged

I feel the same as OP. Somehow I've always had motivation to study Japanese. It makes me
happy to think about that one day I can go to a place I always wanted to go and speak
their language. IT'S MAGICAL

also, Aineko summed up my feelings very well.

Edited by Hanekawa on 15 December 2010 at 5:17am

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