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| nissimb Tetraglot Groupie India tenjikuyamato.blogsp Joined 6224 days ago 79 posts - 102 votes  Speaks: Marathi*, Hindi, English, Japanese Studies: Korean, Esperanto, Indonesian | Message 9 of 18 26 January 2011 at 6:53am | IP Logged | |||||
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Yes, of course. Would love to forget my mother tongue, Marathi, because then I would rediscover the joy of learning it again, and I would like to forget JAPANESE because of not-so-good reasons....
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| eumiro Bilingual Octoglot Groupie Germany Joined 5084 days ago 74 posts - 102 votes Speaks: Czech*, Slovak*, French, English, German, Polish, Spanish, Russian Studies: Italian, Hungarian | Message 10 of 18 26 January 2011 at 9:37am | IP Logged | |||||
How many tries do you have? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 5935 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 11 of 18 26 January 2011 at 9:55am | IP Logged | |||||
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Forgetting English doesn't sound so good to me. I'd end up non-fluent in any language. I'd probably end up locked up in a psych ward somewhere, babbling randomly in badly confused Japanese while trying to decipher what was happening on TV.
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| M. Medialis Diglot TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Sweden Joined 6167 days ago 397 posts - 508 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Russian, Japanese, French | Message 12 of 18 26 January 2011 at 1:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
TerryW: Lol, that amnesia drug really freaked me out. Talk about scary things. I'd easily prefer my "one word method". ;D I just came to think about an unpleasant side-effect of unlearning English: It would render all my (electronic) dictionaries and parallel texts useless. English is more than a language, it's like an all-powerful tool for learning the basics of other languages as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| M. Medialis Diglot TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Sweden Joined 6167 days ago 397 posts - 508 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Russian, Japanese, French | Message 13 of 18 26 January 2011 at 1:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
Hey, now you made me curious. What is the reason? :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| polyglHot Pentaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4876 days ago 173 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish, Indonesian Studies: Russian | Message 14 of 18 03 February 2011 at 4:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'd gladly unlearn Norwegian and German.
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| mirab3lla Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom lang-8.com/220477Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5253 days ago 161 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Romanian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Spanish, FrenchB1, Mandarin | Message 15 of 18 03 February 2011 at 7:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I would never-ever-eveeeer like to try this!
Just thinking of how it would be to have to pass through the tedious work of doing uncountable German grammar drills in order to be able to stop being dependent on xyz declination tables. Of how it would be to have to learn the endless irregularities of the English language once again, from scratch. Of how it would be to have to learn Romanian as a stranger (I guess I would never do this, if I had the choice) after considering it hard even as a native speaker... Why should I do this? I could experience the thrills of having to learn a new alphabet or discovering strange grammar rules by starting to learn a new language. Maybe I am as protective with my language knowledge as a mother with her baby, but in fact, this is what they are, ”the fruits of my work” (this is, in fact, a Romanian idiom - ”roadele muncii cuiva”, meaning the results of one's, usually hard, work). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ReachingOut Pentaglot Groupie Greece Joined 5047 days ago 57 posts - 81 votes Speaks: English*, German, GreekB2, French, Romanian Studies: Italian | Message 16 of 18 04 February 2011 at 4:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
Learning Romanian really isn't that bad, in fact it's an interesting and beautiful language to learn as a foreigner and not too difficult. I've often wondered what it must be like to learn English from scratch, and what it sounds like to foreign ears. I guess that would be one way to find out. Groundhog day! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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