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| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5783 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 17 of 53 09 November 2011 at 1:54pm | IP Logged |
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Well I have no way of knowing who I will be in 35 years time. Even if I look back to me 5 years ago my hopes, dreams, fears, strengths and weaknesses have changed considerably. Still, this kind of thing is fun to think about.
Ideally I would like C2 in Japanese and French, C1 in German and Russian and some kind of ability in Welsh. A more realistic, yet still challenging, outcome is C1 in Japanese and French (along with a JLPT N1 and a DALF certificate) and B1/B2 in German and Russian. And some ability in Welsh if I'm still living here at 64! I can then spend a happy retirement maintaining them all until senility consigns them to oblivion. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6351 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 18 of 53 09 November 2011 at 2:18pm | IP Logged |
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C1 (minus writing skills) - Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin, Thai
B2 (minus writing skills) - Russian, French, Portuguese, Korean, German, Italian, Vietnamese Bye-bye Swahili Will probably never attempt Arabic, Hindu, Cantonese, Tagalog as originally planned. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5761 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 19 of 53 09 November 2011 at 4:00pm | IP Logged |
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As high a level as possible in English, Mandarin, Persian, Japanese, Hindi, Russian, Korean, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Malay, Turkish, and French. In that order of priority.
Dabble in Latvian, Estonian, Finnish, Nahuatl, Kannada, Hawaiian, Moroccan Arabic, Greek, Norwegian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Akkadian, Italian, Hausa, and heavens knows what else. Yup, that should keep me busy. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Tamise Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom jllrr.wordpress.com/ Joined 5044 days ago 115 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English*, German, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese, Spanish | Message 20 of 53 09 November 2011 at 6:02pm | IP Logged |
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I hope to have C2 level in Dutch and German, at least C1 in Japanese and Mandarin, at least B2 in French, Arabic, Slovene and Swahili, and to have studied a reasonable about of Welsh, (Scots) Gaelic, Thai, Korean, Yiddish, Vietnamese and Swedish. By the time I get there, some of the languages may very well have changed, but I think the first seven are fairly well certain, and I've already done at least some of the others.
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| fiziwig Senior Member United States Joined 4666 days ago 297 posts - 618 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 21 of 53 09 November 2011 at 6:13pm | IP Logged |
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Since I'm already 66 my goal is to become fluent in Spanish and I'm not putting any time limits on it.
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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 5943 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 22 of 53 09 November 2011 at 11:51pm | IP Logged |
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If I can't even set realistic goals for one year, how am I supposed to set them for 47 years from now?
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| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4660 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 23 of 53 09 November 2011 at 11:56pm | IP Logged |
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I guess you'll beat my imaginary score before 30 :) (of course if the tendency won't be stunted)
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4810 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 24 of 53 10 November 2011 at 1:34am | IP Logged |
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That is still far away (a bit more than 40 years). So. Should I be realistic or just dream? A bit of both.
C1/C2 English, French, Spanish, German, Esperanto B2 Swedish, Russian, Polish, Italian, Japanese or Mandarin B1 Welsh, perhaps something that catches my attention on the way (Greek? Standard Arabic? Hebrew? Swahili? some smaller language? an elvish one? Ancient Egyptian?) I believe at least half of it is achievable. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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