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| crafedog Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5618 days ago 166 posts - 337 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Korean, Tok Pisin, French | Message 41 of 53 14 November 2011 at 10:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Hmm that's 37 years in the future for me. Let's have a think. In 8 years, I've learnt a
lot of Spanish but some of it badly, a bit of Korean but most of it well and I just started German the other week. At my current progress, I'm (optimistically) at 1 language plus 2/5 another language plus a beginner in a new language. So let's call that a 'unit'. I have approximately 4 and a half units before I'm 64. That's about 6-7 languages maybe which (in order) would be Korean, German, French, Latin, Greek, Russian, Arabic. Cool. Hopefully by the time I'm 64, I'll be finishing Arabic or starting Egyptian hieroglyphics and going through other languages that I have the Assimil courses for but not the time to do (like Dutch, Japanese and Swedish). (I loved Ari's post about Dolphin and Xorblaxian. Solfrid, I thought you were mid-30's at the very, very latest, so kudos. When I'm 64 I hope I have your youth) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5134 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 42 of 53 14 November 2011 at 3:34pm | IP Logged | ||
I also hope I will have my current youth when I am 64 :-). That is still 15 years from now, but I still appreciate the " mid 30 ies" which would be 15 years in the other direction. Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 14 November 2011 at 3:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stout Senior Member Ireland Joined 5171 days ago 108 posts - 140 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 43 of 53 16 November 2011 at 4:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hopefully in the next five years I will of acquired a basic fluency in the French
language.What about when I reach 64?...I would not have a clue.That's still a very long way off. Edited by stout on 16 November 2011 at 5:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 6815 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 44 of 53 26 November 2011 at 1:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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In my usual pessimistic way, I simply hope to be alive in 27 years' time. Hopefully, I will have learned at great deal in that time (not necessarily all language-related).
I anticipate the following: (a) between years 0 (i.e. now) and 10, I won't have achieved that much due to family circumstances, (b) between years 10 and 18, life will be a bit easier and I might get some more done, (c) between years 18 and 27, most of my learning will probably take place since I'll finally be rid of that great millstone round my neck (i.e. my job). Nevertheless, perhaps everything I've written is absolute balderdash and the widely-held belief about the world ending next year will be true after all. Or perhaps I'll win the lottery and can retire earlier. Or I might just collapse after writing this...don't you just love the future? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6397 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 45 of 53 07 December 2011 at 2:58am | IP Logged | ||
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Knowing myself, I'm very sure I'll be able to speak at least one language that I right now totally don't expect myself to ever learn to fluency...
Other than that, hard to tell as I'll be more than 3x my current age then. I don't see why I can't be a polyglot by then but the specific number of languages is hard to predict :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Carlucio Triglot Groupie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4658 days ago 70 posts - 113 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC1, Spanish Studies: Mandarin | Message 46 of 53 07 December 2011 at 5:56am | IP Logged | ||
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I want to:
- Become a portuguese, English and Spanish master - Be able to read and write in mandarin,capable of read a old book for fun. - Fluent in french,german, arabic and russian - Read and write in Latin and Ancient Greek. Maybe some african language which survives. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ligador Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4763 days ago 81 posts - 101 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 47 of 53 12 December 2011 at 10:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well since October 2057 is pretty far away, I will set more modest goals. I am 18 now, and I would like to be completely absolutely fluent in Spanish by the age of 20, along with basic fluency or better in German. By 25, I want to be almost native like in Spanish and German. My goal would be perfectly fluent in 5 by 50 (counting English), then probably stop. I prefer depth over breadth. Edited by Ligador on 12 December 2011 at 10:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4978 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 48 of 53 14 December 2011 at 1:01am | IP Logged | ||
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I will be the new Ziad Fazah :)
I will know more langs than Arguelles, Cesare, Wendy Vo, Mezzofanti, Broniarek, Moses McCormick taken together ;) 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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