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| rivere123 Senior Member United States Joined 4652 days ago 129 posts - 182 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 17 of 26 12 November 2011 at 2:50am | IP Logged | |||||
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I figure people would be addicted to one language because they aren't interested in the learning process so much as the complete product (many in these forums are the opposite)
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| Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4888 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish | Message 18 of 26 12 November 2011 at 3:49am | IP Logged | |||||
You make it sound like a bad thing...Isn't learning one language well a much more intensive learning process than learning a bit of several languages anyway? 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| rivere123 Senior Member United States Joined 4652 days ago 129 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 19 of 26 12 November 2011 at 3:57am | IP Logged | |||||
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| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5237 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 20 of 26 12 November 2011 at 4:35am | IP Logged | |||||
Uh...no. They may very well amount to the same exact level of "intensity". It's a matter of allocation of time, not the "intensity" of the time spent. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5669 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 21 of 26 12 November 2011 at 9:21am | IP Logged | |||||
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When I was in my twenties I only cared about one foreign language and that was Dutch. So I was a specialist of Dutch at that time and not a polyglot. I didn't do anything with my English or French at that time. I started a course of Italian then, but I quit it after a short amount of time.
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| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4681 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 22 of 26 12 November 2011 at 9:31am | IP Logged | |||||
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Everyone here (or almost everyone) writes about, let's say, the "technical" elements of learning languages. But I have thought also about the emotional addiction to one language [and/or culture], so intensive that you don't really feel a need to learn or be interested in anything else.
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| July Diglot Senior Member Spain Joined 5095 days ago 113 posts - 208 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishB2 Studies: French | Message 23 of 26 12 November 2011 at 2:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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For me it's just necessity. I actually do want to study French and Catalan and Italian
and who knows what - but at the moment I cannot allow myself to do so because I know that it will take time and effort away from the Spanish that I need to learn to survive and build my life here in Spain. I tried Catalan this summer, but it started to have a negative effect on my Spanish, so I stopped. Generally, for this reason, I find myself uninterested in doing more than watching the odd show or film in these languages, and devoting myself to Spanish. It's not hard, as I actually see a daily benefit from each word and phrase I learn in Spanish, and that motivates me. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| kaibri Triglot Newbie China Joined 4635 days ago 12 posts - 17 votes Speaks: English*, German, Mandarin Studies: Indonesian, Portuguese | Message 24 of 26 13 November 2011 at 6:57am | IP Logged | |||||
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It doesn't strike me as strange at all to only study one language. Why should you necessarily be "addicted" to more
than one? I have dabbled in a lot of languages, but German and Mandarin are the only ones I've ever really cared about enough to learn past a beginning level. Before I took up Mandarin, German was the only language I studied seriously for many years. I don't find it boring... it's not like German and Mandarin are my only hobbies or interests in life. Maybe someday I will find a passion for another language but if I only ever continue to perfect my Mandarin and German I will be quite happy with that. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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