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DaraghM
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 Message 1 of 20
01 November 2013 at 11:26am | IP Logged 

What are the biggest language decisions you feel you have to make at the moment ? Is it studying a new language, dropping a language, changing your current methodology or simply where to spend you language budget ? At present, I’m trying to decide whether to go broad and study a large number of languages next year, or go deep, and focus intently on just a couple or even one. By the way, I’m not looking for advice to my question. but I am curious what other learners are trying to decide themselves.

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KSAKSA
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 Message 2 of 20
01 November 2013 at 11:39am | IP Logged 
I'm dreaming/thinking of going to study here: http://www.omancenter.org/

You know what's putting me off? A lot of the students look like university students. I feel there is a big age gap between me and them and I'd feel out of place and would make them feel like they are getting stuck in a class with an oldie :)
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Serpent
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 Message 3 of 20
01 November 2013 at 1:21pm | IP Logged 
Right now I'm balancing between my challenges and current own desires. I've already accepted that I won't complete most of the reading challenges... in fact in the remaining two months of the year I can complete two at most. Polish where I'm at 43/50 and Italian where I'm at 31/50. I have a lot of stuff to finish reading in Italian, but a few things in Portuguese are also really important. And I don't want to neglect German and Croatian, especially the latter.

I've also bought a lot of books for the super challenge, but my perpetual question is "what to read and in what language?" :))) things like, shall i buy this now or shall i wait for a discount? what if this book goes out of print while i'm pondering?

More generally, I'm thinking of when and how to learn Swedish. And what to do with languages that are currently useless to me but that I'm attached to, such as Belarusian, Karelian, Indonesian.
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tarvos
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 Message 4 of 20
01 November 2013 at 1:24pm | IP Logged 
I tend to decide and think later, I can always renounce on my decisions because it's
not like someone puts up forbidden signs all the way you go. So if I want to do
something I do that and then no one will stop me and if after six months I think "this
is fine for now" then I go do something else.


I might just play guitar for five months and forget about everything else. Things work
themselves out anyways. I just prioritise one target per time, complete that one, next
one. In this way I can have projects of a couple months so I never get sick of seeing
one language forever and always.

And in my better languages I just do things to maintain them. I just finished an e-mail
in Romanian.
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fabriciocarraro
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 Message 5 of 20
01 November 2013 at 1:56pm | IP Logged 
I've just decided to drop Egyptian Arabic, and it was not an easy decision, since we're in the middle of the #Add1Challenge and I was taking it with Arabic, and really studying it a lot.
Right now I'm going to focus on French and Dutch until January, and then, I want to start tackling German.
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sillygoose1
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 Message 6 of 20
01 November 2013 at 2:31pm | IP Logged 
I've dropped German, and thinking about keeping my Italian at B2 rather than aiming for the C level because it's just too much work and I'd like to focus on some other things.
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Iversen
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 Message 7 of 20
01 November 2013 at 3:05pm | IP Logged 
My biggest decision was definitely to quit all deliberate language learning in 1982, when I had passed my university exam in French and Literature and realized that the 1968 generation had occupied all the good jobs at the university level and wouldn't be inclined to leave them before I were in my fifties. And incidentally this was a lucky decision, because the whole sector with a few exceptions has been shrinking ever since.

My second biggest decision was to revert on that decision - but only at a hobby level - in 2006, when I accidentally hit upon this forum. It was like giving a former alcoholic a drink.

Edited by Iversen on 01 November 2013 at 3:08pm

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montmorency
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 Message 8 of 20
01 November 2013 at 3:28pm | IP Logged 
Iversen wrote:


My second biggest decision was to revert on that decision - but only at a hobby level -
in 2006, when I accidentally hit upon this forum. It was like giving a former alcoholic a
drink.


Interesting. I had thought of you as a founder member, but I think it goes back to 2004
doesn't it? Still you were there in the relatively early days, and are (thankfully) still
here.




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