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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6944 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 9 of 20 01 November 2013 at 4:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm trying to get my focus down to fewer languages and am wrestling with which language(s) to drop from the rotation since I'm starting to feel spread too thinly.
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 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5320 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 20 01 November 2013 at 5:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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My biggest decision: How hard should I push for full professional speaking skills in French, and how much time should I invest?
I'll be wrapping up my Super Challenge reading very shortly, and starting my online probability class in French, which should be a nice challenge. But beyond that, I need to decide whether I should get my listening comprehension up to a solid C1, or whether I should do intensive speaking work. And even though my reading is good, I don't want to stop reading, because it gives all my other skills such a boost. Choices, choices. :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| I'm With Stupid Senior Member Vietnam Joined 3961 days ago 165 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Vietnamese | Message 11 of 20 01 November 2013 at 5:57pm | IP Logged | ||
As a teacher, I prefer the students that are actually old enough to have a job and some life experience. They always have more interesting things to talk about. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6691 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 12 of 20 01 November 2013 at 6:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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My biggest dilemma now is what to do with Swedish - drop it, study it, change my approach (to what?), drop out from the class (a really disappointing one) and study it on my own only, go on with the class and hope for the better, improve my motivation (how?) etc.
Plus: how to combine learning languages with a rapidly increasing amount of work, how to improve my active German, what to work on to improve my French, how to prioritize all my language plans and fit them into my schedule, what to do to avoid Swedish-Dutch interferences. It seems that there are many choices to be made... but like Tarvos, I often just go with the flow. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Indíritheach Senior Member United States Joined 3833 days ago 108 posts - 146 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Irish, French | Message 13 of 20 02 November 2013 at 12:37am | IP Logged | ||
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My biggest challenge right now is narrowing my language list to the ones I really want to learn and am willing to maintain. The problem is just there are so many hours in a day for study, and I really don't want to sit back and watch my skills decay. For example, I'm most interested in Spanish, Irish, German, Portuguese, and Japanese. So those are the five I would work hardest on attaining fluency in, and maintaining said fluency for life. Other languages, like French and Italian, are important to me, but only in the sense that I'd like to get to a decent intermediate level in them and am willing to sacrifice them if I have to. But there's so many fascinating languages out there...I gues it's really all just a question of discipline. Of which I have very little...
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6385 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 14 of 20 02 November 2013 at 3:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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As for past decisions, my biggest and best one was to start Finnish at the age of 15 and not wait until I "finish" German. I still haven't.
Another surprisingly important decision is adding Esperanto and Belarusian to my list shortly before starting uni. Sometimes I wonder if everything would be different if I hadn't been so frustrated about not having time for my own language learning. I think it's possible, given that I would've found enough time for just Finnish. Edited by Serpent on 02 November 2013 at 3:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5748 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 15 of 20 02 November 2013 at 5:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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The decision that stands before me is when to return to studying Korean.
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| Tetsu Triglot Newbie Japan Joined 3829 days ago 9 posts - 22 votes Speaks: Thai, English*, Japanese Studies: Mandarin, Korean | Message 16 of 20 07 November 2013 at 5:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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The biggest decision I have made in regards to language learning is putting the cap to a maximum of 5 languages for the foreseeable future.
1) Since business level fluency is my minimal goal, I thought it would be best to focus on fewer languages, particularly ones that I have strong connections to or have easy access. 2) Focusing on fewer will also allow me to effectively cover any gaps I have in any of the languages I speak/study. 3) It will also give me time to study and attain certification in all the languages (except English and Thai). 4) Allowing myself more time for other non-language hobbies. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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