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25 Apr 2010, 11:21 am

I hope to be fluent in many languages when I am older, and I am just focusing on one at a time (currently Spanish) so I can learn each one properly before starting to learn a new one. The only problem is I don't know when I have learned enough to start learning a new language?


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25 Apr 2010, 11:56 am

You never stop learning, that's the beauty of learning languages.


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25 Apr 2010, 12:35 pm

It depends very much on what you plan to use the language for. The depth depends on whether you want to cope at the level of a tourist, live in the country, hold general employment there or hold a more demanding job such as a translator there which would require formal qualifications.

I'm still learning French and people keep telling me I speak good French now but for me it is never enough, I watch French TV and don't understand every word yet. French speakers often lose me when speaking too fast. Always room for improvement.


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25 Apr 2010, 12:53 pm

Well, I would like to be a translator and live abroad, and I am getting a GCSE in Spanish, and will be studying languages at college and university. I would like to learn languages as fluently as possible, so obviously I would keep learning and practising the ones I already know even after I have started learning new ones. I am just wondering how I know when I am ready to start a new language, because I am possibly going on holiday to Eastern Europe this year, and would like to start learning either Russian or Romanian to help me when I am there (I have some very basic experience with both of those languages, from before I started focusing only on Spanish).


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25 Apr 2010, 12:56 pm

I love learning languages - I never stick with them enough to learn them completely.. though hopefully I'll stick with Chinese long enough... I think once you're at the point when you can read/listen/talk at a level you're comfortable with then that's enough.. and the rest you absorb from interacting with the language itself.



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26 Apr 2010, 1:01 am

i wanna KNOW languages

not learn them :(
learning languages is the most boring stuff ever.

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