Have you ever gone back to a language you’ve quit in the past?

[dicentra8]

Finnish.
It was the first language that I picked by myself to self-study. At the time I was completely clueless about what to do, so I started with the first resource that appeared in front of me (From Start to Finnish by Leila White). It didn't work well enough and I always stopping for weeks until I decided to officially quit.

I wonder if the same thing will happen to the Scandinavian languages.

It depends. There's people that when they decide to quit they quit for good. I thought I had quit learning Finnish for good but I've always had this interest about Finland, I really loved how the language sounds, and that always stayed with me...it didn't matter that I'd decided to quit because a few years later that feeling returned and I decided to try it again. And I'm glad I did. I started with what I like most, vocabulary. I always study as much as I can every day. So things are going much better than the first attempt I did.

[IronMike]

Yes.

[garyb]

Yes. I can never resist French's charm for too long...

[eido]

I’ve quit every language I’ve ever tried, but come back to Spanish, Icelandic, Korean, Japanese, Norwegian, Faroese... Usually if I start it I have to keep going. Just how fast I progress is another thing.

[Lianne]

I've never quit a language. I just get temporarily sidetracked by other ones.

[zenmonkey]

Yes. Most every language I'm working on, I've spent time on it, off it, around it ...

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[Elsa Maria]

I don't know if I quit Spanish, or just let it go dormant. I stopped learning new things and didn't work to maintain what I knew, so I guess I would call that quitting. That was about 15 years ago.

Recently, I have started reactivating Spanish. I'm surprised how much I remember, but it is encouraging.

[fresh_air]

Japanese was the first language I studied, I started when I was 11 years old until I was 13. I got intrested because a family friend married a Japanese woman and introduced me to manga. I still have a furigana dictionary and remember the hirigana.. I'm considering starting again, just to finish a childhood dream, and after all it is the reason I got intrested in learning languages.

[mkasu]

I studied Japanese when I was in middle school. Just dabbling around with a grammar book, but not much progress, obviously. I started Japanese again after high-school. Fast forward; I'm 29 and fluent in Japanese (I also live and work in Japan.)

[Rosewyne]

Both of the languages I am focusing on now I have previously abandoned in the past.
I quit Japanese because it felt impossible to learn.
I quit German because I was overwhelming myself trying to juggle 6-12 languages on Duolingo.

A bit of success in Duolingo + taking another beginner's Spanish class ignited my passion for languages; furthermore it made me realizing that learning a language, (almost) any language is not an impossible task. I messed around with Mandarin for a week and read some things from people who have learned Mandarin and I was impressed that I was able to remember the Hanzi that I'd been learning. Japanese Kanji and grammar were the reasons why I had felt Japanese was impossible before, but with my experience little experience with Mandarin, it finally seems possible to read and understand.

German is what I've chosen to study instead of any of the other languages I had been learning. For some reason, I feel burnt out on Romance languages, but not burnt out on language learning as a whole. German is Germanic, so that's that.