Hello everyone, my name is Xenops, and I sometimes suffer from wanderlust.
While there was a wonderful thread about being a "language tourist" it seems that the goal is different. What I'm describing as wanderlust is when you want to make significant progress in a limited number of languages, but something pulls you to non-focus languages.
So, what triggers it for you? If you can identify the reason for the wanderlust, would you mind sharing?
What Triggers Your Wanderlust?
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Re: What Triggers Your Wanderlust?
Principally via watching films. I watch lots of different directors from many countries, so I've been momentarily struck with the idea of learning: Bengali, Japanese, Polish, Czech, Mandarin, Korean, Swedish... etc.
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Re: What Triggers Your Wanderlust?
My wanderlust is most often triggered by resources that look very promising and interesting: good quality textbooks from reputed publishers, culture-based methods, video courses that also present the country. I love methods that I can trust almost blindly, take the role of the student and do the exercises without questioning their usefulness. When I hear about something new and shiny I want to try it out. Fortunately, I'm not looking for resources in languages that would be completely new to me, so at least I'm only rotating the ones in my profile.
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Re: What Triggers Your Wanderlust?
OP, five years ago:
Why do you have Wanderlust?
Anything, really. A film in a language that has interesting features or simply sounds "cool". A resource that I come across. A language which is related to something else I know. Or some other reason.
Why do you have Wanderlust?
Anything, really. A film in a language that has interesting features or simply sounds "cool". A resource that I come across. A language which is related to something else I know. Or some other reason.
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Re: What Triggers Your Wanderlust?
World events. I like getting as close to the sources of information as possible.
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Re: What Triggers Your Wanderlust?
Hearing a language. That and neighbors. Used to move a lot (lived in 16 different states and countries) and if I met a neighbor I liked and they spoke another language, I'd try to learn at least a bit of it.
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My reading life.
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Re: What Triggers Your Wanderlust?
Meeting a deeply interesting native speaker of that language. Discovering a part of the culture that I find interesting -- for example, it was Brazil's rich history of music, in particular their great acoustic guitar players in various genres like samba, bossa nova and mpb that really inspired me to study this language. I'm feeling the same wanderlust now for Egyptian arabic or turkish since I discovered a hand drum called darbuka.
The other obvious triggers for me are TV series. I sometimes wont watch a tv series because I fear it will make me want to study a new language
The other obvious triggers for me are TV series. I sometimes wont watch a tv series because I fear it will make me want to study a new language
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Re: What Triggers Your Wanderlust?
My wanderlust gets triggered by books in the genres I adore. To be able to read them in the original....
And yes good cinema to a lesser extent - but being able to watch movies would require far greater fluency than reading which in turn would further limit the number of languages.
So many languages, so little time
And yes good cinema to a lesser extent - but being able to watch movies would require far greater fluency than reading which in turn would further limit the number of languages.
So many languages, so little time
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Re: What Triggers Your Wanderlust?
What triggers mine? Anything and everything.
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Re: What Triggers Your Wanderlust?
I wrote about this very thing back in 2016: https://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2678&p=33396
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