tastyonions wrote:Interesting discussion.
Many times I've played with the idea of ditching all but one or a couple of the languages I've learned and trying to push only those to a really, really high (near-native educated professional) level in every area. But the lure of novelty continues to draw me for the time being.
It really depends on your goals and personality. For me, languages are means and not the aim in itself. I dabbled with a couple of them out of sheer curiosity, of course, (I love, for instance, the sound of Swedish) but it never lasted than a couple of weeks. The novelty flair wears off rather quickly with the thought: "All right but what are you actually going to do with it?"