reineke wrote:You can't cut soup.
You can let it sit in the fridge and cut it after it's gelatinous.
reineke wrote:You can't cut soup.
fresh_air wrote:reineke wrote:You can't cut soup.
You can let it sit in the fridge and cut it after it's gelatinous.
zjones wrote:My wanderlust is controlled by fear. I'm terrified of going back to the person I was for the first 24 years of my life, because that person was constantly quitting her 1-week-old hobbies and habits to start new, exciting activities, which she would then quit for even newer and more exciting activities. I never got anywhere with any of them except with fiddle (violin), which is something my parents enforced. I started and stopped French in the A0 phase about four or five different times.
Sometimes I wonder if the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction, though. The idea of getting caught in another wave of "committing then quitting" is enough to keep me from starting new things. I live vicariously through others on the forum who are always learning cool and exciting languages.
Elsa Maria wrote:I guess you could say that I have wanderlust, but I am motivated by opportunities. When the opportunities change, I change my languages without feeling guilty about it. When I lived in Denmark, Danish was all that mattered. I no longer live there, and I am still aiming higher in Danish. I won't be satisfied until I can read anything and everything. But my son lives in the Netherlands, and by my way of thinking I would be silly not to shift my priority to Dutch. For the foreseeable future, I'll be spending far more time in the Netherlands than in Denmark.
I have some other long-term travel plans, and I don't mind giving a bit of my language time to the language of those places.
iguanamon wrote:Wanderlust is mostly a problem for learners who have yet to learn a second language. They often get excited by all the activity here and many of our members who do amazing things with languages that they want to have that fun too. That's fine as long as that's all they expect.
iguanamon wrote:So, give into it then. Unfortunately, it's something that they must work through themselves. I can understand it but to me there's so much I can get out of a language once I put in the effort to learn it, that's what motivates me and keeps me from going for "shiny things"... but maybe that's too boring
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