Cavesa wrote:I haven't got a clue where has Greek come from (first Expug tempts me, and LT and the nice French based resources,and now you are discussing it). Really.
Hah, for me Greek is one language where I actually know where it comes from - for a change. XD As opposed to, let's say, Finnish
Cavesa wrote:Ladies, you are gonna be my doom
With all your temptations, I am very likely to fail miserably at everything at once. Or I shall arise victorious, as the "One Doctor to Speak Them All".
Hm. Perhaps finding myself a Tardis is a more realistic goal than successfully adding Greek and all your other follies to the mix. Why can't I simply have stronger will?
Right back atcha!
Don't forget to take me along when you find that Tardis!
For myself, at least, I think it's not (just) a matter of will power, but also a matter of motivation/priorities. I remember back when I was really into Japanese, I started low-key wanderlusting at some point, but mostly my interest in Japanese was so high that I was willing to sacrifice all those other languages at the altar of Japanese (for the time being, anyway). Now though, if you asked me whether Finnish is more important to me than Greek, or Greek than Chinese, or Chinese than Spanish etc. etc. I actually couldn't say. And in a way, that's sad, because I miss that burning passion I felt back then. But on the other hand I also enjoy being able to keep up with and improve in 4 languages at the same time (still working on getting that 5th one settled! XD) - something I found impossible for myself until just a year ago. And I do love all my languages (and then some), but the drawback is that it's harder to keep myself from giving in to the Wanderlust.
Cavesa wrote:Yuurei, is Luke Cage good? I am considering watching the series in Italian (already watched Jessica Jones, now I am watching Daredevil). Italian suits the superheroes well. Btw, some scenes in Daredevil make me feel bad about not learning Japanese and/or Chinese
I honestly cannot say yet. I
did like the first 2 eps, but I didn't really get drawn in yet - which doesn't mean anything, really, because with Jessica Jones I was really ambivalent about it until episode 3 or 4 (not quite sure which one it was), and then I fell in love with the series, so I'm definitely planning to continue.
Cavesa wrote:And you are awesome at Finnish. But I am gonna catch up with you! (Perhaps one day)
Hah, it's kind of you to say that. You must have missed those 2 weeks where I basically did nothing and seriously considered dropping the language for now. But funnily enough, after cutting myself some slack and taking off the pressure (of keeping up with the others, of being able to speak Finnish in some form or other by May, of getting through Assimil in a certain time frame, ...), I actually felt myself
wanting to do Finnish again, so I decided to get the first volume of
Suomen Mestari (for some variety in my Finnish learning - I'm just not cut out to following one resource religiously XD) and started working through an accompanying Memrise course - but at a leisurely pace.
But I have no problem with just crawling along in Finnish for the time being. And I also have no problem setting aside German for the time being either...
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