Serpent's profile backup

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Serpent
Black Belt - 3rd Dan
Posts: 3657
Joined: Sat Jul 18, 2015 10:54 am
Location: Moskova
Languages: heritage
Russian (native); Belarusian, Polish

fluent or close: Finnish (certified C1), English; Portuguese, Spanish, German, Italian
learning: Croatian+, Ukrainian; Romanian, Galician; Danish, Swedish; Estonian
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Re: Serpent's profile backup

Postby Serpent » Sat Jul 18, 2015 9:02 pm

More hitlist entries

My reasons to learn Lithuanian
Somewhat important It's a less-commonly learned or minority language
Somewhat important Out of curiosity
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Serpent
Black Belt - 3rd Dan
Posts: 3657
Joined: Sat Jul 18, 2015 10:54 am
Location: Moskova
Languages: heritage
Russian (native); Belarusian, Polish

fluent or close: Finnish (certified C1), English; Portuguese, Spanish, German, Italian
learning: Croatian+, Ukrainian; Romanian, Galician; Danish, Swedish; Estonian
exploring: Latin, Karelian, Catalan, Dutch, Czech, Latvian
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Re: Serpent's profile backup

Postby Serpent » Sat Jul 18, 2015 9:04 pm

My reasons to learn Sanskrit
Very important Because I like the writing system
Rather Important To read books/literature in this language

My reasons to learn Hindi
Very importantVery importantVery important Because I like the writing system
Very importantVery importantVery important Because it is part of my family's heritage
Very importantVery importantVery important Because I find the language fascinating in itself
Very importantVery importantVery important For pleasure
Rather ImportantRather Important Because I like the challenge of a difficult language
Rather ImportantRather Important For gastronomic reasons

I love the writing system and the food, and it's my heritage. the kind of motivation that causes millions of people to fail at Japanese, Italian, Spanish
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Serpent
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Posts: 3657
Joined: Sat Jul 18, 2015 10:54 am
Location: Moskova
Languages: heritage
Russian (native); Belarusian, Polish

fluent or close: Finnish (certified C1), English; Portuguese, Spanish, German, Italian
learning: Croatian+, Ukrainian; Romanian, Galician; Danish, Swedish; Estonian
exploring: Latin, Karelian, Catalan, Dutch, Czech, Latvian
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Re: Serpent's profile backup

Postby Serpent » Sat Jul 18, 2015 9:07 pm

My reasons to learn Hungarian
Very important Because the language has an exotic appeal
Rather Important Because I like the challenge of a difficult language
Rather Important Because I have heard interesting things on this forum about the language

And these are the ones I truly don't see myself learning, but for archiving purposes...

My reasons to learn Armenian
Rather Important Out of academic interest
Rather Important Because I like the writing system

My reasons to learn Ancient Greek
Very important Because of its religious importance
To be more precise, I plan to learn Biblical Greek.
Somewhat important Out of curiosity
Somewhat important Because I like the writing system
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LyricsTraining now has Finnish and Polish :)
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Serpent
Black Belt - 3rd Dan
Posts: 3657
Joined: Sat Jul 18, 2015 10:54 am
Location: Moskova
Languages: heritage
Russian (native); Belarusian, Polish

fluent or close: Finnish (certified C1), English; Portuguese, Spanish, German, Italian
learning: Croatian+, Ukrainian; Romanian, Galician; Danish, Swedish; Estonian
exploring: Latin, Karelian, Catalan, Dutch, Czech, Latvian
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Re: Serpent's profile backup

Postby Serpent » Sat Jul 18, 2015 9:07 pm

And done :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Serpent
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Posts: 3657
Joined: Sat Jul 18, 2015 10:54 am
Location: Moskova
Languages: heritage
Russian (native); Belarusian, Polish

fluent or close: Finnish (certified C1), English; Portuguese, Spanish, German, Italian
learning: Croatian+, Ukrainian; Romanian, Galician; Danish, Swedish; Estonian
exploring: Latin, Karelian, Catalan, Dutch, Czech, Latvian
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Re: Serpent's profile backup

Postby Serpent » Sat Jul 18, 2015 9:25 pm

At one point I realizedI tend to do much better if I have at least 10 reasons to learn a language :) Of course I proceeded to add as many reasons as possible :mrgreen: For me this is one of the most interesting parts of the backup.
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Serpent
Black Belt - 3rd Dan
Posts: 3657
Joined: Sat Jul 18, 2015 10:54 am
Location: Moskova
Languages: heritage
Russian (native); Belarusian, Polish

fluent or close: Finnish (certified C1), English; Portuguese, Spanish, German, Italian
learning: Croatian+, Ukrainian; Romanian, Galician; Danish, Swedish; Estonian
exploring: Latin, Karelian, Catalan, Dutch, Czech, Latvian
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Re: Serpent's profile backup

Postby Serpent » Sun Jul 19, 2015 7:46 pm

And I've kinda officially started Galician. Using XnView in it.
That's one language I definitely don't plan to speak/write in :mrgreen:
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Re: Serpent's profile backup

Postby Cavesa » Mon Jul 20, 2015 12:36 pm

Wow, you definitely take backing things up seriously! Great! And thanks for sharing the info about the new forum on twitter!
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Serpent
Black Belt - 3rd Dan
Posts: 3657
Joined: Sat Jul 18, 2015 10:54 am
Location: Moskova
Languages: heritage
Russian (native); Belarusian, Polish

fluent or close: Finnish (certified C1), English; Portuguese, Spanish, German, Italian
learning: Croatian+, Ukrainian; Romanian, Galician; Danish, Swedish; Estonian
exploring: Latin, Karelian, Catalan, Dutch, Czech, Latvian
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Re: Serpent's profile backup

Postby Serpent » Mon Jul 20, 2015 12:41 pm

Hehe. Well, the profiles will definitely be gone as soon as any major change happens, and I guess I took this feature more seriously than most people :)
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