Hi Friends,
Just a random topic for discussion.
Did you have an experience whereby you started learning a language, but it was very challenging and difficult for you, so you stopped learning it?
Have you stopped learning a specific language before?
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- White Belt
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- IronMike
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Re: Have you stopped learning a specific language before?
hahahahaha!
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You're not a C1 (or B1 or whatever) if you haven't tested.
CEFR --> ILR/DLPT equivalencies
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CEFR --> ILR/DLPT equivalencies
My swimming life.
My reading life.
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- Orange Belt
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Re: Have you stopped learning a specific language before?
I would be more curious to hear if any longtime forum members have not stopped working on at least one language at some point. I assume most of us are leaving a trail of abandoned languages in our wakes (someday Persian, someday!)
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- zenmonkey
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Re: Have you stopped learning a specific language before?
I’ve stopped almost every language I’ve started.
I’ll get back to them.
Eternal optimist, I just started a new one.
Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Swedish, Setswana, Hebrew, Tibetan, Ladakhi, Italian, Portuguese, Tzotzil, Bemba, Ladino, just to name a few are all sitting patiently waiting for me to get back.
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I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar
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- White Belt
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Re: Have you stopped learning a specific language before?
reineke wrote:Like Korean, for instance? Nope.
Lol you have started associating me with Korean language haha.
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- Iversen
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Re: Have you stopped learning a specific language before?
I once started to read TY Arabic, and I dropped it as soon as I discovered that the Arabs mostly don't write their vowels. How can you learn such a language from books alone? I also learnt the Korean Hangul for a trip there, but I never had any intention of learning the language behind those pretty signs, which saved me the humiliation of meeting Koreans who didn't understand what I might have wanted to say. Ditto with Georgian, although I have read a Georgian grammar since my visit down there - and if I ever have a lot of free time I might actually return to that language. As for Irish it's on the shelf for the moment - I'm in the middle of a musical project that robs me of valuable study time so I prefer concentrating on the other half dozen ones I'm studying for the time being. But I haven't dropped it forever.
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Re: Have you stopped learning a specific language before?
I think many of us have abandoned languages in the past!
I got to the point where I could handle an hour-long conversation in Esperanto, but in the end I realized that con-langs weren't really for me. At one point, I also had pretty high receptive Italian (could read novels and watch TV), but I felt like I could barely speak due to the strong interference from Spanish, and I abandoned Italian as soon as we decided against a planned trip to Italy. I studied Tagalog pretty seriously for a few months, then got burnt out and realized that my very basic conversation skills were enough for what I wanted to do in life. And I completed the Duolingo tree in Portuguese one summer when I had some time on my hands, but I never did anything else with that language.
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- einzelne
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Re: Have you stopped learning a specific language before?
“Giving up a language is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.”
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Re: Have you stopped learning a specific language before?
I've stopped learning languages before I even started...
Like a lot of people I had a phase of "going to learn Japanese" because I really liked Japanese cartoons and games consoles... Never even got round to page one
Like a lot of people I had a phase of "going to learn Japanese" because I really liked Japanese cartoons and games consoles... Never even got round to page one
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