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<blockquote data-quote="redpillage" data-source="post: 972379" data-attributes="member: 8561"><p><strong>RE: Austria may elect Europe's only far-right president</strong></p><p></p><p>@marty - you probably assume I don't speak several languages. Well, I actually speak three fluently with several regional accents each and also am in the process of learning Russian. I also happen to read Korean but I don't speak it much - learning Hongul however took me a little over a week. </p><p></p><p>You're coming in here making a lot of assumptions and quite frankly I don't need to be lectured about my purported naïveté when it comes to the acquisition of languages. I spent the past few decades living abroad and am probably as cosmopolitan as they come. All the trite points you offered have been beaten to death by various online advertisers and resellers attempting to get people into learning various languages and more importantly - paying for courses.</p><p></p><p>One item however I agree with you - ALL languages are difficult (or easy - depending your perspective). The big difference is the learning curve leading to perfection. As Scrambled already pointed out - certain languages have a steeper curve than others but I believe that the complicated ones flatten out later down the line. It's the inverse with English which is easy as fuck but learning all those brilliant expressions and idioms will take you a decade at least. Whereas basic communication will take you only a few months in Spanish it'll take you potentially years until you can hold a proper conversation in Korean or Japanese, Russian - or Hungarian. If you've got a shitty memory (like me) then simply acquiring new vocabulary will cost you more effort - on the other hand grammar was always fairly easy for me as I have a very analytical mind.</p><p></p><p>In summary - yes, it depends on your background - I don't even know why we have to debate that. But no matter what language you study - all of them require a shitload of hard work. It really should not be under estimated as there are so many cultural things you have to learn as well and which are in intricate part of understanding the local population. It's a complex topic and opinions differ. If it's easy for you to learn new languages of all sorts - damn it - good for you! Go on and learn as many as possible. For me it's brutally difficult as I wasn't born with a good memory. But I do it anyway because it opens doors and I love to blend into various societies and cultures. If you want to be a global citizen and enjoy just a fraction of what the world has to offer then speaking at least three languages is a must. A fourth is my goal right now - I'm trying my luck with Russian but it's slow going. Perhaps a Russian girlfriend may help ;-0</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="redpillage, post: 972379, member: 8561"] [b]RE: Austria may elect Europe's only far-right president[/b] @marty - you probably assume I don't speak several languages. Well, I actually speak three fluently with several regional accents each and also am in the process of learning Russian. I also happen to read Korean but I don't speak it much - learning Hongul however took me a little over a week. You're coming in here making a lot of assumptions and quite frankly I don't need to be lectured about my purported naïveté when it comes to the acquisition of languages. I spent the past few decades living abroad and am probably as cosmopolitan as they come. All the trite points you offered have been beaten to death by various online advertisers and resellers attempting to get people into learning various languages and more importantly - paying for courses. One item however I agree with you - ALL languages are difficult (or easy - depending your perspective). The big difference is the learning curve leading to perfection. As Scrambled already pointed out - certain languages have a steeper curve than others but I believe that the complicated ones flatten out later down the line. It's the inverse with English which is easy as fuck but learning all those brilliant expressions and idioms will take you a decade at least. Whereas basic communication will take you only a few months in Spanish it'll take you potentially years until you can hold a proper conversation in Korean or Japanese, Russian - or Hungarian. If you've got a shitty memory (like me) then simply acquiring new vocabulary will cost you more effort - on the other hand grammar was always fairly easy for me as I have a very analytical mind. In summary - yes, it depends on your background - I don't even know why we have to debate that. But no matter what language you study - all of them require a shitload of hard work. It really should not be under estimated as there are so many cultural things you have to learn as well and which are in intricate part of understanding the local population. It's a complex topic and opinions differ. If it's easy for you to learn new languages of all sorts - damn it - good for you! Go on and learn as many as possible. For me it's brutally difficult as I wasn't born with a good memory. But I do it anyway because it opens doors and I love to blend into various societies and cultures. If you want to be a global citizen and enjoy just a fraction of what the world has to offer then speaking at least three languages is a must. A fourth is my goal right now - I'm trying my luck with Russian but it's slow going. Perhaps a Russian girlfriend may help ;-0 [/QUOTE]
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