The one glue that binds the writer's of this blog together is that we all are attempting to learn 2 or more foreign languages.
What I'd like to know is how people prioritize.
I guess if you're living in a country where the daily language used is one that you would like to learn, then you have some sort of advantage, but if you are trying to learn 3 or 4 different languages then I guess you're going to learn one better than another.
So anyway, I think it would be interesting to learn how you divide your time between your chosen languages... for example, do you study Chinese for a whole day, then Korean the next? Or maybe some people prefer to set aside half an hour or so a day for all their selected languages?
I also think that the better one gets at a language, the harder it is to set time for learning it... does this make sense?
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Ed is a self-described eccentric graduate student of linguistics from California. He currently focuses on Balinese and Indonesian, but has also studied the following: French, Japanese, Tagalog, Korean, and Abou Dida (in his field methods class). He is also an accomplished performer of Balinese and Central Javanese gamelan music and dance. On top of that, he's supposedly a really good amateur chef...
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Nicholas is 20 year old Filipino male living in the Gold Coast, Australia. He has called himself "The Language Freak," and most of his close friends probably agree that this name is appropriate. Aside from his native languages English and Tagalog, he can speak pretty good Mandarin and Japanese, and can survive with some Korean and Cantonese. He hopes to learn some Spanish too! The only thing Nick enjoys more than language learning is eating, and karaoke!
Cody is a 19 year old male that lives in America and is currently studying Korean, Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin), and Spanish. His main focus is Korean but he is also interested in Japanese and thinks Chinese sounds cool. Spanish is there because it is required for his college and he kind of likes it (a little bit). In his spare time, he likes to listen to music, watch movies, play video games, practice his languages (duh~), and Jog.
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Theresa
Theresa is a 20 year old female who lives in Singapore and is currently taking Korean as a third language, her first being English and second being Mandarin. She took Korean in 2005 and gradually fell in love with the language. Some of her favourite pasttimes would be reading novels, shopping and more shopping.
Hyunwoo(현우)
Hyunwoo is a 27 year old male who lives in Korea and speaks Korean as his mother language. He's currently studying English, French, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Indonesian, German, and Italian. He enjoys breakdancing in his free time (and always tries to make more and more free time for this!) and loves meeting new people and communicating in the languages he's studying.
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Ed
Ed is a self-described eccentric graduate student of linguistics from California. He currently focuses on Balinese and Indonesian, but has also studied the following: French, Japanese, Tagalog, Korean, and Abou Dida (in his field methods class). He is also an accomplished performer of Balinese and Central Javanese gamelan music and dance. On top of that, he's supposedly a really good amateur chef...
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Nicholas is 20 year old Filipino male living in the Gold Coast, Australia. He has called himself "The Language Freak," and most of his close friends probably agree that this name is appropriate. Aside from his native languages English and Tagalog, he can speak pretty good Mandarin and Japanese, and can survive with some Korean and Cantonese. He hopes to learn some Spanish too! The only thing Nick enjoys more than language learning is eating, and karaoke!
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I haven't made a conscious decision to divide up my time, but as it turns out I do.
I watch Japanese anime/manga in my spare time, study Korean whenever I get a chance, and rarely deliberately come into contact with much Chinese for study any more. But since I live in China Chinese is everywhere, so I do get regular exposure.
So one language is everywhere so I don't put much effort into it (Chinese) one I'm proficient enough to watch TV/read books in it (taking notes when I see something interesting of course), and the remaining language (한국어) is probably the only one that I ever seriously sit down and try to study.
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