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# If you mainly feel bored and want to do something in the spare time, then you can be a beginner forever. You don't want to endeavour, you just want to kill the time. Thus, you can't make real progress. | # If you mainly feel bored and want to do something in the spare time, then you can be a beginner forever. You don't want to endeavour, you just want to kill the time. Thus, you can't make real progress. | ||
# If you mainly want to get a better job, then you can have useful skills, but nothing more. You have a goal, so you can make progress, but you are interested in just the practical things, you just consider a language as a tool, so you will not dig into the languages and explore the cultures of the speakers. | # If you mainly want to get a better job, then you can have useful skills, but nothing more. You have a goal, so you can make progress, but you are interested in just the practical things, you just consider a language as a tool, so you will not dig into the languages and explore the cultures of the speakers. | ||
# If you are mainly forced by your parents, relatives, etc. then I feel very sorry for that. I don't know how much progress you can make | # If you are mainly forced by your parents, relatives, etc. then I feel very sorry for that. I don't know how much progress you can make, because it's mainly determined by your attitude. I can never approve to force others to do this. There are many ways to attract people to learn languages. Coercing is not attractive at all, so it's the worst thing to do. | ||
# If you mainly want to touch the whole world, to make friends, and become a world citizen, then you are qualified to be a nice polyglot. | # If you mainly want to touch the whole world, to make friends, and become a world citizen, then you are qualified to be a nice polyglot. | ||
(to be continued) | (to be continued) | ||
Revision as of 17:52, 28 September 2017
One may want to be a polyglot, but has no idea about what to do. I think it's time to give some guidance.
Motivation
Why do you want to learn many languages? It's a basic question, but it determines your level.
- If you mainly feel bored and want to do something in the spare time, then you can be a beginner forever. You don't want to endeavour, you just want to kill the time. Thus, you can't make real progress.
- If you mainly want to get a better job, then you can have useful skills, but nothing more. You have a goal, so you can make progress, but you are interested in just the practical things, you just consider a language as a tool, so you will not dig into the languages and explore the cultures of the speakers.
- If you are mainly forced by your parents, relatives, etc. then I feel very sorry for that. I don't know how much progress you can make, because it's mainly determined by your attitude. I can never approve to force others to do this. There are many ways to attract people to learn languages. Coercing is not attractive at all, so it's the worst thing to do.
- If you mainly want to touch the whole world, to make friends, and become a world citizen, then you are qualified to be a nice polyglot.
(to be continued)