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I think that learnning a language is a way of getting fun for some of us, and that's all. Like playing music or drawing paintings, ya know. And there are some 'freaks' from the world of art who draw everything they see, constantly making doddles in their notes. So, any activity choosen by an individual might seem strange for other people around, but it's their choise.
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I honestly think the problem is the education system that teaches second languages in a formal manner. People such as myself grow up thinking they are useless at languages because they hated language lessons at school. Thanks to numerous people, we now know a second language can be learnt in an informal and relaxed manner. And itās fun. That said, it does require a lot of work. Are you a freak? No, just passionate about languages and culture. My interests are French (B2+) and German (six months study from nowt).
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This man is no freak. Steve you are an inspirational person to all people, language learners or not. I think itās thanks to you that people can get interested in learning languages, even if they hated to do so at school. And also thanks to you, people like me who love language learning but put it down for some time got back into it. Anyways, thank you for this. Thanks to you people get to live their best lives and learn interesting things about other cultures that they might have never been able to beforeāŗļøāŗļø
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from my perspective I think itās all about the intention If a person got to a country and has no desire from within to learn, will never step toward the language, I have a story of mine wanna share, currently I am in indonesia, been here for one year and a half and already started learning Indonesian and now Iām at a conversational level where I can do my things here easily on the other hands met some people who have been living here for more than 4 years and they arenāt in the level that Iām in, so itās about the willingness and the intention and itās all from within.
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I work at a university in the Netherlands, most of my colleagues come from abroad. I only know like two people who actually took the effort to learn Dutch, the rest of them will just speak to everyone in English. Like I get it, everyone here is able to speak English, but for how similar the language is to English it surprises me that nobody is taking any effort to learn it (especially after living here for 10+ years)
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Most people do this and there are loads of reasons for it. And contrary to the stereotype of the lazy English-speaker, it applies to everyone. Firstly, if you go somewhere and work in an English-speaking environment, eight hours of your day is still conducted exclusively in English. If you're in an expat environment, you'll probably find that all of your friends will also speak English. But what about the locals? Well you tend to meet most of your local friends through work, so they are typically fluent in English too, so most people don't learn much beyond restaurant language, taxis, etc. In my experience, your closest friends will typically end up being other expats. Locals already have their own friendship groups that they've had since school, so to try to break into that as someone who barely speaks the language and needs helping through every conversation, even after 2 or 3 years of study, is very difficult. Incidentally, other than Kuala Lumpur, I've not lived anywhere where most expats haven't at least attempted lessons in the local language. It's just that most don't make great progress and get discouraged.
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Learning the language doesn't only mean learning words, grammar structures, or other linguistic aspects. It also means learning and understanding a culture, a bunch of customs and other points of view. Actually acquiring a new language changes your mind a lot.
I met Chinese who came to work as teachers for the Confucius Institute. Most of them don't learn the local language and are just satisfied interacting in English - most of them don't have a good English level. It may be because they came just for a period of time or they think it's a waste of time to learn the local language and just try to learn at a survival level, which is valid. What annoys me a bit, it's the fact that they indeed have and create misconceptions or misinterpretations of our country's customs or people's behavior since they don't interact often with natives and their understandings become poor. So the language barrier is a fact.
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@Thelinguist
1 year ago
āHave you observed this phenomenon? What languages or cultures are you āfreakishlyā interested in?š
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