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šŸ¤Ŗ I just spoke to a dental assistant that spent 5 years studying dentistry in Poland but never learned any Polish. And that was true of the other North Americans in his program, too. I've only spent 6 days in Poland, but thanks to lots of Polish listening and reading right here in Canada, I have acquired a decent amount of the language. I am frequently astounded by how little interest most people seem to have in learning languages, despite living abroad for many years. Perhaps I am just a language freak..
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@Thelinguist

1 year ago

ā“Have you observed this phenomenon? What languages or cultures are you ā€œfreakishlyā€ interested in?šŸ‘‡

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@soykotya2222

1 year ago

I believe being a curious freak is way better than being "normal"

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@michiv334

1 year ago

I'm Polish. Thank you for appreciating my country's culture, Steve!

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@catboy_official

1 year ago

That's a shame, Polish is a beautiful and fascinating language. I look forward to learning it.

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@kar460

1 year ago

Polish is actually on my list to learn

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@mr.mousavi580

1 year ago

I'm so excited that you're trying to learn farsi...without exaggeration the farsi is the language of poetry and literature...I hope that one day you master this majestical language and figure out how magnificent this language is...

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@ADHDlanguages

1 year ago

Living in the US, I understand why most people don't bother learning another language since English is the way that it is, but to go to a country like Poland and not even bother to try learning the language is really next level. It literally could not be me.

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@Nikita35485

1 year ago

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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@StillAliveAndKicking_

1 year ago

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 itā€™s 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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@JourneyDestination

1 year ago

Steve is a true inspiration

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@jaironracsothesilentninjas9562

1 year ago

This man is no freak. Steve you are an inspirational person to all people, language learners or not. I think itā€™s 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 beforeā˜ŗļøā˜ŗļø

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@ayman2064

1 year ago

from my perspective I think itā€™s 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 Iā€™m 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 arenā€™t in the level that Iā€™m in, so itā€™s about the willingness and the intention and itā€™s all from within.

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@EmilyXTerrell

1 year ago

I only started learning languages a year ago. Before that I had no interest. And now itā€™s my one and only hobby that Iā€™m in love with. So now Iā€™m totally happy to be a language freak!

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@penguin3195

1 year ago

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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@sophiaentzminger5011

1 year ago

Im a language super freak too!! I just love languages. I only know 3 as of now,but i hope to learn more.

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@ģ‹øė„¬ė™ģ§€-7ģ„±ė‹“ė°°

1 year ago

No, sadly most people just don't give a F about anything...

We the learners are the "normal" ones.

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@joepiekl

1 year ago

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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@AyaanleCabdi-nt4dy

1 year ago

I actually think it is very strange and inoperable to see people in another country and not learning the language of that country, because they think if you speak in well known one you are ok , sad to see

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@karolinakoralik2385

1 year ago

Greetings from Polandā¤ā¤ā¤

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@karinaddc6949

1 year ago

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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