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oho wrote:Question: what's your method to keep your wanderlusts at bay? It would be interesting to share some tips, maybe we could help each other out.
linguoboy wrote:oho wrote:Question: what's your method to keep your wanderlusts at bay? It would be interesting to share some tips, maybe we could help each other out.
I follow Wilde's advice: "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." Generally I find that, as soon as I encountre any real resistance, I decide I'm not really up to the challenge and take a step back.
(For instance, I got frustrated trying to write a reply in Italian to a friend yesterday so I fired up the Italian course on Duolingo to practice my pronouns. I give it a week before I get bored and move on to the next thing.)
oho wrote:On the other hand my wanderlusts are always accompanied by the strong impulse to buy good grammar books that cost 30-40 euros or more.
linguoboy wrote:I follow Wilde's advice: "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." Generally I find that, as soon as I encountre any real resistance, I decide I'm not really up to the challenge and take a step back.
oho wrote:I suppose that's ok if the wanderlust only makes you want to start a duolingo course (even though there's still the issue of the time taken away from your target languages). On the other hand my wanderlusts are always accompanied by the strong impulse to buy good grammar books that cost 30-40 euros or more.
oho wrote:Question: what's your method to keep your wanderlusts at bay?
vijayjohn wrote:I really want to figure out the etymologies of words in Indonesian.
linguoboy wrote:vijayjohn wrote:I really want to figure out the etymologies of words in Indonesian.
Wiktionary tends to have good etymologies for those they have entries for, often tracing them back all the way to Proto-Austronesian (where possible) with a rich array of intervening protoforms. That's how I just learned that mereka is originally a borrowing from Javanese.
What I do is ask myself Can I truly see myself becoming fluent in this someday? Do I truly want to be in it for the long haul? Will I still care about it in five years? because if not, then that wanderlust can most likely be quelled by simply learning about the language, not trying to learn it in earnest.oho wrote:Question: what's your method to keep your wanderlusts at bay?
Interesting concept. I have a degree in psychology but have never heard this term before. Seems widely applicable to many things.On a more sophisticated level, lately I've also been trying to apply so-called "cognitive defusion" which is one of the practices of ACT to wanderlusts.
Massimiliano B wrote:Gujarati... I'm not really wanderlusting for it, but... It has in my opinion one of the most beautiful script. It is its script that attracts me.
Meera wrote:I have been wanderlusting for Chinese.
Meera wrote:I have been wanderlusting for Chinese.
księżycowy wrote:Meera wrote:I have been wanderlusting for Chinese.
Do it!
vijayjohn wrote:księżycowy wrote:Meera wrote:I have been wanderlusting for Chinese.
Do it!
That's what I just told her to do in Chinese!
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