Dabble spanish10/30/2023 I have even tried to read Ancient Greek, but if anybody tells you that it is the same thing as Modern Green then whack them - it aint' And later I have read and listened to sources in Sardinian, Sicilian, Napoletan and at least two branches of the bundle known as Romanch. I have also studied some weird old Venetian plays to see what happened in Gallo-Italian before Goldoni - and no, it was not Italian (I commented upon that topic in HTLAL). On the other hand I should include Modern Faroese since I have read the local newspaper Dimmalætting, using my Icelandic as a crutch. And of course I can't speak all those languages, so in more than half the cases I have to construct my sentences laboriously instead of just tapping them in.īut I have written here and in HTLAL about more languages and dialects than that, after previous studies of relevant texts of course, and among those that come to mind are Anglosaxon, Ancient Saxon (the precursor of low German), Ancient Gutnish and Eastern Gothic - but not Old Norse since it is too close to Modern Icelandic. And I count Ancient French as an independent language, but not 'Ancient' Spanish or Catalan - they are too close to modern speech. I have a spreadsheet where I note down the languages I have used in that thread, and the counter stands right now and quiver at 30 languages and 1 dialect (Western Jutish) - I count Scots and Platt as languages because I have studied them as languages. So let me start with something tangible: my multiconfused log. The question is of course how much you actually need to do to be recognized as a serious dabbler. Prepare for a long rant - but the OP asked for details. Is it worth dabbling? Can you get something really valuable just by investing a bit? When you stop - why do you stop? Is the curiosity satisfied? Or did you just try several languages to see which language was the right one for you? - do you feel guilty when you stop? (for example I feel guilty when I have a friend in a language and I neglect his language ). Let me ask a couple counter question to you dabbles. So I just postponed it for now until I am in Europe again and everything is easier. The only language I kind of dabbled into was Spanish (I still invested at least 150 hours or so), but I stopped it because my Mexican roommates at that time were annoyed by me learning Spanish and I was very busy anyway, also I didn't find any practice partners and the time zone difference for online exchange was kind of difficult. So starting a new language is very dangerous for all my other projects. If I get into something, it gets more and more interesting until it absorbs me completely. I can't really dabble - I'm really curious.
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