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Originally Posted by Parthon  Zwynd: Awesome! You sound inspired, go out and do it. If you get discouraged by it later, great!  |
I informed my Spanish speaking buddies today in game that I'm going to jump straight into Spanish as the next language I want to know. They were thrilled! I have helped some of them with their English skills over the years and they are very eager to return the favor. Now they get to giggle at me as I mispronounce things. It'll be fun!
I was in vent for a couple hours today just listening to them converse with each other in their native tongue and you know, I recognized a lot of the words. I could tell what topics they were talking about and the feeling of the convo but couldn't really understand how to put it together.
However, I realize it's not so intimidating as I first thought. Just bring up my vocabulary and SPEAK! They're friends and are very wanting to help me out. I don't think I could find more supportive Spanish teachers than them. The resources were there all along, it just took my courage and desire to focus on it.
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I'm not sure if you have to stick to one thing, although out modern society keeps telling us we have to. I want to do 50 different things, or more, but I need to facilitate a way to do it as well, that's really the big question. Leonardo DaVinci had close to 100 hobbies from painting, sketching and sculptin to maths, physics and the sciences. He's unquestionably a genius and he didn't stick to just one subject.
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I never knew that. Now my 30 or so hobbies don't look that bad at all. I feel even more inspired!
And no, languages won't be my only focus. It'll be my bridge to help bring all the skills and things I love together. I don't think I could see myself -just- as a translator.
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As for advice, the only advice I can give is to follow your dreams, because they are yours and noone else can fulfill them. Also, make a list of everything you'd like to accomplish, then use that to get a map of where you'd like to go next.  |
Thank you very much. I'm not normally a hugging type of person but I felt like hugging you just now. *laughs*
A map like that...that sounds amazing. A HUGE map of the world with pins to places I want to visit with notes dangling from each one stating what I want to do/try out in each place. Just wow, I hope I can buy enough pins!