Might the desire to read one particular book motivate you to personally learn a language?

Boojatta

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Sat Jul-26-08 05:40 PM
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Poll question: Might the desire to read one particular book motivate you to personally learn a language?

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colorado thinker

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Sat Jul-26-08 05:46 PM
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1. Italian

to read any book in the library in Rome, after I move there if McSame somehow gets elected.

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Faygo Kid

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Sat Jul-26-08 05:47 PM
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2. Si.

If George W. Bush could learn English (a language obviously foreign to him) so as to read "My Pet Goat," I can learn Spanish to read Cervantes in the original.

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hobbit709

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Sat Jul-26-08 05:54 PM
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3. Russian literature is even more boring in the original Russian.

Edited on Sat Jul-26-08 05:54 PM by hobbit709

Great for insomnia.

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Speck Tater

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Sat Jul-26-08 05:55 PM
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4. Sanskrit. The Vedas. NT

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YankeyMCC

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Sat Jul-26-08 06:20 PM
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5. I'm considering learning ancient greek

for the Iliad and Odyssey.

I doubt I'll ever find the time and means but lately I've had a strong desire to do it. Also to read Herodotus and Thucydides.

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applegrove

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Sat Jul-26-08 06:20 PM
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6. I could never learn a new language. I am terrible at languages. Better at solving problems. My

mother is great at language and does well in crosswords. We just have opposite brains.

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enlightenment

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Sat Jul-26-08 07:10 PM
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7. I learned Ancient Greek so I could read Homer and Marcus Aurelius

and Latin to read Cicero and Tacitus.

Kind of fun.

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Sanctified

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Sat Jul-26-08 08:29 PM
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8. Greek and Hebrew to be able to read the Bible in it's original text. n/t

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Occam Bandage

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Sat Jul-26-08 11:50 PM
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9. I learned Classical Chinese to be better able to read early Chan (Zen) and Daoist works.

Edited on Sat Jul-26-08 11:52 PM by Occam Bandage

I already had a pretty high level of competence in Mandarin, so it wasn't all that hard. I've occasionally considered learning Sanskrit, but my tastes have been shifting towards the Occidential recently...

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HamdenRice

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Sun Jul-27-08 08:09 AM
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10. I learned Portuguese in order to understand lyrics of Brazilian music

especially bossa nova. But I already knew Spanish and French which made Portuguese very easy to learn.

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JerseygirlCT

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Sun Jul-27-08 08:39 AM
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11. It might. If I wasn't so lazy! nt

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frogmarch

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Sun Jul-27-08 06:25 PM
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12. None of the above, but

I've been learning Irish (Irish Gaelic) so I can understand and properly pronounce the lyrics in traditional Irish songs.

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