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Have you ever planned to leave your knowledge of one language to gain more in another

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  1. lemons123

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    I mean, say if you know English as a second language but want to abandon it to leave "space" for say Spanish and Italian? Etc.

    I don't believe people can speak more than 3-4 languages as they need to be maintained on a daily basis hence if you want to speak more you'd have to leave some aside.
     
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    I did. I dropped spanish for english.
     
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    Dropped Bulgarian for Russian whist doing French and German at school and speaking English
     
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    I just started learning Esperanto, because I read that it's very easy to learn.
     
  5. lemons123

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    Re: Have you ever planned to leave your knowledge of one language to gain more in ano

    Kinda interesting you've planned Bulgarian at all :slight_smile:, probably the only person to ever do so unless it's your mother tongue or living in BG. I am not interested in Russian at all though, well yeah I've considered it but among 15+ other languages.

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    Yes, but does it have any use? :frowning2:

    My current language-learning-jerk revolves around:

    Japanese, Italian, Latin, Spanish, Hebrew, Old Church Slavonic.

    Obviously can't speak them all so will have to say drop Eng and maybe do something like Italian + Latin or Japanese + Hebrew.
     
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    I dropped Tamil as a Third Language in order to learn English and maintain it.