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RE: Languages you want to learn?

(02-02-2012 11:39 AM)Lunatic Wrote: it wouldn't be useful in anything other than showing off,

So many things are like that. And if you are learning something just to show off, imo that's not sufficient motivation for you to ever become an expert in it. You have to have the intrinsic motivation to learn the thing for itself, you have to feel a drive to learn it regardless of whether anyone would ever congratulate you for it.

I like learning languages just for the sake of learning them, and for the sake of being able to communicate with more people. It's not for glory.

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