Well, so the intent was kind of to give myself a guide to where I should go learn languages. I hope to visit most of the Earth, so the answer to "where do you intend to visit" is "oh, most places".
It's mostly a thought experiment anyway. My intended list of places includes a lot of cities with transit systems. :)
I can get about ten words out in Polish, including "carrot" and "juice", to which there is a story. This isn't all that useful, because the situation is as spinrabbit points out. A lot of people in Poland actually speak some other language also, whether it's English (greatly preferred, and considered "cool"), German (much less preferred, but commercially necessary), or Russian (a last resort).
I still want to be able to pick up languages much more quickly than I can, though.
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Date: 2012-05-29 06:32 pm (UTC)It's mostly a thought experiment anyway. My intended list of places includes a lot of cities with transit systems. :)
I can get about ten words out in Polish, including "carrot" and "juice", to which there is a story. This isn't all that useful, because the situation is as spinrabbit points out. A lot of people in Poland actually speak some other language also, whether it's English (greatly preferred, and considered "cool"), German (much less preferred, but commercially necessary), or Russian (a last resort).
I still want to be able to pick up languages much more quickly than I can, though.
Oh, me too.
I admire your polyglotism.
Mostly, this is an accident of birth, but thanks!