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Quatrarius  ·  214 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 570th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

    Why would you want to learn a language

joie de vivre. you play for the love of the game and not to win.

the only two things that can get you to learn a language as an adult is sheer necessity and love, and necessity only takes you as far as the grocery store and someday your kids might speak it. you need to love it because the more you learn, the more you discover you don't know. it's like the riddle of the hole: the more you dig, the deeper it gets. the stakes economically need to keep getting proportionally higher to justify the investment, but if it's not an investment to you, it doesn't matter