Is learning a second language to a high level of proficiency

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2017-02-12 10:12:15 Post No. 9094558
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Anonymous 2017-02-12 10:12:15 Post No. 9094558 [Report]

Is learning a second language to a high level of proficiency worth it? And by that, I mean, of course, are there significant enough differences between original texts and translated texts to warrant learning other languages (of course it depends on the language). I've spent some time learning Arabic, German, and French to intermediate proficiences, but I can't see myself pouring thousands of more hours in to reach the advanced stages in these languages, particularly Arabic, if the pay-off is not real, and I of course, at my current level of proficiency, am not in the position to be a judge.

So, people with a high proficiency in a foreign language, are translations shit? I don't really care about learning a language to talk to people or listen to television shows or anything, so literature is the only redeeming point for me, that and it is fun, but it being fun alone cannot justify it, I think.

Is learning a foreign language worth it?If not, is learning a distant foreign language worth it?

Anonymous 2017-02-12 10:35:08 Post No.9094586
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Anonymous 2017-02-12 10:35:08 Post No.9094586 [Report]

>>9094558
of course it's worth it, list one downside apart from "i don't have enough time"

Anonymous 2017-02-12 02:31:36 Post No.9095091
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Anonymous 2017-02-12 02:31:36 Post No.9095091 [Report]

>>9094558
As a person with four tongues, yes is my answer. Now go my child!

Anonymous 2017-02-12 02:33:05 Post No.9095099
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Anonymous 2017-02-12 02:33:05 Post No.9095099 [Report]

>Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.
>~Goethe

Anonymous 2017-02-12 02:37:06 Post No.9095111
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Anonymous 2017-02-12 02:37:06 Post No.9095111 [Report]

If you're not going to use the language for everyday communication and media, might as well learn a dead one from the meme trinity (attic, latin, sanskrit)

Anonymous 2017-02-12 03:02:16 Post No.9095189
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Wanna beat the system? I'ma bout to reveal my power levels so step the fuck back.

Ok, I don't know about your country but in Germany we have a great sortiment of bilingual books. So I simply read French, Russian, Latin classics in the original with German side by side. Learn the grammar and then it's passive learning. No time, no effort. Didn't even have try to understand a whole lot at any point and still ended up having high proficiency in all of them.
>mfw

So there you go young one. Pattern recognition. You have been enlightened.

(Ok ok, there's one downside: speech proficiency suffers, but who cares about that shit lmao)

Anonymous 2017-02-12 03:03:58 Post No.9095194
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Anonymous 2017-02-12 03:03:58 Post No.9095194 [Report]

>>9094558
>are translations shit?
Some are. I can't read the translation of Moby Dick since it's so shit compared to the original (though I can't read the original either, it's too painful with my english level)

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