I have always appreciated those guys who were able to speak several languages and easing their lives while travelling, immigrating, expatriating..I could never be one of them :) Popping up with a turkish mother language, I was already not that lucky unifying my language with some others. Turkish is unfortunately not similar to any other languages in the world. And then a long secondary & high school time, trying to learn English from Mr. & Mr.s Brown cassette tapes..Even daring to blog in English, I am still just a simple user of it, I guess. Then came a mannered time when I had attended an Italian course for over a year. Result : I forgot all, only "che culo" remained I think :) Afterwards, I had chance to live in Germany and I think I can handle  to speak a bit further than Rammstein song lyrics. Finally, here comes the Romanian, our lovely Latin (yes, many still think it's a Slavic language) based language which after a year I can catch up some basic conversations. So, to make a self-criticism, I can not speak any of them properly :)

Ok, actually, this post is not about how incapable I am, but more about the motivations to learn another language. People try summer camps, intensive language courses, international datings, reading "How to speak .... in 5 minutes" guide books, listening to audios and even getting married :), but in the end it's all about how much you want & need it. Experiences show that anyone could handle to survive with a very basic English in most parts of the world, so why should you try to learn any other language to bother yourself :) ?

Not so true ! These globalism, internationalization, 'no borders' campaigns are all nonsense as nation-based language differences will continue. So as a very simple first rule, if you decide to live in a foreign country, you should get the language in order to ease your survival. Once, I found out a group called "Kein Deutsch in Deutschland - No German in Germany" which was composed of some American & British expats living in Germany. Well, this is bullshit, there is no intelligent anarchic sense behind it.

But, wait, let's turn back to this motivation topic. I recently found out that my motivation stands on the reality that the coming of translation-chips is so soon. Google Translate or realtime web conferences are just simple examples of where we are heading to. Sooner or later, it will be possible for a Chinese guy speaking with a Norwegian girl, without any need of speaking the common language. So, yes, this is my motivation. When that day comes, I will come up with this blog post as a "You see, I told you" argument. But, until then, I must focus a bit more on learning this damn hard Romanian :)

Enjoy your French ....