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| guiguixx1 Octoglot Senior Member Belgium guillaumelp.wordpres Joined 4027 days ago 163 posts - 207 votes  Speaks: French*, English, Dutch, Portuguese, Esperanto, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Polish, Mandarin | Message 1 of 11 09 March 2015 at 8:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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After having reached something around the B1 in Spanish, A1 in Italian (although way
higher in understanding), and A2 in German, I wanted to work on my Italian with harry potter, and in order to refresh my Spanish vocab, I was thinking about reading both versions of a same book simultaneously. Would anyone advise that, or advise against that? Would it be too difficult not to mix both languages? And what about reading it in German as well, at the same time? Would it be too time- consuming? Or would it have advantages? I have never learnt by reading a same book in 2 languages at the same time, so I would be curious to know where this method would lead. Any experiences to share? Edited by guiguixx1 on 09 March 2015 at 8:57pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4944 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2 of 11 09 March 2015 at 10:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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I tried such an experiment once and gave up.
The time wasn't an issue, reading more books at once or one after the other is in the end quite the same. However, I can see two troubles there: 1.It's not fun for me and fun is a large part of the input activities for me. I do not reread books right away either. 2.I always try to do different activities in different languages, unless I am already good at both. I believe it beneficial not to do the same kind of thing in both on the same day and reading the same book is an extreme example of it. Another case is reading in a language you are already strong at and in a weak one as well, which is basically a longer and more interesting parallel text than most you can find preprepared on the market. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4456 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 3 of 11 09 March 2015 at 10:44pm | IP Logged | ||
I find that terribly boring as well. but back to the original question: Why not change the language after each chapter? This would avoid the boring re-read. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| guiguixx1 Octoglot Senior Member Belgium guillaumelp.wordpres Joined 4027 days ago 163 posts - 207 votes Speaks: French*, English, Dutch, Portuguese, Esperanto, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Polish, Mandarin | Message 4 of 11 09 March 2015 at 10:48pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, but one of the goals with reading in both Italian and Spanish was to keep Spanish words while reading the Italian translation and learn those words. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jbadg76421 Groupie United States Joined 4323 days ago 51 posts - 92 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, French, Esperanto | Message 5 of 11 09 March 2015 at 11:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hmm...right now I'm reading two Star Trek books, one in German and one in French (different novels, but both in the ST franchise). I'm also watching Star Trek in Italian from time to time...I don't find it especially confusing. I think maybe reading the exact same book at the same time would become boring, but I don't see there being any problems with mixing up languages.
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| robarb Nonaglot Senior Member United States languagenpluson Joined 4994 days ago 361 posts - 921 votes Speaks: Portuguese, English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, French Studies: Mandarin, Danish, Russian, Norwegian, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Greek, Latin, Nepali, Modern Hebrew | Message 6 of 11 10 March 2015 at 12:06am | IP Logged | ||
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That's similar to using parallel texts, except that both languages are ones you're learning instead of just one. I can't
imagine that it would be harmful to read that way, although repeating the content is boring for some. There's probably little or no advantage other than that the support of the stronger language makes it easier to understand the weaker language and therefore get more exposure to it quickly. But for this, I prefer to read books in the weaker language that I have already read in the past, rather than at the same time. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7140 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 7 of 11 10 March 2015 at 1:24am | IP Logged | ||
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If it's a "super book" - one that you can read in your native language repeatedly and still get more and more
out of - AND I've got strong B level skills in both languages, then I can do it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5035 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 8 of 11 10 March 2015 at 11:12am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm doing that right now with Grimm fairy-tales. I
read in German and check with French. It's basically more fun than anyone should be able to have. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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