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| apparition Octoglot Senior Member United States Joined 6649 days ago 600 posts - 667 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), French, Arabic (Iraqi), Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Pashto | Message 9 of 33 20 October 2010 at 12:35am | IP Logged | |||||
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It's a fluff piece. Leave it to the Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal to report on
something that hasn't even been achieved yet. I'm betting the reporter was under a deadline and decided to do a story about a friend of his. Yeesh. 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5344 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 10 of 33 20 October 2010 at 1:28am | IP Logged | |||||
Actually, the Wall Street Journal has been publishing some very interesting language-related articles recently. The Economist has also a new "blog" or column about languages, I think. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6867 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 11 of 33 21 October 2010 at 1:31am | IP Logged | |||||
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Three months seems to be a magical number. I first tried it with German following an intensive grammar-focused method I was recommended to try. I found it too boring though and was afraid I'd burn out.
A couple of things I'm curious about, however. Ms. Jovin's approach is better because it's immersion coupled with formal study. I'm glad that she recognizes that immersion by itself is no silver bullet. I hope she doesn't burn herself out though. A year isn't a terribly long time to learn one or two languages. To learn 13 it's quite amazing (indeed 80 years x 13 languages is quite remarkable) so perhaps the variety will keep her from getting burned out. Or maybe she's not the kind that tires and loses interest like that. However, I wonder to what level she wants to learn these languages? I don't doubt that one can learn a language fluently in three months, even a more complex one for an IE speaker such as Chinese or Arabic. But I still think it is more often than not the case that one needs much more time. I'm not saying she can't do it. But I guess in my mind it's not even the languages that will prove challenging, but just her own self-discipline. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| apparition Octoglot Senior Member United States Joined 6649 days ago 600 posts - 667 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), French, Arabic (Iraqi), Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Pashto | Message 12 of 33 21 October 2010 at 4:19am | IP Logged | |||||
Fair enough if you find them interesting. Your mileage may vary. I believe that many of the more prolific people on YouTube or HTLAL would be better candidates for a profile, however. And they are quite accessible, too. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6702 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 13 of 33 22 October 2010 at 1:15am | IP Logged | |||||
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It would have been more interesting to read an article about her project AFTER she had done it - especially if she succeeded.
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| mcjon77 Senior Member United States Joined 6610 days ago 193 posts - 248 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Egyptian), French | Message 14 of 33 23 October 2010 at 2:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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Certain things in the article lead me to believe that she is using pimsleur courses as a major part of her study.
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6010 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 15 of 33 24 October 2010 at 12:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
To apply the modern vernacular... EPIC FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!! 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| seldnar Senior Member United States Joined 7131 days ago 189 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, French, Greek | Message 16 of 33 25 May 2011 at 8:24am | IP Logged | |||||
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I don't think its been mentioned but she has a
blog about her language learning. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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