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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5573 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 9 of 12 21 January 2010 at 2:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Practice, practice, practice.
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| rodarmor Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5586 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish | Message 10 of 12 21 January 2010 at 4:05am | IP Logged | ||
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They are definitely different, so I think it might be a matter of filling in the holes and habit more than anything else.
I'm going to Guatemala for 6 weeks on Friday to study, so I think my Swedish is at risk more than anything. Based on everyone's advice, I think I'm just going to study Spanish like crazy, and try to skype with as many Swedish friends as possible during the evenings. Thanks for all the good advice! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5814 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 11 of 12 21 January 2010 at 7:04am | IP Logged | ||
Iversen has summed it up for me. When I started studying Italian I kept having French words pop in when I had a blank and I haven't studied French in some 20 years. Nice to know its still there! (big grin). I find I do better after having listened to spoken Italian for 10 - 20 minutes. I also find this even happens to me with Spanish, which is native to me, since I rarely use it. When I go to visit Spanish speaking relatives I find my thoughts coming to me in English first but after being saturated in Spanish for 5 to 10 minutes I find myself thinking in Spanish. I definitely get the feeling that my mind is switching gears or tracks from English to Spanish. My father told me of a friend he had a friend who went to the United States to study. When the friend came back he spoke Spanish with an American accent and was not conjugating his verbs ("Yo tener ..."). They thought he was crazy. He ended up going back to the USA to stay. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5541 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 12 of 12 21 January 2010 at 4:19pm | IP Logged | ||
I thought I'd have no confusion when I added Korean to the mix, but I've found myself thinking of the term from the wrong language multiple times (and Korean and Spanish are vastly different). However, my issue is mostly trying to start off a sentence with a word from the wrong language. Once my mind is in the right "gear" the rest of the sentence usually constructs itself fine. Also the words I usually mix are mostly words like: now, yes, no, then, because, why, where, etc. Nouns and verbs I don't really mix much, if at all. Edited by Warp3 on 21 January 2010 at 4:27pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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