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| arodriguez66 Diglot Newbie United States lepensuer.wordpress.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5598 days ago 34 posts - 35 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 3 30 January 2010 at 12:45am | IP Logged |
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During my Russian language studies, sometimes I get tired and I have to take a small
break from my studies. The time period could be anything from a day to a week. I do this just to settle what I have learned. I found out that doing this allows my brain to “bake” what I just learned. However, during this time I do not do any language learning at all. For that reason, I thought in pick up a second language, Arabic to being specific. My idea involves use the “spare” time from Russian and uses it with Arabic. My concerns are the followings: Is this is a healthy approach to language learning? Is it good for my Russian and Arabic? Is it possible? Have any of you tried something similar? How you did it? Any comments and/or suggestions are welcome. What about the dialect, classical Arabic or Egyptian or any other? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| BartoG Diglot Senior Member United States confession Joined 5449 days ago 292 posts - 818 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Spanish, Latin, Uzbek | Message 2 of 3 30 January 2010 at 2:45am | IP Logged |
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Is it possible?
You already speak Spanish and English. So clearly you're capable of knowing more than one language at a time to an unspecified proficiency. If you're going to speak multiple languages, I think it's a good idea get used to having more than one language floating around in your head. Only experience will tell whether studying Arabic during your breaks will or won't work for you personally, but it's absolutely worth trying. And if it does give you trouble, then the next question is where you run into trouble and what strategies might help you get around whatever comes up. I'll make one suggestion that I've made elsewhere: Try to vary your routine, study patterns, etc. between languages, that way each language has an independent set of associations in your brain, rather than it all running together as "language other than Spanish and English." 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Astrophel Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5734 days ago 157 posts - 345 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Cantonese, Polish, Sanskrit, Cherokee | Message 3 of 3 30 January 2010 at 4:44am | IP Logged |
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That method works for me. I study one language, get tired of it, study another for a bit, go back to the first one, refresh the ones I know, go back to the second...
Stick to just a few languages or you'll spread yourself too thin, but it works for me to juggle Spanish and Sanskrit back and forth, and sometimes I deliberately seek out German TV or a Latin text just to vary things and make sure I don't forget the languages I already know. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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