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Man who chases two hares catches neither
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kujichagulia
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03 October 2012 at 3:00am | IP Logged

This caught my attention because I have a pet rabbit. Shameful but true.

This is probably the wrong audience, but let me use a soccer analogy. (I'm American so I say soccer. Sorry.) When you, the manager, takes over a team, you start teaching them one formation - say, the 442. You work on that until your team is somewhat proficient in it. Then maybe you decide to introduce a 451 formation. But while you are working on the 451, you are still tweaking the 442 to make it better. Once you are proficient in both, you can add a third, and a fourth, and a fifth... until you are Chelsea and you dominate the Champions League. :)
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05 October 2012 at 5:18pm | IP Logged

Pet rabbits are awesome. We have one, too.
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05 October 2012 at 5:18pm | IP Logged

Splog wrote:

I saw a video on youtube recently by a very prolific video maker who has caught the language bug, and has stated his ambition to learn 100 languages. He spends hours a day switching between a large number of languages that he is studying at the same time. Now, my first reaction would be to tell him to focus on one at a time, but as I thought about it I realised that chasing all of these languages is exciting to him in a way that studying a single language would not be.

It reminds me of a friend in England who plays 32 different musical instruments, many of them very exotic instruments picked up on his world travels. He spends all his spare time studying and playing these diverse instruments, and loves every moment of it. He may never become a concert pianist, but if he were forced to focus on one instrument I imagine his passion would drop away and he would lose all interest in music.

For many, then, the journey is just as exciting as the destination, and I encourage them to follow their passion and enjoy every minute of it.

Does he have any language learning vids? Post up a link!
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05 October 2012 at 5:40pm | IP Logged

There are times in one's life where motivation is at a peak and time is a less scarce resource then at other times -- at such a junction of opportunities, even a person who'd otherwise be afraid to tackle more than one language at once should simply dive in and enjoy.
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07 October 2012 at 3:24am | IP Logged

Would it be easier if the languages were not related? Say, French and Chinese, rather than French and Spanish?

Obviously, once you have a good base in a language you can study more than one. I am continually improving my French and Hebrew, while learning German.

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Message 30 of 31

07 October 2012 at 6:14am | IP Logged

Depends on your goals. If you're satisfied with passive/receptive skills only (for the time being and only for some of your languages), related languages are better.
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Splog
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07 October 2012 at 8:41am | IP Logged

IronFist wrote:

Splog wrote:

I saw a video on youtube recently by a very prolific video maker who has caught the language bug, and has stated his ambition to learn 100 languages.

Does he have any language learning vids? Post up a link!

I was reluctant at first to post his youtube channel details, since many people have the urge to criticise anything less than perfection.

So, remember this person is new to youtube, quite new to language learning, and is full of enthusiasm. With that in mind, his channel name is FinnishPractice.

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