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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7206 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 9 of 12 24 February 2015 at 10:57am | IP Logged |
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In Professor Alexander Arguelles - Reading Literature in Foreign Languages: Tool, Techniques, Target towards the last third or quarter of the lecture, he discusses his findings and approach for juggling multiple languages.
In a nutshell, he finds focusing on the stronger languages helps the weaker ones. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| guiguixx1 Octoglot Senior Member Belgium guillaumelp.wordpres Joined 4093 days ago 163 posts - 207 votes Speaks: French*, English, Dutch, Portuguese, Esperanto, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Polish, Mandarin | Message 10 of 12 24 February 2015 at 7:30pm | IP Logged |
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thank you for this link. It's indeed very interesting, and I really hadn't thought about
this strategy, although I'm personally not so sure that it could work (although if Prof. Arguelles says it, it could hardly be wrong) Has anybody tried this technique? what were the results? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4048 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 11 of 12 25 February 2015 at 8:13am | IP Logged |
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It has to be added more context to this sentence by Alexander Arguelles: he said that in the scope of learning multiple languages that are related. So If you
know Spanish, Portuguese and Galician, spending more time with Spanish and Portuguese will keep your Galician in good health. -- I'm doing exactly what the OP is describing. I'm changing my focus every month. January has been my French month, February my Spanish month and March will be my Dutch month. I find it quite effective but I don't have a lot of experience out of it. However I have questions that I leave as open points: - how many languages is possible to alternate in this way? I find 3 pretty doable, although 4 can already be too much - at which proficiency level is this more effective? If I start a new language, and study it for 1 month, and taking it back in 3-4 months, am I sure I'm going to remember something? If I'm C1-C2 in a language, is this month of focused study adding something to me? I think that in the range A1/A2-B2 this can work well, but in the complete beginner and advanced ranges it's better to spend different months in a row. - I now find that for Spanish even 3 weeks were enough, and I'm sure that with Dutch I will need more. - I think that after having overcame a treshold, the content of one's own study should be properly planned and targeted to fix some recognized issues. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 12 of 12 25 February 2015 at 4:04pm | IP Logged |
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I'm basically doing it the Prof Argüelles way. Although this isn't a one-way street - since Spanish has all those resources I love, I've learned some words through it that also exist in Portuguese and Italian (and it ended up surpassing my Italian last year).
If you use SRS for all languages, you can alternate as many as possible. But yeah at C1-C2 this won't make enough of a difference. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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