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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7016 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes  Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 33 21 November 2005 at 9:34am | IP Logged |
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Normally it is advised to only learn ONE language at a time since it will probably take you longer to become proficient in either. There is a thread on this "wanderlust" which you'd benefit from reading.
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| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7377 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 33 21 November 2005 at 9:39am | IP Logged |
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Brianna, this is an exciting idea that many people such as Brother Salvatore have had in the past.
In my humble opinion if you want to actually finish these languages you'll be much, much better off to focus on one. If all you want is flirt with the languages with no intention of ever being fluent, you can 'learn' of of the Romance languages at the same time. There is nothing wrong with doing that but you need to be clear about the objective before you start. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Luis Octoglot Newbie Spain Joined 7066 days ago 35 posts - 34 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, Catalan, Latin, FrenchB2, English, Italian, Ancient Greek | Message 11 of 33 21 November 2005 at 1:58pm | IP Logged |
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I think it is not a good idea the learning of 2 o more languages of the same family at the same time. Maybe you will talk a phrase in French with Spanish words or Italian.
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| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6950 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 12 of 33 21 November 2005 at 2:05pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the advice! I've read the thread on wanderlust, and I've been trying to work on subduing that curiosity. I guess I knew all along that it's best to study one at a time, but wanted to cling on to false hope. :)
That page about Brother Salvatore was very funny, but the MP3 clip might give me nightmares. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Gamma Octoglot Groupie Brazil Joined 6944 days ago 82 posts - 85 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, English, GermanC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Finnish Studies: Icelandic, Dutch | Message 13 of 33 24 November 2005 at 1:23pm | IP Logged |
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I speak four Romance languages. They are: Portuguese - my mother tongue -, Spanish, Italian and French, which I am currently teaching myself.
At the same period of time I was teaching myself Italian, I was also having Spanish classes at school. Then, after finishing the Italian course, I began to learn French on my own. But that was just my preference. I did not wait until the end of the Italian course to do so because of the fact that I was dealing with Romance language, but because it was my personal will. That brought me absolutely no problems. If you study them correctly and reach a solid knowledge of each one, then you should not make confusions between them. However, it is always good to pay attention when you are in touch with a Romance language, in order not to make silly mistakes, by influence from others from the same family. In a nutshell, Tuffy, I have never had problems with them and I can assure you learning more than one Romance language will not ruin the other ones. Edited by Gamma on 24 November 2005 at 1:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tuffy Triglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 7035 days ago 1394 posts - 1412 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German Studies: Spanish | Message 14 of 33 28 November 2005 at 6:20am | IP Logged |
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Ok thanks. At the moment I'm focusing 100% on Spanish and I even avoid French. But sometimes when I do hear some French I get the feeling I understand that better than before too! So indeed, knowing 1 Roman language is a ticket to learning another one faster. And instead of competing with each other they probably support each other. Making it easier to remember and learn new words because they are simular to words you already know.
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| Gamma Octoglot Groupie Brazil Joined 6944 days ago 82 posts - 85 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, English, GermanC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Finnish Studies: Icelandic, Dutch | Message 15 of 33 28 November 2005 at 11:31am | IP Logged |
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Exactly.
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| Kveldulv Senior Member Italy Joined 6954 days ago 222 posts - 244 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Italian* | Message 16 of 33 12 December 2005 at 8:31am | IP Logged |
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[QUOTE=patuco] I would recommend learning French after Spanish for exactly the reasons you mentioned above, i.e. another Romance language so constructions would be similar as would certain vocabulary.
QUOTE] However, Barry Farber says that it's better to learn a language with nothing in common with your last language studied. Probably because you could ignore some things saying "Oh I already know it" when tere are instead some differences, I don't know. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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