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| FSI Senior Member United States Joined 6360 days ago 550 posts - 590 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 9 of 13 26 July 2007 at 10:29pm | IP Logged |
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^ Agree completely with that. My progression has been Spanish->French->Portuguese/Italian, and the spread between Spanish and French has definitely helped distinguish whichever Romance languages came next.
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| lpeia Newbie United States Joined 6316 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: Portuguese | Message 10 of 13 11 August 2007 at 8:09pm | IP Logged |
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I've encountered the same problems; learned Spanish first, then Portuguese, then lost Spanish, then again back to Spanish, some Portuguese left, now Italian... What helps me is trying to sistematize in my mind the patterns of differences and similarities. For example, words that finish in "dad" in Spanish usually finish in "dade" in Portuguese (nacionalidad - nacionalidade) or "ion" in "ao" (conversacion - conversacao).
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| anime Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6361 days ago 161 posts - 207 votes Speaks: Spanish, Swedish*, English Studies: German, Portuguese, French, Russian | Message 11 of 13 13 August 2007 at 6:43am | IP Logged |
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that should be conversação, not conversacao hehe
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| rggg Heptaglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 6326 days ago 373 posts - 426 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Malay Studies: Romanian, Catalan, Greek, German, Swedish | Message 12 of 13 13 August 2007 at 9:06am | IP Logged |
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Spanish is my mother tongue and when I started learning Portuguese I had a similar experience but my problem was with Italian, while speaking Portuguese I tended to use Italian words all the time.
But that only happened at the very beginning of my conversation classes. Edited by rggg on 13 August 2007 at 2:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| labouillie Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6317 days ago 91 posts - 97 votes Speaks: Haitian Creole, English* Studies: French, Spanish | Message 13 of 13 15 August 2007 at 10:43am | IP Logged |
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There's always that possibility of language interference occurring while studying similar languages. I plan on learning Spanish and Italian, but I will probably learn German before attempting Italian. I figure German will serve as a buffer between the two languages so my brain doesn't confuse them. I already have some knowledge of French, so it's very tempting to try to master the romance languages immediately. I just hope I don't get frustrated with German and then go for the easy route by trying to complete Italian first.
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