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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 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 17 of 22 11 September 2014 at 5:31am | IP Logged |
Yes, Romanian is a great bridge towards the Slavic languages :) It's also an introduction to the Balkan Sprachbund.
The Slavic project seems like a nice idea, especially as you have such a hard time choosing between them. However, in this case you'd probably have no room for non-Slavic new languages for some time. As long as you're in the Netherlands, English/Dutch/French/Spanish seems like a doable combination outside that project, but anything else will be too much until you're satisfied with your Dutch and English.
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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4049 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 18 of 22 11 September 2014 at 10:27am | IP Logged |
You mean that Romanian gives also a little introduction to Lithuanian and Latvian?
That's cool :)
Fortunately, French and Spanish are quite lightweight for me, while I'm not studying
English actively in this moment (Dutch is requiring most of my energies and I cannot
commit to another Germanic language now). Most of the people in my workplace have a
level that is similar or lower to mine, and I master the techcnical jargon so no
problem. Serious English study will take an insane amount of energies from me because
I have to revert an endless list of bad habits and bad input while being able to
filter continuous bad input. It will be probably the most difficult task in language
learning of my life.
So I count to be able to start with this project in January (if I don't change my
mind). Then I will have no more space for other languages almost at all for a long
period, I agree :)
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4830 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh
| Message 19 of 22 11 September 2014 at 12:16pm | IP Logged |
tristano wrote:
woah it seems that I really like to enumerate. |
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No problem. I like your structured style! :-) (Well, I did use to be a computer
programmer....).
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 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 20 of 22 11 September 2014 at 1:57pm | IP Logged |
Well no, Lithuanian and Latvian are not Slavic languages and belong to a different Sprachbund too. But Romanian, Croatian and Bulgarian share certain features with other Balkan languages like Greek and Albanian.
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4846 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian
| Message 21 of 22 11 September 2014 at 6:54pm | IP Logged |
tristano wrote:
You mean that Romanian gives also a little introduction to Lithuanian and Latvian?
That's cool :) |
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Balkan ≠ Baltic
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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4049 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 22 of 22 11 September 2014 at 7:01pm | IP Logged |
Ooooops.
A little bit of confusion :)
Well I guess also my geography will improve ;)
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