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| fortheo Senior Member United States Joined 4970 days ago 187 posts - 222 votes  Studies: French | Message 9 of 15 12 October 2011 at 7:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the comments everyone! And yes Arekkusu its the abstract words that i usually find myself translating in my head. So i am going to try and do what you recommended!
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5315 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 10 of 15 12 October 2011 at 7:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I forgot to mention it in my previous post, but you can also use gestures, particularly if you know some sign language.
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| JamesFr Newbie Australia Joined 4775 days ago 16 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* | Message 11 of 15 01 December 2011 at 3:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't have a problem with this in Chinese (L2) I can instantly translate stuff, weird.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6531 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 13 of 15 07 December 2011 at 7:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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What's helped me a lot when learning Finnish was listening to the Da Vinci Code audiobook while following the written text at the same time. There's just no time to translate.
The good news is that the more languages you learn, the easier you'll get over this. Maybe because each concept exists in your brain in several languages, and you're more likely to translate to various languages depending on what sphere you use them in. Random anecdote: a few weeks ago a Dutch footballer I follow on Twitter tweeted "#sneeuw #Moskou". without any conscious thoughts I ran to the window and saw that it was indeed snowing:) I didn't think "hm this word might mean snow, and he plays for Spartak Moscow so does this mean it's snowing here and I haven't noticed???", I just understood and checked. Hehe. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| vikavictoria Pentaglot Groupie United States Joined 4983 days ago 49 posts - 74 votes Speaks: Persian, English*, German, Spanish, Tajik Studies: Russian | Message 14 of 15 08 December 2011 at 5:58am | IP Logged | ||
THIS!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| wenevy Bilingual Pentaglot Newbie China Joined 5011 days ago 28 posts - 36 votes Speaks: Spanish, Mandarin*, Cantonese*, Catalan, EnglishC1 Studies: French, Italian | Message 15 of 15 04 January 2012 at 9:48am | IP Logged | ||
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This is luca´s (the Italian polyglot) method, right?
I don´t know if he translating from L2 to L1 in his head or writing. But what I know is he also translate form L1 to L2 after doing this, to complet the full cycle, as he says. I am going to ues this technique and I hope it works for me. Good luck. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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