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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5891 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes  Studies: French | Message 17 of 33 26 August 2011 at 9:02am | IP Logged | |||||
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| floydak Tetraglot Groupie Slovakia Joined 4789 days ago 60 posts - 85 votes Speaks: Slovak*, English, German, Spanish Studies: French | Message 18 of 33 28 August 2011 at 3:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I see no problem. Sure you can study 2 languages "simultaneously". And I think that even
both languages every day. To avoid interference you should learn first in the morning(afternoon) and second in the evening. Let there be some pause between study- sessions. One hour of each every day can't definitely cause you troubles. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5946 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 19 of 33 28 August 2011 at 6:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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One thing can be a little scary: when you try to think of a word in one language, and it appears in the other. This causes some people to give up the parallel learning, but don't let it worry you. It's just an indicator that you know it well in language X and not in language Y, but this is perfectly natural, because you won't be learning the two languages at an identical pace.
In fact, when I was learning Spanish and Gaelic simultaneously, although I did sometimes get cross-interference, I actually found that it was the "old" languages that interfered most with the new ones (I'd previously studied French and Italian), and that the "new" ones didn't interfere much. So it's not really that much of a problem, seemingly. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5763 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 20 of 33 28 August 2011 at 8:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
I think this can actually be useful, because it can show you which words you're not learning effectively enough. I sometimes have times when I really should be able to come up with a word in Japanese first, because I've studied it a lot, but it comes up in Esperanto or even French first and then I can say to myself, "OK, I really need to review that because it should be more solidly in my brain by now." It can also reveal gaps, where you have a useful word in one of your languages but haven't learned it yet in the other, and then you can go find out what it is and study it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4824 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 21 of 33 19 September 2011 at 10:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Quick update: I've been focusing on French listening and speaking the past two months. Last week I started FSI Modern Written Arabic. The FSI course focuses mostly on reading comprehension, so it's using almost a completely different part of my brain than the French!
I figure I'll keep the Arabic going steadily in the background for now, reading a bit more each day, and then at some point switch - i.e. work on spoken Arabic for a month, and written French. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Homogenik Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4759 days ago 314 posts - 407 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Polish, Mandarin | Message 22 of 33 20 September 2011 at 3:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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I've been studying polish for a while now and I just started Mandarin and I haven't felt that it was wrong in any way,
at least not yet. Both are so different languages in every single way that I don't see them overlapping. And Mandarin is so different that it actually makes polish seem very familiar somehow. I put much more time daily on polish because it's my first focus but I plan on continuing to study both. I think the important thing is to be comfortable and simply to have the time to do it. In my opinion though, it's probably better to learn two languages which aren't at the same level. Learning two new languages from scratch at the same time must be kind of a waste of time, but who knows, it also depends on the person. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| s_allard Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5365 days ago 2704 posts - 5425 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Polish | Message 23 of 33 20 September 2011 at 5:13am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm personally against the idea of studying two or more languages simultaneously, not because I think it's a bad idea per se but simply because I observe that learning a new language is so much work that it's just more efficient to concentrate on one thing at time. So I would say work on one language during a given period--let's say two months- while maintaining the other language. And then switch languages. Edited by s_allard on 20 September 2011 at 11:58am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| VityaCo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 7016 days ago 79 posts - 86 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Russian*, Ukrainian*, English Studies: Spanish, Japanese, French | Message 24 of 33 21 September 2011 at 10:37am | IP Logged | |||||
Originally you was going study Spanish/Arabic. Now it is French/Arabic. Why? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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