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| 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 33 of 33 07 November 2011 at 11:38pm | IP Logged |
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I have some advice, which may or may not help. I think this is a very personal thing and some of it just won't
work for everyone. My numbers here refer back to kanewai's post. 1. I think this a general truth about learning, not just when you do multiple languages. I usually don't try to force my studies into a set amount of time anymore because of this. I just do it when I can, for as long as it takes or as long as I have. Saying "I will do French for an hour now" just fails me every time. 2. This is definitely true. However, there are some things that can help. Try breaking your day into halves. In the morning, "prime" yourself for language 1 by listening to music or something like that. Then study. Then go about your day. During this time, you can think in your language and so forth. Then, after a certain point, make the switch to language 2 by putting on music or radio or watching a movie or something. Then study language 2. This way you're making your brain switch between languages more thoroughly instead of mixing it all up. 3. My recommendation for this one would be that when you hit a hump, you should identify the problem area and set aside a day to just drill and study the heck out of it. Then try to work a review of the subject into your regular daily routine for the forseeable future, via anki for example, or other means. But of course if you're not hung up on a particular thing, you're just plateuing, this won't help much, and you'll just have to wait it out. 4. With this one, the problem is how you're approaching your studies. Instead of thinking of it as one single thing you must do, break it up. It shouldn't be "I will study languages now" but instead, "I will do French vocab now and later if I have time I will do Assimil, and if I still feel up to it after that I will switch languages and do another Assimil" or something like that. This way of thinking will help you at least get SOMETHING done every day without feeling so pressured. If you often don't get to the second language, then try to stagger them day to day so they get equal coverage. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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