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| Dragonsheep Groupie United States Joined 5262 days ago 46 posts - 63 votes  Studies: Tagalog, English* Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 1 of 3 15 February 2011 at 7:29am | IP Logged |
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An idea arose as to a method for learning two languages. Incidentally, I was studying Japenese during Latin class few days ago.
Japanese, being entirely self studied for me, has no structure for pacing. Depending on the week, I can get a highly varying amount of exposure, learning and review. Latin, however, is very consstent. One and a half hours of class every day plus at least an hour or so of homework. As to the difficulty of the class, it is 1st year second semester in a 4 year course (with the fourth year being AP Latin.) As to pacing Japanese, what if I, or anyone, for that matter, tried to keep their level of self studies language at least at the same level of their class based language. When ever you review material in the class language for an, see if you could review the same material in your self study language. Whenever I'm tested in latin, I would assess my abilties in Japanese in being able to pass the test. Of course, this mainly applies to vocabulary and syntax. Grammar can be icomparable. Japanese has less specific tenses, and Latin doesn't have keigo. My learning in Japanese is at a very health pace, so I probably will never use this method, but I'll throw it out here for discussion. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| aabram Pentaglot Senior Member Estonia Joined 5525 days ago 138 posts - 263 votes Speaks: Estonian*, English, Spanish, Russian, Finnish Studies: Mandarin, French | Message 2 of 3 02 March 2011 at 11:03pm | IP Logged |
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I think this has more to do with establishing a discipline than specifically with
language learning. Some people, including me, find it easier to get something done when there are certain conditions or triggers. For the life of me I couldn't find a free hour in my daily schedule to sit down and do some Spanish, but I can do it, if I set some conditions for myself, for example every day the last thing I do before going to sleep is to read some Spanish. There's my trigger. I think you describe the same idea of consistency here. When there's A, do B. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5373 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 3 of 3 03 March 2011 at 4:15pm | IP Logged |
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You'll need a lot more structure if your Japanese is to keep up with the Latin. Moreover, learning Latin is purely an academic exercice; Japanese is a living language.
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