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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5034 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 41 of 131 04 January 2012 at 7:14am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm really excited to see so many others who appear to be doing French for at least one of the challenges. I am doing that one for February, and I hope we can support each others' learning.
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| birthdaysuit Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4817 days ago 48 posts - 101 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Swedish | Message 42 of 131 04 January 2012 at 3:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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I missed the November one, so I'm pretty excited about getting here in time for the 2012
ones. I'll probably move my Swedish from passive to active for February, then finally begin Russian in May. I haven't really decided any further past that, so I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. Though I know French is after Russian, it's anyone's guess when I'll be ready for it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4909 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 43 of 131 04 January 2012 at 5:13pm | IP Logged | ||
However, as an English speaker, you will have an easier time with German than you have had with Mandarin and Russian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lmo Tetraglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4767 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Sinhalese*, English, Italian, French | Message 44 of 131 04 January 2012 at 6:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Erlier I thought of starting Spanish in May. But my French is coming up pretty well. So it may be sooner than later. I must admit I am working very hard on my French with Pimssleur. Edited by lmo on 04 January 2012 at 6:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ellsworth Senior Member United States Joined 4957 days ago 345 posts - 528 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish | Message 45 of 131 04 January 2012 at 10:40pm | IP Logged | ||
If you can understand how Russian works, German should be extremely easy for you. The declensions in German are extremely simple and quite regular. IMO vocabulary is the hardest part about German so you should be fine! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 46 of 131 04 January 2012 at 11:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't find using them spontaneously easy at all:( Like, without thinking "aha, this word is masculine, so the accusative is den..."
IDK, I totally consider the Finnish cases far more logical and easier<33333 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5130 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 47 of 131 05 January 2012 at 11:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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I could probably go in either in August or November. I'll be ready for a diversion by then :-)
Plus, I have an Afrikaans book that's been sitting neglected on my shelf since 2006. I could aim to get through it in the 6 weeks. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 48 of 131 11 March 2012 at 7:47am | IP Logged | ||
It's probable that I'll put short but focused study of Latvian and/or Ukrainian in the spring. However I'm unsure about making these part of a challenge since I sense that this is meant to focus one's motivation when lacking other reasons. Besides anything that I do with those languages would still be subordinate to my work in Finnish. I'm still toying with diverting to Livonian, Mari or Turkish (or hell even Azeri or Uzbek thanks to the resources that I've gathered so far) in the fall but that's just talk right now. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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