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| onurdolar Diglot Groupie TurkeyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4643 days ago 98 posts - 147 votes  Speaks: Turkish*, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 1 of 4 09 May 2012 at 8:18pm | IP Logged |
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Hi,
Fellow language language enthusiasts, I have been studying Italian for 3 months now from multiple resources and i've just completed a test for A2 level with almost perfect score and did reasonable ( but not enough to qualify ) in B1 test. I was wondering since many people in this forum has learned ( or studied ) romance languages; how deep were you in for the first one before you started the second? I was wondering when i could start Spanish ( self study with audio courses and FSI&assimil 45 mins to 1 hour a day ) without causing interference with Italian. Good day all! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| drp9341 Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 4903 days ago 115 posts - 217 votes Speaks: Italian, English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French Studies: Japanese | Message 3 of 4 09 May 2012 at 10:31pm | IP Logged |
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I would say wait until you can speak it pretty fluently.
I spoke/speak Italian very well, I have a native speaker father who lives with me and would rather us speak Italian, and still, after speaking Italian probably at a sold B2 level, and having LOTS of passive vocab and "fluency" and all around comfort in Italian, I still sometimes throw in the wrong word. When I learned Spanish I learned it very very fast, 0-B2 in 6 months, and everyday I went out of my way to speak Italian for at least a short little conversation to make sure I didn't forget it. I fortunately didn't forget Italian, but I STILL interfere Italian and Spanish words in some areas, especially about topics that I don't often discuss. So my advice is that I was close to mixing them up, and I was pretty advanced. So I would say wait until your Italian is pretty solid. There's no need to rush, since learning 1 romance language strengthens the other. You may not mix them up in terms of writing and slow speaking and what not, but you would be surprised how if you need a word you may just take the word from the wrong language. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| boudouris Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4610 days ago 12 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Greek, Indonesian, French, Mandarin | Message 4 of 4 10 May 2012 at 4:47am | IP Logged |
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In my opinion, you should start as soon as possible, if you have enough time.
In my experience (learning Spanish and then starting Portuguese when my Spanish was about a B1 level), Portuguese never interferes with my Spanish (unless I switch quickly between them), but I tend to try to insert Spanish words when I don't know or remember the Portuguese one. But it's different for each person. My advice is this: if you find that Spanish is interfering with your Italian, then passive learning might be helpful (e.g. watching videos, reading newspapers), because you will become more familiar with the differences between the languages through exposure, which will put you a few steps ahead when you begin to learn actively. Lately, for the sake of time, I have focused more on passive aspects of Portuguese and when I try to use it after some time, I'm surprised by how much I actually know. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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