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Antigrav_7
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12 August 2010 at 12:57pm | IP Logged 
How many hours do you have to spend on a language so that you don't lose touch in it? For example, for someone who has learned 8 languages, what time-efficient methods could be used so that more time can be spent on learning a 9th language? Just curious.

Edited by Antigrav_7 on 12 August 2010 at 12:59pm
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eumiro
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Speaks: Czech*, Slovak*, French, English, German, Polish, Spanish, Russian
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12 August 2010 at 2:30pm | IP Logged 
Listen to podcasts. While I am using German, English, Slovak and Czech every day in active communication (written or spoken), I have alway my mp3-player with me and listen to interesting podcasts in Spanish, Russian, Italian, French and English when commuting or when doing something, which does not require my whole attention.

Podcasts from radio broadcasts are usually more interesting than textbook recordings and if you listen to Spanish- or Russian-language news from Deutsche Welle (multilingual radio service based in Germany), you get usually much more background information than when listening to the news in local German radio, since they are designated to foreigners, who do not have the whole information. Some of these podcasts are even real masterworks (i.e. ciencia.es in Spanish) and they come in daily, so you even won't have to listen to the same podcast twice.

And I am looking forward, when I can add some Hungarian podcasts to my list... ;-) Now I am still just trying to catch some words in the Assimil recordings...



Edited by eumiro on 12 August 2010 at 2:31pm
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Antigrav_7
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22 August 2010 at 1:59pm | IP Logged 
eumiro wrote:
Listen to podcasts. While I am using German, English, Slovak and Czech every day in active communication (written or spoken), I have alway my mp3-player with me and listen to interesting podcasts in Spanish, Russian, Italian, French and English when commuting or when doing something, which does not require my whole attention.

Podcasts from radio broadcasts are usually more interesting than textbook recordings and if you listen to Spanish- or Russian-language news from Deutsche Welle (multilingual radio service based in Germany), you get usually much more background information than when listening to the news in local German radio, since they are designated to foreigners, who do not have the whole information. Some of these podcasts are even real masterworks (i.e. ciencia.es in Spanish) and they come in daily, so you even won't have to listen to the same podcast twice.

And I am looking forward, when I can add some Hungarian podcasts to my list... ;-) Now I am still just trying to catch some words in the Assimil recordings...



Thanks! Pretty good advice.


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