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| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6211 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 9 of 10 26 July 2009 at 4:45pm | IP Logged |
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A good friend of mine is actually in Thailand right now doing just that. He's not a huge language person and I
don't think he wants to get to fluency without ever taking a class in Thai, but for now he's learning from his friends and not taking a class. From what I understand, he basically asks people how to say something when it comes up, and then asks them how to say similar things and compares their structure. Then he tries his own novel sentence using that structure and another word he knows. So for example, he might ask somebody how to say "I want a small beer" and "I want a large pig" and then try saying "I don't want a large beer" and see if it's right. I don't think it's the most efficient way to learn, but he's learned alot for somebody who's been there only a few weeks and hasn't seriously studied Thai at all or had learning it as a priority. Like Lizzern, I basically learned Catalan by talking to native speakers (I took an introductory class too, but I honestly don't think it helped me learn it!). I just told people to speak to me in Catalan for a while, and asked about words I didn't know, and eventually tried talking and had people correct me or tell me words. Sometimes I would ask about a structure too, like "how do you do past tense", which people seemed to able to tell me (and is pretty easy in Catalan). But yeah, like Lizzern said, you can pretty much do this really easily when you speak Spanish already, since their structures and vocabularies are similar and you already have a loose understanding of Catalan. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ashley_Victrola Senior Member United States Joined 5714 days ago 416 posts - 429 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Romanian | Message 10 of 10 28 July 2009 at 10:23am | IP Logged |
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I think it probably would also help to make sure you've got more than one person helping you. For two reasons: One being that different people speak different ways, accents ansuch. The second is so you don't drive any one native speaker crazy! ;)
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