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| Afgjasmine16 Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5846 days ago 29 posts - 55 votes  Speaks: Pashto*, English, Hindi Studies: Bengali, Tamil, Indonesian, Turkish | Message 1 of 6 17 May 2009 at 6:03pm | IP Logged |
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For Everyone studddying more than 1 lanaguge, how long do you spend studdying each lanaguge? And how many languages is it possible to study at 1 time?
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| Strannik Diglot Newbie Russian Federation Joined 5509 days ago 16 posts - 16 votes Speaks: Russian*, English | Message 2 of 6 18 May 2009 at 1:31pm | IP Logged |
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I used to study at school two languages (French and German).
I have heard that it is more efficient to learn one language at a time, so concentrate on a language of your first priority and when you speak it at least, at intermediate level, then you can start learning another language. Otherwise, it will be quite difficult. There is actually a good article about your question, http://www.helpwithstudy.com/two-languages-at-a-time.html so my opinion is just the same. Hope it helps! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Afgjasmine16 Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5846 days ago 29 posts - 55 votes Speaks: Pashto*, English, Hindi Studies: Bengali, Tamil, Indonesian, Turkish | Message 3 of 6 18 May 2009 at 9:58pm | IP Logged |
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thanks :)
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| Lizzern Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5749 days ago 791 posts - 1053 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 4 of 6 19 May 2009 at 1:18am | IP Logged |
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At one point I was studying biblical Hebrew, ancient Greek and Hungarian at the same time. Two of them were for uni so they took up a lot of time, and I kept up the Hungarian on the side. It worked out ok.
But those weren't my first additional languages, I was already fluent in English by then, had studied German in school (and forgotten it), studied Spanish to intermediate level while learning Catalan at the same time from immersion, and had learned a fair bit of latin. So by then I'd already learned the grammatical terms I needed, had left behind my L1 in a rather too permanent way for my liking, and had found the method of learning that worked for me... When I lived in Spain and was studying Spanish while surrounded by Catalan on all sides, I thought it really helped to be studying both of them at the same time, even though they're quite similar and most people probably wouldn't recommend doing that (it's not like I had a choice in the matter though). If you were learning your first-ever L2 it probably wouldn't be a good idea to just jump into two languages at the same time. I see from your profile that's not the case, so I say go for it, if you find you get confused then you can either leave one for a time to focus on the other, or you can alternate, or whatever works. You'll probably find that the more you learn about how you pick up languages and how to get your brain to switch over to thinking in the language you're learning, the easier it will be to do so, then managing more than one won't be a problem at all. Liz 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| andee Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6917 days ago 681 posts - 724 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Korean, French | Message 6 of 6 20 May 2009 at 1:54am | IP Logged |
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I try to spend a minimum of 20 minutes on a language a day (active studying, not just passive listening). I use a rotational system though, where I'll spend an hour or more on one of my languages; change the language of focus the next day, and so on.
So today I might spend 20 minutes each with Japanese, Indonesian and Korean.. and an hour with Spanish. Tomorrow, 20 minutes with Indonesian, Korean and Spanish. An hour with Japanese. And I always listen to something when I'm driving - music, podcast/audio blogs, audio from a drama, etc. And usually listen to the same kind of thing when working alone or reading. True for Korean and Japanese. That gives me at least 2-3 additional hours of listening everyday. I always dedicate 2 hours to Japanese on Saturday because I have more time. And most of Sunday, my wife and I try to create a Japanese immersion environment - drama, movies, whatever. Anyway, as Liz suggested, since you are competent in a few languages already, then multiple languages shouldn't cause a confusion. I had a terrible time at first when I studied some Spanish together with French (a long, long time ago hehe). But after spending so much time with other languages, my brain can effectively partition and separate and little confusion takes place anymore - even with closely related languages. Edited by andee on 20 May 2009 at 1:55am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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