sofiapofia Pentaglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4941 days ago 88 posts - 103 votes Speaks: Swedish, Hindi, Portuguese, English*, Marathi Studies: German, Danish, Sanskrit, Icelandic
| Message 1 of 13 16 October 2011 at 10:46pm | IP Logged |
I am at B2 level in Italian and since this is my first Romance language and I want to
learn (or at least be familiar with) the rest, could someone suggest the order in which I
should learn them.
Here's what I plan to do:
Italian > French > Portuguese > Spanish
I am a student of Linguistics and I am more interested in studying the language rather
than learning any of them for communicative purposes.
Thanks
Edited by sofiapofia on 16 October 2011 at 10:46pm
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Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5066 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish
| Message 2 of 13 17 October 2011 at 12:08am | IP Logged |
Don't forget Romanian
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sofiapofia Pentaglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4941 days ago 88 posts - 103 votes Speaks: Swedish, Hindi, Portuguese, English*, Marathi Studies: German, Danish, Sanskrit, Icelandic
| Message 3 of 13 17 October 2011 at 12:15am | IP Logged |
Indeed, however, I do not wish to learn Romanian in the near future and would like to
concentrate on the languages I mentioned in my first post.
Edited by sofiapofia on 17 October 2011 at 12:15am
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jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6294 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin
| Message 4 of 13 17 October 2011 at 12:34am | IP Logged |
Spanish has nice, regular spelling.
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Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5066 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish
| Message 5 of 13 17 October 2011 at 1:32am | IP Logged |
sofiapofia wrote:
Indeed, however, I do not wish to learn Romanian in the near future and would like to
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You mentioned that you don't want to learn most of these languages, just study them. From my understanding,
Romanian is unique for a Romance language in its grammatical structure.
Edited by Kartof on 17 October 2011 at 4:32am
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GRagazzo Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4961 days ago 115 posts - 168 votes Speaks: Italian, English* Studies: Spanish, Swedish, French
| Message 6 of 13 17 October 2011 at 2:43am | IP Logged |
If you just want to study them I would do
Italian>French>Spanish>Portuguese
Mainly because French is most similar to Italian, and a good transition into Spanish.
And since Portuguese and Spanish are very similar it makes sense to put them together.
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dmaddock1 Senior Member United States Joined 5433 days ago 174 posts - 426 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Esperanto, Latin, Ancient Greek
| Message 7 of 13 17 October 2011 at 11:16pm | IP Logged |
Here's a video by Dr. Arguelles that touches on this question. Granted, he's talking about Spanish->French->Italian->German, but you might find some guidance there.
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ilcommunication Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6692 days ago 115 posts - 162 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin
| Message 8 of 13 18 October 2011 at 2:03am | IP Logged |
Something like Occitan might be neat to look into.
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