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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5453 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 9 of 13 18 October 2011 at 7:21am | IP Logged | ||
Yes, but as a start the four "big" ones are more than enough. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6011 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 10 of 13 18 October 2011 at 11:43am | IP Logged | ||
I would leave Portuguese until last. As GRagazzo seems to be saying, there's a tendency towards increasing difference as you go westwards (which shouldn't really be a surprise). There are a few features that Spanish has lost that Portuguese has retained, but these tend to be phonological rather than grammatical. Also, I'm a great fan on Michel Thomas's teaching and Thomas didn't write a course for Portuguese (the one released under his name was written by someone else -- I listened to the first hour of it when they offered it for free, and I wasn't very impressed). You might at first think that MT isn't for you, because it's aimed at the uninformed learner and doesn't go into the theoretical aspects of the grammar. I would urge you to look beyond that -- I've studied languages and linguistics at university level (part-time, I won't graduate until next year) and I still feel it's the best start anyone could get. It covers a lot of grammar quickly and easily, and gives you a great basis to start building up your knowledge from academic grammars, if that's how you want to go about it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Merv Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5273 days ago 414 posts - 749 votes Speaks: English*, Serbo-Croatian* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 11 of 13 18 October 2011 at 3:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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As is often the case with HTLAL, there's too much fantasizing and planning that goes on here rather than doing the
hard work. I, too, fantasized about learning 40 languages back when I started Spanish. Now I realize I would be lucky if I manage to learn just Spanish to true fluency, with a rich vocabulary, near-native accent, natural idiomatic speech, etc. If and when you perfect Italian, you have 3 more high-powered Romance languages to tackle. Don't worry, at that point the order in which you deal with them won't matter too much. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5960 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 12 of 13 18 October 2011 at 6:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Spanish > Portuguese > French
Just my preference based on their relevance from my point of view. And doing the two very similar languages first means if you for whatever reason quit at the half-way point through your project, you will be left with more functionality in the first two languages than if one of those first two languages had been French. If time and motivation allow it, this is the order I will be doing them in, minus Italian which I have no interest in learning. (Romance languages aren't really my thing.) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| fiziwig Senior Member United States Joined 4865 days ago 297 posts - 618 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 13 of 13 18 October 2011 at 7:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am currently working on Spanish, and plan to continue concentrating on it for a few more years at least, or until I attain what I consider acceptable fluency. After that I'm really curious about Italian for the simple reason that I watched a movie in Italian recently and could almost understand quite a lot of it from just my limited knowledge of Spanish. I would venture into Italian out of curiosity only, however, with no goal of real fluency.
My personal choice of order (given that I've already started Spanish, and that this would just be dipping my toes into each of the others) would be Spanish -> Italian -> Portuguese -> Romanian -> Latin. I really dislike the sound of French so as a matter of personal taste I'd just skip it. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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