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| QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5854 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes  Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese | Message 1 of 48 14 May 2012 at 6:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Does anyone here have plans to learn all the languages in a particular language family
like what have in mind? I want to learn almost, if not all the Slavic languages to fluency. However, I am unsure what is the best way to complete this ambitious plan. I do recognize that the similarity between the languages is a double edge sword: one can speed up the learning process after mastering one, but at the same time, one can easily mix up the languages especially if he is not careful. In my plan now, I have basically divided the Slavic languages into the 3 main categories : Western, Southern and Eastern branches. Each Category has 4 languages that I will start to learn after only I am comfortable with the previous languages in the same category I had studied. However, I will learn one language in each category simultaneously(at the same time), which I am doing now. Here is the break down: 1st level: Russian (east), Czech (west), BCS (South) (currently in progress) 2nd level: Ukrainian (east), Polish (West), Bulgarian (south) 3rd level: Belorussian (east), Slovak (Wast), Slovenian (south) 4th level: Rusyn (east), Sorbian (west), Macedonian (south) Can we discuss the feasibility of this plan and how long it will take? I may move to that region if necessary. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4706 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 2 of 48 14 May 2012 at 7:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think by the time you've had Bulgarian the last couple will be quite simple to do.
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| a3 Triglot Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5255 days ago 273 posts - 370 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, English, Russian Studies: Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish | Message 3 of 48 14 May 2012 at 7:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you are intending to learn most of the languages from the same family, you'd better also learn the corresponding sound laws (or rules of thumb if you prefer) - this will make learning of vocab tons easier. This stands for every language family.
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| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4858 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 4 of 48 14 May 2012 at 7:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, as a student of slavic philology, I have such plans. Of course in a very distant future.
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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5055 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 5 of 48 14 May 2012 at 8:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Learn Russian first and you won't regret.
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7155 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 6 of 48 14 May 2012 at 8:53pm | IP Logged | ||
Scroll down to the sections "Links" and "Comments from forum-members who have 'been there' with at least two Balto-Slavonic languages" in the Balto-Slavonic Profile. This topic never gets old among us. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 8 of 48 15 May 2012 at 1:22am | IP Logged | ||
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From my experience, making detailed plans is useless. Start studying when you can no longer resist, whether this happens tomorrow, next week or in 2 years.
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