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| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5477 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 161 of 163 07 July 2015 at 11:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi again Mohave,
Your plan with Spanish seems fine and well justified to me Mohave. I can understand your drive to want to learn it. I'm simply giving my input from my personal experience which clearly doesn't always (likely rarely) applies to other peoples' situations, and I totally understand. In my experience I think sticking to one language for a long(er) time pays off. You have and will have done an excellent job sticking to your French as long as you have/will have when you pick up Spanish. I know you'll continue with both, I'm just thinking from an overall time perspective as well as focus. I'm personally holding off as long as I can as I know it's helping immensely compared to when I juggled too much at once and advanced at a (really slow) snail's pace. I'm sure you'll still advance very nicely in French when you pick up Spanish. As for concerns regarding language confusion when you start Spanish.... I think if you/one looks at French as Category 1/ box 1/ Language one.. or simply "French" and Spanish as "Spanish" it helps. That sounds rediculous I know, but I guess if you can have a clearly defined "French mode" and "Spanish mode" it can work well. I believe if your accent is as close to authentically French as possible and authentically Spanish for Spanish then the risk of mixing things up is diminished as you are less likely to see a Spanish word and try to pronounce it in a French way (as opposed to having an Americanised sound to every language you learn thereby blurring the edges on the way the two languages sound). You'll be fine! Just ensure you have enough time in the day ;) if not, you could consider applying for an application on a 30 hour day. That would give you another 6 hours a day but can you afford it? (time machine rental is not cheap nowadays- every man and his dog wants to do it but rarely does anyone dare to go ahead with such a hefty financial move). One chicken-whatsit in a flat-based cone thanks, PM 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5010 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 162 of 163 07 July 2015 at 5:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi, Mohave!
Congrats to the huge SC progress! That is totally admirable and it is no surprise you're making such a progress in your French. I don't think Spanish is a bad idea at all. You obviously have good use for it and some free time to devote to it, so why not? I don't think you should have much of a trouble. When I started Spanish, my French was most probably much worse than yours. And they are both going fine, the only problem being the amount of free time. And laziness, ok.
Yeah, I've recently applied for a Time-Turner and I was refused. Things got complicated after the loss of so many in the battle in the Department of Mysteries. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mohave Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Mohave1 Joined 4008 days ago 291 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 163 of 163 24 July 2015 at 7:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Cavesa and PM - Thanks so much for sharing your kind words thoughts on timing of when I start Spanish. I
haven't finalized my decision yet, but will consider both of your comments. Definitely you both gave me food for though! ------------------- Time for another update! French has become a part of my daily routine. My consumption has been a little lower the last few days because I've had family visiting, but will hopefully pick up again. Super Challenge Update Reading Goal EOM: 150 books Current: 135 books. -- sigh...... Watching Goal EOM: 150 movies; Current 142 movies - Thanks to PM for recommending Le Retour of Martin Guerre - probably in the top 5 French movies that I have seen. I greatly enjoyed this movie, and the French was relatively straight forward to understand. I will watch it again,and I plan to purchase and read the book in French. - Thanks to emk for recommending http://www.tv-replay.fr Using my VPN, it took about 2 minutes to set-up and now I always have French TV series that match my preferred genres to watch at my convenience! I have watched four episodes of Profilage and one of Boulevard du Palais. I have enjoyed them enough to purchase the earlier series on my next Amazon.fr order. - Many thanks to AlexTG for recommending ench&service=MoviesByGenre">www.sbs.com.au. Again, with my VPN, I always have a ready selection of French movies - VPN. Last year, I found a special for a 3-year subscription to VPN Unlimited for $19. At the time, I purchased it to have more security over unsecure wifi while traveling abroad. One of the things that I have come to enjoy is VPN has servers in a variety of countries (including France) to get around get-blocked access. This has quickly become one of my most useful language learning tools! - I completed reading both Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources by Pagnol This definitely is one of my favorite French reads so far. I plan to watch the movies as well. I started Marc Levy's Le Premier Jour but honestly, it hasn't grabbed my attention after 35 pages so I may start Dumas' Le Compte de Monte-Cristo. - I've completed another 4 language Exchanges, completed Pimsleur IV, started Pimsleur V, and started FSI Phonology - completing the first three lessons. As my listening skills have improved, I find I am hating my pronounciation of late. Has others experienced this?. - I need to get re-focused on my grammar books. I think that will also help me clean up my speech. Lastly, I plan to hang-out and post at the temporary site until a decision is made on the way forward of HTLAL. Here is a link to my log there: NTRHTLAL 1 person has voted this message useful |
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