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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5337 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 9 of 19 13 May 2010 at 10:26am | IP Logged | ||
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I will certainly follow this one with great interest. Keep us posted!!
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| Emerald Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom languagedabbler.blog Joined 6248 days ago 316 posts - 340 votes Speaks: Hindi, Gujarati*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 10 of 19 13 May 2010 at 5:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sounds like you have a plan, and an ambitious one. I will be following your log. Good luck :-)
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| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5398 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 19 13 May 2010 at 9:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good luck. The Spanish, French and Italian part is definitely doable. You have a challenge on your hands with the Arabic, though. I have thought about studying Arabic, but I am going to wait until I have 4-5 other (easier!) languages under my belt first.
I'll enjoying watching your progress - you certainly have a lot of motivation and incentive! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| justgoogleme Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5335 days ago 26 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish, Arabic (Egyptian), French | Message 12 of 19 14 May 2010 at 11:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Merci Kerri,
Arabic will be hard, that is undeniable. I look forward to conversing with you in due course in French and Spanish. How long have you been studying for? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ichiro Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6212 days ago 111 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, French Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Korean, Malay | Message 13 of 19 14 May 2010 at 12:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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What a grand challenge! I'm sure everyone on the forum will wish you luck.
I would get off Rosetta Stone straight away, and work with the other resources you identify. For becoming confident in a language in a short period of time like 14 months, Assimil is your best bet; work with it straight away, then watch a lot of movies and TV. Fortunately, I believe that for all the three Romance languages, Assimil offers their advanced Using level. Rosetta Stone will give you the illusion of progress, because as you get used to its repetitive exercises, you will knock off the vocabulary quickly. But that is only in a structured context. If you try and mobilise this vocabulary in the real world, you'll have trouble getting it out, because your mind won't have internalised the language in a way that allows you to manipulate it. All you know how to do is reproduce individual words when you see the pictures. If you do have confidence in Rosetta Stone to teach you vocabulary, I would leave it til further along in the process, when you already kind of know the words but it's helpful to confirm and reinforce them. You won't need a 3 months for Michel Thomas on French, you should be able to hoover it up in a month as a language grammar-survey (it is also not suitable for internalising a language). But the Michel Thomas courses are also excellent for Spanish and Italian. Why not work with them up front too (in parallel with Assimil - I think they should reinforce each other). Everyone seems to have a down on Assimil Arabic; I've no idea about that. But there should be a Linguaphone course you can find which will offer equivalent regular exposure. If you do have the freedom to spend 3 months in Egypt, why stop there? You can also spend a month each in France, Spain and Italy. Once you have enough knowledge to start basic conversations, nothing will serve you better than full immersion. Your challenge is actually your gateway to a year of adventure. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ichiro Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6212 days ago 111 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, French Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Korean, Malay | Message 14 of 19 14 May 2010 at 12:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ah - are you also aware of the excellent FSI courses that are downloadable for free from the Internet?
http://www.fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php They have excellent full ones for Spanish and French, not so much for Italian. They're a kind of anti-Assimil. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| justgoogleme Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5335 days ago 26 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish, Arabic (Egyptian), French | Message 15 of 19 14 May 2010 at 1:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ahh,
Thank you. Ichiro. I am slowly finding that out about Rosetta Stone. I will however persist. Whilst not the most effective. I do enjoys it a tad, and if you enjoy it you retin it, but I will drop the amount of time i spend on it and replace it with Assimi. MT French is more enjoyable than Italian so I am taking that in more and have just ordered Assmil in french to supplement. How long have you been learning for? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5559 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 16 of 19 14 May 2010 at 2:23pm | IP Logged | ||
4 languages in 14 months to B2 level (with writing around B1 perhaps) - what a great plan! What makes it even more fascinating is that you could earn yourself 1000 quid into the bargain too, this is what the character Alfie (from the movie of the same name) would call a "healthy interest in your work". I could learn from you here... ;) French, Spanish and Italian are all closely related level 1 difficulty languages for native speakers of English; so I imagine, as already pointed out by several members, that Arabic is going to be the real deal-maker or deal-breaker. A heads up on this - you'll probably need to invest the same amount of time into Arabic as all the other 3 languages put together, maybe even more. I think though, at 5 hours a day (6 days a week), it's definitely possible to bring all 4 languages up to B2 level in this time and win that pot. Best of luck in this and I look forward to hearing lots of progress! Edited by Teango on 14 May 2010 at 2:41pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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