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| vb Octoglot Senior Member Afghanistan Joined 6425 days ago 112 posts - 135 votes  Speaks: English, Romanian, French, Polish, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Russian, Swedish | Message 17 of 54 29 April 2007 at 8:46am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the info, Volte!
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| sergiu Diglot Senior Member Romania freewebs.com/invata_ Joined 6442 days ago 105 posts - 108 votes Speaks: Romanian*, English Studies: German | Message 18 of 54 29 April 2007 at 10:13am | IP Logged | ||
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I agree that you could start a language when you're in intermediate phase,but I like to go as far as I can in something without any interferences.
Basically I'm obsessed with a job until I consider it's done. Normally ANY language should be allowed in this forum since this is all about ,but I can abstain myself,and speak for the majority to understand. Until then tell us how everything is going with your language learning 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6706 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 19 of 54 29 April 2007 at 10:40am | IP Logged | ||
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As I wrote in my last post I'm personally happy to see Romanian (and other languages) represented on this forum. However I also acknowledge the necessity of keeping most discussions in English, which among other things means I have to abstain from writing in Danish. We have had several attempts to start threads in other languages, but apart from a Spanish thread that was fairly active for a long period it has been difficult to keep those threads alive.
When I wrote that a normal language learner should have reached at least the intermediate stage in language nr. 1 before attempting nr. 2 I had two reasons in mind: 1) It is annoying to study a language that you can't use for anything useful, such as reading simple, but genuine texts. The shorter you can make this period the better. 2) If the first language is properly consolidated, meaning that you have a good overview over its grammar and a good vocabulary, plus some training in speaking and writing it, then it is more robust to short pauses, and the risk of contamination is minimized. On the other hand I don't want to postpone learning a new language until I'm fluent in the preceding one. Switching between languages even functions as antidote against boredom. So in essence I'm not patient enough to finish one language before I attempt the next one, but since my early start in Italian and Spanish during the 60s I have always tried to avoid having two beginner's languages on the workbench at the same time. That is also my reason for not participating in the six week challenge right now. Edited by Iversen on 29 April 2007 at 8:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vb Octoglot Senior Member Afghanistan Joined 6425 days ago 112 posts - 135 votes Speaks: English, Romanian, French, Polish, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Russian, Swedish | Message 20 of 54 29 April 2007 at 5:29pm | IP Logged | ||
Did two hours of Esperanto today - fascinating stuff! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7018 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 21 of 54 29 April 2007 at 7:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sorry for going off-topic slightly but...
I was quite pleased that I could more or less get the gist of the Romanian posted in the posts on the previous page. Perhaps I should have done that for my 6WC instead of Swahili. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vb Octoglot Senior Member Afghanistan Joined 6425 days ago 112 posts - 135 votes Speaks: English, Romanian, French, Polish, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Russian, Swedish | Message 22 of 54 30 April 2007 at 4:58am | IP Logged | ||
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Saluton,
Have got the beginnings of a system together for Esperanto and German, using up about 4 hours of the day: Starts with: 1 chapter of 'Teach Yourself Esperanto' (Cresswell, Hartley) after looking over the chapter from the day before. Memorise vocab in chapter. = approx. 60/90 mins. (15 chapters to get through) Do a bit of Lernu in the evening. (15-30 mins) Then: Memorise 1 chapter of Harraps German Vocab after revising from day before (60-120mins) = 10,000 words in 58 days. Rote memorisation preferably to be carried out while shopping/standing in queues/eating etc. Scour internet for examples of more unusual vocab in use. Then: 1 chapter of German Made Simple (Jackson, Geiger), including listening to dialogue from tape. Apply new grammar to vocab from Harraps. (60 mins) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6771 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 23 of 54 30 April 2007 at 5:21am | IP Logged | ||
You said you liked movies; Hindi would give you a bottomless reservoir of films to practice on. :) It would be interesting to learn at the same time as Punjabi, and chances are your Punjabi friends even speak it. (The Punjabs I know do.) Danish still sounds cool; it would be one of those languages you could pull out and use with tourists at the most unexpected of times, surprising the heck out of friends and onlookers. :) Edited by Captain Haddock on 30 April 2007 at 5:21am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vb Octoglot Senior Member Afghanistan Joined 6425 days ago 112 posts - 135 votes Speaks: English, Romanian, French, Polish, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Russian, Swedish | Message 24 of 54 30 April 2007 at 6:37am | IP Logged | ||
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Hmm good idea - okay, will do Hindi instead (and steel myself to sit through an infinity of multicoloured dance routines).
Might still do Danish - I really like the way it sounds, for one. I'm a little worried it might be somewhat redundant for more practical applications, given that most Danes seem to have excellent English. Was looking at Indonesian today - English script, easy grammar, good idea? Current line-up: German, Esperanto, Mandarin, Hindi, ? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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