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| 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 9 of 16 26 September 2015 at 10:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yep, I do this as much as possible :) I find it especially useful for related languages. It can sometimes be slower, but for me that's balanced out by using/improving two languages.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6702 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 10 of 16 27 September 2015 at 11:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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I make lots of bilingual texts with Google translate, and there I can choose many different languages for the translations. If I'm weak in a language I am more dependent on them than I am in my better languages, but once I'm past the beginner stage I start changing the target language just for fun. The risk is however that I start learning rotten expressions and faulty translations from them so I have to remind myself to keep the focus on the original versions. Edited by Iversen on 05 October 2015 at 12:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ashtonbrady45 Newbie United States Joined 3356 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 11 of 16 03 October 2015 at 9:13am | IP Logged | ||
Couple of weeks ago i just start to learn about Russian language but it's really hard to me 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ashtonbrady45 Newbie United States Joined 3356 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 12 of 16 21 November 2015 at 8:04am | IP Logged | ||
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Nowadays, when I'm facing language problems then I'm using google translator it's easy to learn as compared to others. Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 21 November 2015 at 6:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ilmari Tetraglot Newbie Australia Joined 5509 days ago 23 posts - 47 votes Speaks: French*, Modern Hebrew, English, Japanese Studies: Korean, Finnish, Yiddish, Spanish, Russian, Esperanto | Message 13 of 16 12 December 2015 at 2:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you are learning Spanish, First Spanish Reader: A Beginner's Dual-Language Book, edited by Angel Flores and
published by Dover, is just delightful The texts are fun, easy to follow, and the English translations help clarify the Spanish content. You even get oral exercises and translation exercises for each text, and a full ocabulary at the end. The book is easily available, and costs less than ten dollars. A real gem! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Po-ru Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5479 days ago 173 posts - 235 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Spanish, Norwegian, Mandarin, French | Message 14 of 16 26 December 2015 at 12:55am | IP Logged | ||
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One thing that I think may be a bit challenging, is reading bilingual texts when both languages are at
the same level. I am studying Chinese with Japanese materials, most of which use bilingual texts. However, my Japanese is much better and I can always use Japanese to refer to unknown words. I imagine that if you are equal in level of both, it might be hard to use one or the other as a reference. It might be worth it to get one of the languages to a higher level before doing this, so you have a stronger point of reference. If I attempted such an endeavor, I reckon I would be spending a ton of time in dictionaries looking up unknown words in two languages. Have you encountered any difficulty of doing this since both are at the same pre-intermediate level? 2 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 15 of 16 26 December 2015 at 2:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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I find it helpful when the languages are not related and got to the same level of comprehension in different ways. For example if I read in two Romance languages, there would be things I don't understand in either. With two Slavic languages it's less likely but possible. If I do Italian-Polish or Spanish-Czech, they complement one another. (In practise I've only done LR with these combinations, but the logic is the same)
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| 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 16 of 16 26 December 2015 at 2:29pm | IP Logged | ||
To clarify, I meant when two languages are related to something else, not to each other. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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