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| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6768 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 9 of 17 15 February 2010 at 10:04am | IP Logged | |||||
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^ Cool, I'm in Nagoya.
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| jae Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5664 days ago 206 posts - 239 votes Speaks: English*, German, Latin Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, French | Message 10 of 17 15 February 2010 at 10:19am | IP Logged | |||||
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Just through my own experience, I really do not think it will take that long to read German philosophy. I studied German for five years with classes, and am now living in Germany for the year (since August). I can already read German philosophy pretty well. Of course it's more difficult than reading novels (though I think that is also in part to the fact that the content is harder to process ;D), but in German, there are a lot of words, which in English would be rather difficult words (think philosophical words), but which is German are easier due to the fact that you can understand the individual parts and then make sense of the word as a whole. Good luck with German! It's really a great language.
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6439 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 11 of 17 15 February 2010 at 7:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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The level you want to reach in Latin is definitely achievable a lot faster. I covered the grammar with Sprachprofi in less than 3 days. Vocabulary takes a bit more time, admittedly, but it sounds like your goals are reachable in a weekend followed by devoting a bit of time each day for a month or so.
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| starst Triglot Senior Member China Joined 5514 days ago 113 posts - 133 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, Japanese, EnglishC2 Studies: FrenchC1, German, Norwegian | Message 12 of 17 17 February 2010 at 12:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
I was hoping that he would come to Tokyo, oei... I think it mainly depends on the 8-hour job part. It's not easy to keep up with language learning while you have to work overtime all the time :( 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| bcurtis Newbie United States Joined 5409 days ago 36 posts - 38 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 13 of 17 25 February 2010 at 12:18am | IP Logged | |||||
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Guys,
My name is Bryan. The languages I want to learn in the next 3 years are Spanish (for business), Portuguese (for pleasure/just to know it), and French (for business). After those three, I would entertain the idea of speaking German or an African language. As this point, I'm using Rosetta Stone (computer based) and Pimsleur (audio cs's) to learn Spanish. I've been doing this for almost 2 months and wish fluency would come faster lol. If anyone has any advice please help! I would like to come up with a plan to learn the three languages listed above. Please help! :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5585 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 14 of 17 25 February 2010 at 5:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
Fluency may take years to develop. :P Listen to music, I do that all the time and has helped me tremendously in language learning. remember, Effort put in = what you get out :D best of luck!! Focus on one language at a time, or 2 if you can handle it. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| crackpot Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6301 days ago 144 posts - 178 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 15 of 17 20 March 2010 at 2:47am | IP Logged | |||||
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If you are working and have kids this amount of time seems reasonable.
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 16 of 17 20 March 2010 at 2:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
I haven't seen many -- if any -- posts on the subject of fluency in the little time I've been on this forum. It would be an interesting topic. I can't say I have that problem, though. Perhaps fluency is one of my strong points. I don't like tools like Pimsleur; instead of repeating meaningless sentences out of context, I think about the events that I will participate in, the meetings I will have, and I visualize that situation, much like an athlete would, and I put myself through it in the language. I repeat over and over any phrase that is slow to come out. It's a lot more meaningful than Pimsleur. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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