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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 17 of 40 30 June 2013 at 5:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Finding the time is easy if you change your lifestyle and don't do things in your native language. That's how I go about it. A language needs to "grow" in your brain anyway, and you don't need just time but also the desire to devote it to one language. If I were learning fewer languages, I would simply devote less total time to them and have the same results, if not worse (less synergy and help from related languages).
Learning a language in a year sounds good, but how many people do that? Those who believe in the one language at a time thing tend to spend just as many years but with less time devoted. If you learn one language, you 'set aside' the time. Or sometimes you don't. I also don't set aside the time - because I'm almost constantly learning something. I don't take breaks, the thought is as ridiculous to me as taking a break from breathing or eating. 3 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 19 of 40 30 June 2013 at 7:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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TV and computer games are fine if you do these in your target language :)
Criminal case is awesome for learning the names of household items and other everyday stuff (physical objects). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Retinend Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4307 days ago 283 posts - 557 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), French | Message 20 of 40 30 June 2013 at 7:20pm | IP Logged | ||
Well lots of people fail in general because of a lack of motivation, it's true (though not relevant). But presuming that the effort is equal between the two cases, the "one-at- a-time" guy will have faster results than the "two-at-a-time" guy. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4706 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 21 of 40 30 June 2013 at 7:22pm | IP Logged | ||
Even better, you just do it. It's not a conscious question of "have to" 1 person has 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 22 of 40 30 June 2013 at 7:50pm | IP Logged | ||
And it also depends on the techniques and priorities. If you don't need active skills from the beginning, it's more efficient to build up passive skills gradually in 2+ languages. if you read a lot AND listen to audiobooks, the words will move to your active vocabulary. 1 person has 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 24 of 40 01 July 2013 at 4:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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Rogozhkin is known for his films taking place in Finland, starring Ville Haapasalo :)
Yeees the narrator matters. Written texts for Russian are no problem. My main objection for getting a e-reader was that in Russian it's easy to find almost anything for free. My parents don't understand that in other languages it's not like that. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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