jj84 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5371 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes
| Message 1 of 7 11 March 2010 at 5:08pm | IP Logged |
I am about to study a degree in modern languages and i am wondering if it's worth studying both French and Spanish together? I have been studying Spanish for the past year now and say i am currently at around A2 level, my French is poor but i have previously studied it 10 years ago at school. I will be studying both languages at similar levels at the same time. My other option is to study Spanish along with English linguistics, however, i feel it would be more enjoyable and more beneficial for me to study 2 foreign languages.
Does anybody think this is going to be hard going? Advice please guys
James
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The Blaz Senior Member Canada theblazblog.blogspotRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5599 days ago 120 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Swahili, French, Sign Language, Esperanto
| Message 2 of 7 12 March 2010 at 1:14am | IP Logged |
I enjoy studying both French and Spanish concurrently. So if that is where your interest
lies, go for it! I find occasionally I'll mix up a conjunction during speech but that is
all. The two languages complement each other nicely.
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Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5676 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish
| Message 4 of 7 12 March 2010 at 7:23pm | IP Logged |
If you feel like studying languages, then Spanish and French are good choices.
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Iris-Way Newbie United States Joined 5575 days ago 22 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French
| Message 5 of 7 12 March 2010 at 8:47pm | IP Logged |
I don't think you'll have a problem with it.
I take both in high school and I'm perfectly alright with that. (:
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5380 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 6 of 7 12 March 2010 at 9:27pm | IP Logged |
jj84 wrote:
I have been studying Spanish for the past year now and say i am currently at around A2 level, my French is poor but i have previously studied it 10 years ago at school. |
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Goes to show what high school language classes do!
jj84 wrote:
My other option is to study Spanish along with English linguistics, however, i feel it would be more enjoyable and more beneficial for me to study 2 foreign languages. |
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I'm not sure what you mean by "English linguistics", but if you have any opportunity to study any type of Linguistics, it's a must, in my opinion.
It'd be like taking classes in driving pink cars and blue cars without even taking a mechanics course. If you're serious about cars, you take the mechanics course, even if it means you don't get to drive the purple pick-up truck.
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Carisma Diglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 5621 days ago 104 posts - 161 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC1 Studies: Italian, Mandarin
| Message 7 of 7 15 March 2010 at 12:53am | IP Logged |
I wouldn't recommend it as both French and Spanish are Romance languages. You can get confused by the similarity of words. I think you should acquire a B2-C1 level in one of them and then start the other, so you have a strong foundation in one and you don't mix them.
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