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| fatboy85 Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5848 days ago 6 posts - 7 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, French Studies: Slovenian | Message 1 of 3 29 November 2008 at 12:39pm | IP Logged |
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I speak pretty good Russian and am currently learning Slovene. This is mostly great as I have aquired a reasonable passive knowledge in a couple of months (I can read a newspaper with dictionary help without too much trouble). However, speaking is another matter as I regularly confuse similar words and often end up spitting out the Russian one instead (such as "i" for and instead of "in" for "and"). Can anybody who's learnt two or more closely related languages please furnish me with some tips in mentally separating vocabulary?
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| TheElvenLord Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6086 days ago 915 posts - 927 votes  1 sounds Speaks: Cornish, English* Studies: Spanish, French, German Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 2 of 3 29 November 2008 at 2:53pm | IP Logged |
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Well, personally, I hear two languages as completly different. Spanish and French or Welsh and Cornish have two different sounds. I only get languages mixed up when I try to use another (eg. French) to create a word I don't know in the other (eg. Spanish). So, I cannot comment on the effectivity of the following technique.
Colours Apparently, If you assign a colour to a language, and use solely that colour for everything to do with that language, it can help to keep languages seperate - especcially if you are a visual learner. Hope this helps :D TEL 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| qklilx Moderator United States Joined 6192 days ago 459 posts - 477 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 3 29 November 2008 at 5:50pm | IP Logged |
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I made a similar thread a couple months ago and I was told that you need to use both the languages a lot so that you'll come to instinctively know the differences between the two languages and ultimately stop mixing them up. I also remember reading in a thread earlier this year that a child was growing up learning and mixing up 3 different languages, but eventually learned how to distinguish them and began using them properly.
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