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| Pugaciov Diglot Newbie Italy Joined 5696 days ago 7 posts - 7 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 9 of 13 20 May 2009 at 6:17pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you all for your kind replies.
I guess Julie made a point. Honestly I can't even remember how good I was at French; as I told you, it was more than 10 years ago and the last time I bashfully tried to speak in French was summer 2001. But for what concerning German I can tell you I wasn't really near basic fluency, also because (I hope this doesn't sound as an excuse) we had 3 different teachers in 3 years and each one of them had a different (even if slightly) approach; we also spent most of the last year studying litterature, not perfectioning the actual language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6909 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes  5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 10 of 13 20 May 2009 at 6:32pm | IP Logged |
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So start a normal course for beginners - you'll probably make a fast progress. For French I recommend "French in Action" and Assimil, and maybe Michel Thomas if it's not too boring. For German - probably Assimil would be good but I haven't tried it by myself. You can also see the Deutsch Welle website, they have many quality materials for German - for free.
I had three years of German in high school (I don't use the word "learned" purposely). The teacher was bad and I didn't like the language. Honestly, I can't even remember what we were learning about. Just two years later it happened that I started learning German again. I didn't recall, like some other posters, the stuff from high school. It was as if I had never learned any German before. Well, it happens... I still remember something from my three years of Russian in primary school, though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Snesgamer Groupie Afghanistan Joined 6617 days ago 81 posts - 90 votes Studies: English*, German, Spanish, Norwegian, Scottish Gaelic | Message 11 of 13 21 May 2009 at 5:42am | IP Logged |
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Just relearn from scratch as someone else said - don't worry, you'll recover whatever lost ground you had rather quickly.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6709 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 12 of 13 21 May 2009 at 12:56pm | IP Logged |
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I have recovered more or less all my languages after a long barren period by learning from once again, using word lists, grammars, genuine texts and all that - but without a teacher. It is much easier the second time.
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| Pugaciov Diglot Newbie Italy Joined 5696 days ago 7 posts - 7 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 13 of 13 21 May 2009 at 2:35pm | IP Logged |
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Again, thank you all for the replies.
This forum is indeed addictive and persuasive: now that most of you suggested to learn again from scratch I'm seriously considering of starting French while I'm still at Russian! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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