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| babelpoint Newbie United Kingdom babelpoint.org Joined 5627 days ago 26 posts - 31 votes Speaks: Russian | Message 9 of 11 03 July 2009 at 7:06pm | IP Logged |
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I do not think this is a problem at all. I was so lucky (in my opinion) to have the BEST language learning school:
Here are the details: 6 years university of Odessa. Russian, German, French and Latin 9 girls and 2 guys. I was the only one foreigner. VER 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| GoingGoingGone Newbie United States Joined 5671 days ago 28 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Swedish, Mandarin | Message 10 of 11 07 July 2009 at 5:37pm | IP Logged |
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I'm studying French and Italian at once, and both are Romance languages. Because I am more familiar with French than Italian, sometimes when I translate from English to Italian the French translation comes into my head first, and then I have to shift to Italian - but it's fine. I don't get them mixed up, and while one comes to mind faster than the other I always know which language it is. I recommend trying both at the same time and see how it works out for you - if you find yourself having problems you can always stop one of them temporarily.
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| Freya Tetraglot Newbie Germany Joined 5610 days ago 16 posts - 17 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, Finnish, GermanB1 Studies: Norwegian, Japanese | Message 11 of 11 25 July 2009 at 9:08pm | IP Logged |
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There are a lot of similar words in German and Russian because many Russian empress came from Germany and there was a period when people close to the emperor should speak German. So there were a lot of loanwords like Kartoffel, Stuhl, Junge, Halstuch, Scheibe, verbs like konzentrieren and many others I cannot think of now. Sometimes they mean the same, sometimes something different, but in general it helps to remember or guess the meaning. However, the majority of words are very different in Russian and German, as well as pronunciation. In general, I think it's good to learn these two languages together. Edited by Freya on 25 July 2009 at 9:09pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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