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| ZeroTX Groupie United States Joined 5928 days ago 91 posts - 100 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 17 of 19 04 January 2010 at 7:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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My only concern with another Latin-based language is that I'm still in a serious vocabulary development mode in Spanish. I pretty much have conjugations down and basic vocab, but I'm in desperate need of advanced vocabulary. I'm at the upper-intermediate level in Spanish and on some days I feel like an infant, while on others I feel confident. Sometimes I'd put myself as "Advanced," but then unknown vocabulary enters the conversation and I'm lost.
I'm a little bit afraid that I'll mix up vocabulary between the languages I'm learning. Is this a legitimate concern? Edited by ZeroTX on 04 January 2010 at 7:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| canada38 Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5288 days ago 304 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 18 of 19 04 January 2010 at 8:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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It definitely is if you were learning Portuguese or Italian, but for French not so much,
because French and Spanish sound and look different. Arabic left some influence on Spanish, but I doubt that if you study it any Arabic words would creep into your Spanish. I think for German this isn't a concern at all, but hopefully some others have some better insight into this than myself. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| minus273 Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5558 days ago 288 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Ancient Greek, Tibetan | Message 19 of 19 15 January 2010 at 10:01pm | IP Logged | ||
But for the really high-brow vocabulary (philosophy, sociology ...), mixing 'em up is OK. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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