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| achevlen Newbie United States Joined 5114 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, French | Message 1 of 12 26 April 2010 at 7:03am | IP Logged |
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So I have ran into a bit of a dilemma of late.
I have recently been accepted into taking the sb.140 program at my Youngstown State University, this allows me to take classes in college where I can increase my knowledge in a topic that normally I couldn't attain. I wished to take for the fall and spring semesters french and Spanish, however my only worries are that I will get utterly confused with the vast amounts of similarities the languages have with one another. Currently my French knowledge is from what I have taught myself with help from a weekly tutor for the last couple months, while my Spanish knowledge is from taking it for three years at high school, however it was not taught well, and up until around a year ago I had no interest in learning a foreign language. I was hoping that I could get a second opinion on my problem, because worst comes to worst, I'll drop the Spanish to instead to take hebrew to get rid of the cognate problem. Any advise? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| rustyosier2134 Newbie United States Joined 5174 days ago 12 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish, Esperanto | Message 2 of 12 27 April 2010 at 1:39am | IP Logged |
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I'm taking Spanish right now and studying Italian on the side, and so far the only problem I have noticed is when I try to speak Italian i tend to do so with a Spanish accent on top of my American one, which I'm sure is butchering the words :/. But once I correct myself there are no problems. But thats just me, definitely get some other opinions because not all people learn languages the same way.
P.S. Hebrew is an awesome language IMO. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| achevlen Newbie United States Joined 5114 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, French | Message 3 of 12 27 April 2010 at 2:00am | IP Logged |
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so other then the accent, you really don't have any problems with cognates?
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| rustyosier2134 Newbie United States Joined 5174 days ago 12 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish, Esperanto | Message 4 of 12 27 April 2010 at 2:47am | IP Logged |
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no problems with cognates. And I think you'll find that french and Spanish are different enough to not get confused. If anything the similarities would help.
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| achevlen Newbie United States Joined 5114 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, French | Message 5 of 12 27 April 2010 at 4:59am | IP Logged |
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alright, thanks for the advice
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5635 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 12 27 April 2010 at 8:02am | IP Logged |
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I have studied all three of them French, Spanish and Italian during my study of Romance Philology at university. I managed to keep the languages apart. What really tricky is, is the combination of Spanish and Italian. The combination of French and Spanish is not so difficult to keep apart, especially as you have previous knowledge in both languages. I would advise you to study French and Spanish together.
Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 27 April 2010 at 8:03am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5127 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German | Message 7 of 12 29 April 2010 at 5:55am | IP Logged |
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I have studied Spanish and French most of my life [bilingual w/ Spanish], so I did not find too much confusion between to the two. For me personally, it was like German and Danish. (or what I would imagine that would be like of course).
Spanish and Portuguese/Italian together can be very difficult. Spanish+French is a good combination. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Iris-Way Newbie United States Joined 5364 days ago 22 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 8 of 12 30 April 2010 at 12:12pm | IP Logged |
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I don't think you should have a problem with French and Spanish.
Some of the words are similar but a lot are completely different. I take both right now and next year I'll throw in Italian too, and if a high school student can do it, you can do it. (: 1 person has voted this message useful |
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