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| marmite Triglot Newbie Portugal Joined 5001 days ago 35 posts - 57 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, English, French | Message 9 of 24 06 December 2010 at 1:53pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, me too! My Spanish ends up being a mishmash of Portuguese, Latin, Italian, French and every Romance language ever, apparently, except Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 magister Pro Member United States Joined 6391 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 24 06 December 2010 at 2:57pm | IP Logged | ||
It depends. But I'm not sure what you mean by "confuse." I don't confuse any of my stronger languages, those that I would classify under "speaks." When trying to produce in a weaker language, those I would classify under "studies," my stronger languages get in the way. They immediately leap to mind as though they're vying for supremacy. This also happens when I'm reactivating one of my stronger languages whose active skills are relatively dormant. I experienced the latter phenomenon when I was in Costa Rica for ten days this summer. It took some time to regain, or activate, my oral fluency in Spanish. I could only think in Czech at first, which I found odd because I hadn't spoken Czech in a while. I certainly never confused the two in terms of not knowing which words or inflections belonged to which language -- it's just that Czech would not let Spanish emerge for a couple of days. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| horshod Pentaglot Groupie India Joined 5558 days ago 74 posts - 107 votes Speaks: Hindi, Marathi*, Bengali, Gujarati, English Studies: German, Spanish, Turkish | Message 11 of 24 06 December 2010 at 4:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Japanese and Spanish! Probably because of the similar pronunciations of dental consonants 't', 'd' and vowels. At the international food festival at the niversity I so wanted to ask that Japanese girl what she was selling and that I wanted to have some of it.. but all I could think of was 'Watashiwa kore wo tomarimas!' (My Japanese has gotten rusty anyway from not studying it for 3 years.)
Sometimes I find myself inserting Tamil/Kannada words into Sanskrit though they are in no way related. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6491 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 24 06 December 2010 at 7:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have sometimes used German words in Dutch and Dutch words in Afrikaans and Italian or Catalan words in Spanish (or the opposite). But who cares? Demanding that every single word you use is demonstrably from the language you are speaking in that precise moment is equivalent to demanding that you stay silent until you have attained advanced fluency - and then you won't ever get there.
Besides the deliberate use of 'homemade loanwords' can effectively be your best strategy while you are still striving to learn a language. If your guesses are correct in just 80% of the cases then the last 20% are a small price to pay. As your vocabulary grows you will get the chance to weed out the errors, and your chances to do this are much greater if you already are able to think and write and speak in a free and spontaneous way. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 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 13 of 24 06 December 2010 at 7:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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I sometimes have little interferences between Spanish - Italian - Esperanto. Other languages I never mix up.
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| vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6748 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 14 of 24 06 December 2010 at 10:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I learned first portuguese and then Spanish and when I start talking in one of these languages I use many words of the other one , so I end speaking portunhol . This mix it is not bad !
Yo aprendei antes hablar el Portugues y depois o Espanhol e cuando empezo hablar uma de estos idiomas uso muitas palabras de la outra y assim acabo charlando em Portunhol. Esta cosa nao es mal ! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lapislazuli Tetraglot Senior Member Austria Joined 6824 days ago 146 posts - 170 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, ItalianB1 Studies: French, Hungarian, Esperanto, Czech | Message 15 of 24 06 December 2010 at 10:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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For me it is Spanish and Italian. I studied them both at the seme time at a very intense pace and have not used them a lot since (especially Spanish) So for not I started to take up Italian for the moment, try to get it to a rather good level and when I feel I am up to it try Spanish again, as I actually don't want to completely give up any of the two of them.
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| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 5828 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 16 of 24 06 December 2010 at 11:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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I mix up Russian with Spanish
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