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| Kronos Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5262 days ago 186 posts - 452 votes  Speaks: German*, English | Message 65 of 77 23 May 2013 at 4:37am | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks emk. I just signed up, but the article is blocked for registered users too. I left a note on Dgryski's talk page, will see what happens.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 66 of 77 23 May 2013 at 5:18am | IP Logged | |||||
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Did you log in? It might be protected from newly registered users as well... I think I created my account when the forum went down in summer.
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| Kronos Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5262 days ago 186 posts - 452 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 67 of 77 23 May 2013 at 4:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
You are probably right. Confusion is not a big issue for me, it is more about maintaining discipline. Meanwhile I wonder if I got more done if I was not too strict and rather take up any lessons just as I feel like. Will have to try. Apart from that I am happy with Assimil for the moment. They have enough entertainment value to keep me going on. Edited by Kronos on 23 May 2013 at 4:38pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 68 of 77 23 May 2013 at 7:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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An ideal material makes you [s]beg for more[/s] want more, more, more! Not to diminish your current achievements but Assimil should be the minimum (maybe not a daily one in every single language).
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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4669 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 69 of 77 24 May 2013 at 8:33am | IP Logged | |||||
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Confusion is great only if languages are related: Tamil vs Malayalam, Spanish vs Portuguese etc.
If you learn Mandarin and Russian at the same time, there will be no such problems, or Mandarin and Thai... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 70 of 77 24 May 2013 at 12:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
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And even there not always and not for everyone (which is one of the main points of this thread :))
In my case, my first goal is solid passive skills, so there's not much to confuse. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 71 of 77 24 May 2013 at 12:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I never experienced much interference at all.
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| Kronos Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5262 days ago 186 posts - 452 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 72 of 77 24 May 2013 at 1:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Even if there is some interference, what is so bad about it? If this happens already right at the beginning, so much the better. I take notice of it, become aware of tricky similarities early on, and in the course of time this diminishes.
If it would trouble me, I could put grammar tables for similar languages on the desktop side by side and compare them. For the major Romance and Germanic languages the respective chapters including comparative charts in The Loom of Language are also very helpful. I just trust that in the course of time the mind will sort out things by itself. If not, I can always do specific grammar work, or focus on one language at a time for a while. But I like the change and a bit of challenge, it's like an additional incentive. About four minutes into this video the whole point is nicely illustrated with the help of a chart, "The Four Domains of Language". It says that if mixing things up is going to happen, it will only be while speaking. And as long as you don't need to communicate on a professional level, this should not pose a problem. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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