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| erinserb Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7007 days ago 135 posts - 144 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 3 30 October 2012 at 6:50pm | IP Logged |
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French continues to fascinate me - I will always have an interest in gaining a proficiency. Lately, I have become more than interested in Japanese. I have an understanding of what the language entails - 3 alphabets, a definite list of Kanji set at around 2,000 characters for literacy, the grammar, etc.
However, it is such a beautiful country and culture (actually both France and Japan are beautiful). My question is, can they be learned simultaneously? Particularly can they be learned if I put discipline into learning at least a portion of Japanese per day? The French (of course) doesn't place the demands and they are linguistically separate. Anyone have some ideas? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5192 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 2 of 3 30 October 2012 at 7:09pm | IP Logged |
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I can certainly be done, but you are effectively making both languages longer to learn. I think Japanese would take you at least 3 times longer than French.
However, by doing both at once, unless you are a determined and avid learner willing to study regularly, you run the risk of spreading the learning over such a long period of time that there would be too much wasted time bringing back forgotten material. There is nothing wrong with trying and figuring it out for yourself. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| erinserb Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7007 days ago 135 posts - 144 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 3 31 October 2012 at 2:12am | IP Logged |
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Thanks, and yes those are definitely things to keep in mind. Perhaps better to just concentrate, first, on French - I will feel like I am making more progress in taking French first.
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