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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5705 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 9 of 20 13 November 2012 at 10:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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I chose the third answer. I have to admit that I thought about choosing #4 because I do know Afrikaans, which is quite close to Dutch. Edited by mick33 on 13 November 2012 at 11:00pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4488 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 10 of 20 16 November 2012 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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I voted the first option, because I do speak (slightly mangled) German. But of course I
also know Dutch. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lapislazuli Tetraglot Senior Member Austria Joined 6817 days ago 146 posts - 170 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, ItalianB1 Studies: French, Hungarian, Esperanto, Czech | Message 11 of 20 29 November 2012 at 11:39am | IP Logged | ||
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As a native speaker of German I also checked the first answer.
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| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6684 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 12 of 20 01 December 2012 at 12:55am | IP Logged | ||
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I chose the first answer. Everyday I'm learning Swedish, I'm so happy I know German :) It
makes things so much easier (and looking for similarities and differences is really enjoyable). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| limey75 Senior Member United Kingdom germanic.eu/ Joined 4180 days ago 119 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Norwegian, Old English | Message 13 of 20 01 December 2012 at 1:35am | IP Logged | ||
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Sadly the poll is a bit skewed now as it was not intended to accommodate native speakers of German, only those who have learnt - or are learning - German as a second language...
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5628 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 14 of 20 07 December 2012 at 11:20am | IP Logged | ||
This was not clear to me! Then there wouldn't have been an option for me to choose. The thread title was misleading, so now I changed the thread title into "Scandinavian learners and German learners" to make it more clear what you mean. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 07 December 2012 at 11:29am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| laban Triglot Groupie Israel Joined 5603 days ago 87 posts - 96 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew*, English, Italian Studies: Norwegian, German | Message 15 of 20 28 December 2012 at 6:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't really see the point in this question? what will you get with each answer? is
it purely statistical? I, for instance, learned a bit of German (on and off), then started taking Norwegian seriously, and I keep with my Norwegian which is now in a quite advanced level. My German understanding has improved miraculously as I progressed with Norwegian, and even though I don't see an end to my Norwegian studies, as I also go about Dialects and forms - I thought about reincorporating German as well. Your question was addressed specifically towards people who learn either or both languages as foreign languages, so personally I would be interested in knowing, how does learning both languages simultaneously would effect each of them. I've been told that learning two (or more) languages of the same family at the same time could possibly create some confusion. When I visited Germany not long ago, I've noticed I'm mixing some Norwegian into it (even though I'm not learning German properly atm - so I might not be the best example). My Italian, which was on a fluent level, has also deteriorated and I've experienced a slight delay when trying to come up with certain words that now seem to pop to mind in Norwegian instead. So I'm still not sure what you're trying to get out of this poll, but I would be very interested to know how learning the two simultaneously might effect each of them, as I'm not interested in messing up my Norwegian, which is also why I've been putting off German until now. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6378 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 16 of 20 28 December 2012 at 9:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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The point was basically that the OP was wondering why there are far less English-based resources for them, e.g. Assimil, and I said it's probably because most Scandinavian learners are also learning German.
although I also don't understand the exclusion of native speakers. as for interference, there are tons of threads about it though mostly with the Romance perspective. IDK, if your Norwegian is not affecting your English, I think you simply need to continue studying Italian (and German). just take it as feedback. if it's difficult for you to switch between languages, your skills probably aren't as good as you think (generic you here, and it's certainly possible to have basic fluency and not be good at switching...but maybe not advanced fluency) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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