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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4704 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 81 of 90 09 October 2013 at 11:22am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I didn't have a choice, because I'm Dutch and thus you get English and German thrust upon
you. Furthermore I really wanted to learn Swedish (and also Icelandic). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Lykeio Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4241 days ago 120 posts - 357 votes | Message 82 of 90 09 October 2013 at 11:34am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Sometimes you get large chunks of family's anyway by accident, so I needed French and
Italian and already had Latin, that's quite decent but I'll probably never pick up Spanish or Portugese, know I'll never go for Romanian or the various small "dialects" and less common Romance languages. I have English (can I count Old English separately?) and can read German but I'll never have Norwegian etc so...I'm actually worse on German languages than I thought, huh. I've also tried the whole learning in family group things. After Sanskrit I picked up Pali and started with various prakrits but it very quickly got mind numbing. Like, very quickly. At some point the benefits aren't worth the effort, though obviously some languages need to be learnt like this so in order to try and improve my Hittite I picked up some Luwian and Palaic. It did help actually. Incidentally has anyone read Babel no more? The author suggests that a lot of the hyper-polyglots (what an odd term...) tend NOT to work through families but are more interest driven. That's the original point I wanted to bring up here, its odd that the prospective syllabus would focus on families when the typical practice seems to be more like what posters in this thread are saying. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5957 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 83 of 90 10 October 2013 at 2:03am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I've got English and German and consider myself done with the Germanic languages. To me, the rest of them are just variations on the theme -- variations with not enough speakers to bother. However I do still dabble in them from time to time to satisfy wanderlust. Especially Norwegian and Icelandic. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4825 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 84 of 90 10 October 2013 at 3:55am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Of course! (If you actually know Old English, that is :-) ). Most native-speakers of English would have to study Old English in order to understand it. Knowing German and/or Dutch would probably help a bit, but only a bit, in my estimation.
I think Prof. A. suggests that the more languages you know in a given family, then the easier the later ones become, or something like that. But I think that effect only kicks in after about the 4th one in the family! :-)
I guess it is suggested for the reason I mention above. Prof. A. isn't exactly typical. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Sterogyl Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4364 days ago 152 posts - 263 votes Studies: German*, French, EnglishC2 Studies: Japanese, Norwegian | Message 85 of 90 11 October 2013 at 4:15pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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So did anyone try a regime like this? 9 hours a day, divided into alloted time-slots consisting of shadowing bilingual texts of several languages, scriptorium, reading a great book like Oliver Twist and discussing another great book like Lavoisier's Traité élémentaire de chimie, logical training, all of which rounded off by some physical exercise?
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| Sibsil Triglot Newbie China Joined 4811 days ago 9 posts - 27 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, Korean, English | Message 86 of 90 12 October 2013 at 10:27am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Sounds excellent to me! But, I think I need to learn how to have discipline like that. And that is why professor suggests institute: to help people learn how to study like that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4704 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 87 of 90 12 October 2013 at 9:14pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I did read bilingual texts, but they were all full of snark. It was an exhilarating experience and they taught me loads of slang :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Sibsil Triglot Newbie China Joined 4811 days ago 9 posts - 27 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, Korean, English | Message 88 of 90 29 December 2013 at 8:02am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Professor A. has made new video to talk about research in polyglot learning styles.
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