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| guiguixx1 Octoglot Senior Member Belgium guillaumelp.wordpres Joined 3881 days ago 163 posts - 207 votes  Speaks: French*, English, Dutch, Portuguese, Esperanto, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Polish, Mandarin | Message 1 of 4 17 February 2015 at 12:07am | IP Logged |
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It has been a couple of days that I change my
mind daily and don't know what I want to do anymore. Let me explain de situation: I'm in my 3rd year of Germanic languages and literature and, since there is less work in the 3rd year than in the others, I decided to take more languages, taking up to 8 foreign languages (English and Dutch for my studies, Spanish at intermediate level, Italian and German at high beginner level, Ancien greec, for which I have studied 1 semester harshly ,and Esperanto and Latin, brand new). I wanted to keep that pace, and raise a bit each language, although taking my time, but I'm finding it hard to maintain it with my studies (although at the same time I want to try other languages (although just for the mere fun of learning, not with the goal of getting to any level), hence my lunatic character). While thinking about my Master program, I am considering studying it in a Dutch university. For this, I will probably have to still raise my Dutch level (although already at a +- C1, or maybe slightly below). And in order to do it, I would have to practice it more, and thus read more books for example, immerse myself more into the language. But if I stop working on some languages such as Italian and German, I'm afraid of losing them (I notice that it's far easier to maintain a language which is B1 than A2, and I would rank both my Italian and my German as being A2, which is why I am afraid of losing them if I don't push them up to B1...) So here is my problem. I wanted to know what you think I should do (although you will probably tell me that it's my choice to make). I, just like everybody here, have an incredible thirst for languages, and want to try everything, while at the same time I think it would be good to try and excell in Dutch... Edited by guiguixx1 on 17 February 2015 at 12:46am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6386 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 2 of 4 17 February 2015 at 1:48am | IP Logged |
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You say you're A2, but can you read books in Italian and German? This would be a perfect way to maintain them I think.
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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4233 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 3 of 4 17 February 2015 at 2:54am | IP Logged |
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Personally I'd work on 1 language to a certain level before moving onto the next. Some people like Moses
McCormick the polyglot are comfortable doing several languages at a time. The way to maintain languages if you are already at a certain level is to leave the textbook behind. Do the things you would do in your normal routine like reading the newspaper, watching TV, listening to radio and music etc. except the content you are accessing to is in your target languages. I don't pick up foreign TV stations in Canada so I would watch slightly out-of-date uploads of the same shows on the Internet. Every week I'd be online checking for news from Hong Kong using available Chinese articles online. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| smallwhite Pentaglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5097 days ago 537 posts - 1045 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin, French, Spanish | Message 4 of 4 17 February 2015 at 3:20am | IP Logged |
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What I studied at university was based on what was necessary for the early years of my career.
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