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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6491 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes  Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 17 of 26 13 November 2006 at 3:53am | IP Logged | |||||
Well, I learnt more than five languages, but not during that period. I just went to bed later and later and compensated by taken a nap in the middle of each work period (without that nap it wouldn't work). I ended up with 36 hours between each 'long' sleep period. The reason that it was necessary was that I had chosen a syntactical subject with ramifications to all corners of the sentence construction in French, and at a relatively late moment during my writing process I decided that I needed a quantitative angle. So I simply counted all types of sentence constructions in a corpus of 10.000 pages and that took a long time. Edited by Iversen on 13 November 2006 at 3:55am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| gidler Senior Member Finland Joined 6411 days ago 109 posts - 118 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Finnish* | Message 18 of 26 14 November 2006 at 7:14am | IP Logged | |||||
I've been playing with the idea. But assuming that I wouldn't start confusing the languages with each other (I recall Ardaschir said he was skilled at keeping languages separate), reaching fluency in even one of them would be considerably prolonged. Studying lots of languages at the same time also requires much patience - most likely more than I would be able to gather. Has anyone else tried studying three, four or more languages at the same time? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6556 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 19 of 26 14 November 2006 at 8:15am | IP Logged | |||||
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Plenty of people here do, including me; but I always give priority to one language (Japanese this year) and do the others in my spare time.
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| TDC Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6709 days ago 261 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, French Studies: Esperanto, Ukrainian, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Persian | Message 20 of 26 14 November 2006 at 2:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Every day I study: Russian, Chinese, French, Spanish, Italian, and German.
It's more interesting, and I think I remember more because I don't try to learn a lot for any of the languages. So what I do study I tend to retain. I love getting to enjoy each of these languages every day. For me this is the best way to learn, by taking little chunks of the language, and get acquainted with it over a long period of time, divide and conquer, as they say. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6653 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 21 of 26 14 November 2006 at 3:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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For those of us who commute by public transport, we have a great luxury of lots of "dead" time we can use for language study. I commute everyday for 3 hours to and from work. In this time, I have lots of time to read through my flash cards and/or listen to dialogues on my MP3 player. I do about 1 hour a night after I get in, sometimes less.
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| autodidactic Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States tinyurl.com/cunningl Joined 6411 days ago 100 posts - 110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Japanese, Kazakh | Message 22 of 26 15 November 2006 at 7:02am | IP Logged | |||||
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Not to be cynic or judge anyone, but my number 1 motivator for learning languages is communicating with that language's speakers. Spending so much time studying means you learn the language but you keep it to yourself, doesn't it?
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| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6556 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 23 of 26 15 November 2006 at 7:58am | IP Logged | |||||
As I like pointing out, the time the average American spends watching television could be used to learn a new language every year! I can easily spend two hours a day on Japanese, 30 minutes on another language, and have time for socializing. Nor is language learning always solitary. Ideally, you'll be interacting with speakers of your target language a whole lot while studying. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Andy_Liu Triglot Senior Member Hong Kong leibby.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6574 days ago 255 posts - 257 votes Speaks: Mandarin, Cantonese*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 24 of 26 17 November 2006 at 10:37am | IP Logged | |||||
Two hours! May I know how can this be possible? As a university student, I spend 3 hours per day, 4 days per week in my German major. But I simply can't watch German TV in weekends because of assignments/work in other subjects. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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