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 #17 (permalink) Wed Nov 22, 2006 0:22 am Can I learn 2 languages at the same time? |
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Hi Jarita, what also might help is listening to dialogues. Feed your mind with as many commonly used phrases, expressions, idioms and other bits and pieces of the language as possible. The trouble with speaking to somebody is that you have to produce a lot of sentences quite fast. Language learners are often overwhelmed with this complex task. 'Consuming' dialogues is not as difficult as 'producing' a dialogue. So, get your hands on films, movies, audio books, theatre plays, etc. and delve into them. Enjoy this 'input' phase and take hope from the fact that the quantity of your 'input' directly correlates to the quality of the output you will be able to produce.
Let me know what you think.
By the way, what kind of engineer will you be?
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| #18 (permalink) Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:56 am How do I get from Intermediate to Expert? |
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I am studying german, spanish, and japanese. I just started studying japanese, am a bit along in my spanish, but definately still a beginner, and I am able to read and hold conversations in german.
My question is, how does one get from semi-conversational to fluent?? I know how to be a beginner and get to intermediate. I just can't seem to get myself to expert. |
1. Take a language bath. You should be listening to as much spoken audio and reading as many books and articles as you can. And then you should write and write and talk and talk to native Germans. And if there's no German to talk to, talk to your dog, your bird or your teddy bear. Before I had the Internet to goof around with, I subscribed to the German language magazine and CD combination called Schau ins Land. I'd read the text, and before and after listen to the CD at least four times, sometimes even during naps. That and other news reading, along with running discussions with penpals, brought my language very far. You just need materials that will stretch you, and audio that you can listen to over and over again.
2. Read and listen to a lot of things that are slightly below your level. This builds fluency.
3. Focus a lot now on idioms and collocations, more than on vocabulary words. It's those word combinations that make people sound fluent in a language. So you shouldn't just be able to say that someone has had an accident and "ist gestorben"; you should be able to say that he "ist ums Leben gekommen." You shouldn't just be able to say that someone got mad, but that, "Ihm ist der Kragen geplatzt." So jam your head with word combinations, not just words. Reading and listening will help you do this, but you can also find books to help you explicitly learn those combinations. |
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| #19 (permalink) Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:19 am More than one lang at time... |
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| I am learning Japanese German and Russian right now all with Pimsleur. The languages are different enough that you won't get any words mixed up. So YES you can learn more than one at a time BUT make sure they are not super similar or you may get confused...ie Russian/Ukrainian. |
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| #20 (permalink) Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:10 am Can I learn 2 languages at the same time? |
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| I have just taken up Spanish. Have been learning French for a while now... and without being able to travel to France... i've felt a bit stale with the language. So i've decided to take up spanish and get myself to a high basic level, with that as well. I find it very similar to french, so its easier to learn because there are similarities... but its still different enough for me to not get confused. Though i still sometimes mess up my accents between the two... but that will come in time. I will still continually review my french, as i dont want to lose it... but am really enjoying starting again with something new!!!! |
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| #21 (permalink) Mon Mar 09, 2009 23:52 pm Can I learn 2 languages at the same time? |
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| Hi! im from USA/Venezuela so i speak spanish perfectly but im not an expert in english... im currently learning german and i was thinkin to study French and Arabic at the same time, is it good? or is too much info. for my brain in such a short time? i would apreciate any advise... thanks! |
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| #22 (permalink) Wed Mar 18, 2009 22:16 pm Can I learn 2 languages at the same time? |
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| you make remeber the story which talk about a falcon like to learn the cheken walk he try as hard as he can but he could not learn the cheken walk and he try to returrn back to his oun walk but he forgot it so do not bee like him in onther words two in one time we only have one heart not two i think that you will destroe both of them at the same time |
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