whats the best way to learn a new language with out forgetting previous languages?
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John G asked:
how can i learn italian with out forgetting spanish? it’s hard for me to practice spanish because in school and in work i have to speak english…
how can i learn italian with out forgetting spanish? it’s hard for me to practice spanish because in school and in work i have to speak english…
its just hard to keep my mind refreshed with spanish when i speak english most of the time….
have spanish friends but, i spend a lot of time working and in school so…the majority of the words that come out of my mouth are in english….
any suggestions on how i can maintain/improve spanish while learning italian?
don’t recommend listening to those stupid cd lessons in the car, those are crap…….
also, are there any complications with learning more than one language at once? i mean, is there any proof or something that it would make it more difficult
if anything i think it would only help….especially if you study more than one latin language at once….since many words are similar and stuff…..
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try reading a how to lean italian book in spanish
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A friend of mine, who is from Puerto Rico, can understand Italian, even though she does not speak the language.
Perhaps you too, could find the languages mutually intelligible.
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This is a good question!
It’s right up my alley too, as I am in the same situation, being a native English speaker who also speaks both Italian and Spanish. [I have also studied Linguistics a little, and am a qualified language teacher.]
In my experience, the difficulty is that Italian “interferes” with my recall of Spanish, and vice versa, just because they are so similar. It’s as though each language were laid down in a track on a vinyl record, and the tracks were right next to each other, and the needle keeps jumping from one track to the other. Does that happen to you?
To try to minimise this problem, I can only suggest that you keep the tracks as separate as possible, by never alternating between them in speech. Not sure about this, though.
It would probably help that you are actively learning both at the same time. I deduce this because there was such a big time gap between when I learned the two languages, and I wasn’t actively using Italian at the time when I learned Spanish.
At the same time, it’s true that the structures and vocab of Latin-based languages are very similar, so it’s easier in some ways to learn one after the other, because you’ve got a ready-made structure to slot new items into.
As for ways to help you retain new items of Spanish, and build your fluency, I’m afraid the only way is to use Spanish in conversation as often as possible, and listen to it on radio, TV, and on the train or bus! (Using it in other ways such as reading and writing also help, of course, but not as much.)
I studied Italian at school, then learned Spanish at uni in my 30s, but it was only when I fell in love with a Spanish-speaker that my fluency in Spanish really took off!
To summarise, you need to practise the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing as often as possible.
And don’t worry about forgetting previous languages – I found that my high-school French and Italian were still tucked away in there… it was only a question of putting them to use. As long as you are taught in a systematic way to start with, you will never forget them.
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I cannot answer to all the questions you are posing, but i will share with you my experiences, after learning a few foreign languages to my native Italian. I wouldn’d worry if I were you initially perhaps mixing up a few words of diverse languages.
As you progress deeper in a foreign language learning process, this problem will dissipate. Although we all tend to seem to forget a foreign language if we don’t make use of it, but even if you have not used that particular language for a few years, if the need to use it again will arise, and you concentrate, in a matter of minutes your brain will focuse to it, and as if by magic it all seems to come back to you, or most of it anyway. As to the bestand most efficient way to learn a foreign language, nothing beats a “Full Immersion” meaning to spend a year or two in the country where the particular language is spoken, and voilà, in a fraction of the time it would have taken you to learn it in school, you will accomplish your goal. Good luck
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If I knew I would tell you. Typically the new language I learn kicks out the old ones, or worse yet, jumbles them all together. I learned French first, then Spanish. French went ‘Au revoir’. Then I learned Greek, but not as much as Spanish, so Greek went ‘Khairete’. Then I learned Turkish. Spanish stayed tucked away until I came back to the States and then it morphed and now I can’t hold a decent conversation in any language. Very frustrating to me and the person I’m trying to speak to. I guess I’m just not smart enough to compartmentalize them all and pull them back up instantly.
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read books!
don’t used part of body falls
joke………………………
maybe nto foreget at a but you will have to recall when needed……….
just read many books and wikipedia! you know! if you knw Spaneesh your word is now bigger than native language
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When studying new vocabulary, connect the new vocabulary to the idea, not to an English word. See a horse if you learn the word for horse. When you do this, the connections between the other languages will be more apparent to you.
Be sure to keep using all of your languages frequently. Do make an effort to read in each language. There is a period of confusion each time you add another language, but it passes. There was a point when I was studying 4 languages simultaneously, 2 at the beginning stages, when I swear I was forgetting English.
If anything this is a better way to learn langauges. You will make connections between them that will boost your ability in each much faster than if you had learned them sequentially.
Be sure you are getting enough sleep, eat properly, drink enough water, and don’t distract yourself while you are studying. That is kind if generic advice, but it does help. Without enough sleep, your memory doesn’t work as well.