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 Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:20 am
This year, I will be taking three completely different languages at once in school. Is there anyone who would be able to offer me advice in this sort of situation? I'm familiar with all the languages(German, Russian, and Italian), but I've only taken one before(German) through the educational system.
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:46 am
Personally, I'd drop Italian and come back to it later, and perhaps take another romance language when I did come back to it. Not to say Russian and German are very closely related but I'm learning those together just fine.
It's good if you're already familiar with these languages. If you weren't, you'd probably have the hardest time of your life. All I can say is study tenatively in each language and try not to confuse your vocabulary. 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:47 pm
Hawk_McKrakken Personally, I'd drop Italian and come back to it later, and perhaps take another romance language when I did come back to it. Not to say Russian and German are very closely related but I'm learning those together just fine. It's good if you're already familiar with these languages. If you weren't, you'd probably have the hardest time of your life. All I can say is study tenatively in each language and try not to confuse your vocabulary. 3nodding I'd say Italian It's more beautiful sounding than German (the world's harshest language, it makes it sound like you're swearing at every other word), Take russian if you want to learn a new alphabet If you know english then German will a little easier for you, If you take italian you won't have a very hard time understanding a lot of the english words with latin or greek roots.
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:00 am
Italian's the closet to English. Well...maybe German is, but it's the closest to Latin, which makes up 60% of the English vocabulary. I'm not familiar with German or Russian grammar, but I would definitely choose Italian, if I were you.
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Spanish Nerd Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:39 pm
Uh, from personal experience, I can say that taking more than one language at one time *at the same level* is tough as hell. If you can get at least a few year advance in one, THEN you can start on another. But especially since all three are different (romance, slavic, germanic), it will be very tough if you try to begin them all at once. I wish you the best of luck.
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:33 am
Kokoroki Hawk_McKrakken Personally, I'd drop Italian and come back to it later, and perhaps take another romance language when I did come back to it. Not to say Russian and German are very closely related but I'm learning those together just fine. It's good if you're already familiar with these languages. If you weren't, you'd probably have the hardest time of your life. All I can say is study tenatively in each language and try not to confuse your vocabulary. 3nodding I'd say Italian It's more beautiful sounding than German (the world's harshest language, it makes it sound like you're swearing at every other word), I simply must beg to differ with that. That's only when you hear German men talk. If you've heard German women (young women, not the grannies that you hear in most voice clips), you might change your mind about that real quick. Heck, I couldn't even say that about all German men -- again, it's just the old ones who talk harshly. The younger generation sounds just like you and I, really. An another note, Germany is one of the most industrial countries in the world, far more than Italy, and such is the major reason I would say stick with German - it's far more beneficial at the moment. Likewise, Russia is pretty industrial as well, thus should also be learnt. But you learn what you want. I honestly wouldn't take 3 languages at a time... I'm losing Spanish vocab. at a rapid pace as I gain more Germ./Russ. vocab. And on yet another note.... German and English are a LOT more closely related than some of you are giving it credit for.
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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:57 pm
DJ HawaiianShirt Uh, from personal experience, I can say that taking more than one language at one time *at the same level* is tough as hell. If you can get at least a few year advance in one, THEN you can start on another. But especially since all three are different (romance, slavic, germanic), it will be very tough if you try to begin them all at once. I wish you the best of luck.
Hard maybe for you. I'm also learning three languages at once on the same level and doing rather well. I haven't mixed up a single word, nor have I tried to use the wrong grammar system for the wrong language. 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:01 am
Hermonie Urameshi DJ HawaiianShirt Uh, from personal experience, I can say that taking more than one language at one time *at the same level* is tough as hell. If you can get at least a few year advance in one, THEN you can start on another. But especially since all three are different (romance, slavic, germanic), it will be very tough if you try to begin them all at once. I wish you the best of luck.
Hard maybe for you. I'm also learning three languages at once on the same level and doing rather well. I haven't mixed up a single word, nor have I tried to use the wrong grammar system for the wrong language. 3nodding
That is SKILL.
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Spanish Nerd Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:33 am
My sister did a similar thing at her school for a year when she studied German, Russian and French. She personally found it okay learning three languages at once at was best at Russian, although she did actually hate it.
I found that German is the easiest language I have learnt so far, due its similarities with English, and if you are already familar with it then I'm sure you will find no problem in learning it
I have never learnt a slavic language like Russian but my sister found it pretty easy. As far as I'm aware it isn't similar to English in terms of vocabulary and grammar though and of course it does not use the Latin alphabet, but uses the Cyrillic alphabet instead which I think would make it more difficult but I have never studied it myself so it may be easier than I'm giving it credit.
I've never studied Italian before but I have studied French which is sorta similar (I think, since they are both Romance languages). If you already have experience with this or other Romance languages you problem won't have a problem (especially since it uses a nice friendly alphabet).
I'd say you should probably overall try to devote more time to Russian seeing how it has fewer similarities to English than the other two and you will need to learn a new alphabet. And I think that German would probably require the least effort to learn.
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 2:29 pm
I wish you good luck! I was considering taking Japanese and Chinese at the same time, but then I thought I might get them mixed up....
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