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| MichaelM204351 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5253 days ago 151 posts - 173 votes  Speaks: English*, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Modern Hebrew, German, Spanish | Message 1 of 5 25 April 2011 at 4:48am | IP Logged |
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I tried to find an answer in the archives, since I know that I've read a few posts on this topic. I am trying to decide whether or not I should study French and German at the same time or not. If anyone has either a link to an old post or advice, I'd love it... :o)
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| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5575 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 2 of 5 25 April 2011 at 4:59am | IP Logged |
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Of course you should. It's an universal rule that anyone should.
I'd rather be more concerned about Spanish/French than about German/French. Even though the latter aren't as different from each other as, let's say, Swahili and Mongolian, they aren't so similar that you'd get as much interference as you'd get from Spanish/French. So, the main question is how much quality time you can spend on each language every day. It's probably better to concentrate on fewer languages at a time. Many people on here don't. Some of them achieve admirable results nontheless. Others, like myself, see their progress slowed down considerably. (Maybe. Maybe I'd as bad if I concentrated on a single language.) I don't have the paying members' features that include searching by tags, and I'm too lazy to google. Edited by Bao on 25 April 2011 at 5:01am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6125 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 3 of 5 28 April 2011 at 10:55pm | IP Logged |
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Well I focused all my energies initially on German, since I had at the time no intention of learning any other language. Even though I could have gotten a greater head start in French if I'd chosen to study both simultaneously, focusing on German with its rather complex grammar was a good thing for me, particularly as it was my first language. With the experience of having succeeded in getting quite far with German, French came along reasonably easily (though still not without effort of course).
Nowadays I'm more inclined to balance multiple languages, but that comes with experience. Ultimately it's up to you - your level of motivation and your available time - but if you are embarking on your first foreign language, I'd suggest perhaps focusing on either German or French first, see how you go, and then try adding the other when you've covered the basics. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| MichaelM204351 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5253 days ago 151 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English*, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Modern Hebrew, German, Spanish | Message 4 of 5 29 April 2011 at 10:19pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the advice. I have actually been studying German for quite some time. I studied it for two years in College. I feel pretty good on the grammar. It's mainly vocabulary that is holding me back. Maybe I will give French a go...
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| Alexander86 Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom alanguagediary.blogs Joined 4790 days ago 224 posts - 323 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, Catalan Studies: Swedish | Message 5 of 5 29 April 2011 at 10:31pm | IP Logged |
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Study them both, as long as you've got sufficient time to learn them properly you should
be fine. They're pretty different and you've already got a level of German, so you should avoid the 'learning the same things in different languages at the same time' trap. I was learning Spanish and German at the same time a few years ago and it never caused me any trouble, indeed I think learning all that German grammar helped me a lot... Two languages are fine, from September I'll be learning Welsh and Catalan at the same time, can't wait!! =) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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