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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5963 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 11 10 January 2012 at 1:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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For those learning, more than one language, how often do you rotate between languages ? Do you study a number of languages a day ? Or do you differ them on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis ?
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5823 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 11 10 January 2012 at 1:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I try to get a proper conversation in each at least for an hour a week. When I'm active, I'll also listen to a few hours of radio or a couple of TV programs each week. Right now, though, I'm focusing on Gaelic and I've kind of let the others slip. (Which is obvious from my speeling msitkaes. :-( )
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| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5541 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 3 of 11 10 January 2012 at 2:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was thinking if you study a language for 15-20 weeks you can probably get through most of an Assimil course in that period of time.
Then you would have to maintain it somehow by reading & listening to material, although maybe the second half of Assimil might work for awhile. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4942 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 4 of 11 10 January 2012 at 3:22pm | IP Logged | ||
I try to do something in each language every day. For languages that I speak and just need to maintain, that could just be reading a short article or talking on the phone - something that's not really considered studying. And a couple of my languages are used for work, so those get used throughout the day. For active study languages I'll probably spend a couple hours a day, combined. I'm actively studying two languages, so that's usually not too much of a strain. If there comes a time that I don't feel like studying (it happens), I'll still try and get in something passive, like watching a TV show or listening to music/news/whatever. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6394 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 5 of 11 10 January 2012 at 3:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't maintain my languages. I do return to them and restudy, but I don't really do any maintenance work.
Sometimes it can take many months between uses of a language (especially French, which I rarely encounter unless I seek it out). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6409 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 6 of 11 10 January 2012 at 3:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't consciously try to do something in most of them every day, but I love them all and I have stuff that interests me, so it mostly happens naturally. SRS also helps me to "stay in touch" with the language. The amount of exposure depends on what I feel like and what's available.
edit: specific examples - I use Vistalizator and FuzzyTime, and I switch the languages regularly. I use software and sites in Finnish, Portuguese, Italian. I have English and Russian at the very bottom of my preferred languages list in Firefox. My iPod is usually set on random. Edited by Serpent on 10 January 2012 at 3:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5736 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 7 of 11 10 January 2012 at 9:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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I plan to do some activity in half of my languages on Monday, Wedneday and Friday and the other half on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. In practice this doesn't always happen and if, for example, I decide I really want to focus on a particular language then I will just do something in that language. Edited by mick33 on 10 January 2012 at 10:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5161 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 8 of 11 10 January 2012 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm constantly switching between working on and using Czech and Hungarian throughout the day every day, I feel very bad if I have a day without Hungarian and terrible if I miss a day in Czech (this hasn't happened for a couple of years though). I also try to do a bit of Spanish a few times a week and then allow myself some wanderlust sometimes when it takes hold of me.
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