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Margo19991
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Real woman with many interests and admire for nature. I like walking, writing, taking photos, listening to music, and I am often busy. I would like to practice English.
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their is solution for that,....
you must learn English language to the reasonable level,means you can talk and write and understand,when you reach that level,start with the German and of course you must reach the same level as English.repeat that with the new language,...
after a year or 2 practicing both languages by chatting through Internet or talking with people English /German.
you will never forget both of the languages and you will never get confused,you get confused when you don't write so try to write.
p's if you learn German and English very good,you will get a lot of words in your mind and this will help you to learn more European languages very easily.
any questions are welcome
Just try to watch german tv programmes without the subtitles,
listen to german songs, but don't forget to hold on to the english
best way to learn to speak (writing is an other story) a language fluently is actually, go live in that country for 3 months without someone who speaks your own language, and you'll see, in 3 months you even dream german, dutch, french whatever,
and don't worry about your english, you'll never gonna forget that, might mix it all togheter sometimes but never forget.
Thats the way I learned german and english and a little bit french
good luck
When you learn more languages, it will more confusing. LOL
Summer
There was a time I knew English very well and teached it. But then I had a break - some 6 years without often contact with English. But its level was not bad. Only after I started regullary learning German everything changed.
Maybe the clue is it is important to practice regullary both languages. Although I supposed maybe the grammar or structure is so different that it mixes easily.
I know also Russian as a second language and between Russian and English there are no problems. They do not mix.
Do you easily switch between English, French and Spanish, French? Without hesitation?
The best way to learn a language is to learn some grammar and vocabulary then to go and live for some time in a country where people speak it.
The science says that you can never be absolutely bilingual (to speak two languages equally good since your childhood). Even if the parents are native speakers of two languages the skills of one of them prevail. 100% bilingual people are very rare.
But about languages that we learn later we can achieve some equal level. People say with every next language things get easier. If you speak, let's say, one language from the Germanic group (let's say German, or English) you can easily learn some of the others (Dutch, Scandinavian languages etc), or from Latin group (the basic one is French) you can easily learn Italian, Spanish, Portuguese.
Or one of the Slavic group (Bulgaria, Russian), then it will be easier to learn Serbian, Polish, Czech, etc.
So does it mean that when we want remembering some languages we should repeat them every day or the most often as we can. It is a pity for me because I haven't enough time for it. Maybe, like you said watching videos and listenig audios could be useful. But I think at this moment the most useful could be having job where you have to speak some languages or translate them everyday in your job. Lucy those who have such a work.
Aeterna you speak Japanese - this is very different system of language. It must be really difficult to switch between it and English for example.
It is very interesting what you write about bilinguality but I personally do not agree with the rule of groups of languages. I was trying to learn Italian (about half a year) and the structure of this language seemed for me easy to learn. French from the same group was so difficult for me that I left it and did not learn. German mixes with English, while Russian doesn't. Maybe I am atypical.
Generally languages have either complicated nouns (cases like in German, Russian, Finnish, Hungarian and others: Accusative, Dative etc) and not so complicated verbs, either complicated verb system with many tenses (like in English, French, Bulgaria, etc) and no so complicated noun system (no cases). For example Russian has 6 cases but only 3 tenses. So I think German is more complicated than French: because it has 3 genders for the nouns (French has 2), has cases, has very specific syntax, and long words formed by several roots.
About French the most difficult is the verb system but since it's very similar to Bulgarian one, it's not so hard for us Bulgarians (Bulgarian has 9 tenses and other specific categories of the verbs which together with the 3 genders gives practically uncountable endings).
When I said that some languages are representative for the groups it was not connected with them being the easiest ones. Just the basic ones.
Yes, every language has its specificity and groups of languages also. Some of them are easier for particular group of people others for another group. Some of us really have talent to learn languages. Maybe for this talent is responsible their great memory? I know people who love English and hate German and inversely. Sometimes I wonder maybe it depends of the approach to a language. There was time whan I hated German and was saying I would never learn it. But now, German seems for me easier than French. The long words could be logical when we take into account they are parts of simpler words and der, die, das comes from the second half. I have not found method for der, die, das and memorizing the genders. But maybe one day I will do it.
French has very nice sounding. When someone speaks French it sounds for me as he would be singing.
Fri Sep 9, 2011 8:14 AM
I think one of the prettiest sounding language was...Swahili!
And nobody was able to learn it