Thomas De Quincey on language learning

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einzelne
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Re: Thomas De Quincey on language learning

Postby einzelne » Fri Jul 29, 2022 12:06 am

RyanSmallwood wrote:Now I'm mostly interested in closely related languages where there's much less study time before integrating language learning with other interests.


Same. When you have good reading skills in one Romance language (French) and good in another one (Italian), dabbling with Spanish means breezing through Assail in a couple of weeks and reading 3 short books in the same month.
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Re: Thomas De Quincey on language learning

Postby dml130 » Tue Aug 02, 2022 4:41 pm

einzelne wrote:
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that the statement in the initial post of the thread applies to a relatively small category of people to which most of us don't belong, no?
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