Kraut wrote:thevagrant88 wrote:Summary: think in the language and read “great” books.
plus: "bilingual texts are such a key to effective language learning"
And "read them before you quit studying". The language will come back when you return.
Kraut wrote:thevagrant88 wrote:Summary: think in the language and read “great” books.
plus: "bilingual texts are such a key to effective language learning"
Alexander Arguelles wrote:Hello everyone, just letting you know that I will be doing an AMA on r/languagelearning this weekend. Drop by to ask me a question from Friday (7AM Chicago Time) to Sunday. Hope to see you there! https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning
Vordhosbn wrote:From https://www.youtube.com/user/ProfASAr/community:Alexander Arguelles wrote:Hello everyone, just letting you know that I will be doing an AMA on r/languagelearning this weekend. Drop by to ask me a question from Friday (7AM Chicago Time) to Sunday. Hope to see you there! https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning
A library tour of resources for learning Celtic, Germanic, and Romance literary languages of the European Middle Ages, together with a comparative-historical / philological discussion of some of their features. This video follows up on a previous presentation of specific texts that might supplement the canon of the Great Books of the Western World.(...)
BeaP wrote:He recommends something that has cultural relevance in your country, a heritage language, something exotic, a world language. I listened to it during cooking so I might have missed something, but I had the impression that he suggests people to choose languages that they have some connection with (family, history, interest), and the structure of these languages is not really important. For him it was French, German, Spanish, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit, if I remember well, but he emphasises that this list is not something that we should follow, because it's personal.
If you don't base your choice on similarity (the easier the better) and you follow his advice of 'connection' or think about the possibilities that a language opens for you, you probably end up with a varied list, anyway. Like I'd end up with English (world-culture), German (heritage-neighbour-history-culture), Russian (history-world), Croatian (heritage-neighbour), Spanish (interest-world-culture) and Chinese (world-exotic).
But I guess my current language list is OK, too. And I have to admit that he seems to be right, I feel that that's the most I can maintain. Spanish is already pushing out some of my English, if that makes sense. It's very rare that I remember a word in all of my languages, they come to my mind automatically in a seemingly random way. Although German is partly dormant, it takes the lead surprisingly often.