Re: The Most Thorough Methods and Materials for Learning a Variety of Languages
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 3:28 am
I know how to self-educate, and I know how to teach myself a language.
But I am finding that trying to study both Spanish and Haitian Creole at the same time if limiting my short term ability to speak. I freeze when I need to speak, and the two language become a jumble that I am unable to untangle. If I were around people that knew both languages and I could speak a combination of both and be understood, I would be fine. That is not the case.
I was going to focus on the Spanish and knock out another Spanish class at school, but at the last minute, I canceled and have been using my break to study Creole and I am not taking any language classes next semester. Creole is the language I love most. I have decided to major in Africana and Caribbean studies alongside my law studies, instead of Latinx studies. A lot of my language studies will be undocumented and not for credit. I don't care.
I hope to come back to the Spanish, if and when the Creole becomes more automatic and is stored in a deeper place than a new language. But right now I have asked people to stop speaking Spanish to me, especially a Haitian friend that is trying to convince me that I can handle both, while speaking to me in Spanish. He thinks I am some sort of machine.
I am only human and I am not as smart as people think. I am just a hard worker and I know how to self-educate. I know when something is working and when something is not. I trust myself and know to ignore advice that is not relevant to ME and the current TIME, and know how to switch up and do something different when things CHANGE. And I can find resources that other people have never heard about.
Right now, I am TIRED. I am juggling a LOT beyond my language studies. Like a bilingual child, I think if I just stuck with both languages, eventually I will be able to speak both, but I am TIRED and I want to speak the one that I love MOST. Did I say I am tried? LOL. These law classes drain me. They really really do. Next to people employed in psychology, people employed in law are some of least mentally healthy people in the USA. I am starting to understand why.
I could have stuck with both languages if some of my surrounding environment were different, but I am bound by the circumstances and resources of the time and place that I currently exist and I must adapt.
I have one more week of break to study what I want. I really should be pre-studying the subjects I will be taking for credit, but ... I am choosing to study Creole and cooking. Maybe I am being lazy. Or maybe I will do better long term if I allow myself this break to do what I WANT.
Good luck h.porter23!
But I am finding that trying to study both Spanish and Haitian Creole at the same time if limiting my short term ability to speak. I freeze when I need to speak, and the two language become a jumble that I am unable to untangle. If I were around people that knew both languages and I could speak a combination of both and be understood, I would be fine. That is not the case.
I was going to focus on the Spanish and knock out another Spanish class at school, but at the last minute, I canceled and have been using my break to study Creole and I am not taking any language classes next semester. Creole is the language I love most. I have decided to major in Africana and Caribbean studies alongside my law studies, instead of Latinx studies. A lot of my language studies will be undocumented and not for credit. I don't care.
I hope to come back to the Spanish, if and when the Creole becomes more automatic and is stored in a deeper place than a new language. But right now I have asked people to stop speaking Spanish to me, especially a Haitian friend that is trying to convince me that I can handle both, while speaking to me in Spanish. He thinks I am some sort of machine.
I am only human and I am not as smart as people think. I am just a hard worker and I know how to self-educate. I know when something is working and when something is not. I trust myself and know to ignore advice that is not relevant to ME and the current TIME, and know how to switch up and do something different when things CHANGE. And I can find resources that other people have never heard about.
Right now, I am TIRED. I am juggling a LOT beyond my language studies. Like a bilingual child, I think if I just stuck with both languages, eventually I will be able to speak both, but I am TIRED and I want to speak the one that I love MOST. Did I say I am tried? LOL. These law classes drain me. They really really do. Next to people employed in psychology, people employed in law are some of least mentally healthy people in the USA. I am starting to understand why.
I could have stuck with both languages if some of my surrounding environment were different, but I am bound by the circumstances and resources of the time and place that I currently exist and I must adapt.
I have one more week of break to study what I want. I really should be pre-studying the subjects I will be taking for credit, but ... I am choosing to study Creole and cooking. Maybe I am being lazy. Or maybe I will do better long term if I allow myself this break to do what I WANT.
Good luck h.porter23!