It is said that when a person speaks two languages perfectly (or at least fluently), studying a new one is easier, and so, studying two new languages would be even less difficult. As your capacity of acquiring new words and structures improves when you are able to speak two different languages, so does the rapidity of processing the new information you get in every occasion.
However, everybody is different. Thus, some people have a “gift” and are able to learn languages within an incredible short period of time, whereas for others the fact of speaking or writing a language different from their mother tongues is a real nightmare. For most people, learning a new language is just a question of patience, study and will.
As far as I am concerned, I am convinced that you can take great advantage of your former language learning experiences. When starting studying a new one, you are already familiar with the patterns that were required for the learning of the other languages.You might thus know the way to study the new vocabulary or how to practice the grammar, for example.
Finally, as I have already said, the main quality you should have is willpower, because although there are some abilities you can have when learning languages, you must be interested in the topic that you are studying to learn better.
posted by Angela @ 2:55 PM
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hi Angela,
I guess u're right, I studied french as well and I very often made use of what I already knew from English ... but it had also a downside to it: because once I understood something in French that I could infer from English, then I felt no need to learn the proper french expression ... something must be wrong with my willpower B-)
hey, i found this post very interesting and i think quite the same. I´ve been living in England for some months and I could have the experience of teching Spanish to a boy of my age and I was very surprised at the ways both of us could manage together using the different sources of knowledge of other languages we had already learned. This way, using parallelisms, many aspects can be very fluently and far more easily understandable!
"once I understood something in French that I could infer from English, then I felt no need to learn the proper french expression ... something must be wrong with my willpower B-) "
Pavel, that´s completely normal...but I think it´s always better to take one step further, you might be very surprised at how many things are different in this particular field! ;)
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