Many people who learn a second language mistakenly believe that they do not learn languages beyond. The opposite is true – learning languages easier.
The first language you learn – your native language or language – is the hardest. You learn by trial and error for the first years of your life, and learn out of necessity – a pretty good motivator. Some people are born in several locales, but most learn additional languages by attending school or self-study in later life.
We anticipate that required by the time and effort to learn a second language, we will not really have the opportunity to learn more languages later. We learn languages other than later in life, we did as a child, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. As we begin our second language study, we begin to learn and hone a set of skills that we do not fully utilize the other aspects of our lives. As we get better on our second language, improve learning ability. The phrase I like is – “we can learn how to learn languages.”
This brings us to the learning of several languages. There are a few tricks to learn several languages, no matter whether you are learning at the same time or sequentially in a row.
Relationships – It is often a few words in a language you learn that words have in common with English or another language, you know. This is because languages are related to each other or at least borrow from each other. Use this to your advantage. If you have a language course, look for a list or collection of related words begin. This will not only help you get started on expanding your vocabulary, you will begin to recognize patterns of spelling and pronunciation, which are peculiar to this language. A nice bonus is the fact that your list is growing of the potential relationships with any language. For
As an example, I learned “ayer” in Spanish, I did not realize assigned in English, French, but the word for ‘yesterday’ is’ here. “It is almost identical if you change for the small difference in the debate.
Language families – concerns that many languages are connected to other languages and have many features in common. If you already know to learn some Spanish, Italian or French is much easier. You’ve worked hard, learning many of the grammar features that do not occur in English unless you studied Spanish, like gender, agreement between nouns and adjectives and complex verb conjugations. Well, if you start to learn French, we say that these functions are second nature and will not require nearly as much study time and effort to learn. In addition, much of the vocabulary to be similar as in the example used. Learning a language you really save time to learn.
Grammar – even if you do not learn a language, you already know, you can begin to see how languages behave. This is partly what I “learn learning languages.” Under You begin to understand how languages ”handle” different things. You can not know the grammatical terms for parts of speech, but you will find patterns within a language, and from one language to another (although I start to learn it, it will recommend to help you). Basically, all human languages operate on the same principles. With every language you learn, you will pick up
more and more of these principles.
Time – this is your greatest advantage when learning a language. If you need it immediately, you can spend the whole time you out for years and years. The biggest jumps in the learning will occur first. After that, curb the curve, but the core knowledge that you are working first fully entrenched. The longer you have it and continue to use, the more drops to now, when you learn another language, related to some interference between the languages, especially if they contain the name, but as long as you maintain your other language that core understanding will always be there and it will grow in time. It does not replace one language with another. If you need back to this other language, it is still there and it comes back quickly.
Remember that learning a language is a lifelong process – no one really stopped learning. So if you start learning another language, you can not study your active earlier, but you’re still learning them, if you uncover on their use, or “hold” can.
Objectives – Set your goals carefully for each language. You may find that adding another language is much easier when you know that you do not really need to be fluent in it. You may just want to read the language. Then you need not concentrate on speaking and listening skills. Or do you just want to know a few greetings and basic conversation. Forget heavy grammar. Concentrate according to some conversation and study.
Maintenance – For me, this is the real trick to learn several languages. With knitting, I mean, it’s important for your long-term success, and I mean also that it is difficult to achieve. Once you learn a language, at least the basics, you need to get it upright. Use or lose, they say. It is also true here. If you learn a new language, you have to expose yourself to the other languages you know. As a general rule, I would say 15 minutes a day. Read something, please e-mail letter or two friends, a movie or TV show once in a while, listening to music, etc. Then when you need
Language for something substantial, the vocabulary and grammar and pronunciation is not so far away from you. If you do not, it had to be used at all for 6 months or 6 years, I can assure you that it is not again so easily.
Of course the problem with this, for every language you know that 15 minutes less time to study your new friends. I think ultimately that’s what brings a limit to how many languages we can learn effectively. There is nothing to prevent us from learning more, but without this knowledge regularly and keep it fresh, it tends away from us. Then “replace” we are a language with a fresher one. I do not think that what we have in mind when we learn a language.
For myself, I have a short list of priority 1 Languages that I focus on the following. I expect that this is a life long hobby, so I’m not rushing. I also have a much longer list of languages, each with different goals. I doubt that I ever met my goals in all these languages, but I’m sure I will hit my goals in at least some of them.