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Quote from: skottiejay on June 09, 2014, 07:21:23 PM

That will most likely help out a lot, linguistically I read that if one language has roots in others it doesn't make it terribly hard to learn the others but maybe I read that wrong.

That's right. The more close a language is to a language you know, the easier it is to associate it with something you already know. This has something to do with brain connections;
For example, if you know Spanish it's easier to learn French than Russian.

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Thanks, that's something I know in school at least I had a lot of trouble with was past/present tenses and how to talk to someone formal informal, etc. That will most likely help out a lot, linguistically I read that if one language has roots in others it doesn't make it terribly hard to learn the others but maybe I read that wrong.

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Quote from: skottiejay on June 09, 2014, 06:07:56 PM

I'm trying to learn a multiple of languages at once, which probably isn't a good thing. However I'm doing duolingo, memrise and just trying to immerse myself in the language itself. Spanish speaking shows and what not (spanish is the language I've decided on at the moment, I took some in school but have forgotten just about everything) but I don't feel like I'm learning enough. They base a lot of it on repetition of words that you got wrong, this understand, but I want to progress faster and it isn't helping when out of the blue I'm getting a word they tried to teach me 3 or so pages ago.

Its possible to learn multiple languages at once, but if they are close linguistically it gets easy to mix them up.

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I spent a good 2 hours on spanish last night, and I am still getting sentences like me gustaria un poco de vino por favor (which i'm pretty sure is wrong) wrong still.

Does anyone have any language tips they can give?

Practice like its a second nature. Record several questions in a cassette, playback and answer the questions as phrases.
This forces you to answer quickly, and over time it will get more natural.

In addition, basic phrases really help. Try to learn the present form of these http://sipuebla.com/verbos/100verbs.htm like "I open", "I buy" etc

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I'm trying to learn a multiple of languages at once, which probably isn't a good thing. However I'm doing duolingo, memrise and just trying to immerse myself in the language itself. Spanish speaking shows and what not (spanish is the language I've decided on at the moment, I took some in school but have forgotten just about everything) but I don't feel like I'm learning enough. They base a lot of it on repetition of words that you got wrong, this understand, but I want to progress faster and it isn't helping when out of the blue I'm getting a word they tried to teach me 3 or so pages ago.

So just out of curiosity how are you learning these languages? I spent a good 2 hours on spanish last night, and I am still getting sentences like me gustaria un poco de vino por favor (which i'm pretty sure is wrong) wrong still.

Does anyone have any language tips they can give?

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