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At first I kept thinking in Spanish when I was in German, but I was still miles ahead of my other classmates imply because I understood verb conjugation, tenses, that kind of thing.
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But how long did it take you to master one of them?</p>
<p>Alex</p>
<p>Since the other two options are both Romance languages, it seems best to start German now, because you could always learn the other Romance languages easily after learning French.</p>
<p>In addition to being from a different group, German is the language with the most written translations into and from a language, the second most spoken native language in Europe, and the second most spoken foreign language in Europe.</p>
<p>Kaznack: German actually has been simplified since the time of Mark Twain (e.g. the elimination of the dative "e" requirement), although much of what Twain wrote remains true.</p>
<p>Polar6: what is the first most spoken native language in Europe, just curious? </p>
<p>Alexx:
eh... I'm kind of confused by the intent of your question.
But lets see, I'm in my sixth year of Spanish and I can speak with native speakers, read anything, and pretty much understand spanish tv. I would feel comfortable living in a Spanish speaking country. I think 5th year (AP at my school) is when it all clicked for me. I'm definitely not perfect though, I just saw on another discussion the meaning of co</p>
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I hope that helped/answered your question?
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<p>No, I was just wondering. lol, nothing bad meant by it. I just meant picking up another language when you haven't gotten the first one down seems like it would hinder the progress of both languages, like mixing up Spanish and French. Not really in the position to talk since I started three languages at the same time, but if you're, say, "halfway" through Italian it would be confusing to learn Spanish.</p>
<p>Alex</p>
<p>I guess my opinion would be that it really isn't that confusing! </p>
<p>However, I've heard anecdotes about when people try to raise their children as bilingual, and the kids just give up and don't speak for a while! Scary!</p>
<p>Lol odduck they never teach the important stuff. Since you're so far along in your Spanish studies I recommend you go to your local bookstore and pick up a Spanish slang book and some audio material (not to learn, but to impro e your accent). You'd be gold after that because nothing's more annoying than switching to English to explain jokes (usually involving slang) and listening to a bad accent. </p>
<p>When one is at that high of a of a point in language study then I think it'd be fine for one to start another language. But starting two languages as a beginner in both just seems dumb when you could just put that extra time into studying the first language.</p>