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Maintaining Old Languages While Learning New Ones


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How can you keep an older language fresh while starting on a new one?

Do you have to worry about forgetting everything you've learnt within weeks?

This week, head over to the blog for detailed notes and an article on this topic:

Click or tap here to read the blog article on www.fluentlanguage.co.uk

Conclusions:

  1. You can’t just forget a language, but in order to keep it fresh you need to engage in maintenance activities and accept a learning curve when you immerse again
  2. Learning more languages, even at the same time, is awesome
  3. But don’t expect miracles, consider your goals and limitations
  4. Interference is a normal process of language acquisition
  5. Thank you to Bonnie for this episode introduction.

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    Links:

    • Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilinguals: Cognitive Aspects of Third Language Learning: Language Awareness: Vol 8, No 3-4
    • What Gets Easier When You Study More Languages? by Fluent Language
    • How to Learn Several Languages At The Same Time by Fluent Language
    • The Fluent Show: Q&A: How to Re-Learn a Language You’ve Forgotten
    • An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (Learning about Language)
    • Spanish-English code-switching among low-fluency bilinguals — Study by John M. Lipski
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