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Under the right circumstances, it can work and you can leverage one language to enhance the other. Under the wrong ones, it becomes a detriment- or a the minimum, a distraction which will slow you down. Let me exemplify by telling you about my own experiment, which has been working quite well:
English is my native language. From English, the first second language I learned is Spanish, in which I have advanced proficiency.
Then, from English I learned a bit of French years ago, but proficiency is advanced beginner/intermediate at best, depending on the subject of the conversation.
Since I want to advance both languages, I now use my more advanced Spanish as the base language (instead of English) to learn French from. This has the effect of both weaning me off the tendency to use my native language as a crutch, and also strengthens both my Spanish and my French. The third benefit is that it increases the neural pathways in my brain between Spanish and French, such that there is a tighter relationship between them and it is easier for me to cross from one to the other and take advantage of their similarities.
My fourth language is Italian, in which I am a beginner but with a year or so of study that has not been used until recently. To further strengthen the neuro network in my brain between all three of these languages, I am now studying Italian from French up to the level which my French will take me, and overlapping it with studying Italian from Spanish up to my more advanced Spanish proficiency.
Afterward, I will continue the crossover- ie. practice Spanish from French, French from Italian, etc. to solidify the relationship between these 3 languages. This works because they are all romance languages, with a strong Latin foundation.
The key is to be working on two languages that are a) related and b) you have intermediate proficiency in at least one of them.
0 votedMarch 18, 20170- Neither are grammatically correct. Colloquially, you can get away with "there's nowhere to get hold of" and people will understand what you mean. The second phrase should be "There's nowhere to put my hands" or you can say "there isn't anywhere to put my hands." The words here, there, somewhere, nowhere, and anywhere all indicate location already. Words like "on" also indicate location. You only need one- thus when you say something like "I need somewhere to put my hands on" the "on" is redundant.0 votedMarch 18, 20174
- "Tune" is also a verb, the act of adjusting an instrument (including the voice) in order to get the individual tones correct (described as being "in tune" or being "out of tune"). So as a state of being, "tune" indicates whether a tone is vibrating the correct harmonic sound or not. As a verb it means the act of getting it so.0 votedMarch 18, 20170
- It's a colloquial way of saying someone left. But the general indication when you use "ran off" instead of "left" puts emphasis on some sort of avoidance. "I told him I love you and he ran off" pretty much means "he freaked out and avoided any further conversation." Whereas "I told him I love you and he left" usually leaves room for other things to have happened in between telling him and leaving, which the speaker did not specify. If you hear it the first way, there is no ambiguity. But if you hear the second phrase, you may still ask "well, what did he say?" because whatever did or didn't happen before "he left" is left unspecified. Also, if you use it as a verb, ie. "You totally ran him off" then you are saying you drove someone away- ie. they found whatever happened unlikable and exited the conversation/situation.0 votedMarch 18, 20171
- Ademas- el gerundio (-ing) generalmente implica un accion que esta continuando. "Ella aprende ingles" puede significar que ella aprendelo hoy o algo otro tiempo inspecificado. Pero "ella esta aprendando ingles" significa que su proceso de aprender ingles existe tambien en el futuro, y tal vez en el pasado reciente.0 votedMarch 18, 20170
- Que significa la palabra "duende?" I was told once by a native Spanish speaker, whose country of origin I do not remember, that there is a word, "duende" which has no direct English translation but loosely means what would we call in English as "soul." However in this case I don't mean "soul" as in "alma," but the colloquial act of "having soul" which means more like having passion, or having a way of expressing oneself that invokes a lot of authenticity or strong feeling. Is "duende" a real word? If so, where is is used, and what does it really mean?March 18, 2017100
- De acuerdo con ellas. Cuando se usa la forma mas suave, se evita la possibilidad de sonar como estas interrogando al otro persona jajaja ;). "Where are you going" teneria diferentes significaciones dependente en el sentimiento- aunque "where are you off to" siempre significa algo mas casual.0 votedMarch 18, 20170
- Los dos oraciones son practicalmente lo mismo. El escoge en el uso es mas o menos un escoge personal. En diferentes situaciones, usando el gerundio (-ing) es mas pasivo y algunas veces se sonido mas suave. Si quisieras usar un sentimiento mas directo (asertivo), omitese el gerundio. Eso aplica especialmente cuando se use el futuro. Ejemplo- "I am planning to win the game." "I plan to win the game."0 votedMarch 18, 20172
