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[PiotrR]

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[Viridzen]

Can you please describe the Antimoon method? The link just goes to what I think is their homepage.

[PiotrR]

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[Viridzen]

That doesn't look so good... I mean, don't write or speak? Well, I hate speaking foreign languages in earshot of other people, but no writing? I can note my mistakes and I actually learn from them. I'm proud to make mistakes. Everyone should be. Nothing against you for following it; if it works for you, I can't stop you. But, I would never try that.

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[Viridzen]

You can damage your English by writing and speaking.

Maybe it meant that there is a possibility in carrying on with these things and having a mistake can damage your English. I don't know.

[PiotrR]

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I want to learn these languages well, so I decided to prolong my TAC to the end of 2015. I hope nobody minds.

My thesis director was a very wise Russian-American and he would always tell us, "It takes as long as it takes."

[PiotrR]

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[voron]

- For a Pole, words like брак (one of words for marriage) are funny. Brak means a lack of something in Polish

Funnily enough, the word брак has another unrelated meaning which is close to the Polish one:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B1%D1 ... %BA#Noun_2

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[Zippo]

I think you're planning far too ahead. I don't want to come across as a preacher or something, but as any other language lover I used to want learn a heap of languages too and was telling myself that each year I'd learn one, but the reality is different. You should concentrate on the closest target, which should be a language that you want to learn the most (it's a bad thing to postpone say Japanese, because it's a lot more complicated than say Spanish, if you really feel like learning Japanese).

Anyway I wish you luck on your journey.
As far as I'm concerned, the Arabic script seems much more difficult than it actually is. I had some problems with remembering Sad, Dad, Ta and Za, but one day I stopped trying to remember the alphabet and was looking at words and their transliterations and sooner or later found the patterns. So now I can read (slowly) the Arabic script, but the problem is that it's only like 60% efficient, because you have to guess the vowels which are badly if at all indicated. Anyway it's fun to read the Arabic on a bottle of chocolate milk etc.

Mandarin Chinese is a total suicide and it's more than possible to burn out after a few very exciting months. But that is valid for any language in which you achieve an intermediate level I guess.

Wish you all the best once more

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