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May 19, 2017 · I know lots of people who speak their second language at a very good level, yet hesitate to jump into learning a third language. Here's how to do it right. Unconventional language hacking tips from Benny the Irish polyglot; travelling the world to learn languages to fluency and beyond!
- Avoid starting more than one new language at once. If you’re a complete beginner in a new language, whether you’re already bilingual from childhood or not, you’ll hit a bit of a learning curve when starting again as an adult.
- Focus on staying balanced and improving your time management. Languages take work. It takes hundreds to thousands of hours to learn a language to a high level, and after that you need to maintain the language if you expect to keep it active for long periods of time.
- Learn languages from unrelated families. With related languages, you can “cheat” with cognates and grammar similarities. On the other hand, similar languages can be confused more easily than can those with more distant relations (or no relation whatsoever).
- Use language immersion media. When picking up an unrelated language, media-based immersion is important, especially through listening. When I decide to dabble in a language that doesn’t bear many similarities to those I already know, the first thing I do is listen to tons of music and talk radio in the language.
Third language acquisition refers to multilinguals learning additional languages. It contrasts with second language acquisition in the narrow sense, which is concerned with the acquisition of an additional language by (then) monolinguals.
Jul 13, 2020 · When it comes to learning a third language, most experts agree you should hold off until you’ve attained conversational fluency in your second language. If you begin learning another language too soon, you risk mixing up the two languages or forgetting what you learned in the first foreign tongue.
Nov 2, 2022 · Since its inception in the 20th century, third language acquisition (L3 acquisition) has become an essential aspect of research in several disciplines, including linguistics, education, and psychology.
Jul 13, 2023 · 1 - Generative Approaches to Third Language Acquisition. from Part I - Theoretical Approaches to L3/Ln. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2023. By. Jorge González Alonso. Edited by. Jennifer Cabrelli , Adel Chaouch-Orozco , Jorge González Alonso , Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares , Eloi Puig-Mayenco and. Jason Rothman.
Is acquiring a third language the same as acquiring a second? Are all instances of non-native language acquisition simply one and the same? In this first book-length study of the topic, the authors systematically walk the reader through the evidence to answer these questions.
