When I leared Italian I seemed to forget Portuguese, or maybe I just took it apart and rebuilt it as Italian, they are very similar, and it has been 9 years now since I really spoke Portuguese. My Italian is good, I speak it on an daily basis, and I'm immersing myself in Irish now, but don't want to lose my Italian.
I'm not asking how to learn a language, I taught English as a second langage for years so I'm familiar with the process, my question is about how you think languages are mapped into/onto/through each other in the brain. What happens when you learn a third or fourth language, how do they connect with your mother language or other languages you've learned when they are a. the same language family b. different language families. Thanks
2007-09-26
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