What's the best way to keep one language while learning a similar one?fiction

India
May 27, 2007 8:09am CST
When I studied Spanish it essentially washed the French from my brain. Now I want to study Italian, but it is so close to Spanish that I worry that it will obliterate whatever Spanish is left in my head. What are strategies for saving one language when learning another one?
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@evelynlyp (788)
• Japan
27 May 07
I don't think you have mastered a foreign language yet. You shouldn't study a different language before you are fluent in the current language you are studying. You will just confuse yourself or forget.