Hello y'all,
This might belong in the language thread, but...
I am taking a break from school this year, to kinda take care of some business projects and saving up money, but I'd still like to keep my mind still sharp. Thus, I am going to continue home study of Arabic... so I've set aside an hour a day for studying my Arabic. However, I realized the other day that my Turkish is fading somewhat (while talking with my Turkish friends), and I am wondering about taking some time out of my day each day to work on Turkish.
Only thing is: would that be too much on my head (even though I have plenty of time each day)? How would I coordinate two languages and keep my head from confusing them? I would like to retain the first language as much as possible, while still being able to really concentrate on the new one. Any ideas?
Hmm, I guess it depends on how solid your Turkish is. If you can practice your Turkish by affectively taking a break from Arabic to read some Turkish books on the side, for instance, it might work. But I should think you'd want to focus most of your energies on one language. I think it would be difficult to try to evenly divide your attention between the two.
Turkish and Arabic are pretty different, so I don't know how much you'd have to worry about confusing them, but I've never studied either language, so what do I know?