Should You Learn Two Languages At The Same Time? | Polyglot Language Learning Tips
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
- Today we discuss a very common topic that comes up in the comments - should you learn two languages at the same time? I share some past and current experiences doing this and one particular principle that has helped me learn multiple languages at the same time successfully.
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conclusion : if you are beginner in one of two languages, it's better to dedicate your learning only for the one you have just started, because it will need more efforts, unless you have too much time (e.g: 4 hours) for learning languages per day.
if you are intermediate or more at both languages, you can study them at the same time without problem
Thanks!
Tysm
It takes a lot of discipline to stay faithful to one language when you're seduced by others, but those that manage to stay strong and keep focused on one... well, their future self will thank them for that.
Not everyone is the same. For some people learning 2 or more languages can work
I am always seduced by other languages! It's so hard not to give in to temptation to explore. 😍🥰
@@jemts5586 The struggle is real!
whenever i try learning a language within a day i want to learn a different one
I am 69 years old and I am currently using Duolingo, and other sources, to study Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, and Irish.
Heck yeah! Keep learning, man!
@@tolgag2901
I'm a 52 year old Indonesian.
I understand 6 foreign languages : English, German, French, Arabic, Russian, and Mandarin with different levels of abilities.
I speak German pretty well, and been to Munich to learn German.
It was long time ago that I reached B2 level, nearly C1.
But it seems that my German deteriorates.
I also learned French and Russian, but I don't speak those languages very well like my German, and of course, my fluent English.
Now I'm learning Mandarin, and I believe my Mandarin reached A2 or B1 level, because I got Hsk-3 in October 2019.
The problem is maintaining the ability.
Once you get the B level, you start to be fed up with the language you have learned, unless you have a very high motivation and specific purpose to learn the language.
And after that the next question is whether you can maintain the level that has been attained.
I reached B2 or even almost C1 in German long time ago, but now it seems that I can only answer relatively correct the B1 level.
My German deteriorates.
Language is a matter of habits and habitation....
Forever young.
What nationalities are you...??
Učím se česky taky!!!! :D
@@ayi3455 That's impressive that you speak so many languages. Thanks for sharing your story
Learning Korean and Chinese at the same time✌️ As a Russian speaker I find Mandarin grammar to be relatively easy so far. And Korean is definitely a challenge. But I enjoy the process of learning these 2 languages, even though my brain was hurting when I just started lol. If anyone wants to start learning languages, don’t hesitate and just start!💫
wish you success and easiness in your beginning! I hope you will be fluent in these new 2 languages soon. sending love from Kazakhstan:) also I speak Russian too.
but never wanted to learn Korean, its look so hard 😅
Можешь подсказать книги или ресурсы для корейского и китайского? Можно книги на английском
hi sorry for being annoying but... As a language learner, sometimes we need support from people. And many times its hard to find this support in our family or friends. So I created a discord server for all language learners: discord.gg/8MN8Xz5uXA
I hope you will find it useful and we can all help each other ❤️ Thanks if anyone is joining :D
How did you start learning Korean? Do you have any recommendations on where to start? Thanks!
how do you find the time without neglecting one of these languages? :)
In Luxembourg people when they meet you ask you: In which languages can we converse? Generally, the population of this country speaks 3-4 languages on average fluently.
Wow!!! That's amazing!
@@Victor-fw5md same here 🐏 you are not the only one who speaks two languages so don’t worry. U can learn your third language. Take it easy!
I have made that experience at Bruges, yes!
I speak 3 languages fluently since I am from India...Being born in India is a boon ... Bengali and Hindi grammer is quite similar to Korean grammer so it doesn't take much to learn korean all together and English is taught almost in every schools in India be it Hindi or English medium..English is always cumpolsory as a subject ...plus Hindi is the national language so most of the PPL know it + they know their mother tongue...For example My mother tongue is Bengali( Can speak in 3 different dialects/Lingua Franca) I am fluent is Hindi since I've been conversing in this language since I was a kid and also it was taught in my school and I am fluent in English too ( you know why)... Recently I have been learning Korean and I have reached level 4 so far ....I wish to learn Japanese Chinese Spanish and Arabic the near Future....Wish me luck
yes! I had a patient who is from Luxembourg and she is completely fluent in (at least) three languages that I know of !!! That is so amazing.
It is astonishing how much enjoyment one can get out of a language that one understands imperfectly. - Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
In Greece children learn English together with French or German when they are 10 years old :P
Sounds so cool
That's because when one is a child our brain has something called "Plasticity", but from the time we reach puberty that plasticity is lost because the functions of the brain get "fixed". That's why learning a language as an adult is much more difficult :'(
If I was you I would search mpre about this topic
@@debsguerreiro I am Greek actually :)
Hahahaha I'm sorry Mel! I was talking to Camila about this mith that old people doesn't have the plastic brain anymore. It's other things that's making learning difficult....but our brain always stays with its plasticity! Good studies for you all
I am learning French, Spanish, and Italian now at the same time.
But I started learning Spanish when my French was already B1, and I started my Italian when my Spanish was already B1.
And they are from the same root. So it helps to learn the next one.
I find that impressive. I have trouble with Italian because I know a lot of French and the vocab is so similar that i makes lots of mistakes that I don't make in other non Laton languages I'm learning is probablt do the same if i was learning Dutch because of the German knowledge i have.
@@garmit61 maybe you need to wait till one language reaches a higher level before adding the other. My Spanish is at B2 and i just added French so A1 and i understand A LOTTTTTTT( because of the similarities) but it never confuses me🤷🏽♀️❤❤
@@garmit61 maybe you should wait until you feel comfortable with using that one language before starting the new one. For myself, I decided that B1 level is enough for me. Maybe for others it’s B2. It depends on the person.
At the beginning, I have the same trouble of mixing my vocabularies. But as I progress, it becomes easier for me to differentiate between languages.
hi sorry for being annoying but... As a language learner, sometimes we need support from people. And many times its hard to find this support in our family or friends. So I created a discord server for all language learners: discord.gg/8MN8Xz5uXA
I hope you will find it useful and we can all help each other ❤️ Thanks if anyone is joining :D
I second this! I took four years of Chinese in high school and completely did not retain what I learned. I am learning the basics of Spanish now so that I can learn how to connect them with Spanish medical terminology in a few months (I'll be working as a physician in the future). I love Italian and studied abroad there and, three years later, I still speak. So I am going to be taking Italian conversation classes from here on out.
I'm learning Spanish and French, simultaneously, at some point, it seems like one is over shadowing the other. Then again, I don't have much time to learn daily and constantly...so, here I am.
Uu. Good luck!👏🏻❤
I wouldn't recommend you to learn this two languages at the same time because they are very similar (both come from Latin, so similarities are flying here and also a lot of confusion). I would advice you to learn two vey different languages (spanish and maybe russian? french and chinese? i dont know, you can do whatever combination you'd like to). Doing this, chances of mix the languages are lower. I tried to learn Italian and French at the same time and it didn't ended well hahaha. So I focused on French (I didn't want to study two languages at the same). But yeah, just an advice 🥰 If you're good the way you are, awesome! Good Luck on your language learning.
@@milenafreitas6425 thanks for the tips, it means a lot 💯
@@terryjackson759 anytime! 🥰
Italian and spanish are 88%similar and intellegible, so when you will get a fluent spanish, it will take to study only the rest of 12%
I did it once and for sure it's possible. I don't like it though. I love immersing in a language (from home) and getting the most of it... so I prefer one language at a time. But yeah it is a possibility. I like it when you said "one beginning language at a time". It's an intelligent strategy. Great video Robin!!!
Im learning russian and spanish currently. Spanish Ive been off and on with for years but now Im really serious. Spanish is easier - Russian is a verbal WORKOUT - lol. Yet I enjoy it. My patients are mostly russian and hispanic and I definitely want to be able converse better with them. I alternate my days and it seems to be working. Thanks for this video tho.
I am also learning russian and Spanish at a time . true verbs are a problem. can you give me some tips. My both mom and dad speak Urdu not a clue of either Spanish or Russian .
Я русско говорящий,учу английский,можем помочь друг другу в изучении.
@@zakiatariq8115 Good morning Zakia. Where are you from ?
И как твои успехи в русском?
hi sorry for being annoying but... As a language learner, sometimes we need support from people. And many times its hard to find this support in our family or friends. So I created a discord server for all language learners: discord.gg/8MN8Xz5uXA
I hope you will find it useful and we can all help each other ❤️ Thanks if anyone is joining :D
I have a B1 level in English , and currently learning German. Now I'm in A2 level.
I'm willing to reach advanced level in English and on the same time a minimum B2 level in German. That's not really evident, but in the same time not very hard.
When learning new words in german I always translate them to English so that I can learn the word also in English if I didn't know it before, and that's actually cool
Same here, I’m on the B1 English level and A2 in German , how’s your language learning journey after one year?
Everyone does in school, in Finland - at least very nearly everyone. Not necessarily start two languages at the same time, but often that too, as when you enter secondary level, you have to do second national language, and most also pick a new language to learn then too.
As far as I've heard from Finns, the most of you do it just like the most other people in Europe: You learn English as the main foreign language at school, an then an other language (with the difference that Swedish is mandatory in Finland), maybe two. And then you forget everything except English, cos you don't use it.
Anyway, IMO one can't really learn a language at school. You can get some basics, but it needs inner motivation and work at one's own to really learn a language.
I wish I did schooling in Finland
The Dutch system is similar and varies a bit per level, level I went to we had: Ancient Greek, Latin, English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish was optional and we had a dedicated general grammar class in year one. It created benefits of applying connections between languages but it never taught me the language because there just wasn't enough time or need to practice. Even class-mates that didn't actively used English in their daily lives now barely, if at all, speak it. Lower levels are even worse. Doesn't mean I think it was bad / wasted time, it's just highschool vs proper motivation to learn something.
@@esmee6308 You are completely right, I went to college (gymnasium) from 1967 to 1973 and the first year it was French, English and in the last trimester Latin, the second year they added German and the third year ancient Greek. You often hear people talking about the danger of mixing up languages but it didn't happen very often. No that I am still learning languages at a hobby I often take more than one at the same time, no problem at all
@@MartienVanWanrooij I feel the connections you can build on balance out any potential negatives. Linguistically languages function similar at their core, no matter how far removed they are. However that's just an opinion.
I'm Brazilian and I started to learn English two years ago. Recently, I've taken a test and I found out my English level is B1+, which is quite thrilling for me since I study almost every single day. It's like a reward that I've been expecting for a long time. So, with that in mind, I decided to begin French, and I should confess the grammar as far as I can tell it's been a challenge for me, but I feel more able to try it out and make my dream of being a polyglot true.
Peace out, thank you for your video.
Very good English!
Im a native English speaker and that’s amazing English!
Keep it up!
Don’t bother yourself too much with grammar. French is not too hard considering where you from, just try to immerse in the language naturally.
You speak better than the C1 in these recruiting positions for call centers
I am doing Spanish and mandarin at the same time, but both hover around b1. Spanish i am going to read a lot.
I'm doing english and mandarin in the same time, it's really hard because I don't have much time
I did that last year but I know mandarin like I can speak mandarin and understand it I just don’t know how to read and write so I was learning to read and write. And with spanish I just didn’t know anything
I’ve always been doing Spanish in school, but am also going to be starting Mandarin next semester. Any advice?
@@Pastellum what did you use to learn mandarin? I wanna learn so i can study china but it seems so hard :cc
I'm doin' Spanish & Hindi ✌🏼
I just started Spanish 😁
I promised myself that I wouldn't start a new language until Chinese sits comfortably in my head. I'm pretty happy with my current level (even though it's also frustrating cos I still feel like I know very little) but I know that I can grow both with less worry. 😄
Spanish is beautiful! (and easier than Chinese haha) ... I learned Pinyin, it is a very good system to introduce Chinese script
I'm the opposite! Once I reached a comfortable level of Spanish, I started to learn Chinese more seriously.
I am a native Spanish speaker 🤣 and also speak English. Mandarin is another engaging language for me or else Arabic
ReRe Chan If you need help with spanish, I'm available.(I'm learning english and french). ulisestt95@gmail.com
Me too! My Mandarin is at about an intermediate level. I decided to learn Spanish because of more job opportunities around my area. I also decided to learn Shanghainese at the same time. I spend more time on my Mandarin because I'm trying to get to an advanced level faster. I spend about 15-30 min a day on the other two. However I'll be starting my master's next month so it will be interesting to see how I manage.
Well, my older brother was in the Air Force language school learning Vietnamese and Russian...English was not allowed during class!
He said that dropping English from the process he was able to focus on Vietnam/Russian translation directly.
This was in the last year of the war, so he would have been a radio-intercept guy.
Just recently turned 21, took Spanish for about 7 yrs in school. After graduation I stopped using it as frequently and definitely lost some of the grammar structure but I can mostly understand the language! I picked up French since it’s so closely related about a yr and a half ago and just a few months ago I started learning Russian to challenge my understanding of language outside of the Latin alphabet.
I plan on working on all the languages I study but hope to add more. It is a little bit of a slower process but my brain doesn’t allow me to fixate on one easily, and I find my brain actually learns both languages better while I’m learning multiple at once (with consistency)
I’m learning Spanish, Italian and Greek. I was already intermediate in Spanish and found that it helped me to conjugate and structure sentences in the other languages.
OMG I LEARNING SPANISH AND GREEK ALSO THAT SO COOL HOW IS IT GOING!?
I'm 100 percent a grammar fiend so I support having one intermediate/advanced language and one beginner. I can currently speak Spanish at a B1, and I started Japanese about a month ago. It's made having Japanese be my main focus for formal study easier.
how's ur japanese now?
One of the most helpful videos in this subject! It’s helped with some of my current language learning dilemmas. Thank you Robin!
Thanks a lot! You have just destroyed my doubts about learning two foreign languages simultanuously.
Now I'm learning English and Mandarin at the same time. My English is about Intermediate level I think, and my Mandarin is beginner level, may be HSK1.
Seems like every time I go into your channel you have at least 200 more subscribers! You deserve it, loving the tips and honest chats 🤗
Thanks so much for this great video! Three years back I started learning Chinese and Russian. I realised though it's rather difficult to learn two languages at the same time. I stopped learning Chinese and focused only on russian for about a year. Now I'm back to learning both and it's much easier then it used to be because I'm more confident and confortable in Russian.
At school in Iceland you learn English and danish at the same time
In 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka, students learn Sinhalese , Tamil and English at the same time as compulsory subjects. There are optional languages such as German and French 😅
@@akiladushyanthacooray5703 😂three languages 👍👍
In Egypt 🇪🇬 I was studying English and German , when I was young I was studying English and French
Omg Danishh!! And can you choose between other languagens?
School in Brazil you only have to learn English and, just sometimes, Spanish
Thank you Robin👍 Your method is always helping me!!!
Thank you from Japan 🇯🇵
Interesting! I have been studying Spanish since the pure beginning of quarantine (and four years of school but that doesn’t really count) and now my level is a B1. I started learning Swedish a month ago due to pure interest and I study it 15-20 mins per day. It’s pretty possible as long as you realize that one will move faster than the other.
Louie Fernandez can you explain me why school Spanish doesn't count?
Medical Museum Learning language in school isn’t effective, at least where I am
@@louiefernandez2923 hey Louie , i'm also learning Swedish , but i can't find many ressources for it, can you share please how you go about it?
doudou doodle In all honesty, right now I’m just building a foundation through duolingo. It’s not the most effective but whatever. I know there’s a website called learningswedish.se or something along those lines that is a free resource.
Que bien que estés aprendiendo español, saludos Louie
I'm Brazilian and I'm learning English and Korean at the same time. Actually I'm learning Korean IN English, so I'm kinda studying both at the same time and it's very helpful.
I've begun Portuguese and Romanian last week, both beginner languages for me.
Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious. - Alan Moore
David Goggins- Community Loooooove this! I just finished The Chocolate Touch with my tutoring group. My favorite quote, “The more more words you know, the more exactly you can think”.
I am learning English and French at the same time. My English level is as B1. And My French level is as 0-A1. And, I've had two problems:
1) It's so frustrating to me can't speak French in the same level of English.
2) Sometimes I confuse the pronunciation of each one.
But, it's an incredible experience.
My mother language is Spanish.
One thing about French is that you need French-speaking friends or someone you can practice with, my French was horrible until I started having ppl to practice it with
Having learned English to an advanced level first definitely helped me learning French because the two languages share a lot of vocabulary, but there are many "faux amis" too -- words that are spelled the same but have different meanings, and I still get confused often.
I just love your videos !!! They are so incredibly useful !!
I really liked the topics that you brought into this video. Thank you a lot!
Great video, like always! I'm always learning more than one language at once. It has taken me years to balance it out, but I think I finally got it down! (For my needs at least)
15k already, daaaamnnn! Loving the hair, Robin 💕
Loved this video so much!!! Thank you for sharing!!!
I'm learning Persian at the moment but every now and then when I can't think what a word is my mind automatically inserts it in French which I haven't studied for about 20 years, lol!
سلام
وای شما فارسی یاد میگیرید؟ عالی 💪
من مصطفی هستم از ایران ... کمک خواستین من میتونم کمکتون کنم.
Goood💙
20 years!!!! Thats crazy
Happens to me too! I'm learning Korean and French pops up in my brain sometimes 🤕
Totally happens to me. Studying Korean and if it doesn’t know the Korean word my brain will say... can we offer you something similar in French?
I am learning four, two I have had at conversational level before, French and Spanish. German a little bit at school and my fresh newbie Italian. My circumstances are unusual, I am recovering memory and rebuilding my brain after traumatic injury. I find the commonalities helpful, it's fun to test them. I am also still disabled, so I have 24/7 luxury. I have whole days immersed, sometimes more and then days of combinations. It reminds me a lot of my Nurse Education, switching between the different disciplines, sciences, behavioral sciences and learning 'medispeak'. And gives me the hope of getting to be able to travel one day. Thanks for your wise guidance!
Thank you for sharing your insights! You are on an amazing path right now and wish you the very best in your recovery and your discoveries.
Well done Debra, you are doing something truly amazing. I wish you the very best in your recovery !
Thank you everybody!
Bro...I just stumbled on your channel via YT recommendations. I'm ALSO learning 2 languages at the same time now - Mandarin Chinese AND German. I'm totally not joking. LOL Love to see how you're going about this journey!
Thank God I stumbled into your channel, since I'm currently learning two languages that is Korean and relearning French. Which sometimes can be complicated to handle.
Thanks for this video!
I'm getting a B2 level of english, but I resumed my A2 German studies and I want to begin with French language. Thank u for your videos. I would like all native speakers of english speak like you. Your pronuntiation is so audible and comprensible. I hope you make a video speaking German. I am native in Spanish.
Greetings from Mexico.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I absolutely agree. I've been learning English and my level is between intermediate/upper intermediate. I have started studying Deutsch very recently. I can say this is super fun to learn 2 languages concurrently but as you said one of them should be intermediate or higher. If u just started learning new language there are so many information such as new words, rules, listening etc. So I focus only on Deutsch now. I translate new words from Deutsch to English(my intermediate language)(you learn new words in German and keep your mind on English). My time for studying focused only on German now. When I'm tired or want a break I just watch CZcams and movies in English or I can read a book in English(I love reading Stephen King). Most important thing is you have to love learning language if won't work if you don't.
I agree. Learning two languages at once is fine, but it is better to bring one of the languages to a more advance level before incorporating the 2nd. I tried learning two languages simultaneously thinking that I would keep up with them at the same level and that it might be easier to do b/c they were part of the romance languages and similar. But instead it tricky and causing more frustration. So when I focused only on a primary language for about a month, going back to the secondary language actually was a little easier to study with some grammar concepts already in mind.
I'm learning Spanish right now but at the same time I'm trying to immerse myself every now and then in Swedish so I don't forget it( I'm like intermediate B1 in it). The weird thing is that I've been studying Spanish for around 6-7 months and I'm starting to feel that my Spanish will become better than my Swedish in a couple of months. I should start immersing myself more in Swedish tho as I will (hopefully) be an exchange student in Sweden in a year.
I always wanted to get to C1 in Romanian before moving on to Italian… I’m currently between a B1 and B2, and completely understand where you’re coming from with regards to the accessibility of materials once you hit that intermediate level (my poison is books)
So my wife and I have just jumped into Italian Language Transfer together, and I’m continuing with my Romanian via graded readers and native materials - and just enjoying the journey to fluency :)
These videos are amazing. Please make more. ❤
I've been learning English for 5 years, I still have a lot to improve but for this year I really want to start learning Italian but I want to make sure that I will keep learning English and improving because I want to reach a high level.
I moved to Menorca recently and I’m living with a Catalan family. My Spanish is at a intermediate to high intermediate level and I’ve just started to learn some Catalan. I have lots of time to study and I’m constantly surrounded by both languages. I had doubts about doing both but this has really helped my decision thank you.
Best video I've seen on the topic 👍
i’m learning french and spanish at the same time, learning both of them makes it easier for me understand since some words are very similar
Your vedio push me up to be more focus on my languages learning 🙏
Thanks and keep it up👍
Thank you for good advice!
I speak polish and English fluently and I’m currently in a Spanish school to learn Spanish and I am learning Japanese in my own time, I was at first not sure if it was a good idea to try two languages at the same time but since Japanese and Spanish are so different I never get them confused so it is going well so far 👍
😂Lol I learn 4 languages at the same time:English(at school but I’m already two years ahead of my class)French(also at school but I also learn additional content at home since you don’t progress fast at school),Spanish (self-taught B1speaker but I only started 6 months ago) and Chinese (education center)
But I guess that I’m only able to manage learning four languages at the same time because I have lots of spare time
And sometimes I feel like was neglecting French (my least favorite language)a bit so I can recommend learning three languages at a time 🤷🏻♀️
Great video and information! I very much liked the fact that you are very very realistic, when talking about people not having so much time in a normal life, I mean if you have kids and you have your job which requires to be done and so on. I really don’t have much time to learn languages and I am dealing with Japanese right now. I would like to take up a new challenge and learn a new language but I think I have to wait until my level of Japanese is a bit higher.
I also think you are amazingly talented, which might not be the case for every one of us, so I encourage you to keep learning and providing us with useful and nice information, it’s always a pleasure to see you ☺️😍👏
Ty very much i really need that video much love and respect ❤
That was a very nice video, I am doing the same thing, trying to learn German and English at the same time. At first I thought it wouldn't work, but now I am comfortable using two different languages at the same time and if I need some motivation to continue my progress, I'll check out your channel.
OMG! I'm also learning German (beginner) and Mandarin (intermediate). Thanks for your video!!
I’m learning French and ASL. however, I’m leaning more towards French.
That sounds to me like a grate mix.
That's awesome! I'm learning French too
Bon bah alors je te souhaite bon courage dans ton apprentissage du français ^^
@@guillaumechevallier2545 Merci! J'ai encore beaucoup à apprendre
hi sorry for being annoying but... As a language learner, sometimes we need support from people. And many times its hard to find this support in our family or friends. So I created a discord server for all language learners: discord.gg/8MN8Xz5uXA
I hope you will find it useful and we can all help each other ❤️ Thanks if anyone is joining :D
you're my hero in terms of languages ,i do appreciate your advice and most importantly your time ,,best wishes from Sudan ❤❤
im learning english and i want to learn germany .. i watched this video without translation and i understand everything..actually this video makes me happy cuz now i know that i can learn both languages at the same time.. thanks man im glad that i found ur video and ur channel ♥
Thank you for this informative video. I'm currently learning Mandarin Chinese and Russian at the same time, both at a beginner's level.
I am 68 years old, and I am using Robins 3 tiered system to study French, Spanish, and German. I manage to squeeze in Polish and the Chinese alphabet. I will admit that my memory is imperfect, however.
I am learning Korean and this is taking me a lot of time. I would love to learn Japanese, but I will wait until I am more advanced in Korean.
Good. Well done
I've started Japanese and Korean together this year. I'm only a baby beginner but I've found it really helpful so far; there seem to be enough similarities for them to be language buddies in your brain. Sometimes knowing vocab or a structure in one gives you a bit of a shortcut when it turns out to be similar in the other. Having said that, I've only ever learned languages in similar pairs (French and Spanish, then Latin and ancient Greek) so I don't really know what it's like to concentrate on one. I think I might lose motivation. At least if you're doing two, when you get stuck and disheartened you can switch to the other for a bit rather than just stopping and getting out of the habit. I'm definitely progressing much much slower than others though :) Good luck with the Korean! 파이팅
hi sorry for being annoying but... I am also learning korean! As a language learner, sometimes we need support from people. And many times its hard to find this support in our family or friends. So I created a discord server for all language learners: discord.gg/8MN8Xz5uXA
I hope you will find it useful and we can all help each other ❤️ Thanks if anyone is joining :D
I am Dutch and have had English, French, German and Spanish at school. Apart from English, I'm not really fluent in the named other languages anymore but I still understand what it is about. Now, I am learning Korean, Japanese and Tagalog but I use French, Spanish and English books for that. It makes me aware again of the grammar and 'feel' and such of other languages. Amazed to find out how much of it really still sticks in the back of my head after all this time. Love learning new languages. So I read a lot about the history and culture and literature. Listen to music en watch movies in that particular language. In all kinds of languages that are somewhat known to me to be more specific. So Japanese shows with French subtitles for example. That way I keep myself immersed in these particular languages and have fun at the same time.
Thanks, I'm learning korean and I was thinking start learning japanese as the same time but you're right it'll be difficult to learn these two languages as beginner
Love the coffee!
I've been learning spanish for quite some time now, but a year or so ago when I was quite a bit more towards the beginner-intermediate level I tried to pick up swahili as well. It felt like I was drowning in unfamiliar words and mixing up grammar rules. I put swahili on pause as a result. After a year of casually studying, I'm challenging myself to really focus on studying for 3 months in a row. When new year hits I'll be starting swahili again.
Watching this video made me feel so vindicated with my decisions. Even being much newer to languages I had stumbled into the right decision rather than forcing it and burning myself out.
hi sorry for being annoying but... As a language learner, sometimes we need support from people. And many times its hard to find this support in our family or friends. So I created a discord server for all language learners: discord.gg/8MN8Xz5uXA
I hope you will find it useful and we can all help each other ❤️ Thanks if anyone is joining :D
I recently started French and Hawaiian simultaneously, and no regrets there.
I study 6 languages at the same time. German, English, French ( I'm fluent), Spanish, Italian, Norwegian
Hai😄
How's your journey?
Can you please sharing it to me? or do you have insta?
@@vaniady6541 yes I have @Juan.barreto0
hi sorry for being annoying but... As a language learner, sometimes we need support from people. And many times its hard to find this support in our family or friends. So I created a discord server for all language learners: discord.gg/8MN8Xz5uXA
I hope you will find it useful and we can all help each other ❤️ Thanks if anyone is joining :D
Interesting video. The reason that I looked this video up is that I've reached B2 / C1 in my target language after 4 years, and I'm going to try learning a third language in the second half of this year, while still continuing to work on my second language. I want to dedicate an hour a day to the third language - that's going to be easier said, than done!
I've tried for the last 6mos to study Mandarin and Korean simultaneously. I had started learning Mandarin 10yrs ago but had just reached 2nd year when stopping. There are borrowed word similarities that were helpful but grammatically I've struggled since Korean is more akin to German in grammar than Mandarin. I'll keep what you said in mind about reaching intermediate level first before tackling them again in parallel
Actually, in Sweden we start Swedish and native language class (if it isn't Swedish that is) right from first grade, then add English in second grade and just do those until seventh grade where we add another language (mine is Spanish), then in High School I dropped native language (Arabic) and kept up with the other three. I added both Latin and Chinese the second year of high school, but I'd sort of given up on Spanish even though I passed all my classes. Until High school I didn't get to chose when to add/remove a language, so it's really interesting that the Swedish system is set up exactly like you described.
I wound up completely fluent and advanced in English and Swedish, my Arabic is at maybe B2, Spanish at A2, Chinese at A1 and Latin at less than A1. Nowadays, I've completely dropped my Spanish and Latin, and pretty much Chinese too, but I have been listening to a LOT of Korean and so have begun naturally acquiring it, and I'm just confused about what I should work on. I don't really have any interest in Spanish, but I've spent six years learning it, it just seems like a pity to forget it all. Chinese, I'm more interested in, but for human rights reasons don't know if I should learn (learning a language involves deep-diving into their media) and it's so bloody hard man. I don't really care about learning Korean, but I do love their media and have involuntarily started so it just kind of feels like I should, I dunno?
Now I'm just confused about what to learn, and what to surrender. I also have interests in art etc so I don't think I will spend all my time on learning languages. Anybody who made it to the end of my comment, please give me some advice. What do you think I should do? I've decided on Arabic, because I feel disconnected from my culture. Should I add another one, or should I just do that? Then I'll forget my Spanish and Chinese completely😢😢 which feels like such a waste.
Intermediate Spanish and beginner French. I thought about adding another language, but now I will hold off until my French becomes stronger. Gracias por el consejo, maestro.
I am currently learning Mandarin, Arabic and ASL. It’s long story how I got here but consistency is key. I have a two days scheduling process for Mandarin and Arabic. Mandarin being primary. Arabic is secondary and ASL is like a dessert that’s well deserved. But it is tough diligence and consistency are key. 2 hours Mon/Tues Arabic. 2 hours Wed/Thurs Mandarin. ASL is done casually everyday 10 - 15 minutes but Friday is 2 hours of ASL. My Saturday and Sunday are maybe classes or just free time to review. Now my time studying includes movies, graded readers, app games, CZcams videos, music, and italki classes. I could never be in a book for two hours or doing one thing for two hours. I had also been studying Mandarin for six months before adding ASL. Two months later I added Arabic.
Muchas gracias, tus videos tienen mucha empatía, describes lo que vivimos aquellos que estamos aprendiendo idiomas. En mi caso estoy aprendiendo Inglés y Alemán y me sirvió mucho lo que comentas sobre tener un idioma en nivel intermedio ( inglés) y el otro iniciándolo desde cero ( alemán.).
You are awesome I like your personality,your discipline 💜
In Italy, we learn English (primary school) and another language, french or german then, sometimes also latin already in middle schools (11-14). In high school (14-19) we can choose a specialist school for to learn languages and normally you must to study 4 idioms simultaneously.
I'm Polish and I study English and German applied linguistic. We have classes in all 3 languages and sometimes I feel like my brain is going to explode 😅 Especially since I'm a beginner in German - it's really hard to manage all of that at once.
Same except I'm German and I'm learning polish
GREAT CONTENT !!!
Right now I'm trying to learn Finnish and Indonesian with beginner level at the same time - and with all the Finnish declensions (the differents noun cases) this is making it harder - ; but I also need to work on Norwegian and Japanese every week too to not atrophy my capacity to use these languages like I sadly did for Spanish (didn't invest enough of myself in the language after school and now, well... I can understand like a big part of what I'm reading but I can barely speak the language with someone :/ )
I don't really need to study like this for english tho (I'm a French native) cause it's the language I'm using everywhere, from the internet to movies to reading to speaking to my friends and penpals
This video was interesting and you capted my attention, so you won a new suscriber and a like for this video eheh ^^
Wow cool. I'm so glad that you're also learning Indonesian, my native language..
Terima kasih banyak 🙏
Aku juga belajar bahasa Indonesia. Aku dari Bangladesh
Wow are you able to manage all these languages? You cheered me up and gave me motivation, Moi aussi j’suis en train d’apprendre japonais russe et chinois ensemble ( mais je déja connais le japonais à un niveau intermédiaire) mais tout le mond me dis que c’est impossible. Est-Ce que tu étudies les langues à l’uni ?
I’m learning Italian and Mandarin concurrently, but I’ve been learning Italian at school for 2 years, so I’m primarily focusing on Mandarin
Very useful thank you
my Spanish is at the intermediate level, thinking on learning Japanese and German at the same time. one week with German followed by one week of Japanese, taking on these languages at the beginner level is quite overwhelming and I know that I should develop one of them to an intermediate level before trying to study both languages at once, but it is so hard to drop one, its like giving one of your kids up for adoption
I am learning Japanese, French and Spanish and making amazing progress in each
7 months later how is it going? 😅
Thanks, very interesting video👍
I'm currently learning Korean, Spanish and German.those lauguages are what I'm interested in and I'm considering learning Mandarin Chinese too
I study English at uni + I'm working on my Turkish. And I'm a whole newbie in both Japanese and Korean. I don't wanna feel confused and stop learning one of them bcz am really enjoying both of them, it's kinda of tough tho but I will do my best.🙏🏻
it was of first video of you that I saw, I just wrote learning two language in specific time but I got something useful and I learned. English and Italian these are two foreign language for me that I still studying. i were worried because i Studied English before and now I need to learn Italian and I must focus on Italian, I hope will not lose my English and will succeed to maintain both of them
Came to a point where I'm quite capable of communicating in Italian, and now I started learning Swedish, well, and also C# if you can count++ that too.
It's very much to the point. I (from Germany) am doing Russian and English simultaneously at an advanced level which is OK for me. It's good for your brain to switch between the different languages. Doing two or even more languages at the same time is quite time-consuming, I have to admit. You are right - an adult beginner should focus on one language at a time exclusively. I enjoy those days when I realise that I have spoken more English or Russian than my mother tongue. Good luck with your Mandarin and German learning 🍀
Thanks for the good content! Robin How do you learn things passively and actively from Podcasts? (When you are in the high intermediate level)
Douglas Silva Please answer this!
I'm currently between B1-B2 level in English. And I recently have started learning Mandarin Chinese. I really want to learn Mandarin as I also improve my English as a new English tutor. So I'm having quite a hard time to manage this idea 😅 Let's say I'm the kind of person who lean toward doing one thing at a time. But with a good method I think I can do it.
This is exactly what I was aiming to do. I just want to learn Japanese & Korean really and mainly so I can consume their media. For now I've decided to focus on the former since that has the lion share of raw media I want to explore rn. Indeed once I reach something akin to an intermediate understanding of Jpn I will move to Korean. Fortunately I've dabble with learning both in the past so neither are completely foreign to me concept wise.
In the Basque Country, north of Spain, we learn Spanish and Basque at the same time (native) and it's common to learn a third language when you are in high school, usually French or German.
I learn Polish B1/B2, German A2 and English C1 simultaneously. It's possible
Wow really ? Is it possible ?
I'm learning German and French at the same time. I learnt a little bit of German in school but I started French from scratch.
My main focus is German now, when i feel myself comfortable with my speaking I'll focus on French more
ive always learnt multiple languages at once! im learning russian and french, both b2 level atm (russian verified, french i'm justguessing) and ive started on korean last month, which has been fun but equally terrible, i have a hunch that it's not the best language to self-teach from scratch. i equally badly want to learn arabic and japanese, as well as turkish sometimes, have dabbled in all of them but would always switch them out for another language again (bc getting past beginner level is tooooo hard). i am afraid if i (try to) spend time on them all daily, i will start mixing up the new words, so i'm staying with korean as a new language for now. there also is a lot of spanish and german dormant in me and the second i start with spanish again both my russian and french go into total error. i think spanish is a very dominant language for me maybe in terms of where it is located in my brain? i spoke it not all too fluently years and years ago, and found out that i could not for the life ofme remember any russian then (i was completely immersed in spanish at that time but still it was shocking to me). i wish i could spend all my time of day switching between all of the languages i 'have' so that i can keep it all active!!!
sorry for the long story but i saw yall giving your own accounts as well lol!
Now I'm brushing up my English and starting Spanish, as a Portuguese speaker I think I can improve my Spanish quite fast, but I have also tried learning 5 or 6 languages at the same time, but I think it sucks the fun out of the language learning process, because you must have a complex time management, and it is quite easy to get frustrated, now I'm focusing in only 2 languages, and sometimes, just for fun I just "wet my feet" in other languages.