I'm regards to learning 2 or more languages
Hello, I am new to italki and I'm looking at a lot of people's profiles and see some are learning two or more languages at the same time. I want to know what do you feel about learning more than one language? Do you think it is ok to do?
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I think I've never tried learning two languages at the same time but I think I'd probably get a little confused if I tried, I guess I'd need to try it in order to know for sure if it's something I could pull off.
I think that it is possible as long as you have enough time to do it, but if your starting from 0 in those two languages and they are somewhat similar you might get confused or mix the vocabulary. Italian, Spanish and Portuguese can be quite similar and that could create confusion, just to give an example.
So it's really up to you and your circumstances to decide if learning two languages at the same time would work for you ;)
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Thank you both, I decided to get to level B1 or B2 before moving to a new language
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It is okay to learn more than 1 language at the same time, but you need to organize yourself to do it.
Learning 1 language 2-3 days on the week, and learning the other one for 2-3 days too. Then the hardest or with less priority one, spend 1 day for it only.
I'm a bit confusing but, my point is, for example:
I want to learn Icelandic and Filipino, those are my main interest right now, but I also want to learn Korean and Japanese (or well, keep learning), but I can't learn all these languages at same time with an average IQ. What do I do? I fix my week schedule, from Monday to Wednesday I learn Icelandic, from Thursday to Saturday I learn Filipino (Tagalog) and on Sundays with less pressure, I practice sentences, questions, songs, words, etc in Korean/Japanese. Why only practice? Because I've learned the basics, and the most effective way for me to learn something is by repeating it many times a day, that way the next week I look at it, I'll remember if I did something or not, and if I did, then practice it for an hour or less, and test something new. Since there's always new words coming out, mostly made by trends or teenagers, is harder to learn a language based on books. With harder I mean, if you go to that country and you talk like you were some kind of robot (based everything on a book), people won't feel comfortable with it.
Learning languages with young people or relaxed people is more effective, because they're almost always updated on how people talk in casual conversations, books and simple guides online will help you on how to speak politely I guess.
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Michelle
This would be an excellent question to open a discussion in the 'Discussions' section, where you should get a lively debate going.
I don't believe that most of us can handle more than three languages concurrently, and that's pushing it !
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