should i focus on learning one language instead of several ?
Hi everyone, thanks for reading this.
I really need some advice, i love learning languages and i have learned French, Spanish, German and Japanese.
But much to my embarrasment i can't talk freely with people in those languages or express myself clearly like i do with english.
i guess i should have focused on one instead of learning all. but I just get distracted.When I hear a Spanish song, i just want to learn Spanish again and when I saw the operal "les misarable" or "Notre Dame" i just can't help but falling in love with French. And of course since i'm currently working in a German company, i feel the necessity and interest to learn german as well.
And the worst thing is these languages are quite similar to me. the grammar,the conjugation, etc. and I get confused and sometimes when i want to say in german, all that come to my mind is French.
I don't know what I should do.
Advice?
:)
danke, gracias, merci.

Question

should i focus on learning one language instead of several ?
Hi everyone, thanks for reading this.
I really need some advice, i love learning languages and i have learned French, Spanish, German and Japanese. 
But much to my embarrasment i can't talk freely with people in those languages or express myself clearly like i do with english.
i guess i should have focused on one instead of learning all. but I just get distracted.When I hear a Spanish song, i just want to learn Spanish again and when I saw the operal "les misarable" or "Notre Dame" i just can't help but falling in love with French. And of course since i'm currently working in a German company, i feel the necessity and interest to learn german as well. 
And the worst thing is these languages are quite similar to me. the grammar,the conjugation, etc. and I get confused and sometimes when i want to say in german, all that come to my mind is French.
I don't know what I should do.
Advice?
:) 
danke, gracias, merci.

Answer

I agree with the gentleman who has given his advice above. Unless you are naturally born to a polyglot family (e.g. Dutch or Swiss) it will be a laborious job to deal with them simultaneously, if not impossible. Given that you are working in a German company, I'd say the best option for now is quite obvious, right? As the old saying goes, "he who runs after two hares will catch neither".

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I am not the proper person to answer your question because I am not a polyglot but I have seen a video when a polyglot explain that concept and many others think the same. They said that is better to learn one language at a time because as you have mentioned above you can get confused between them and eventually as time goes by you will forget the majority you have learned. It is necessary to get a solid core in the language you are studying and the ability to communicate with ease in your target language before you switch to another language. I am like you and I am in love with languages and I want to speak many languages right now, but I prefer to speak one language with confidence and effortlessly than many without a high proficiency. You don´t  have to trust in my words look for yourself the opinions of many polyglots.

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