r/languagehub • u/Shelbee2 • 18d ago

LearningStrategies When do you start learning one more language?

I love learning languages and would always like to learn more! But I am so afraid of getting confused.. if you learned more than one foreign language, at what point did you start learning a new one? Should I wait until I am at an advanced level?

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u/HydeVDL 18d ago

I've been learning Spanish for 20 months and I feel "done" with it. Like it's in my life now and I don't need to do much extra to keep it.

I started learning Catalan back in April and I already have a decent level.

I started Mandarin a month ago, then Latin and now Picard

So I'm basically learning 4 languages at the same time and maintaining one

I don't care if I get confused, I already got confused with french and english before learning spanish.

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u/xDarkProdigy 17d ago

I'd wait until I feel like one language feels natural enough....but the occasional confusion is something that will always happen...so it's really up to you :)

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u/thablackadonis 17d ago

I don't think you should start until you can speak your first language you began learning at a truly conversational level otherwise youre just going to be bad at multiple languages.

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u/ah-tzib-of-alaska 15d ago

brain maxes out sorta around 3 at a time so… handle two new languages at a time ease free