learning 2 or more languages simultanously

[chaibanu]

Hey!

The most efficient way to learn a language is through Internet. You can learn any by reading, watching and writing through online lessons. You can learn them at your own comfort through online lessons very easily.So I think learning 2 or more language is easy.



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[naomimalan]

Originally Posted by Englishlanguage

Hello everydoby,
I have some questions for you about multiple language learning.
Do you think it is possible to successfully learn two or more languages simultanously?
If you think it is, how do you think this may affect the process of language acquisition?
Do you think it will only slow you down or might it be an intelligent means for learning languages faster?

When I was at university, I signed up for French and German (both from scratch). The lady warden summoned me to her office and said it was unadvisable to start two languages from scratch and that I should rather start with French in my first year and only start German in my second year (finally I didn't take up German though.)

Later on I learnt Italian and now I'm learning Russian but very often when I'm trying to converse in Russian, it's the Italian words that come to me. I think this phenomenon is a pretty common problem. It happens to my English students when they speak or are learning another foreign language.

I know we're all giving you pretty conflicting advice but in the light of what I've just said, I personally wouldn't be inclined to learn two languages simultaneously. I also think that if for some reason I were obliged to, I wouldn't want to start learning two languages with the same origins e.g. Italian and French. I think one would tend to muddle them up.

I do agree though with the person (was it you?) who said that it helps if the language you are studying has the same origins as your mother tongue.

[Englishlanguage]

Originally Posted by naomimalan

When I was at university, I signed up for French and German (both from scratch). The lady warden summoned me to her office and said it was unadvisable to start two languages from scratch and that I should rather start with French in my first year and only start German in my second year (finally I didn't take up German though.)

Later on I learnt Italian and now I'm learning Russian but very often when I'm trying to converse in Russian, it's the Italian words that come to me. I think this phenomenon is a pretty common problem. It happens to my English students when they speak or are learning another foreign language.

I know we're all giving you pretty conflicting advice but in the light of what I've just said, I personally wouldn't be inclined to learn two languages simultaneously. I also think that if for some reason I were obliged to, I wouldn't want to start learning two languages with the same origins e.g. Italian and French. I think one would tend to muddle them up.

I do agree though with the person (was it you?) who said that it helps if the language you are studying has the same origins as your mother tongue.

Well, actually I expected to find different opinions on this issue. Thank you for your advice.

[stuartnz]

Most of the replies saying how easy it is to learn two languages at the same time have focused on languages that are quite similar. For example, two Romance languages such as Italian and French, or two slightly more distant relatives such as German and French. I wold suggest that learning two languages from completely different language families, such as Hindi and Tamizh, or Chinese and Arabic, or Euskera and anything else, would be very much more difficult, especially if one is out of one's teens.

[Anglika]

Absolutely!

[beaverbeaver]

whatever it is we're learning, if we go for two things at the same time it will take longer to master all of them . It's within range, esp if you got language talent wired up in your brain. it just takes more more time to really master, you may end up 'knowing' both languages but in the end you're still gonna master one at a time , you know how difficult it is to master a language, esp making it fluent

[Taenia]

It could be hard learning 2 or more languages simultaneously, but I think it differs from person to person cos I have a friend who learnt chinese and Japanese together and speak them both fluently, and I have another friend who learnt Japanese and French at the same time and she only speaks Japanese fluently.....

So it could be different for each person and maybe it depends on if the ppl around u also speak the language u are learning...that way u probably improve more in the language....