LEARN 2 LANGUAGES AT THE SAME TIME: BAD IDEA? (Gabriel Silva & Steve Kaufmann)

These Polyglots are my inspiration for sure

I’m learning French right now and I have reached the intermediate level. I’m considering taking up Japanese again but just wanna see how it can fit in my schedule. You guys are such inspiration 😊

I always enjoy listening to the two of you speak together: something interesting and useful always seems to be the result.

I am learning French, Spanish and, Italian, best decision I have ever made, my world is thrown open and I have exciting things to look forward to. I have just this minute seen a recommendation on Audible for Gabriel's Book, it's like finding the biggest present you wanted and missed it in the wrapping paper !

You guys are such an inspiration! Thank you for the great content you put out there for us!

Another great video of yours! Learning two languages at the same time is possible of course. But the progress is the half... unless you don’t work and are paid to learn languages 🤗 but there is not a confusion in our brain when we do it or anything like this. I did it already but I don’t do it anymore. One language at a time. Professor X here. Stay safe.

That was encouraging! Thanks!❤

Right now I'm doing exactly that! My main language now is Chinese (since I wanna reach a C1 by the end of this year), and my minor language at the moment is Tagalog. I have experimented and I think that 2 languages max works for me, specially when I have clear goals. But whoring out by studying many different languages at once can be very fun, so it depends on what you want, results or linguistic exploration.

I am learning three languages at the moment: Polish and Croatian for my work (both at B1 level) and a little bit of Turkish (A1) for fun. Learning two closely related languages is like cooking two soups in the same pot, trying not to get them mixed. However, I have noticed that it is very helpful to use a different method for Croatian, compared with the one(s) that I use for Polish. I would love to hear experiences from others who have studied two closely related languages at the same time.

Gabriel is really such a great polyglot

Is learning two languages at the same time a good idea? It depends on how much time you have and how much progress you will make. If you want to become fluent in a foreign language, then that is going to take a lot of committment and time. Also, I'm sure that you want to make lots of progress. If you try to learn two languages at the same time and you are not making that much progress, then stick with one language.

So happy to see you back, Gabriel!

Glad that you are making videos again.

Great vídeo!

Portuguese for 11 months then started Russian on the 6th month of Portuguese. so 11 months total Portugues, 5 months total Russian. Enjoying both a lot!

Amazing video, congratulations to both of you!

Very insightful!

hell yeah I hope he stays in good spirits as we make our way through this. I love his commentary his advice the whole nine. has really made approach to language learning a lot more doable. As where before it was like aw man I gotta remember all these vowels and verbs and such but after hearing him talk it's all about your approach. if you tryna to get in and learn it all in a day then of course you gonna fail because you're no longer doing something out of love you are trying to force it down and you can't do that. Time and practice. It simply takes time and a lot of practice. 🧐

Totally agree. I think language learning can be analogous to sports. Should we just do one sport at a time to make faster progress? For most people life is a richer experience with diversity. Also even if we try to learn just one new language at a time, is that a reality if we have already learnt a different foreign language?, at what point are we only maintaining other languages rather than enhancing our knowledge in them. Do we define that as no longer learning/perfecting grammar or vocab or more native skills e.g.colloquialisms or accent . So I think if we already know a different foreign language we will effectively still be learning in those languages but at a much slower pace unless we don't use those previously learnt languages at all but that would be crazy to just let them slip.

I study English and German at the same time, but I have been learning English for more time. Sometimes I made some confusions about one and another while I'm speaking, but I enjoy it and focus on twice a week in one and on in another.Actually I'm something like B2 in English and A1 in German. :)