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Originally Posted by ArcheM
People offer various reasons for not studying several foreign languages at the same time, but the deciding factor for me, based on years of struggle, is the fact that the number of languages would be inversely proportional to the progress you'd make in each of them...
The problem is that in the beginning it didn't seem like I was making any progress in just the one language. So adding another one on top kind of seemed like progress, especially if I covered the intoductory textbook quickly. But then I would end up again in that place where I could only say basic phrases and understand materials aimed at learners... And was making agonizingly slow progress in two languages.
I don't know if you're convinced. I wouldn't be. I always learn on my own mistakes.  |
Like I said it was curiosity for me to look up other languages, I figured it couldn't hurt to see it I could pass a basic lesson on Duolingo, Dutch was easiest compared to Swedish and Norwegian. I think Dutch was easy because of it's similarities to German so that's probably the reason I flew through the first lesson so fast. Languages are interesting, I just never took the time to actually study one up until December of last year. I did and do however listen to songs in other languages, have been doing that for a few years now, even though I couldn't understand them.