For professional requirements, I have a need to learning German and Japanese quickly. While I understand that language is not something which we can acquire fast however currently I dont have much choice.
So i wanted to understand from learners who have learned multiple languages at the same time whether it is possible to combine these two and learn fast. if yes, then can you give me some suggestions which might help me in my progress?
Thank you in advance!!!
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In school we had at some point in time two foreign languages. It was not a real problem, except when studied to languages right after each other, without a break in between. Then my brain would mix them up. So suggestion: space a break in between the two languages.
German and Japanese are very, very different from each other, so perhaps less risk of mixing it up.
But yes, it is a challenge. But learning 1 language, and say, a course in math at the same time is also challenging! Wish you all the best with this challenge.
PS: I’d think that putting this threat in the Learning Central forum fits slight better.
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Thanks a lot for your response. I have reposted in the Learning central forum based on your advice.
I have studied korean for the past 5 years. So I am trying out to learn these two languages through Korean in Memrise hoping that it would help in both the languages (Korean and the new language).
I’m sorry I haven’t been clear. I believe you can edit/change the forum (and even the title if you wanted), because you are the creator of this topic. There is a pen behind the title, isn’t there? Click on it and you can change the forum.
I came across your thread from another suggested thread.
How is it going learning both languages after 5 months?
How many kanjis/hiragana/katakana symbols have you learned so far?
As a native speaker I am curious: Do you enjoy learning German?
I would probably enjoy to mainly learn German as it is “only” rated by FSI with 900 classroom hours (instead of 2200): https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/29518040/FSI-changed-their-estimates-for-German-and-French-and-added-Haitian-Creole-to-their-S3-R3-table
So your learning success will be definitely faster on German.
88 weeks (5h+/day) with FSI or 64 weeks (7h+/day) by DLI and 2200+ total hours and 2-3 more hours per day homework is clearly a very huge investment in a language to reach the R3/S3 proficiency levels.
Splitting your learning experience between both non-related languages and seeing a constant progress with German more quickly may make it even possible for you to learn Japanese over the long-term…this is probably how I would do it…be patient 
You can also enable the Japanese (TTS) audio if some audio uploads are misisng in courses: [Feedback] Advanced Japanese Vocabulary course no longer displays phonetic kana readings in reviews
Best regards
This is the other mentioned thread: