How do you keep up with several languages at a time?
Do you have “spanish days” and “chinese days”, or do you just go on and learn so-and-so-many words of each language every day?
I’m a bit stuck with two languages right now, having problems scheduling them evenly. But in order to achieve some better job qualificationsin the future, I actually have plans on starting a third language soon. Now I’m trying to find some inspiration about how to manage that
As long as the languages you choose aren’t too similar (like French and Italian, for instance, of which I myself am guilty), it shouldn’t be a problem. And if two of your three choices happen to be Japanese and Chinese, the similarities will actually be helpful more often than not.
I’m using the second method, by the way, although I haven’t experimented with “language days”. The way I see it, as long as you learn a bit of the new and review a chunk of the old daily, you will eventually arrive somewhere. However, since you have a job in mind, I would recommend prioritizing one language above the other two.
My choices are Japanese and Danish, and soon maybe French or Russian, too.
The problem just is, that the two first indeed do have nothing in common, so every time I switch from Japanese to Danish, it takes half the given time to tell my brain that I’m not looking for the Japanese expression.
How are you managing that? Or is that something to get used to after some time?
The switching problem is always going to be there. There is no end all cure for it unless you are autistic. Personally I would focus one at a time, then use your second language to learn your third. I’m not a scientist, but I suspect that when you learn several languages from one (IE: English), your brain is attaching everything to one source material. Learning Russian has been easier for me when learning it from German rather than English, and switching is no where near as bad.
I have never been able to memorize large amounts of two languages. I am learning for a (long) period one language, but not another. If it goes with class room instruction (or a lot of reading for example), then it may be different. That are my two cents.
i started to learn japanese and then added mandarin … then decided to add korean and viet, started russian but didn’t really stick… so i switched to mongolian… the only problem for me is the lack of time… i do not mix at all… rarely did some silly mistakes when i switched from jap to mandarin …
I do believe you just get used to it, and if, say, you happen to also recall the Japanese equivalent while fumbling for the Danish one once in a while, then all the better - you just reviewed a word one extra time. Alternatively, you could study different languages at different times of day to ease the overlap.
For a while I simply switched between the two after learning a bit. Then I would only do the daily goal, one after another.
At present I have numerous decks and can’t organize them. They auto-organize by ones that I work on. Stagnant decks end up on bottom of list.
So, if you work two decks and thereby two languages, it makes more sense to finish a session with one before going to the other, rather than study one briefly and go the other briefly and then repeat.
I find that using the tools to create my own mem provides opportunity to express both languages in one, which ends up being three languages in this case. Creative mems may even be useful to others acquainted with each language. I’ll often adopt a bilingual mem if it has something interesting to cite.
Learning few foreign languages is hard when it comes interference mistake. By me englisch ist third foreign language and every day use first and second language and also mother tongue - this helps to avoid errors mixing words. (for example by Esperanto and German )
How to do it: create a schedule of learning or use in the morning L1, in the evening L2 etc.
My mother tongue is Chinese,I am learning Japanese,Germany,French at the same time in memrise,I spend on each of them 15 minutes a day and frequently change from one to another,it’s FUN!Actually,I would get bored if I spend too much time in one language。。