Hello, I am curious if anyone is learning more than one language… and if so how is it going??
I’ve been learning English (“upgrading” to B2 lvl), Chinese (Taiwan) and Russian as a completely beginner. It’s kinda hard, because I guess I should be much focused on one of them (Chinese or Russian). The only advice I can give you is that you should work everyday.
It’s going pretty slow, but I won’t give up. I’m better in Russian though (I’m a Polish speaker, Slavic langs have lots of words that are shared among each other) I’m 100% sure there is a mistake in the sentence before, but I’m drunk right now 
I’m gonna work on English the next month, because I must pass some kind of Polish “High School Diploma” which requests B1-B2 lvl and I want to get 100% of points (and finally get some fluency in English).
I abandoned Esperanto though, I think it’s really hard to learn several languages at the same time. I wish days have 36h instead of 24 ;/
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Thank you, I am learning Japanese, Chinese, Finnish, Korean and Russian… started with Japanese and then added Chinese , then i tried Russian and i gave up, restarted and so on… I did Gernan and French in school and am a Romanian native… It is hard indeed but I do it daily!i abandoned Latin for now … thank you for your reply!!! Good luck with the learning process!!!
Initially, I was only learning Spanish. I started learning German two years ago, added Turkish one and a half years ago, and started learning Romanian four months ago.
Here are a few strategies that help me:
- I do something in each language every day, even if it’s only a few minutes. I want to tell your brain that what I’m studying is important to remember. Even when I’m super busy, I keep streaks going in at least one German, Turkish, and Romanian course.
- Be a beginner in only one language at a time. I tried to start Romanian a few weeks after starting Turkish, but dropped it when I mixed up the vocabulary. Restarting later was no problem.
- I use languages that I know to practice other languages. IE: I found an excellent Memrise course that teaches Turkish from German, and I’m using Clozemaster to ‘learn’ German from Spanish, Spanish from German, and Turkish from German.
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YEY!!! I am Romanian… if you ever need help let me know !!
Very good idea with the mixed courses… i will try chinese to japanese to see how it goes!
Good question. My mother asked me the same thing: how do you learn many languages at the same time?
In fact, the first language I started learning here is Japanese: I came to memrise to learn hiragana and katakana, because I discovered memrise through a community for japanese learners. Then I had to memorize kanji (but there are so many kanjis, so it will take a lot of time until I learn all this stuff); I am taking my time to learn japanese, and learning kanji is funny. I am not in a rush.
But, I would like also to feel that I am making progress (a tangible progress), so I decided to learn Spanish, because it’s -relatively- an easy language ; and that’s it!
After finishing the duolingo spanish and many other spanish courses, I wanted a “refreshing” thing, because I hate routine, that’s why I decided to start learning turkish (by curiosity).
How is it going?
These languages are totally different, that’s why I am not afraid of getting “short-circuits”; The only “short-circuit” until now is between “arigatou and gracias”. But, that’s fine, nothing burns!
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heh, I know what you mean about taking time with Japanese… it is a slow process no mather what… but what i keep avoiding and I really should not do that is the verb conjugation… as for the writing of kanji…Chinese helped me a lot …I have many memes in which I have explanations for each… and there is a site called yellowbridge.com and also wordsense.eu… those two explain for chinese japanese and korean … also both mandarin and cantonese and it is great to read all about kanji formation and how things evolved… i find those two really usefull dictionaries … as for Japanese I learn easier and easier and make connections and it feels so great… i did not mixed chinese and japanese so far. well only small idiotic things like same kanji is speech for one and word for another… and when i started to add korean well it is like that language is the bridge between chinese and japnese… it is mind-blowing…well i am at the beggining with korean and also I go slowly with finnish and russian… weird is how finnish seems more close to my heart and i find it logical … it has some weird similarities with romanian words and i know that is just a concidence but it helps me so much to make connections… as for russian i find it hard but beautiful… i need to find my own rithm of russian and ask my grandmother for help 
my parents and some of my family members actualy think i lose time and that i cannot learn like this… but i aam very serious about it and when i study i concentrate 100% … but i am amaized of how much memrise helped me …
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