How to Learn 2 Languages (or More) at the Same Time - 双语字幕
Yes, you can absolutely learn two, three, or even four languages at the same time.
And in this video, I'll show you how to do it.
Seven years ago, I couldn't decide if I wanted to learn Mandarin or Arabic.
I kept going back and forth.
It was driving me crazy.
And eventually, I realized that the only way I would be happy was if I learned both of them.
languages for English speakers at the same time.
And the only reason I was able to do that was because I followed three key principles
that I'm going to share with you right now, language personalities.
This concept might sound a little bizarre, but if you're learning two or more languages, it's a complete game changer.
In one of my other videos, I talked about how speaking another language can actually make you feel like a slightly different version of yourself.
For instance,
when I speak French,
I tend to feel a bit more sophisticated and worldly, and I've even noticed that my body language starts to become a little more fluid.
Where as when I speak Arabic,
I feel more playful and relaxed and I've even noticed that my body language becomes a little bolder and bigger.
Now look, it's not always a huge change, it can be very subtle.
And it's mostly something that I just kind of feel in myself.
and I call that feeling a language personality.
And when I realize that these different language personalities exist in me, it completely changed the way that I learned languages.
Because when I started leaning into these various identities, I found that I stopped getting different languages mixed up in my head.
And maybe you've even had this experience.
You're learning two languages, but.
But you try to speak one, the other one keeps trying to pop in.
And that's because your subconscious is having trouble separating the languages, where does one stop and the other one start.
But by allowing yourself to have different language personalities, you're basically giving your subconscious big sticky boards for all the different data.
Okay, French, we're going to take all the words, the sounds, the rules, and stick it to this personality.
Japanese, we're going to take all that data, stick it to that personality.
German, great.
personality.
Are you getting the idea here?
We to cultivate the feeling of a language, the personality, so that your brain can then assign data to that feeling.
And then when you want to speak or learn a different language, it's easy to make the switch.
You simply lean into that different personality, maximizing output.
Now, as you build your language personalities, it's essential that you put that.
learning into practice by actually speaking with other people.
And to do that, I would highly recommend that you hire native tutors on preply who speak your target languages.
Here's why learning to a more languages at the same time is really hard.
And you need people who can guide you, who can push you, and who can help you enjoy the process.
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Advance and maintain.
Okay, you might think that consistently dividing your time between two or more languages would be the most efficient way to get better over time.
It's not, definitely not.
Language is a holistic subconscious process.
You're throwing a lot of new information at your brain,
new sounds, new words, new sentence structure, and over the short term that information needs to be aligned to becoming from one source, one language.
So rather than learning like this with equal time,
with equal effort, we want to instead advance one language while maintaining the other in cycles, back and forth, back and forth.
And if you're studying three or more language, languages, it's the same idea.
Advance, maintain, advance, maintain.
And I've actually found that when I take a complete break from studying a language,
going a month or two months or six months with zero practice, that when I come back to it, I'm surprisingly better.
Sure, I'll be rusty with a little vocab, but after some time off,
I always find that I can understand and speak a new language much more comfortably.
I'm interested to know if other people have had this experience as well, so you have please leave a comment and let me know.
The of separation.
There's one more key concept here that I want to cover.
Separation.
If you're learning two or more languages at the same time, it's very important that they remain as distinct as possible in your mind.
Now, this idea plays into language personalities and the principle of advance and maintain, but there's much more to it than that.
For starters, you'll learn two languages more effectively if the languages themselves are very different from one another.
For example, I wouldn't recommend learning say Spanish and Italian at the same time because there's so much overlap that you're still conscious.
will need to work overtime to keep each language in its own lane.
Likewise, it's also helpful if your proficiency levels also have some separation.
For example, learning two languages from zero is much more difficult than learning one from zero and one from an intermediate level.
And even as you study, it's helpful to keep some distance between your target languages.
So, rather than doing so.
say 30 minutes of French,
followed by 30 minutes of Mandarin back to back, do an hour of French one day and an hour of Mandarin the next.
And there are plenty of other ways to build separation into your language learning practice,
so you should find what works best for you and your learning style.
If you'd like to see more videos about languages and language learning, please consider subscribing.
And if you have any questions or comments, I'd love to
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