How do polyglots learn so many languages and not mix them up?

Luca and I hang out and answer some questions you sent in on Twitter & Instagram - from whether or not languages change the way we think to what the hardest language to learn is - we had a great talk!
Q&A we did on Luca's channel: • Best Language Learning...
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:36 How to avoid mixing languages
7:31 How languages change the way we think and process info
13:24 What's the hardest language to learn?
18:18 Which languages benefit us the most?
20:36 Turning reading and writing into aural comprehension
24:36 Does handwriting work to fix things in your longterm memory?
29:10 Methods that weren't effective & what we changed
32:22 When did we hear about each other and meet?
36:29 Should you focus on one accent in a language?
38:39 [French] How do you choose languages to learn?
41:06 [Dutch/Afrikaans] Why is it so hard to speak a language?
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[@user-ig3di7xk8v]

Me trying to learn Japanese: My brain: の

[@satyanghaesign1569]

i think i see what you did there🤣🤣 のの

[@SpaceMonke99]

Haha, you dropped that joke not long after I learned what I needed to understand it XD

[@clairegittens3707]

The legitimate cackle that just escaped me!!! Bwahaha.

[@miniko_artsy]

@@satyanghaesign1569 my brain: ノ

[@cuppiesaur]

XD ♥

[@LucaLampariello]

Thanks for the lovely chat Lindie! 🥰

[@sarahenglish2740]

Luca, are you really 42? You said you've been journaling for 30 years, since you were 12. Apparently, one of the perks of being a polyglot is that you age backwards.

[@sasharama5485]

Ottimo lavoro come sempre ! Luca sei un tesoro nazionale 😁✌️.

[@sasharama5485]

@Andr3a - Polyglot Channel finalmente un italiano di fama mondiale che testimonia il fatto che anche gli italiani, nonostante la pessima reputazione, possono parlare diverse lingue.😁✌️

[@ioanajitaruij]

Limba română este una dintre cele mai grele limbi de învățat.Este adevărat! Nonostante si avvicina molto al italiano acquisite una buona pronuncia non è per niente facile.

[@pacificomario1]

Grazie Luca...è sempre un piacere ascoltarti ... sei d'ispirazione

[@MsNewyorkstar]

Best advice ever is to put short phrases instead of just words on flash cards! I watched this video and started doing it that way in the past month and it has transformed my studying.

[@tictacmaniac7415]

Same here! In addition I use Anki, and combining those two methods have just changed the whole experience. It's such a good feeling knowing that whatever word you want to learn, you ARE going to learn it, and more or less permanently. Truly amazing!

[@teresita.lozada]

Same here

[@Noname-rq1hr]

Can u explain more about this method?

[@etiennebichon3569]

As a Frenchman, I'm totally impressed by the French from Luca. This is purely native level, it's ridiculous

[@LindieBotes]

Yes! He is insanely good. I'm very inspired!

[@languagelearningdabbler]

That’s how I feel about his English. I thought he was a native speaker!

[@etiennebichon3569]

@@LindieBotes And obviously you are doing very good too Lindie ;)

[@vodkatonyq]

He's been speaking and learning it on a regular basis for two decades. That level of consistency for that period of time will take you inevitably to near-native fluency.

[@kindmulberry7196]

@@LindieBotes Luca is no joke, he is serious. 😅

[@jnnschnll9008]

As a German I could understand quite a bit of both, Afrikaans and Dutch.

[@LindieBotes]

Germanic club unite!!!

[@Narniaru]

As an Afrikaans speaker, that's what both helped and hindered my German at school ;-)

[@garfieldseviltwin97]

Attempting to learn German was nightmarishly hard when I was in middle school as someone who speaks English and Dutch - especially the grammar with all the gender.

[@nienke169]

As a Dutch it was actually quite hard to fully learn German. The similarities make it impossible to fully understand for me. Understanding German is really doable, but the similarities makes it really tricky to think too easy of it, so speaking is really a problem for me. Even after 6 years of on and off active studying

[@thinking-ape6483]

@@nienke169 Het is totaal overdreven als een Duitser of een Nederlander beweert dat hij zonder training echt de ene of andere taal begrijpt. De talen lijken wel op elkaar maar dat is niet toerijkend om veel te kunnen begrijpen.

[@lillyflwr5387]

I would love to see a multi-language chat!!

[@timotius7774]

Yes that would be so interesting

[@Meyra_]

Oh what a lively chat, brings life into my language learning dormant desire. Been slacking off and my Turkish is going down in flames.. was nice to hear you guys talk about the syntax of Japanese Korean Turkish and the challenges we face on them.. actually all was interesting! Those 45min just flew by. Thank you!

[@LindieBotes]

Thank you for watching! Oh yeah definitely, word order is always a hurdle when it comes to a new language with a different syntax than ones you're used to! 🤠

[@Meyra_]

@@LindieBotes Hope there will be a part 2 in the near future. I am also curious.. Have you tried Turkish as well?

[@Meyra_]

@@daphnemerkaba I feel you on the grammar side. What is your native language?

[@Meyra_]

@@daphnemerkaba do you have certain books or other materials that you use?

[@lenaamartin36]

My native language is Portuguese and I can't speak Spanish without mixing it with English, theoretically I should mix it with Portuguese which is much more similar to Spanish. Spanish is my fourth language and English is the fifth, but I use English daily. The only language I took a course to learn was Swedish, and the entire course was taught in Swedish because the teacher only spoke Swedish and Finnish. The material was also 100% in Swedish and now I'm learning Dutch 100% in that language, I study alone with my book, I feel it slows me down because I take much longer to understand the content but at the same time I learn everything at once because I won't have to go back to that content in the future (like terms used in grammar for example).

[@amelibre3148]

I got so surprised and inspired when luca said in french and dutch plus lindie applied in afrikaans. I think luca. lindie. cristine. steve kaufmann. tim doner are most intelligent in polyglot world. i wanna be like them👍👍

[@andreiasimoes9472]

Hi. Another insteresting fact is that I'm portuguese and I speak spanish but people from Galizia who speak a misture of the two languages can't understand me when I speak spanish. It's easier for them if I speak portuguese. Obrigada pelos videos! São muito interesantes.

[@ronniejamesdio6889]

Luca: speaks fluent dutch without speaking it for a long time. Me: getting uncomfortable at speaking Italian if I don't speak it for 2 days

[@RickSil]

The metal Goat is alive? 😁

[@Svensk7119]

En verdad.

[@OneBiteoftheCherry]

@@RickSil If only

[@d.ryanwebb1166]

I've even mixed up vastly different languages like Swedish and Arabic.

[@d.ryanwebb1166]

@Victória Régia Pires How many languages do you speak? I'm dabbling in many right now, including Italian. Would you like to practice together some time? 🙂

[@thaisuchoa7552]

Omg the language switching part was amazing, really interesting to see!!! Please, do it more in other interviews, Lindie, it was SO fun!!!

[@dorapetrovic]

Thank you both for sharing your thoughts and experiences, especially in such a non-pressuring, non-judgmental and overall positive tone. It’s always a pleasure to hear you discuss certain aspects of language learning in such depth.

[@LindieBotes]

Thank you Dora! I enjoy talking to Luca because he's so honest and authentic and doesn't pressure anyone to do things the way he does.

[@PetraStaal]

I am liking this video before finishing it, because I know it's going to be good. Edit. Oh my god! I loved the Dutch and Afrikaans part. I can tell Luca's grammar in Dutch isn't as good as it used to be but his pronunciation is still excellent! Thank you. This made my day!

[@julian-xy7gh]

I know right! His Dutch accent is unbelievably good. He actually sounds a lot like one of the politicians or political journalists here, I forgot who. It is really inspiring and it goes to show that his approach of focussing on one accent and practicing speaking often pays off.

[@rosanna7844]

A crossover episode! My two favourite polyglots (✯◡✯) I'm currently struggling with Polish and Japanese but this helped me and inspired me so much, ty ♡

[@kotgarfield]

Can I ask why you are learning Polish? Just out of curiosity (Polish speaker here) :D

[@rosanna7844]

@@kotgarfield Uczę się polskiego bo podoba mi się jego brzmienie :)

[@epicdjyoshi648]

I learned a bit of Polish during quarantine too, and I'm studying Japanese at university. I used to actually get confused between the two funnily enough!

[@Ola-pe7zn]

Powodzenia! At least you won't mix up your target languages as they aren't similar at all😁

[@kotgarfield]

@@rosanna7844 WOOW I'm kind of shocked😂 Good luck then 😘

[@MariaTheMillennial]

Ik was zo verbaasd over jullie Nederlands en Afrikaans. Erg mooi om te horen hoe jullie in deze talen praten en elkaar ook verstaan. Maar ook dat Luca zo goed Nederlands heeft geleerd en nog steeds herinnert( ook al heeft hij het lang niet gesproken). Zo zo de gehele video was leuk! Veel geleerd weer van jullie, zo als altijd :) ありがとうございます❣

[@tibowmew]

I don't even have that many languages that I dabble with, but whenever I blank in Korean, I always pull a French word, despite English being my first language and not studying French in years.

[@eundongpark1672]

"not mix them up" made me click immediately. I have the problem between Spanish and Korean!

[@hckoenig]

Did anyone notice that for the first question, Luca didn't answer the question asked? The question was how to avoid mixing up languages. Luca answered how to not forget a previous languages while studying a new one. A legitimate question, but not the one that was asked. In fact, mixing up languages is the exact opposite of forgetting - it is more like remembering too well so that whenever you try to use the new language, words and patterns from the other language pop into your mind.

[@timothydouglas9474]

Reading and listening at the same time: excellent advice! Maybe this is why using KZbin videos with subtitles has helped me so much recently

[@methoxyll]

Some of the most authentic polyglots! Thanks for the advice

[@igorgodfig]

Great conversation! I was surprised to see you guys talking using Afrikaans/Dutch!! I am learning my 3rd language now which is Dutch, and I am using English to learn Dutch as Lindie does. My native language is Portuguese. Also great to see Luca speaking in Dutch and I could get everything! Goed gedaan jongens! Geweldig!

[@giulia1436]

OMG the collab I was waiting for!!!

[@juliakrystal19]

Wow that was highly interesting!! Thanks!🧡

[@vodkatonyq]

These are really great Q&A sessions.

[@ShannonMarie_aguafiestasvlogs]

I LOVE your channel!

[@adriancarrillo5034]

As always it is a pleasure to see you both together.

[@Rilows]

You’re both so inspiring. Thank you so much

[@sarahenglish2740]

I've been watching Luca's videos for years, and I've always appreciated his advice. Thank you, Lindie and Luca.

[@NaturalzMuah]

Thanks for this great content as usual.

[@Emilia-xw2to]

Your talks are always so interesting, looking forward for more :)

[@i_am_the_enemy]

I love to see you / hear you giving us all these tips and sharing your experiences and wisdom. You guys inspire me to keep on my journey to learn languages.

[@nieblamulticolor]

Sooo interesting thanks for the video!

[@I_Love_You_more]

Thank you for explaining everything so beautifully, I am really inspired to study my target language now!

[@mildlyrad7294]

Such a good video. Felt super inspired

[@amt0310]

It was super fun to listen to the last part and understanding both even tho my Dutch is pretty lacking these days. Might need to start practicing again! :)) Thanks for all the wise words

[@learningfrench101]

Loved this video! This answers a lot of questions I had (and didn’t think of) about learning multiple languages! ☺️ Awesome video!

[@plumhead195]

Multi language chat would be so AWESOME! Great job, both!

[@STEFAN9484]

I can speak 2 languages , now learning my 3rd , and already know which will be my number 4 and 5 . Wish in future I could come at a polyglot event/meeting and have a nice chat with you 2 :)

[@Sharlenestudzy-more]

This was so helpful thank you both.

[@_francaisconnecte]

Really inspiring discussion! I wish I could be there with you. Thank you

[@epicdjyoshi648]

Fantastic video really enjoyed it! It's so lovely to see how your French is coming on as well! Thank you :)

[@estefzam3612]

Wow! Que interesante colaboración! Me gustó mucho el video😁. Las preguntas fueron muy interesantes, en especial sobre cómo se conocen el uno del otro y me encantó escucharlos en otros idiomas🤩. Que inspiración! Thank you so much!😊 Greetings from Colombia🇨🇴

[@ponta1162]

Very interesing ! Especially the last question : )

[@artiesolomon3292]

Terrific q and a session which definitely motivates me on my language journey. Thank you, and I did understand your French.

[@justinllamas1]

ur amazing, lindie and luca 😊

[@nanayshami6827]

I learned a lot from you guys!♥️

[@athenapalladi1197]

That was wonderful!!!!

[@monikaz8739]

I enjoyed your video, thank you! I rarely mix languages, I have the opposite problem, it takes me forever to translate something or switch between the languages. I don't even understand my native language and English at the same time. Maybe it's because my studying method is very input based and I avoid translating and studying grammar at the beginning whenever possible, it's the only way that's worked for me so far.

[@KMMOS1]

What a wonderful, lovely, and inspiring video! Two snapshots in a photo locket ... I am a recently monoglot American learning Mexican Spanish and starting German. I started with Pimsleur for pronunciation; I'll follow with Assimil for bidirectional work. Luca's French fluency is tempting me to add French to my Thanksgiving dinner platter. Thank you for the practical comments about handwriting and notebook maintenance.

[@dafnecolares897]

This was such a great video! Loved all the insights. The ending with both of you speaking different languages but understanding each other was so interesting. And as a Brazilian myself, what Luca said is correct. We can almost with no problem, understand spanish (even more if its written), but native spanish speakers have a hard time understanding portuguese.

[@jt8356]

You guys are inspirational! I changed some of my learning tactics thanks to another video of yours. I now have Chinese conversations, short stories and current learning material (in sentence form) printed and stuck all over my house. It's helping immensely, thank you.

[@jesuisbenoit]

You guys are awesome. Luca's smile is soooo charming.

[@daveb1160]

Thank you Lindie and Luca for this video. I learned a lot here today!!

[@daveb1160]

The flashcard idea is brilliant!! Phrases not individual words!!!

[@irislander6020]

Thanks for the vid! I've been learning spanish from my second language french, and it works really well for me because I'm more used to comparing and switching between the two quite easily now, but I can see that it's different for everyone :)

[@tharukik]

You are the best Lindie!

[@dragonflymila1953]

That was awesome!!! I love it 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

[@DepoverS]

That last part was awesome! I couldn't follow along with French, but I managed to follow for the most part with Dutch and Afrikaans (some words in Afrikaans were hard to get). Thank you guys for this awesome video! :D

[@javiermdq]

Great video, and thanks for the timestamps!

[@LindieBotes]

Thank you for watching!

[@ermirdestani]

When i was a child i watched a lot of Italian television, especially cartoons or more precisely Dragon Ball :) I say this because at that time i did not understand Italian but the motivation that cartoons gave me, made me try to understand it through actions, images, etc. Now i speak Italian very fluently and in understanding even more (almost like my native language). I told this story to illustrate a little bit the story of that person who watched Chinese movies in hours without understanding a word. You just need a motivation and not to experiment without motivation.

[@GarnetsWeb]

Oh wow, that's awesome! Can I ask, did you use subtitles in your native language, subtitles in Italian, or no subtitles at all? I'm trying to learn my target language through cartoons as well, and it can be so tempting to put English subtitles.

[@ermirdestani]

@@GarnetsWeb As I mentioned above, I watched Italian television which has no subtitles in other languages but with children's movies the image plays an important role. I believe this takes some time but anyway the fastest way would be a course in the language you prefer and then you can seeanything you like. I gave an example when I was a child so I watched animated movies but now I am 37 years old and maybe the motivation goes to other things normally :). Now I speak Spanish and German because I used to live in Spain and now I live in Germany and the only way to learn these languages was to communicate daily with people.

[@minjosof]

Wow I love when you guys do videos multiple languages! C'est vraiment cool surtout quand on entend une langue qu'on connaît ^^

[@LindieBotes]

Thank you! on Tuesday I will have a video with another great polyglot in 5 languages, so please stay tuned for that!

[@sandiptibile1632]

It was great new experience with your knowledge both are fantastic I have been watching both of your videos ,are the best knowledgeable Keep it up both👍

[@clairegittens3707]

Totally agree about just watching a language. Korean is language 7 for me and up until that point, I had interacted with each language in a different way... mother tongue, in school, in school-tv combo, full immersion, using a non-native language, etc. So I decided to experiment and go for a TV immersion style. Essentially, I just watched the same Korean series everyday over and over for 2 years. At the end of two years, I could do a decent job of differentiating sounds in the language. Other than that, I only knew greeting words, family words and insults. Lol. My experience with Mandarin involved a lot of immersion as well, but I studied to HSK 2 (A1-2) before the TV immersion. I understand so much more and I feel like my understanding slowly gets better. Combined with my experience with Spanish (2 years in school, then tv immersion), I think that the TV immersion works wonders if you have a good base, but not on its own.

[@celinaduguay6484]

Really interesting video!

[@valeriedala2763]

Tank you so much. I had a very good time discovering that video. Merci

[@LindieBotes]

I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it!

[@achmad22h96]

Thnk Miss for educational this course is interested

[@equipo1557]

you are the besttt !! i love it

[@codygrace4238]

I really appreciate your content. I honestly didn’t know what a polyglot was until some of your content came up. You gave me the confidence to start a very healthy habit.

[@nikolavanzettiteslasacco4991]

Great!!!! Video 👍 this exactly what I wanted to know ☮️

[@drouferreira5036]

Esse vídeo é ótimo!!!

[@HungarianwithSziszi]

So good to see you both in one video 🥰🥰 Thanks for making this! Jó látni Titeket!

[@LindieBotes]

Nagyon köszönöm, hogy megnézted, Sziszi 💙

[@MrJacui]

This final is amazing! Both talking in other languages and enjoying. It's very inspirational

[@LindieBotes]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@VahnAeris]

So yeh (it was a bad morning for me and I said non sense). Nice work and good feedback! We need more of those type of conversations 😉 keep inspiring us' much love 💗

[@mmlemonade]

Ton niveau de français s'est vraiment amélioré depuis le dernier vidéo!! Bravo!

[@LindieBotes]

Pas du tout 😅🥺

[@lawra84]

Wow you guys! You managed to make a video even more interesting than the previous one! :D Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge! PS: Dutch sounds so weird to me haha, maybe because I can grasp a few words having studied German, but I have to remind myself to read subtitles to actually understand a full sentence. xD

[@languagelearningdabbler]

I enjoyed this video so much! I feel like writing helps tremendously with my language learning. I take it to a higher level by saying the words as I write them. This has especially helped me become more comfortable reading Cyrillic and spelling the words correctly. Doesn’t do much for my pronunciation but that’s easily remedied by checking with native speakers. 😂

[@ofgodzeus]

1/ I've been learning Spanish ever since I can remember and when I had a (mandatory) class of Italian at the uni, I started mixing them up (because I didn't have a good grip on my Spanish yet at the time) and I remember that the teacher would get so upset whenever I said "nunca" instead of "mai" or "y", etc. What I did was that I took a pause from all other languages I was learning and focused on Spanish until I got a good grip on it then went back to Italian, like added it again. Now I try to give them time equally and the more I'm in contact with them the less I confuse them but again, it's inevitable, it does happen sometimes and it's normal. Polyglots problems XD I also do what Lindie said about stacking when I can, I feel like it helps me both with the learning and with time saving as well because once languages start stacking up it's a bit hard to find time for all of them equally. 2/ For me, the language that always seem to intimidate me even tho I never touched it is Chinese XD because of the script I think... Also it was the first language that introduced me to the concept of "tones" in languages and those tones also intimidate me asf xD so it just stuck in my mind "Chinese is impossible XD" but the more I dive into the world of language learning I come closer to realize that no language is really impossible to learn for anyone when there's a will. 6/ I agree. For me for example, when I study German or Italian for instance I don't mind typing, especially since Word helps me and corrects my spelling mistakes and that's very helpful especially when I'm trying to transcribe audible content that doesn't have transcription. However, when I'm studying Korean on the other hand, I always prefer doing it manually.

[@TerryManitoba]

Plenty of great insight in this video as a guide for direction on how to progress in your language learning journey. (isn't YT beautiful...) I am currently refreshing my grade school French (which I am surprisingly fairly fluent in) Also starting to learning Spanish - online -for now. I am beginning a 2-year overland trip to Central and South America from Canada in the fall of 2022.

[@chadbailey7038]

Very great video спасибо

[@Carolina-yi4hn]

Thank you for sharing that! As a portuguese I can totally relate to what luca said about us understanding most of what spanish people say but they can't understand us, but most of us don't know how to answer them correctly but somehow we manage to communicate. Actually it also happens with people from Brazil, but I feel that they understand us better than spanish people and a lot of them live in portugal so maybe that's helping too

[@AsieClassie]

Wow you guys are amazing and inspiring. Today is my first time seeing your channel Lindie and i'm soo impressed with both you and Luca... just wow! Thanks to you i got new motivation again to learn languages!

[@ChrisBadges]

Thank you for this excellent conversation, Luca and Lindie! And thank you for the Afrikaans part, Lindie! It motivated me so much! What an ingenious idea to talk about language learning in the actual languages: A listening training with our favourite topics and speakers! About 30:00 Well, knowing Lindie from her videos and how tastefully she designs things, the flashcards must have looked really great on paper, so they were probably indeed time-consuming. I have never seen anything that you have written that didn't look great, Lindie, great inspiration!

[@ChrisBadges]

Oh, en ons duitstaalige van die suide van Duitsland kan die Nederlandse en Afrikaanse taal nie verstaan nie sonder te leer, maar in die noorde is die lokale nederduitse dialekte baie as Nederlands is, so aan die grens kan die mense praat meekaar. Afrikaans het wees 'n groot verryking vir my. Baie dankie aan Lindie daarom, dat jy jou taal in jou videos gebruik!

[@brandydinsmore8214]

I was learning Welsh during the Pandemic but I realized that with my stepdad being Dutch and having some of his family still in Amsterdam on IM on Facebook, it would make more sense to learn something I could practice with people I know. I still practice some Welsh weekly though.

[@timothydouglas9474]

Luca, wat voor een indrukwekkende accent! Ik had kunnen denken dat je uit Nederland komt! Lindie, ik kon je zonder ondertitels begrijpen, alhoewel ik geen Afrikaans geleerd heb... dat geeft me wel een gevoel van tevredenheid :)

[@LucaLampariello]

Bedankt Timothy! 🙂

[@LisaHerger]

Using Assimil, I've had to use an L2 to learn an L3 because am English version wasn't available. To learn Italian I chose the French edition of assimil and to learn Danish I went with the German edition. The fact that the grammar in these language pairs is similar was actually helpful for me.

[@jojoraja246]

I'm here to learn english and it was really useful to me thank u so much 😍😍

[@braziliaan]

Ik spreek ook Nederlands en ik kon bijna alles verstaan wat Lindie zei. En het Nederlands is voor mij een tweede taal! Heel erg interessant! Als ik naar het nieuws uit Zuid-Afrika kijk, dan begrijp ik ook praktisch alles. Maar ik denk wel dat het Afrikaans meer zoals het Vlaams klinkt. Groetjes!

[@garfieldseviltwin97]

Ik denk ook dat Afrikaans een beetje net als Vlaams klinkt maar waarom is dat eigenlijk?

[@diai557]

I agree so much about flashcards.

[@pierreabbat6157]

If I were learning Czech (I've spent a few weeks in Prague), I'd like materials in English (or French or Spanish) that assume prior knowledge of a Slavic language. Russian is my fifth language; I'm not fluent in it, but can compose sentences without having to look up the grammar rules. I'd like a book (or whatever) which presents the animate subgender accusative, the noun form with 3 and 4 vs. 5-20, the imperfective and perfective verbs, etc. as something that Czech does a little differently than Russian, rather than as something totally new. There's a German saying "Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof". When I was in Germany, looking at the train ticket I had just bought for Prague, ich verstand nur Haupt! I was headed for Praha hl.n. I correctly guessed that "hl." is an abbreviation for the cognate of "главный", but had no idea what "n." meant. The Czech word is "nádraží", which decomposes to на+дорога+-ие, but the Russian word is "вокзал". On arriving at the station, I read "VÝCHOD" and understood immediately.

[@Kaiserker]

I know German and can understand some of the Dutch, it’s really interesting

[@kyteplay720]

wowww I didn't realise Afrikaans and Dutch were so similar! by the way great video as always guys ✨

[@LindieBotes]

Yes! I am amazed we could keep a convo going with two separate langauges :D

[@user-te7zz8mv3x]

I love the Dutch / Africaans chat at the wrap up

[@BalintFarago]

Maybe it's just me but when I was learning Swedish, and I had to speak German to some relatives of my wife, I was constantly mixing the languages. Also, when I wanted to speak Swedish, sometimes I said German words. Looks like I can't learn both languages, even if I believe learning Swedish was so incredibly easy for me because I already spoke English and German. What do you think?

[@aliaflow6877]

WE LOVE YOUUU BOTH😍🍎😍

[@hannofranz7973]

As far as learning German is concerned, many people keep pointing out how difficult German is for its complex grammar. I keep telling my students that there is a difference between the communicative aim and grammatical correctness. If you achieve the first - even making some basic mistakes - you accomplish the first and major goal. The rest is a long learning process. I appreciate you both very much.

[@faridaatia8342]

I'm currently majoring in the german language , and although I'm still in the A2 level what i found that was hindering my progress in german was that i didn't have a proper understanding on the syntax of the language, and i couldn't form sentences that contained more than just The Subject Verb Object form, which caused me to be unable to process new vocabulary or know how to communicate in German because I didn't know how these words fit in a sentence, but once i learned the syntax it's a lot more easier to use words in sentences of my own especially since i knew how the sentences were structured.

[@hannofranz7973]

@@faridaatia8342 Formulating relative clauses in German is a bit like cleaning up the drawer. You open it, clear up and when you come to the end, you close the drawer ( which is putting the verb ).

[@clairegittens3707]

Agree so much on Japanese and Korean. I have studied a ton of languages and Japanese and Korean are the two I have come across with particles. Every time I work from another language to Japanese or Korean, I have to put in the effort to remember to add particles, especially since they are often dropped in casual speech. But when I work from Korean to Japanese or vice versa, my brain doesn’t need to do all that work.

[@RubyDuran]

Yay! You really helped inspire me to share my own language journey on my channel... thank you so much! You’re so awesome 😊❤️

[@ThuPham-zi2od]

you guys are so nice

[@ebereezike3448]

On the last question, I have heard so many opinions. I have heard that one should start speaking immediately. I have heard that one should focus solely on listening and reading and then speaking would come naturally. Well, when I started with German I had to practice the sounds because they were so different and challenging and with time it became easier. But I didn't have issues with speaking when I was learning Spanish last year. It came so naturally. So what I do is give myself enough listening and reading input and challenge myself to practice speaking sometimes. Thank you Lindie and Luca. Was great watching you both.

[@hannofranz7973]

I personally recommend to get to speak as fast as possible. It doesn't make sense to me to focus only on listening, reading or writing before speaking.