How I Improve and Maintain 4 Languages at the Same Time

[@DustinSchermaul]

What are your biggest struggles, when learning multiple languages at the same time? Have a great day? :)

[@norabalogh5910]

Hi again! Wow, you are very organized and hard-working! This is good input into my own planning! Something you're not mentioning is planning for periodic intensive use of the languages in question. I speak 4 of my 5 languages at a good level (C1/C2) and as such, I've found touristy trips to countries where the language is spoken to be a little disappointing from a language-practice perspective as you typically really don't get all that much complex conversation practice...I find it preferable to pick up on an interest, be it music, cooking, horseback riding, or whatever, and join an organized group doing something in that area -- an activity designed for native speakers of the language of course! Like let's say, you might participate in a cooking course in Morocco that's being held in French, where all of the participants (except for you) are French. You'll have all sorts of wonderful opportunities to thoroughly exercise your language skills in an enjoyable way! Something I've done with German in particular, for example, is to join travel groups, like hiking groups, or Pauschalreisegruppen (I'm normally an independent traveller and have no interest in organized group tours, but getting an initial introduction to a really different country combined with the opportunity to practice lots of German is a great!!!) Much superior to language courses!!!

[@DustinSchermaul]

Thank you very much Nora! 🙂 Yes, you're totally right, this one I have missed. Definitely also useful to do some sprints to push your language to the next level in certain areas. I did that for example with the mimicmethod in French to get my pronunciation to a level, where I'm happy with it. I have also noticed that you often don't get into complex conversations, when you're traveling abroad. But sometimes also the day to day simple conversations can be useful, because we are maybe not used to it, due to our artificial learning approach from home. At least that's for me the case :). I really like the idea of following one particular interest and try to do that with native speakers of a language. That's something I would really like to try going forward at some point. Also, the idea of travelgroups is a great one! Thanks for that :).

[@whitie5142]

Hey. I like your content, by the way I'm using solely busuu, podcasts and e books to learn languages. I'm polish, but I want to reach cw level in Spanish (now it's c1), after that I'm planning to start my journey with Italian and there's a question. Do you have any tips for Italian learner? Maybe you can make separate videos about how did you learned specific language? That would be awesome! Now I'm playing Gothic in Spanish just to improve my vocabulary.

[@DustinSchermaul]

Hey Whitie :), you're welcome! Sounds good, so you definitely have your comprehensible input. It's important that it works for you, and everybody has a different stack of tools and applications to learn languages. Nice! That's a very high level, but I'm sure you'll get there! Do you also do speaking lessons? So once you have achieved such a good level with Spanish, Italian should be really smooth. They are so close that you'll mix things up, but if you're Spanish is at a solid level, it should be fine. Just replicate what has worked for you with Spanish. Sure, yes, I like to make those videos from time to time. I have made one for French and one for Italian and I'll also do updates on my Dutch studies. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHm5pK1vptaUbM0 kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2eznnShmtOnoZY Love it! Yes, Gothic is also very popular in Eastern Europe. Currently I'm playing "vampire: the masquerade - coteries of new york" in French. It's like a text adventure and a good exercise.