How to Learn Languages in Record Time and Not Get Confused

[@LucaLampariello]

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[@Deutsch-2Easy]

What about English with Germany together??? My level in Eng B2 and German A1

[@SDKhan-yv7bs]

@@Deutsch-2Easy I think you can learn both languages together as there are least similarities between them.

[@ЕрмекДюшембиев]

My name is Yermek. I,m from in Kazakhstan

[@jenniferstenmark6290]

I reached a C1-C2 level in Spanish after years of studying. Now, I'm learning Italian and it feels like a dance on roses as I already know and understand many words. I can totally connect with this video and I think it had been difficult to learn both languages at the same time but now, instead, I get a lot of free Italian for all the effort I put into Spanish.

[@ronniejamesdio6889]

Your English pronunciation is insanely good! 😱

[@byronwilliams7977]

If you look at the older videos, you can hear that he has continued to improve.

[@muttlanguages3912]

A fun game is to see how many minutes until he slightly mispronounced a word. It's typically 5 to 7 minutes. 3:00 there are "down-sizes" as well This isn't a criticism, btw. Speaking any language even your native one perfectly is impossible.

[@languages170]

Hai ragione!

[@coremitsi922]

@@muttlanguages3912 It isn't impossible but speaking a language that isn't your native perfectly is extremely difficult, especially if you're speaking 13 other languages like Luca does.

[@servantrose]

Dude! I have seen him in videos speaking german and spanish for 20 min or more...it is nearly native in each case, no stuttering. This guy is fire🔥

[@santiglot]

Sometimes I see people get so worried about this topic. I think it is important to remember that... suffering from cross-linguistic interference is completely normal! It's part of the process! Even if you speak all your languages very fluently... sometimes, languages get a bit rusty (especially when you speak many)!! Sometimes, it's difficult to suddenly switch from one language to another! Sometimes, you are just tired, your brain gives up and so you start to mix a bit. It's fine!! we cannot be at our best all the time!! Now if you are constantly having problems with this, don't worry, it gets better as your skills improve. I normally only mix languages that I have at a low level (that is below B2). When I speak languages fluently, I don't really mix them... unless something unexpected happens or I'm simply tired, as I mentioned before. So no need to stress over this guys haha. Great video Luca!

[@LucaLampariello]

Thanks for the great and useful comment Santiglot! =)

[@santiglot]

@@LucaLampariello Thank YOU for having always been an inspiration to me 👍

[@chrissye9720]

Thanks for saying this. I'm learning Serbian and I desperately want to learn Russian one day (once I'm at least B2 in Serbian) but I'm so terrified of getting them mixed up.

[@19Stasa94]

@@chrissye9720 hey Chrissy, if you want to practice Serbian, I'm glad to help you!:)

[@kailingual7731]

Great content, following you guys

[@anj4151]

9:30 man, i really felt this. when i tried learning korean and japanese at the same time, i'd constantly be mixing up words bc i was still a beginner in both. it just got worse with time before i finally decided to learn one language at a time. i'm learning german now lol

[@otavio.a.8.r]

I've got surprised when I watched one of your old videos in Italian without subtitles and I could understand about 50% of what you were saying. My native language is Brazilian Portuguese and I studied Spanish, for some years it was a rather interesting experience to understand some Italian without know a single word in it.

[@Theyoutuberpolyglot]

I don't agree with that. Without knowing a single word in Italian. You are kidding, right? You probably understood basic words and basic sentences. Io non so che cosa fare. Eu nao sei o que fazer Yo no sé que hacer. The ability to understand what you hear and what you read is different. If the speaker speaks slowly and uses those true cognates in his or her speech, plus the context, helps to understand the message, however without some basic knowledge in that particular language, you will not catch the meaning of what you hear. There is also a difference between understanding something immediately and recognising the meaning by struggling and analysing what you hear or read.

[@NathanSkates]

At the moment I’m learning French after learning Spanish for 8 years. It’s definitely been easier than when I started learning Spanish. The pronunciation is so different that there is not much interference.

[@Sosui2]

what level of spanish did you have before starting French and how much time do you spend on spanish to keep it up ? very cool to hear that you are learning another language.

[@NathanSkates]

@@Sosui2 I would say it’s around a B2 level and I don’t spend much time maintaining it. I have conversations or watch videos throughout the week in Spanish. So, it’s kind of become a habit to use it a few times a week.

[@Sosui2]

@@NathanSkates cool ! how is the french learning going ? sounds like you have a "plan" to keep the spanish fresh btw.

[@agassialves577]

Great dude, I'm Brazilian and I've been learning Spanish for about 4 months now, I wanna start learning French next year. Do u think it would be a good idea?

[@jojigreensmith]

After learning Korean to a B2 level, over the course of 3 years, this video has given me the confidence to start Japanese! I will try and do at least an hour a day on Korean with the rest on Japanese as you recommended. Thank you very much Luca your polyglottery is inspiring!

[@laranidecker6390]

So very true about Iberian Portuguese sounding like Russian ! As a Russian learner, everytime I hear Portuguese I feel so confused, because the sounds and intonation are similar but I don't get any of the words

[@ЛюдмилаГе-ф9э]

Is Iberian Portuguese a Europian Portuguese? Where can I hear what it sounds like?

[@laranidecker6390]

@@ЛюдмилаГе-ф9э Yes, it is. I guess you can find KZbin videos...

[@ЛюдмилаГе-ф9э]

@@laranidecker6390 thank you🌹

[@nicolacavani5704]

Чщшщж 😂😂

[@pierreabbat6157]

Portuguese: geração Russian: gerabionac The average time that elapses between the birth of a horse and the birth of a horse's offspring.

[@brownsombrero]

definitely resonate with this. since I reached around a B2 - C1 level in Spanish, my Portuguese learning hasn't been getting confused with my Spanish. Definitely should master one pretty well before moving to another.

[@ditav5283]

How is Portuguese going for you? I also have a strong B2, on the verge of C1 in Spanish and want to learn Portuguese, but every time I start, I soon quit thinking my Spanish isn’t rock solid enough to start with its brother language...

[@Theyoutuberpolyglot]

@@ditav5283 Master a language is a stereotype. I am European Portuguese and I have just learned one slang word in my native language. What does it mean to master a language? The word master sounds big to me. If you have a B2 level in Spanish, you understand Spanish well, you know a bunch of words. You can even formulate some sentences. I find difficult to master a language because a language isn’t a subject. It is a bridge 🌉 to reach further information. When you read newspapers in your target language, you are getting information from different sources. Spanish and Portuguese are both my native languages. Furthermore,a language has 4 skills. For instance, I understand and I can speak more or less well Russian, however, I struggle to write. I see the language as Information, which will evolve overtime. Nowadays we use words like “ Google it, WhatsApp him or her, Facebook your mother, wi-fi”. The old generation didn’t use such terms 30 years ago. I speak German, however, I have no idea 🤷‍♂️ how to translate the It vocabulary I learned thanks to that language. You might know a bunch of medicine vocabulary in French because you studied Medicine In French, however, you have no idea how to say such words in your native native. That is why I don’t believe in the word “ Master”. You will find unknown words even in your native language. Besides that, some people claim after passing the C1/2 exams, struggle to follow lectures at university.

[@Nluvwitmanuel]

This was an excellent video. I speak Italian, Spanish, French and I am starting to learn Portuguese. I practice all of them everyday however I was concerned my Spanish would interfere with learning Portuguese. We shall see how this goes!

[@robinsonparrado8975]

Hi Luca! You're an amazing language learner, just AMAZING! for that reason I think almost everybody on Earth should know about you, your videos, the impact information you share here with people who speak English, but what about the rest of them that don't. I mean, I know what could be the reason why you have this only channel in which you share most of your content in English you mentioned this before in another video but not everyone take English as their first language to learn, without mention their mother tongue of course, for example I have met people from France that their first language to learn was Spanish and probably you know more people like these, and even though for people who choose English first, will stumble too much before get a good level to understand such amazing information you share in your videos. What I'm trying to say is that if you create other channels on KZbin with this same content but in other languages you will get to more people and this will bring a bunch of benefits to you not only to them, for example practice of the languages you already know is one of them. Moreover you already have a lot of content here you only could translate them. You motivate me every time you upload another video thank you so much I really appreciate it.

[@marciomarques5345]

I was intending to learn Czech, Croatian and Bulgarian at the same time, but had to choose just one in other to avoid interference and confusion. Now I am learning just Czech and improving my Dutch. You're really an inspiration, Luca! Which languages are you learning at the moment?

[@erturtemirbaev5207]

Учите русский. На нем много стран говорят.

[@ChristopherLaszloBonis]

Tremendous advice as usual, Luca. I make educational videos in the major romance languages (plus English) and interference is definitely something I contend with in my language learning.

[@guillaumeromain6694]

Who dislikes this excellent content , beautifully delivered ?!! Another gem Luca!

[@phoenixhou4486]

I envy your wall of books.

[@lucievec6683]

why?

[@gringa23]

@@lucievec6683 all that book knowledge.

[@leonardoalegria6046]

This guy is like the Messi of languages and Kaufmann is Maradona

[@aurelienbe]

But who is Christiano ?

[@leonardoalegria6046]

@@aurelienbe Probably Tim Donner

[@leonardoalegria6046]

And Laoshu is Ronaldinho xd

[@ichbinhier355]

You forgot Pele: Richard Simcott xD

[@leonardoalegria6046]

@@ichbinhier355 That's right 😂

[@desmond1780]

JUST GIVE TO US 100% OF YOUR ROUTINE TO LEARN LANGUAGES!🔥

[@matildawolfram4687]

Good video! My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign language and wants to realize their full potential!

[@justicelover5497]

I like your vocabulary. I like your discipline. All the love man, greetings from a native spanish speaker. Dios te bendiga !

[@emiliavillegas6779]

Hello from Montréal, Canada. I speak Spanish and French, trying to learn Italian and Portugues I experience the same issues you talked about. I think I will change one of them for another family language. Thank you for sharing.

[@hjf3022]

I'm learning Latin actively, but am exposed to Spanish passively due to my household. Learning Latin had helped me understand Spanish grammar better, but I often trip up on pronouncing Spanish words as I read them. All of a sudden, I have to think twice ably whether I will pronounce a V like a W, or whether a double L is going to be palatal or not.

[@SmallvilleSP]

Sehr gutes Thema. Ich habe dieses Jahr angefangen, Deutsch zu lernen, und ich sehr schnell bemerkte, dass ich erstmal dank Englischem mein Deutsch schnell verbessern konnte. Bevor das war es wohnlich Französisch, das mir mit allen Romanischen und anderen Sprachen generell geholfen hat. Nach Deutschem will ich mein Chinesisch wieder weitermachen, und nachdem würde es krass, entweder eine slawische Sprache lernen zu beginnen ausser Russisch, oder eine Sprache einer anderen Sprachfamilie! Vielen Dank 🙏🏼

[@piefunk98]

I've been learning only German for the last months. These videos help me to keep my English skills fresh! Thank you Luca. Pietro

[@jaeglesbagels]

Learning both Korean and Japanese and am always finding similar vocab between the two. Sometimes the words are only slightly similar but still noticeable, or they're basically the same word lol. They both have basically the same sentence structure and similar use of particles as well. I like to write phrase lists with Japanese and Korean together (using both languages for the same phrase), and since my reading in Korean is pretty decent now and much better than my Japanese, I can improve my Japanese whilst at the same time continuing to strengthen my Korean.

[@nefertalakkad]

Learning Italian after being fluent in French made grammar easier since it's basically the same. A little bit of confusion may arise when remembering which nouns are masculine or feminine in which languages because they can sometimes differ.

[@peterlowry6990]

I really enjoyed this! I can speak Spanish to a B2 level, and have recently fully committed to learning Italian. When I encounter new bits of Italian grammar my brain almost separates things into 'same as Spanish', and 'different to Spanish'. If I had no prior knowledge of Spanish there would be many instances where my brain would freak out from seeing something that is so wildly different to English. And maybe I'm the only one, but I actually get annoyed when I come across an Italian word that has an identical spelling to Spanish. I almost feel like if there are too many similarities, I'll on occasion get too relaxed and start assuming similarities that just aren't there.

[@CrisOnTheInternet]

Here's a trick, when I was learning Portuguese I realize that sometimes a Spanish word exists in Portuguese but for some reason we were taught a different word, a synonym that only exists in Portuguese, that helps me to reduce the mixing.

[@Algazhan]

Yeah, I completely agree with you!. For example, in my particular case. Now I can speak 4 languages such as Kazakh, Russian, English and Spanish. For me, Kazakh and Russian are mothertongue languages. Well, my first foreing language is english, I have learnt that during the 3 years and passed IELTS exam in November 2020 in and got 7 score. Then, My spanish is at B1-B2 levels. Well, it has been 2 years as I have been learning that. Furthermore, Achieveing these levels on English and Spanish. Two weeks ago, I started to learn Italian and Arabic at the same time. I decided that I will not be confused because these two languages from absolutely different families. My knowledge in Spanish and knowing it structure really helps me in studying italian. As well as my Kazakh(it is originated from Turkish) helping me with pronunciation in Arabic. Well, concluding I would say that, just try to always learn something and get power of Self-Education.

[@manueliniguez8440]

¡Gracias por este fantástico vídeo, Luca! Tomo nota de tus consejos. Hay también un aspecto que podemos tener en cuenta cuando aprendemos dos lenguas que no son de la misma familia y que facilita bastante el aprendizaje: el vocabulario compartido. Ocurre por ejemplo entre el inglés y el francés, que llevan siglos influyéndose.

[@tiagoesperanca5805]

Hey! Big fan of yours here altough its the 1st time I comment on any of your videos. I'm native Portuguese speaker from Lisbon, so yeah I´ve heard before that I sound russian :p As 20 year old studying French and Italian at University, I must say that I totally agree with you. I'm learning french since I was 12 and for the past 8 years I've been slowly improving although steadly in my path to fluency but as soon I as I took Italian about a year ago at University the process has been much much quicker . The grammar similarities are a big big help and until now I haven't got a problem with the Italian grammar ( hope this doesnt jinxed lol). I used to mixed a lot of the vocabulary but with pratice it has improved a lot and now it doesn't happen that often. Thanks for the tips !

[@ReneBarcena7]

I agree with you, Luca. Learning sister languages is a great advantage. Recently, I've been learning Norwegian and English and German have helped tremendously. I experienced something really similar when learning Italian since I speak French and Spanish too. Great video!

[@MischaDerGrosse]

I always enjoy the quotes at the end of the video 😍

[@barbaralore3924]

As an Italian speaker, it drives me crazy that the french "sans doute" actually means "probably" 😄

[@Breylin24]

In Spanish we also say sometimes ‘without doubt’ but to express certainty, but ‘probably’ translated to French in an online dictionary gives you the word: probablement.

[@internetstranger3686]

As an hispanic, same

[@barbaralore3924]

@@Breylin24 in French sans doute=probably sans aucun doute =surely

[@Breylin24]

@@barbaralore3924 sans doute must be a slang, it really is confusing.

[@laranidecker6390]

@@Breylin24 No, it's not even slang! It's an idiom that we say without really thinking about it, but one day the absurdity of it struck me too 😁

[@فريدة4-ه8ن]

You are the best polyglot i have seen ever, your tips and advices helped me answering the questions that were in my head for a long time and surly i will use them while learning spanish and french, thank you so much🌸🌸

[@tomcross481]

Really interesting video - thanks! And pretty timely as I was wondering just this morning about the best way of maintaining my Spanish level, improving my Catalan, and beginning to learn Italian this year. Food for thought!

[@danielalexandrecastillomar4858]

Visça Catalunya i Visça Barça...!!!!!!!!

[@BorisNVM]

2:28 The Sinitic languages actually don't belong to the Indo-European family. The Sino-Tibetan family (which is the family where the Sinitic languages belong to) is not relationated (at least as far as is known) with Indo-European languages. Good video of course. Thank you for your content ❤️

[@marioguillen187]

Thanks for share with us your knowledge about this topic, one more time.

[@mep6302]

7:55 This happens more often if you still haven't reached a B2 level in your languages. For example, when I was starting to learn Italian, I already had a very good Portuguese. Every time I wanted to practice my Italian, I often put many Portuguese words and I didn't know why I couldn't stop doing it. Another thing that surprised me was when I was practicing my English, French and Italian to keep getting better. In these languages you say: another (an + other), un autre and un altro. Like in Portuguese, in my native language Spanish, you only say otro (other). So, after having practiced all those 3 languages, when I was having a normal conversation in Spanish, for some reason I said "un otro". I quickly realized what I just said and corrected myself. But I was a little shocked because I totally wasn't expecting that to happen. Most of the time however, it is my Spanish that interfiere with my French, Portuguese and Italian because of the similarities among these.

[@LerneSchweizerdeutsch]

I had this interverence but in a different way. I stopped learning Spanish around four years ago and startet Italian 9 weeks ago. As I tried to talk to people on tandem in Spanish, I was blocked and changed in the middle of the sentence into Italian. Since then I decided, against your advice, to listen and learn to both languages. It helped me to realise which words are Italian and which Spanish. Still have problems because both languages are on A2/B1 level but it is getting better

[@covsuper]

Grande Luca, sei mitico! Da quando ti ho visto in una intervista con Alberto Arrighini mi hai colpito davvero. Mai avrei immaginato che c'era tantissima gente pazza per le lingue, e ero felicissimo di vedere che il mio pensiero verso come imparare le lingue era certamente come il tuo. Grazie tante! Adesso vado in cerca la quinta con il portoghese dopo l'italiano e trovo quelle interferenze che dici, grazie per i consigli.

[@mitchbernard1751]

I would really appreciate hearing your take on a different aspect of learning a second language in a language family, that is, using the language you already know in the family, as opposed to your native language, as the anchor language through which to learn the new target language. Japanese is a childhood language for me; I used it as the language of my classes and all of materials in my first two years studying Korean. This method worked well for me though I realize that Korean and Japanese, while they are structurally similar, are not cognate languages as in the Slavic, Romance and German language family cases that you discussed.

[@liubomirtsankov4074]

I had same situation with the spanish and english. I'm from Bulgaria, but I was lived two ears in Spain. Theare I coudn't speak english not very well, because the spanish was blocked my english skills. Now I'm live in Bulgaria and I use more english than the spanish and I notice sometimes that the english is block for a short time my spanish skills. Everything go well when listen, speak or just speak with some spanish the language. for the last months I started to learn german and the result iscgreat. I'm historian and I have to learn latin and ancient greek. But because of the spanish when I´m starting to write or speak in latin, the spanish block the latin. Thank you very much for the great chanel!

[@debramoss2267]

I am learning French, Spanish and Italian and have recently done something that really helps. Because of my health I cannot form a schedule. I have inconsistent brain and memory function, this learning is one of the ways I am encouraging neuroplasticity. In the case of French it is relearning and topping up, Spanish the same, Italian is a new and very welcome joy. I use multiple learning platforms the main being Duolingo as that was my first prompt and I am too stubborn to drop a streak. 🙄 I also use Pimsleur, International news streams, Lingopie and others, 'Easy' language videos, art videos, movies, you name it. Often I can't write, although I do what I can. This learning is also three whopping carrots to get out of this bed, eventually walking and travelling again. ⭐So I have peripheral prompts using all the senses. ☆I have a corner of video playing with livecams of places associated with the language ☆If I am learning off line I have a famous classical music of that language softly playing in the background which is also on the livecams, but is not always from that country. Mozart clearly lived everywhere. Mostly in elevators. ☆Also offline I have different 'props' representing famous places associated with each country, little souvenir statues, postcards... ☆I use a different colour pen for each country, French navy, Spanish red, Italian green ☆If I am able to, I have associated fragrances, French lavender, Spanish frangipani, or a famous blue jasmine Galan de Noche, that puts me straight back to the Sierra Nevada near Granada, Italy a strong blend of coffee I associate with. Sorry, Italy I can't have pizza né pasta it's far too distracting 🤣 I also need to be able to eat garlic again, I miss it so much, but I get 'restless spasms' which 'int proper cumfi' Bit of Yorkshire for you there 😁

[@danramey924]

Thanks for another great Video! I really appreciate the tips you share. As to the topic: I have two relevant experiences. As a young boy, I learned Spanish to probably the C1 level. When I decided to learn Italian 4 or 5 years ago, I found my knowledge of Spanish extremely helpful. Lots of shared vocabulary and grammar. I quickly got to what I think is a B2 level. Of course there is a bit of interference. I might reach for a “ma” from the Italian box, but grab the “pero” from the Spanish box. I decided to learn Polish in 2021. I learned Russian to the B2 level in college and after. It’s still early to say, but the shared vocabulary and grammar are seeming to make Polish a bit less daunting than it might otherwise have been. (By the way, Spanish was 55 years ago and Russian 45 years ago, so they’re both pretty well anchored.) My experience accords well with your counsel. Thanks again for giving me perspective on this topic.

[@paogrumo4470]

Decided to learn Italian and Spanish together, as these two languages resonate with me at a deeper level (one could say passionately). my Spanish is so much better than my Italian, as I'm only starting with the latter. But I tried to dabble in the grammar systems of both, (just to have an idea) I realized having knowledge of Spanish helped me understand Italian quickly. The downside is that I often confuse the vocab - which sucks at times. Spanish and Italian learner here (any help or friendship is appreciated!) kudos Luca! love from the Philippines!

[@yomikemun649]

Another great video, thanks Luca.

[@justakathings]

I learnt french at school for 5 years to a meh level. Last august I divided to learn Spanish until the end of the year to see how far I would get (goals were A2 -> B1 -> B2) which I achieved B2. When I try to speak french to myself the pronunciation sounds Spanish, or even Japanese when it comes to the nasal vowels and now the Spanish is what comes to my brain instead of the french and that’s only since around April or may of last year I completely stopped french (because of the pandemic)

[@sabrinasususa6957]

omg,i want you as my leanguage teacher,like so amazed and inspired,for real keep going,i am proud of ur huge knowledge of leanguages and it have been a well understandable explenation so i know how to start from since a couple of months ago i really confuse all the leanguages i know and even forget some words

[@phoenixhou4486]

It’s natural to get confused. I get confused all the time. Well not all the time but sometimes.

[@pierrepinard1066]

Very good video. Spanish and Portuguese are so close to each other and it's true that you have to be quite proficient in one before tackling the other.

[@lukkash]

The MAIN difference between Latin and Romance languages - Latin had declension with cases thus different word endings what doesn't appear in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian etc. In those languages there are prepositions (a, de, en, in, di, da, con) giving that sense of cases like Latin had.

[@normanejm]

What you said happened to me. For many time I-m learning Portugues and Italian. And I Started Portugues first and when I thought that I was at a good level on Portuguese I start with the Italian language. But At the beginning was so difficult to differentiate these languages. When I talk Italian I use words of Portugues and Vice versa, and while I'm learning more of these languages I can differ a little bit between them. And I'm gonna take your advice and I'm going to learn other languages that are different "family". Thanks Luca. Greetings from Colombia...

[@argos.languages]

It has been 2 years since I moved to Argentina to learn Spanish. Unfortunately my native Portuguese is completely blocked, except when I talk to a family member. It's very hard to keep both languages running at the same time, they are too similar.

[@rosamariaconenna1402]

I found that almost everything you have mentioned Luca, has happened to me. My native language, like you, is Italian so I speak it at home and with my family in Italy all the time. Though, I live in Canada, so I use English pretty much everywhere else. I am a French Major in university, so I use that during classes and for my summer job as a camp counsellor in Québec. I also learned Spanish in university and got a job as a Spanish TA in order to practice. Sometimes my brain has no clue what's going on after spending long amounts of time on only one language LOL. Thanks for these interesting videos! As a language major, they're super helpful

[@Oscar-gz9dr]

Do a video about the books in your library and your favourite ones

[@ДЕДПУЛ01]

I'm a native Spanish speaker, who's learned some Portuguese, and though I know some words, and some structure, I'm afraid to say that I only speak a bad portuñol. In addition to that, I studied Catalan in 2019-2020, for some months very actively (at least actively enough for not living in Catalonia, I did what I could, I watched every KZbin video I found, about topics that wouldn't normally interest me when learning any language). But later on, when I wanted to write in Portuguese, It simply didn't come out. My learning strategy with Portuguese has been a failure: I've been overly confident that, as it's a Romance language like Spanish, it would be easy just to pick up, so I haven't really put much effort into it, so I've been "learning it" for like 8 years, but due to inconsistency, I still have a long way to reach a justifiable level. Whereas with Catalan, I learnt considerably more in less time. Nowadays, I want to study Portuguese again, as it's one of those languages that already has a place in my heart, now it deserves a place in my brain and mouth, like actively speaking it.

[@maximuz7375]

Thanks for the tips,🙂👍🏼 I practice each language every day by reading, and talking when possible, and writing is necessary for me.

[@josevicenteruiz4812]

Hi Luca, thanks a lot for your advices. very good tips.

[@IvoVolt]

As for the Romance languages, it also helps a lot if you have learned Latin at an early stage, for example at school. I had both Latin and French in high school, and looking back, I consider this a very good pair: Latin gave me the background knowledge for all Romance languages (especially regarding vocabulary), and French is probably the most difficult of the Romance languages regarding pronunciation. It was much easier to move on to Spanish, Italian and Portuguese from there. Romanian, however, needs an extra effort because of the strong Slavic layer in it.

[@anthropolingua1977]

Grandissimo Luca 🤙🏼 Can be hard to believe, but I have been mixing up my mother tongue (meaning Italian) and Polish, when it comes to specific vocabulary! For instance, I have never been interested in gardening before... then suddenly in Poland I gotta deal with shovels, sewers and other technical stuff. The long and short of it: "Ao passame la łopata che lo szambo è otturato" 🤣

[@__donez__]

I studied Spanish and French in school at the same time, although I started Spanish one year earlier. I lived in Southern California (next to the US/Mexico border), there was a lot of Spanish spoken around me, and much less French spoken. So I didn't have much trouble separating the two. I do think that having started Spanish earlier helped with minimizing interference.

[@Flavio-yv7zo]

When i was learning german 2 years ago, after 1 year i was an A2/B1 in german, but i decided to learn swedish because is amazing, after 1 month i got tons of interference and german was my priority because i must go there for the erasmus, so i gave up. 4 months ago i decided to reopen the swedish book, my german now is a B2/C1 and i don’t mix anymore swedish and german, so i totally agre on what you said. Plus now i’m learning dutch, and as you said, i can understand dutch but i can speak, and when i try to speak my german came out😂😂 but i’m sure that after a while i will speak a good dutch after all. Grande Luca💪🏻💪🏻

[@uhaupoilkas3804]

Very good video, I really enjoyed watching it. Particularly, what caught my eye, is a denomination of my mother tongue (Serbo-Croatian). Finally somebody calls that language the way it should be! Srdačan pozdrav iz Zagreba ;)

[@juanlamas5605]

Am Hispanic. So know english and spanish really well. Am learning tagalog now. Was planning on learning french, then portuguese. And try to take advantage of my spanish skill. Thanks for the video!!!

[@timothydouglas9474]

An excellent video Luca, as usual, considering different points of view and giving lots of practical advice. I have had similar experiences to you learning Dutch after German and Czech after Polish after Russian. Two comments: firstly, your English is really excellent, but I don't think that "All that glitters is not gold" is the most appropriate saying in this context; we say that when something isn't what it appears to be. You seem to be stressing that every good thing has a downside, so maybe something like "every rose has a thorn" is more suitable. Secondly and conversely, I think that the "cloud" of interference has a "silver lining": for me, part of the beauty of learning similar languages is appreciation of the subtle differences between them. For example, "завод" in Russian is a factory, "zawód" in Polish is a profession and "závod" in Czech is a competition.

[@maryamqadri4828]

Also, I got Assimil and was loving it, everything about it for Arabic, but once it got to lesson 12, I found I was slowing down because the lessons got bigger, the sentences longer, and the grammar more advanced. I like being able to do one lesson a day, but realized I can't go at that speed with this much content. Would you be willing to do a video on the best way to use Assimil? Thanks for considering this request!

[@Jaquequeraprender]

I've learnt english and spanish together since last year, english always have been my language number one, though

[@58_yesilgul]

How did you learn both of them just in a year its super cool, nowadays I’m related to Learn spanish,can u give me a few suggestions to learn rapidly and which channels you are following?

[@alwayslearning7672]

Blocking is killing me right now! Learnt a lot of french years ago and stopped using but there was always a lot available in my head because it was the only foreign language knew,then i entered a ton on Spanish into my head and a few months later the french was totally blocked and all I could get out was spanish.I really had to dig hard to find the french words even though I knew they were there...Luckily though the french is still in there because when I read french it so familiar to me and I read it just fine .Plan now is to reach high level in Spanish then go back to raise my french. I fully relate to your american friend.Although i will probably try to practice my french again. Glad to know it's not just me and others have this problem.

[@Theyoutuberpolyglot]

It is a matter of practicing your skills. Interpreters train to be able to translate two languages simultaneously. It takes time. I remember when I was in Paris where I spoke a lot of French. My German friend phoned me and I wasn’t able to speak German. French was on my head all the time. You have to give time to your brain 🧠 to not muddle up language or even not be able to speak the foreign language or your native language. It can also happen. I am Portuguese. It is a lot of time consuming. Many people admire “ Luca”. Well to achieve fluency in so many languages he had to spend many years studying those languages for hours. Recalling everything what you have learned in the long term memory is a huge challenge to our brain. I admire his effort, the time he invested to achieve his goals. However, I do strongly believe anyone who have a penchant for languages can reach that aim as well. I look up to the massive effort and dedication, not the result. Without effort, there isn’t any good results.

[@Skyggen24]

Thank you, i had this question for a long time and you answered it perfectly.

[@margedtrumper9325]

Something that always amazes me is that when I start learning a new language, when I start speaking, the next language that comes to my mind is not my native language (Italian) but the one I know a little more than the new one, yet not as much as my native language... I was always afraid to learn similar languages because of interference and had always avoided that. Then, since my stronger language after English is Hindi, last Summer I decided to give Punjabi a go although it is as close to Hindi as Italian is to Spanish. I was surprised to see that I already had vocabulary, grammar and syntax ready and started speaking much earlier than any other new language. At the same time I had no problem with Hindi as I use it almost daily. My aim is to master most North Indian languages although I am in no rush...

[@kaia8167]

I recently spent just under 6 months learning Spanish and am doing well, but WOW does French interfere in some bizarre ways sometimes (the number of times I have said 'mais' in place of 'pero' is just astounding). Surprisingly, now that I'm diving back into French (I spoke it for years at around a B2 bordering on C1 but it's faded a lot in the past several years), Spanish is interfering! Not nearly as heavily, but I see now that I really need to be more careful about how I study. This video gives me a little clearer perspective on this issue, so thank you. Great timing, lol. And then there are those random German words that show up when I'm speaking any language. I barely even speak German... Apparently my brain just really likes it.

[@XimeRome]

I'm from Argentina. Currently, I'm studying Korean and starting with french because they are really different from each other. And yes, I've found it too difficult to learn the french pronunciation -still struggling- because there are several complex vowels, that sound different when speaking. Just wanted to share!

[@patrss]

I sometimes mix languages that are nothing alike... When I was visiting Japan last time I kept mixing up Spanish and Japanese, and then when I was in Latin America my Japanese would come out when I tried to speak Spanish

[@Tehui1974]

I sometimes get language interference when speaking either my second language (B2/C1 level) or third language (A2), despite both of those languages not being related at all.

[@Doing_Time]

I learned german and spanish at the same time and I didn't experience many problems, except coming from english memorizing feminine and masculine was a big task--in german particularly it is the biggest task of language learning...needless to say germans and spaniards don't often agree on what nouns should be deemed feminine and masculine; even after three decades I find myself forgetting genders in german and less often in spanish. The weird thing that happened is that I'm actually much better translating between german and spanish than I am between either language and my native english.

[@Elizabeth-so6zp]

I'm so glad I found this video. 😁

[@eduardocarbonellbelando6865]

As a spanish and valencian( a variety of catalan) speaker I can totally say that interference is one of the main problems in getting really fluent in other language if it’s related to yours. I have also experienced blocking a lot of times and it’s a very uncomfortable situation. Someone would speak to me in valencian and I’d be very frustrated because the words simply didn’t come out.

[@raywright1]

I'm native English with C1 Romanian which interferes too strongly in my efforts with Italian.

[@osamahabbas3443]

for me I want to learn a lot of languges however I have only so much time so I must have priorities ,so first I want to learn languges that have different writing system,so I'm a native arabic speaker ,I know English ,I'm learning Japanese ,I want to learn ,russian,korean,hebrew ,hindi etc first

[@erturtemirbaev5207]

Ok

[@pierreabbat6157]

French is my second native language and Spanish my third (although strictly speaking, in Spanish I'm a native speaker of only what I heard my mother say on the phone). I sometimes say "corriel" (fr: "courriel") in Spanish instead of the verbose "corréo electrónico". And I once said "vepecista" for someone who sells by mail-order (the French acronym "VPC" makes equally good sense in Spanish). I may say "sera" (Italian cognate of French "soir") for the time between tarde and noche. I occasionally use "mientra" as a noun. Although it's from Latin "dum interim", Spanish "mientras" and Italian "mentre" both look like plurals of a feminine noun.

[@valentinamenghi7458]

I'm italian as you are, and I'm working on getting a better spanish level. the main issue for me is remembering what works in italian and what doesn't in spanish, even if my italian is obviously strong, i still have issues with such a close language. i'm having much less troubles with my poor Czech, as it's obviously harder, but so distant from my mothertongue that the only solution is learning what works in Czech :) i wonder how to overcome these troubles and finally obtain a C1 level in spanish.

[@TiffanyHallmark]

I began really learning Spanish, German and Romanian all at the same time. I love them all and don't want to stop learning any of them. I also dabble in Japanese, Latin and Sanskrit, just for fun and mild interest. I have found that I can keep all three of the main languages mostly separate. I do notice, occasionally, vocabulary is a little bit of a trick. Sometimes I just can't think of the word in one language, so I think of it in another. I don't find I have much difficulty in keeping up with each language, especially since each one has a special meaning for me and I do different activities to practice each every day. I can appreciate how it might get difficult for some.

[@gooiehoop20]

Even different family languages can confuse my brain. I speak rudimentary Zulu. But when I started learning Polish I found myself using Zulu words, even though I had not heard or spoken Zulu for many years. Another example ofdifferences between similar languages. I am fluent in Swedish. I read Danish, but cannot comprehend spoken Danish. However, reading Danish has helped me with Danish vocabulary, mostly intuitively through context. However listening to Danish is still a strange language to me.

[@timothydouglas9474]

So many ways of speaking bad Latin :)

[@vancityband6577]

One trick I discovered to prevent interference was adding a third unrelated language to my studies. By using German (a language I had no knowledge of) as a buffer when I switched between French and Spanish (both of which I had studied previously, separately), it was like cleansing my palate mentally.

[@cristobalbaehr2661]

Hi Luca. Have a look at euskera. A language spoken in Europe but without clear family links with other European languages.

[@enzoreinoso4016]

Thank you for this video! I'm a native Spanish speaker and I started learning English about 6 years ago. I'm at a C1/C2 level at the moment. I started learning French and Mandarin last year and I recently kicked off with Korean. Luckily all of them are different enough from one another not to mix them up! But I'll certainly wait until I have a higher level on those before picking another language up haha Pd: getting blocked is normal! It even happens to me in Spanish sometimes :)

[@sabrinasususa6957]

By the way thank you so,so much bro for the advise,i am really happyand greatful i get to see this video about how can i learn more than the six leanguages i already know quite well Lots of love bro,keep going

[@jbhann]

Currently in the process of learning Spanish, French, German, and Arabic. 80% spent on Spanish, 10% French, and the last 10% divided between German and Arabic. Whenever I get really frustrated with Spanish, it’s nice to move onto a different language, to clear the mind and relax a bit.

[@francescoghigo8394]

Just a comment: Greek was NOT a sister language of Latin (sister language means close relations like French and Italian). They belong to the same language family, but they're not THAT closely related. Modern Greek and modern romance languages share similarities (in vocabulary, not at all in grammar) due to the close relationships with the Romans and Latin-speaking peoples.

[@TommasoZanoni]

Both ancient Greek and Latin came from the Indo-European language so yeah they were sisters. Exactly like both French and Italian came from Latin

[@francescoghigo8394]

@@TommasoZanoni nope: would you say that German and Italian are sisters because they both come from Proto-IE ? Not at all. For the same reason, you can't say that Latin and Ancient Greek are sister languages, not even in the past ! They both developed a long way from PIE before becoming Latin and Modern Greek, putting them together as sisters makes as much sense as putting Urdu and Sardinian together.

[@TommasoZanoni]

@@francescoghigo8394 Latin and ancient Greek came both DIRECTLY from proto Indo-European, for this they are sisters, while neither German nor Italian come directly from proto Indo-European. They come respectively from Proto Germanic and Latin (which are sisters too). So German and Italian are like "cousin" languages

[@francescoghigo8394]

@@TommasoZanoni I'll try to speak your words: Ancient Greek doesn't stem from PIE, it stems from Hellenic. Latin doesn't stem from PIE, it stems from Italic. Please, check any kind of source and you'll see that the two branches (i.e. Italo-Celtic and Hellenic) are two different branches of PIE, and Latin and Ancient Greeks spawn much later. Even if you look at the languages themselves you can see that they're not at all intelligible (though they share similarities, like Modern Greek and Italian may as well). Anyway, this is the Internet, if you want to believe two languages from two different branches of PIE are sisters, I don't care and can't change your mind, it's your choice and your ignorance :(

[@TommasoZanoni]

@@francescoghigo8394 mmm nice point.. I'll check better, thank you for explaining that to me! If I'm here commenting is not because "I know everything" but because when I see different opinions from mine, I'd love to know if I'm right or not, and I do that by explaining what I know and why

[@IvanRadev-p3j]

Luca, I have found you from our mutual friend Albert from Italiano Automatico, I am very happy to be motivated by your videos and I really really appreciate your efforts and skills in all the languages that you have in your brain. Soo I have a simple question related to my learning and I hope to get it for free and from good will. I am a Bulgarian who lived in Spain most exactly in Catalonia. I have learned Catalan and Spanish as a mother tongue and now I am starting very well my learning on Italian from like 40 days, I am having some great results and here comes the question: My Italian gets mixed with my Spanish for now I mix some words soo my aim for next language would be Russian since my Bulgarian will help a lot with it and they have a lot in common. Am I right to aim into a Slavic language after learning Italian instead of another Romanian one? I think it is a great idea in order to not mix up the information about the several languages that I will already know which would be English/Bulgarian/Spanish/Catalan/Italian. And last but not least you are awesome and I invite you to keep going forward!

[@alexsen3957]

As Portuguese is my native language, it is been quite interesting to learn Italian, As my strongest language within the same family is portuguese. Great video!

[@LucaLampariello]

Thanks Alex!

[@nathanjackson5859]

I have been learning German and reached B1 and I have booked my Serbian lessons for a few months from now. Can't wait to start learning a Slavic languages.

[@ponta1162]

Great video! 👍 In this video i realized that Luca can speak more than 14 languages : English Italian Spanish French Germany Russian Polish Greek Portuguese Hungarian Mandarin Japanese Dutch Swedish Danish Romanian... 16 languages ! ! And seems he also want to learn : Arabic Hebrew Turkish Persian? (If i'm not wrong)... total 20 languages! Wow... Hope you will learn Cantonese too someday. LOL 😆 Luca, you're a real amazing hyperpolygolt! 😀👏👏👏

[@DanLacroix]

Being Canadian I speak both French and English. I was learning German for 4 months and thought it was so similar to English.. I could have a simple conversation. Planned a trip to latin america so I learned spanish (only 6 weeks but I put in a lot of efforts, it was intensive). Went on my trip, I could use basic Spanish to get around, being so similar to French I could understand most of it. Some German tourists asked me for direcrions, I understood everything but couldn't remember a thing! I recdntly resumed my Spanish studies but I'll wait until I'm fluent before I attempt another romance or germanic language.

[@val.teacup]

Definitely had the Blocking thing happen and not even with similar languages. I used to learn German till like B1/B2 but eventually gave up and started Spanish. But every time I tried to think of a word in Spanish the German one popped up in my brain from the "bucket of half-learned languages". I tried so hard to stop this that at some point I couldn't remember how the wird "We" was in German when I tried.

[@rosebarbaro461]

Hi Luca, I'll never know before, About the family languages, I choose Italian Spanish, French Because the alphabet similar but my goals are the same But circumstances, make me choose the harder one which is Arabic,. But Luca you make me think about how I'll be choosing the next language. Thank you Luca.

[@shiva_689]

Man, I experienced some intense interference when I was learning Italian on my own and Spanish at school. Even when I decided to focus on Spanish, every now and then my family from Italy would drop by and create a lot of interference again. Btw, you pronounced all the syllables in comfortable, the correct pronunciation sounds more like "comftable" though

[@SDKhan-yv7bs]

I am learning Spanish and French at the same time. I'm not having any problems.

[@Dai_Abdurrahman]

always a pleasure to listen to you