How hard is it to learn two languages at once? Is it doable?

you would probably want to learn two that are related

It's probably quite doable
If you learn two similar ones you could get them jumbled though
In school I learnt French and German at the same time with little difficulty but it's likely slightly harder learning independently

>>8380158

wanting to learn chink to understand your chinese plebshit cartoons

kindly fuck off
>>>/a/

>>8380169
Why do you think I want to learn Japanese? I want to learn Russian and French.

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>>8380175
That's how eager he is to show you how he doesn't watch anime anymore because he is very, very mature.

>>8380182
What the fuck is that picture

>>8380204
It's magic

Anyone got any tips for learning languages?

>>8380329
just do it

>>8380340
i am
but do you have any super secret tip top tips?

>>8380353
This is a horrible tip, but, it's the best one. Live in a place that utilizes the language.

Learned french and german at the same time for a while. It is actually pretty cool. I don´t have any tips though other than to study both and give them time to both according to how difficult you perceive them to be.

I had to study a lot of german because of the vocabulary and pants on head retarded genders and grammar. I didn´t even study french, I just went to lessons and learned.

>>8380357
what if you're learning ancient greek

>>8380528
Smelling salts.
Come over and I can prove Homer was a woman.

>>8380158
There are polyglots who learn Arabic, Hindi, and Chinese at the same time, so I guess it could be done. I imagine it would take some extreme dedication to manage that, though.

>>8380329
Have a good reason for learning it.

You need it for a job? Have a gf/bf that speaks and you want to better understand their culture/meet their parents? Want to masturbate to Vietnamese flipbook porn on this site? Want to hit on hot foreign exchange students? You want something that will motivate you to keep at it once the magic wears off and the tedium sets in.

Have media to consume and real speakers to talk to as you learn, to help your studies move along, motivate you, and retain what you learn. n+1 difficulty, if you can help it.

Lang8 for writing practice corrected by native speakers. Skype/Line/etc. for speaking to actual people. Lots of resources online, both paid and unpaid.

You need to study and work at the language every single day. Don't let up on it, or the next thing you know you'll be 8 months off the wagon, and ashamed when your friends and family ask you to say something to their foreign friend because all you remember is how to say is "where is the toilet" and a handful of slang terms for penis.

The best way to learn any language is to go to the country and speak it. Or just move closer to the border and talk to the illegal immigrants.

>>8380163
No absolutely not. Learning two languages as different as possible is a lot easier.
OP it's possible but not advisable. Look up polyglot learning two languages at once, I think some people have written about their experiences

>>8380204
It's a painting from the early 20th century. The title is in the filename. Creepy as all hell though, I agree.

>>8380158
Yes, but you need to be sufficiently motivated.
At one point, I was successfully learning six languages, but I wanted to use my time for other things, so now only one or two hours of mandarin a day 先辈。

>Learning French and Japanese at the same time
Just try to stop me.

>>8380158
Learning German and Turkish at the same time, how successfully I'm doing so isn't for me to say.

It helps that the two are very disparate in terms of their basic structure (Turkish is agglutinative), and also that I'm starting them at different levels. I already had a basic level of German, whereas I'm starting Turkish from scratch.

Have a good source of motivation to keep you going.
For Turkish: gf's first language, want to be able to speak to her family, understand the culture better, etc.
For German: The UK's economy is heading drainwards at top speed, and I'd rather like a job when I finish uni.

>>8380204
It's his waifu

>>8380158
Yo that shit's easy. I was learning two languages at the same time when I was in diapers. Also everyone else who have parents who speak different languages.

>>8381795
Are you a retarded person?

>>8381795
How do you raise a child bilingually? Like, how do you make sure they're fluent in both languages?

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>>8380158
I am currently doing it. I started french in March and Polish recently. The languages have nothing in common so I don't confuse them. My strategy is French because I already know German and English; Polish because Bulgarian is my mother language and they are pretty close.

Its not harder than learning them one after the other. I admit I follow online tips about learning 2 languages simultaneously:

The languages have to be as different as possible as to not mix them up.

That's the tip

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>>8381830
Children are the masters at learning languages. Popular claim proven to be false. Children are retarded and you have to talk to them like addressing a retarded person:

coooookieeee, while waving a cookie in front of them.
The more a person knows the easier it is to learn a language. Fluent forever is a book that explains how to do it, although the author bothers to make it a story of his life, so the important stuff is dispersed throughout the book.

>>8381830
There are several technologies to do it. The easiest to do is that one parent talks only one language and the other one uses the other, starting when the child can't even talk. Another technique is to use a certain language with the child in certain rooms of the house - French is in the kitchen, etc. - and the kid picks it up automatically, as long as you keep on talking to them.
Lastly, some expat communities have their own afternoon or weekend schools, like the Japanese Cultural Center in Perth runs classes for (half)-Japanese kids.

t. Australian who konws many couples from differing countries

I DONT WATCH ANIME

>>8381807
No.
>>8381830
>>8381879
Each parent just spoke their language. And though I'm not very verbose in one of them (the foreign one in this country) when speaking, I understand anything that isn't too technical or specialized.
We also had two foreign languages in the school curriculum (English + German for me). So I've learned two languages at the same time, twice.

If you're motivated you can definitely do it OP.

>>8381083
My sister in law is russian, that might help