do you think it's reasonable for someone
to learn multiple languages at the same
time using m.i.a
well it all depends on what your goals
are and if you actually want to reach a
strong level of fluency in two different
languages then in almost every situation
it's gonna make much more sense to learn
one language and then the other rather
than to learn both at the same time if
you're learning languages just for fun
and reaching some particular level of
fluency isn't that important you're
really just engaging in the process of
language learning because you enjoy or
you perceive value in the inherent
experience of learning a language and
it's all about the process and not
really about the result and you are
interested in two languages and you find
it more engaging to study them at the
same time rather than to only study one
then I think that makes sense so in that
case I would say it is reasonable so it
all depends on your goals for example I
know that Steve Kaufman right now is
studying multiple languages at the same
time and I don't really think he cares
about getting super fluent in the
language is he studying he's already
fluent in a bunch of languages and at
this point he's really just language
learning for fun for him he says it's
more engaging to be able to go back and
forth between different languages and so
I think yeah it totally makes sense
but realistically he's delaying the time
that it's gonna take him to reach
fluency in any one language by studying
multiple at the same time for example
let's say that you want to learn French
in German but say that if you did one
and then another it would take you four
years total so it would take you two
years of learning French full-time and
then two years of learning German
full-time to eventually reach a very
high level in boat so you're looking at
four years total to reach a high level
of fluency in French or German if that
was the case and we might say that if
you were gonna try to learn both at the
same time it might take five six seven
years to reach a high level fluency in
both because it's much harder to be
multitasking and doing both at the same
time you're actually delaying the total
time it's gonna take to reach your goal
because it's much less efficient to
learn two languages at the same time and
there's plenty of reasons for this
there's the natural SRS effect where if
you naturally learn a word through
osmosis because it came up in a book you
were reading in a
perfectly comprehensible situation then
you might have
I don't know 48 hours to come across
that word again in a comprehensible
situation in order for you to reinforce
the memory and retain the word and so in
that case the more language input you're
getting within the next 48 hours the
more likely it's gonna be that you come
across that word again and reinforce the
memory and this is gonna be happening on
all levels of the language not just
vocabulary but on grammar and different
aspects of pronunciation it's gonna be
happening across many many words all at
the same time so basically the more
input you get per day the more that
you're gonna make exponentially fast
progress in that language so yeah by
learning two languages at the same time
then you're basically saying that you're
gonna be spending half as much time on
each language and because of that you're
gonna be making exponentially slower
progress in each of those languages and
again there's just another component up
at where it's gonna be much harder for
your brain to be trying to figure out
two completely different linguistic
systems at once and keep them apart then
whether it's completely focused on using
all its resources to just figure out one
linguistic system that's gonna be much
more efficient way to get it done than
to be you know it's just gonna be
confusing for your brain to try to be
keeping track of these two completely
different things at the same time and
some people try to make arguments like
oh well it's more of gauging for me to
study two different languages because if
I'm always studying one language then it
gets boring
um I don't buy this argument at all I
think this is just an excuse people make
because they just want to study two
languages at the same time because
they're impatient and they are just
trying to find a way to justify that
choice do you ever get bored of spending
time in your native language do you ever
be like oh well I can only spend three
hours a day in my native language just
and I just get bored of it right it's
like no because when you're spending
time in your native language whether or
not something is entertaining or boring
depends on the actual content itself not
the language the language is just a tool
to consume different content so if you
think about it that way then if you get
bored in a certain language after
engaging with it for a certain amount of
time then you need to find more
interesting content not learn more
languages at once and so yeah just to
summarize I think that if your goals are
more about just enjoying the process of
language learning and you don't care
about results that much then
it might be reasonable for you to study
multiple images at once if you are
really concerned with reaching fluency
then it almost never makes sense to
learn two languages at the same time
you're always going to be better off
learning one and then another then your
second question how do you think once
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