Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

Learning Multiple Languages Simultaneously?
Another aspect of taking on multiple languages, even if you are sure you are
passionate about those you are looking at, is the question of whether to
jump on all of them at once or take them in succession. While some
language learners can take on several new languages at once, most cannot.
In fact, for most language learners this is a really bad idea, especially if they
don’t have any prior experience with other languages.
Someone who already has several languages under his or her belt may
be able to take on a couple of new languages simultaneously, but if you
have not successfully learned any new languages as an adult already, it’s
best to focus on just one language at a time. Despite my own experience
learning languages, I never try to learn two new languages at once. There is
too much of a risk of mixing them up. Grammar rules and vocabulary have
a nasty habit of bleeding into each other when you’re first trying to get used
to them.
While it may seem logical enough to try to learn two languages at the
same time for a given period, say French and Spanish, you’re actually
working against your best language learning interests. You’re almost always
better off focusing your entire attention on one language and then, once
you’re comfortable with it, turning your full attention to a second language.
This doesn’t mean you have to master one language before moving on
to the next one. But you should at least wait until you’re fluent in one
before taking on another. You should be confident using a language, at a B2
level or above. When I reach this stage in a language, for instance, I find it’s

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then really hard to forget the language, even if I don’t practice it for several
months or a year.
When I have reached no more than level B1, though, because I am not
yet truly comfortable in that language and because it doesn’t feel like it’s a