How to Learn 3 Languages at Once (My Personal Routine)

If you want to find out how to learn 3 languages at once without burning out, then you've come to the right place.

In this video I will show you how I learn Danish, Greek, and Hungarian every day, how I compartmentalize my time for all 3, and some of the resources I use based on my current level.

Stay tuned for more!

Filmed and edited by Pierluigi Siena

Music:

[neidemartins]

Three factors that matter: Time, Energy, Concentration
Tips
1.Wake up early and hit the books in the language at its lowest level
2. Get organized
3. Keep a logbook

[BeautyBySilence]

My boyfriend speaks Chinese. I speak Spanish and we both speak English. I’d want our future children to learn English, Spanish and Chinese.

[hazza]

I'm currently learning French and Polish separately and I've found that one advantage of learning two languages is that if I get too frustrated with one, I can take a "break" and switch to the other.

[Marina-sduy]

Short version of the advice: it's a good idea, but I don't recommend it. Do it, but don't.

[yujitsuzuki]

Actually I learned the fact that when I learned another language, my other language improved a lot in a sense of words, definition, as well as sentence flow

[amj.composer]

I'm learning Japanese and Spanish at once.
It's working well.

[menwa]

I love how you pronounce your name:")

[TaeNi]

My languages:
German (native)
English (B2+)
Polish (A2 or B1)
Spanish (A1 or A2)
Korean (A1)

Now I can finally make a plan to study all four thank you so much for your advice! Keep going, language learners! 💜

[cestmoidelavie]

I am Turkish. I have been learning English for years and I was taught German years ago and I have started Japanese for 1.5 years. Now, I continue a 3-language schedule more than 1 year. It is really demanding. In fact I wouldn't want to keep learning them all simultaneously but I had to do it. So far so good.
I am at a c2 level in English, b2 in German and I just passed JLPT4 of Japanese.

[lucaspedraza]

Last video of Luca : Whay you shouldn't learn more than one language at the same time:
Now: How to Learn 3 Languages at Once

[taryn.gesmundo]

Am self-learning Tagalog, Basque and Catalan and love the diversity. I love how each language seems to pull out a different facet of my personality and brings me closer to understanding the uniqueness of each of these cultures. For me, I like to scatter my attention across a few languages as I learn, as I find, I can become obsessive if studying just one language at a time.

[daysandwords]

Man, Luca... you are THE BEST.
I love how when I looked carefully, I could see that you're learning Danish from a French book hahaha. Like I know you speak French to a very high level, but still, I love how naturally all this comes to you.

But I am also so glad you said the thing about the different levels: I completely agree (although basically anything you told me, I'd believe even if it cut against what I already believed) but yeah, I put it like this:
- You can learn a few languages at the same time, but you can't (or shouldn't) learn them SIMULTANEOUSLY. Don't START in Danish and Italian at the same time. Get to the point that one of them is like practicing running, while the other is at the point of being like practicing backflipping. This makes them so different that you won't get confused.

I'd love to know your thoughts on short term language "boot-camps", e.g. I have not stopped learning Swedish altogether, but I have put it on hold for a bit while I attempt to study 250 hours of French in 3 months (about 2.5 hours a day). This is just to give my French a bit of a boost, while my Swedish will hold because it's about at the same level as your Hungarian.
As a guy who studies both or all 3 languages every day, what do you think about that?
Love your work Luca - you are my biggest inspiration!

[theatisgr]

Learning 3 languages simultaneously is absolutely feasible, provided that they are UNRELATED. If you tried for instance to study Danish & Swedish together, you would surely mix them up. Now that you have a pretty high level in Swedish it will only take you a few months to reach the same level in written Danish. But when it comes to oral expression & understanding you’ll need LOTS of practice with natives!
As for Hungarian and Greek, the overall difficulty to reach say B2 level may be similar, but the difficulty of Greek is front-loaded. You have to learn a new alphabet (which is not easy for many people), to get used to the insanely unpredictable declensions & conjugations and to learn how to associate the new vocabulary with words that you already know from other languages, as the association is often hidden. On the other hand, Hungarian surprises you in the first steps with the regularity of its grammar. The original Hungarian vocabulary may be totally unfamiliar, but you’ll find lots of words of Latin, Germanic or Slavic origin. You’ll think “That’s a handy language for me to add a new flag on my badge in the next polyglot conference”. But as your study progresses and the sentences you read become longer, you’ll realize that there is something wrong with this language. Very often sentences make no sense to you, as if they had been written by someone under influence of drugs. Google Translate cannot make sense out of them either. The only way to understand them is to resort to the help of a native speaker. This is a problem you’ll NEVER encounter in Greek. Greek syntax is almost the same as Italian. If you transfer your Italian thoughts into Greek you’ll be perfectly understood.

[matthewfoong]

Loads of places say learning simultaneously is a big no no, but I'm learning Indonesian, Swahili and polish and it seems to be going fine, it's actually quicker than doing one at a time. believe in yourselves people!

[tinypuff]

I’m learning: advanced Spanish, intermediate Thai, and beginner Vietnamese.

[MetaMM]

So refreshing to listen to an Italian speaking English without the strong Italian accent. Bravo! Good voice too. Complimenti!

[onesandzeroes]

I find that it also helps if the languages are as different from each other as possible.

[carlknight]

Most of the videos I have seen in the past just show the person showing off how many languages they speak without giving any actual advice. Luca actualley gives advice thank you.

[evelynbaron]

I admire your abilities and my Dad spoke 8 languages which he used in everyday life; a true polyglot. Here's the thing. He lived in those countries. I speak 3 languages and find the cultural context of each paramount.... this is in no way a criticism, just comparing how we choose to acquire new means to communicate with each other.

[pinioalexopoulou]

μπράβο Luca..!!! ελπίζω να τα καταφέρω και εγώ με τα να μάθω τελεια τη γλώσσα