Should I try and Learn Two Languages AT ONCE? | Interesting Research! (Science Says Ep. 5)

If you are asking yourself If i should try to learn two language at once and want to know if learning two languages at the same time is a bad idea or not, then this video is for you!
I am currently learning both Mandarin Chinese and German at the same time and I have been told "you can't learn more than 1 language at a time" by so many people. So... I decided to dedicate a science says episode to the topic and dive into the research to see what the data has to say.
In this video you will learn what scientific research has to say about the questions:
"Can you learn two languages at the same time?"
"Can you learn more than one language at a time?"
"Is it bad to learn 2 languages at once?"

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[kylanguages]

I will keep my eye out for more research on the topic of learning multiple languages at once. And as always I'll share the interesting stuff 😊😊

[goodluck]

I absolutely love the 'Science Says' series! You really deserve more subscribers. You explain so clearly and you actually use research papers. Love it :DD

[buymecom]

I think it can't be as bad as people make it out to be. So many people do learn more than one at a time but still end up fluent. So I guess I'm saying it doesn't matter that much if you learn 2

[ayda]

I'm waiting for your one million subscribers party 😍🥰
Thank you so much for your great channel ❤️

[andymounthood]

If people could only learn one language at a time, they could only study one subject in school at a time, participate in only one sport at a time, or improve at only one musical instrument at a time.

The main drawback is that most full-time working adults have limited time and motivation per day. Certainly, spending two hours a day on one language will bring faster results than spending an hour each on two languages. However, this merely slows the learning or acquisition process rather than handicapping it.

General skill in language learning actually improves as we learn more languages, whether simultaneously or sequentially. That's because each language brings unique challenges for us to overcome, thus making us better language learners in general. I had to invent a new approach to learning Korean because I was frustrated or disappointed by all of the resources available to me, but my creative solutions worked so well that I applied them to Japanese and greatly improved my Japanese. Then I had to learn and adapt another new approach for Indonesian because of a lack of resources I like, and now I'm applying the approach to German, causing me to learn German faster than ever before.

What a coincidence! I'm also learning Mandarin Chinese (low-beginner) and German (high-beginner), plus Japanese (almost intermediate), and I'm maintaining French (high intermediate) mainly by reading novels and Spanish (mid-intermediate) mainly by watching TV dubbed into Spanish. German currently is my priority, though, so I try to put the most study time into it. I get rusty in all of the languages that I'm not currently learning or maintaining, and I hate being rusty! So, I vowed never to learn one language at a time again.

[azanseq]

I'm learning korean and german at the same time. I'm N1 and C1 in japanese and english (Spanish is my native language) and I don't find it difficult because I have experience learning languages with comprehensible input and japanese has similar structures with korean. I enjoy reading so I think that's the key. If I want to focus in Korean I do. If I want to read in german I do. It's fun for me so I don't think it's impossible. What is true is that learning languages is time consuming. BUT when I'm tired of german I jump to korean and I feel not tired so... If some people have time to use their phones 8 hours a day... Why couldn't I study 2 languages 😂😅

[seoul_mate]

I am learning Korean and have reached B1/B2. I wanted to try Japanese as well for a while, but have abandoned the idea now. Korean alone is taking up so much of my time I couldn't add a new language if I tried. I am not saying it is impossible to do, but it depends on many variables and personal circumstances.

[sw_studies]

this is so interesting!! in my opinion, it's better to study 2 or more languages at different levels. for me, i study Spanish at around B2/B1 level and mandarin chinese at HSK1/2/3(?) and it's so much easier to see my progress. whereas i used to study french and spanish at the same level and felt i wasn't doing well in either

[jaerodriguez]

Great video Kyle! 🏆 I study German 🇩🇪 and Icelandic 🇮🇸 at the same time. My German level is way better than my Icelandic as I started 🇩🇪 earlier and also since I live here in Germany. I think this is helpful in not confusing the two. But I should also say that the 2 languages complement as I study them. 🇩🇪 and 🇮🇸 are in a sort of "sweet spot" of closeness in the language family tree. Which means they are similar yet still very distinct. Both being Germanic languages, they are similar enough in terms of grammar. They virtually use the same tenses and tend to share the same peculiarities, so when I have learned a grammatical concept in 🇩🇪, I easily grasp it when learning it in 🇮🇸 . Iceland's isolation from the rest of continental Europe however allowed it to maintain its uniqueness. Icelandic's vocab has very little Latin/Romance influence, which helps in avoiding mixing up the two (e.g. Familie vs. fjölskylda). Of course words with common Germanic roots are recognizably similar, but they still sound very distinct from one another:
For example:
strong = stark = sterkur
mother = Mutter = móður
animal = Tier = dýr
water = Wasser = vatn

Cool and helpful content as always. Looking forward to more! 😊

[KatSchlitz]

I am interested in what happens further out in time. It’s clear there’s wide swings where the dual language learners had much higher retention… before the swing back down, but I would expect that to have diminishing detriment in longer timespan. I am curious if the dual learners end in the same average as single learners or if they end on something more represented by the early apex points, having greater ability / greater fluency (for time spent) on average, their graphed line trending upward (or evening out to match single language learners after all).

[jamesalphonse]

Great 👍.How Do you do to maintain languages that you’ve already known?

[ayda]

Of course I want to learn 2 languages at the same time, I'm craving for French but i don't know if i should start it or not while i am learning German

[Verfed]

It is better to learn two languages at once and exercise those neurons

[danielcowan]

An labhraíonn tú Gaeilge le líofacht?
Do you speak Irish proficiently?

[feelfree]

Hi bro i live in Deutschland side ein Jahr and halb i was learning a deutsch spreche without teacher only i visited 2 months VHS spreche kurz and then problem for crona virus my first time learning kurz totally stopped. Please can you make another challenge as a motivate

keep going.

[buymecom]

I think it can't be as bad as people make it out to be. So many people do learn more than one at a time but still end up fluent. So I guess I'm saying it doesn't matter that much if you learn 2