Do you think I should learn three new languages in the same semester?

Question

I don't want to brag, but I have a knack for languages. I want to take Ancient Greek, Portuguese, and Spanish all in the same semester. I was just wondering if anyone out there has any advice (serious advice). Thanks. :o)

Answer 1

You're going to get lost/mixed up, I really wouldn't reccomend it. Two can be too much at once as well. I'm learning two languages now myself (German and Japanese) and after studying one and moving to the other I sometimes will make errors. Its possible to do two yes, but only if you give a good break on both between studying and are a very focused person. Two is plenty, but three is too many.

Answer 2

This question of yours is a hard one. Spanish and Portuguese are so similar that you can get confused (I know because I have tried it, and it did not go well). Ancient Greek is also a very, very difficult language to learn. But of course if you are a genius in languages, why not. My advice is, learn one language properly. When you feel you are ready to study another go for it. If you try too much at the same time you will perhaps find out that you can´t speak any of those languages properly. (I´m not at all doubting your intelligence, I just give you an example: I speak Swedish and Finnish as my native languages and now speak English, German, French and Spanish. I thought it would be easy to learn French and Spanish at the same time, but I just got confused, as both the languages have their roots in Latin and in that way resemble each other as Spanish and Portuguese do.) Whatever you choose I wish you wood luck with your studies.

Answer 3

I'm taking Spanish, German and Italian all at once. But, I could already speak Spanish and German pretty well before I took on Italian, so it wasn't that confusing for me but even I would still mix up Spanish and Italian together sometimes.

But if you're STARTING in all three of them (especially in Spanish and Portuguese), you're gonna get really confused. Ancient Greek is a HARD language, Spanish and Portuguese are very similar. You've got to be as good of a language genius as you say you are, if you wish to succeed in all three.

Answer 4

I think the part that will be hard is learning Portuguese and Spanish at the same time, because they are so similar. If you said Greek, Spanish, and Chinese, it would probably be pretty easy to keep those three straight in your head. But even if you have a knack for languages, you might be overextending yourself.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Well...it probably wouldn't be wise to try and take that many languages at once, even if you are good at it. The reason why is because throughout the semesters, you may begin to feel overwhelmed,and not be able to keep up with your class work. Even if you do decide to take 3 languages at once, then I'm suggesting that you do it on your own time in order to avoid getting a possible bad grade in one or all of your classes. best wishes to you, gurl!! :)

Answer 7

hmm i have to agree that if youre just starting out with too many of these it could be problematic, but if you stagger them a bit youre good. I started spanish when i was 14, then started french when i was 15. i was denied by my advisors the right to start up german, when i was 16, but i'm sure it woud lhave been fine. i am now thinking of starting german and dutch. but i guess i will stagger the beginning a bit.

i also wnat to add, that i never had any confusion between spanish and french until i stopped studying them together, then one took over and i got in trouble french wise.

Answer 8

I did it in college.. Not just 3.. 4, actually. And nothing bad happened to me.

My native language is Spanish and I took English, French, Italian and Latin. The only one of them I was a little familiar with was English.

Go for it!!!!
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Answer 9

New languages, no. Too much basic information to get squishy in your brain.

If you were taking 3rd year French, 2nd year German, and 1st year Greek, that's be fine.

My first year of college, I took 4th year French, 1st year Latin, 1st year Greek, and 1st year Hebrew (religious school). To this day, I have problems with the Hebrew alphabet and get a lot of the syntax of Greek and Hebrew confused.

Answer 10

No, you'll likely get confused.

I learned literature in Mandarin, while taking intermediate level Japanese, while haven't quite mastered Spanish yet. I sometimes got Spanish words in my Japanese sentences...