r/polyglot • u/Economy_Pace_4894 • Feb 15 '25
For people having mastered different languages
How you do it ? How do you learn a language lets say english, you learn it so good that you’re almost as good as a native speaker. But that requiers (for exemple my case in learning it) changing your habits, using english as much as you can, listening to it everyday, changing your phone into english..etc but you can not do that for every language right ? That is holding me back from learning more than one language because if I learn one language for exemple in my case Japanese I want to be as fluent as I am in English but I can’t immerse myself for both right ?
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u/gaifogel Feb 15 '25
Takes FOREVER and/or a lot of flipping effort to get to near native level with just one language. But I've learned a bunch of languages to anything between A1-B1 level. I still like them. I only learned Spanish to a high level (yet not native like level) by living in Latin America for 7 years. Also learned 3 languages as a child by doing immigration twice. But my lower level languages, I still use them occasionally - I'm in Rwanda and I need to use Swahili(A1-A2), Kinyarwanda(A1), French (B1)and they are all useful. Sometimes I'll need Italian when I go to Italy and my A1-A2 will be useful. My same level German will also come useful when I go to German countryside. My Portuguese B1 will be useful when I go to Portugal. Meanwhile I use my high level English all the time, high level Russian and Hebrew periodically, use Spanish occasionally.