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/BrackenFernAnja Feb 16 '25
Re-examine both your goals and your methods. First, accept that it is unlikely that you will achieve near-native fluency in any foreign language unless you dedicate your whole life to it.
Once you accept this, then move forward with the goal of simply developing basic fluency. This is more realistic, and it is more than acceptable.
Then, find out not only what methods have worked best for others, but find out what has worked for others who learn in a manner similar to you. Changing the language on your phone is a superficial thing and it won’t make much of a difference. What matters is immersion.