No! Anyone who has a deep interest in languages in general and has invested their time into really learning a language is going to want to move on to the next one before the first is truly learned (it can be an overwhelming impulse).
Language lovers have a natural curiosity about different languages, but you need to decide whether you wish to speak one language (to start with) fluently, or you just want to pick up a little bit of a number of languages. You must be aware, however, that the second choice can lead to you being fairly bad at any of the languages that you chose!
You need to make a decision at the beginning. Are you wanting and willing to put in the time and effort that it takes to become fluent in a particular language? If so, set some targets. Allocate a certain number of hours per week for studying this language ONLY.
Whether you wish to become totally fluent in your chosen language, or would be happy with relatively simple conversational abilities, stick to this one language until you have achieved your goal. Only then is it the right time to move on to a second new language.
It needs a lot of time and hard work to learn a new language. Even if you are smarter than average, have the best teaching program in the world, and are aiming to learn a fairly easy language (something not too far away from your mother tongue) it can still take hundreds of hours of study. If you think that you can just include a little bit of study on a different language here and there so that eventually you will know them all, think again, because you won’t.
If, after this, you would still like to try your hand at a number of different languages, you still need to have some structure to your learning.
When you buy a grammar book for French or German, for example, make sure you tell yourself loud and clear that you will finish learning Spanish first – and that this is just to satisfy your curiosity for other languages. If you do a few lessons of German for fun, make sure you are clear about why you do this – you just want to see what German sounds like.
Whatever you do, do not get carried away because you’ll suddenly find that you have finished the German course work whilst still only halfway through the Spanish!
So, in conclusion, it’s fairly clear that it is not such a good idea to try and learn more than one language at once.
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First, is the will power, but you must invest it in learning a new language one at a time.
Because learning language needs devotion, and you must practice and use it everyday in daily conversations and writing.