Guidance notes for learning different languages
I have found these very helpful guidance notes about learning foreign languages from a polyglot (mulitilingual speaker) who speaks about 9 languages. His name is Matthew. Please follow the link here to watch the video and read the guidance notesenter link description here
I love learning to speaking other languages and am working on 4 of them, besides English (which is my mother tongue in which I am already fluent) , but this guy 'knocks the socks off me' (he leaves me standing) : he speaks them fluently! Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese,(Brazilian) etc... I would encourage you to read the notes below the video aswell as watching the video. I found the guidance notes/information extremely helpful! 
The best way to learn is of course by living in the country where they speak the language you are wanting to learn...but if you cannot do this, and let's face it we can't all afford to that, the next best way is to practise with native speakers and /or take lessons with a native teacher. practice, practice, practice etc.....
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It is possible to learn to speak several different languages without getting confused, I speak from personal experience, here!. By the grace of God, I rarely get confused. (I used to get confused between the pronounciation of the Spanish word de and French de) Of course, I appreciate that not everyone has the time, or the money, or even the interest in doing so: it depends on your financial committments and time;...something we all seem to need more of these days! I'm just saying that if you can and would like to, please don't think it's not possible just be guided by what you know You can do not what some people say everyone can do. We are all individuals. Often , we don't know/realize what we are capable of until we try something new!
I hope this helps many people here. Please leave your comments below. and thank you for reading this!
2 Answers
Different polyglots have different opinions of how to learn languages, it's kind of like when the 103 year old person is asked "What did you do to have such a long life?", the answer is always different from the other person that's asked the same question.
I'm not taking anything away from any polyglot's opinion, OMG no!
My hat is off to anyone that learns multiple languages, including me :D
Personally, I think it's very brave of you to learn more than one Romance language at similar levels at the same time. I reckon I could just about manage a Romance language and a Germanic one at the same time (if I had enough time), but not two in the same family. My brain would just melt. I took a look at Catalan but there's no way I could learn Spanish & Catalan at the same time: they're just too similar.
