Learning 2 languages at the same time

[Hironn]

Hi!
I'd like to know what you think about learning 2 languages at the same time..
I'm learning japanese, but recently I've become really interested in Korean and Chinese...
I think that learning japanese and chinese at the same time can be a big trouble, because i could get confused about the kanjis and so on... Don't you think so?
Well, anyway, I was thinking about learn japanese and korean at the same time... Of course I know it's hard to do... But what do you think about it?
Is it a bad idea? Doesn't it worth?
Thank you in advance. =D

 

[Boris M]

Well...

You should really try to learn one, as I am learning Japanese and German and it is not a trouble (I know English, Serbian and Croatian -these two last are similar but they have some differences in grammar). Besides German (in school) and Japanese (Genki at home) I also study Latin in school and I don't really like Latin.
I should stop talking about myself.

The conclusion is: you are now in a faze of thinking or "not doing anything except thinking" so you think you can do it. But, although Japanese is not hard to learn when it comes to grammar there is a LOT of new words.

When you start learning it, you will see that you can not find any bounds with Portuguese (or English). It is all new, and even the smallest words you will have to remember.

Start with Genki -Elementary Japanese, learn Hiragana, learn Katakana, then decide about Korean.

 

[Hironn]

Oh yeah, I know japanese is different of english and portuguese..
Actually, ﾅｽ窶樞?堙坂?堙?窶堋､窶愿ｺ窶怒ﾅ津ｪ窶堙ｰﾂ渉ｭ窶堋ｵﾋ彙窶堋ｹ窶堙懌?堋ｷﾂ。
I've been learning japanese for 2 years... I guess I'm in the "grammar" stage, as you said..
I'm thinking about it (learning any of these languages and japanese at the same time) because if I'll do so, I'll start in the next year, that's coming, right?
I don't think that learning 2 languages at the same time is a big trouble, but about japanese and chinese, I think it could be.. Don't you think so? But about Korean, maybe it's allright...
Aw, I don't know..
Thank you for answering

By the way, cool that you learn all that at the same time! =D

 

[Boris M]

Oh yeah, I know japanese is different of english and portuguese..
Actually, 私はもう日本語を少し話せます。
I've been learning japanese for 2 years... I guess I'm in the "grammar" stage, as you said..
I'm thinking about it (learning any of these languages and Japanese at the same time) because if I'll do so, I'll start in the next year, that's coming, right?

Well, you are much more advanced than I thought you were. In that stage I don't know what to tell you, but, if you are learning new languages just to learn them (which is not a bad practice) you should maybe go with some of our Slavic languages: From Russian to Serbian and Macedonian. How many of your friends can say that they know how to write in Cyrillic?

 

[Hironn]

Well, actually, I know nobody that can do that, it's true...
But I don't feel like I'm really interested in learning a Slavic language.. I think they're cool and hard, hehe, but They are not exactly what I'm looking for...
I want to learn the languages I said, because I'm somehow interested on it...
I'm just wondering which of them is going not to be a trouble for my studies in Japanese, you know? :/
Thanks for answering, again

(wa, its not comfortable to write here by an iPod)

 

[OsakaMarie]

I don't think learning two languages at the same time is particularly a problem. When I was at school back in Belgium, we were learning Dutch and English (and for some, German on top of that) at the same time and we all survived!!

But I get your point about Chinese and Japanese. I think the grammar and speech are different enough but the Chinese characters can be interpreted slightly differently in the two languages which can definitely lead to confusions. A bit like learning several latin languages (e.g. Spanish and Italian) at the same time and getting confused with the vocab.

So I would say, go for Korean and Japanese

 

[Hironn]

Thank you so much OsakaMarie!
That's what I was talking about chinese! =D