<p>Has anyone here tried taking two languages at the same time? Im thinking of starting a new language next year and continuing French from HS. Is this impossibly hard??</p>
<p>No. A friend of mine took 5 years of Spanish, 4 years french, and two or three years of German in High School. Oh, and two years of Latin. The tricky part is not confusing them up haha.</p>
<p>Actually, I misread your post. I thought you were referring to taking more than one language in HS.</p>
<p>im in 2 languages in HS and its not so hard... college shouldnt be too much different. If you want to, go for it!</p>
<p>I've taken French and Italian at the same time in high school and for a semester of college, and I'm planning on taking French and (hopefully) Russian next year. It's NOT hard. While everyone says that mixing that languages is a big issue, I personally never had a problem with it. I also have a background in Yiddish and Spanish.</p>
<p>I have a few friends with similar multi-language backgrounds (my best friend took Spanish and German at the same time... I know a girl who is taking French, Italian, and Japanese, and a guy who's taking Spanish, Latin, and Russian), and none of them have ever had a problem with confusing their languages.</p>
<p>I'm taking French and Italian at the same time......its definitely doable.</p>
<p>I am taking Spanish and Russian - it's possible. Do it if you have the opportunity - it is amazing :)</p>
<p>if your good with languages then go for it. but i met some one who spoke 4 languages, and when talking to me in English they were accidentally throwing in French. so try it out and see how you do, but its def. an attainable goal.</p>
<p>i did latin, spanish and french in high school, and at college french and spanish. not a problem at all.</p>
<p>I'm completing AP French 6 and Spanish 6 and I'd say it's been manageable. It doesn't get confusing unless you make it hard on yourself. As long you learn your grammar rules and verb tenses for each, I'd say you'll easily be able to differentiate the two.</p>
<p>I'm a senior in high school and have taken 4 years of Spanish and two years of French. The myth is that this is difficult because it's hard not to confuse them. The reality is that it makes the study of each language easier, because you begin to learn about language itself.</p>
<p>I took Spanish Conversation and Modern Greek 1 last year in my junior year of hs. It's really not that bad since my languages were so different from each other. Just requires a little more thinking before you speak in either langauge, gets a little jumbled, but manageable.</p>
<p>I did Japanese and Mandarin concurrently for a quarter. Outside of the fact that I would read Chinese in Japanese (since I learned most Chinese characters in Japanese first), it was fine.</p>
<p>I'll be taking french and vietnamese, shouldn't be that bad</p>
<p>You're taking Vietnamese? Awesome, I'm actually fluent in it since I am of Vietnamese-French origin. </p>
<p>I've been taking French and German for several years and it really isn't difficult at all. As long you study each language separately then you won't get them confused.</p>
<p>I think it's better to concentrate on one language rather than becoming decent at multiple languages.</p>
<p>I hear of people who are like "yeah I took French and Spanish in high school" but they can barely converse in either language.</p>
<p>Having said that, some languages are quite similar so there may be overlaps if you decide to learn one after another.</p>
<p>I was thinking that it would be really BA to take both latin and greek so that I would dominate. But that would mean less of other things soo..</p>
<p>well I am chinese-vietnamese, but we don't speak vietnamese at home even though both of my parents can. Yeah, I felt like doing everything spoken within my family so I've got mandarin and spanish left after these two are finished.</p>
<p>At my HS (not in America), we are required to take at least four language at the same time, and most of us took an additional fifth one. I didn't think it was confusing at all, often even helpful. For example, taking French, Latin and English at the same time was really helpful, because many of the words have the same origin. I would, however, not take to languages that are very similar to each other (like Italian and Spanish, or even French), because then, confusion really becomes an issue.</p>
<p>Maybe it's just me, but with every successive language I took (German, then French, then Italian) I had the problem of automatically answering in the <em>previous</em> one. Maybe they were stored in layers in my brain, but it was like I kept accessing the most recent one, instead of the one I was supposed to be learning. So annoying! So if you can keep track of two at once, I am extremely impressed.</p>
<p>And to y17k--I believe it is worth taking even a year of a language just so you know how to pronounce it. Useful when traveling and you don't embarrass yourself by saying mercy buckup and jenny parl pass Frances. (wince)</p>
<p>taking a spoken language and a non-spoken one is no more of a difference from taking two of any other type of class at the same time. they are the same subject but you think about them differently. especially now since latin and greek are still as academic as ever and modern languages are trying to be very non-academic.</p>