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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.
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Yea, right, It's impossible to know all 4-5 languages unless they are very very very similar to each other.</p>
<p>Better to take 1-2 and know them perfectly rather than taking 3-5 and know just a little bit. I am fluent in two languages, studying third one (Spanish) is really hard</p>
<p>Well I guess certain languages help.
I started off with French and Japanese in HS but eventually dropped French and concetrated with Japanese (Japanese and Korean are similar so that helped as well).</p>
<p>I speak Swedish at home, English for most of the school day, and take IB French A1 HL (same level as IB English HL). I took Spanish for two years in middle school and have continued to study it independently, though I'm definitely not fluent yet. In the future, I'd love to study either Hindi or Arabic, but I don't have the time or resources at the moment.</p>
<p>In short: I'd say it's possible, but you probably shouldn't be studying more than one language at a time at the beginner level, because then it's easier to mix things up. I've never had a problem with mixing up languages, but I've spoken Swedish since birth and studied French since age 5, English since age 10 (but only seriously since age 12), and Spanish on and off since age 12, so I already had a decent grasp on each of my languages before starting a new one.</p>