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When should you start to learn ANOTHER foreign language? My advice (early viewing for Patrons) (Patreon)

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2026-03-03 22:12:30
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When should you learn another foreign language?

When is it too soon to start learning ANOTHER foreign language? If you're studying Latin and thinking about taking on Ancient Greek, or you have wondered whether it was a good idea to study Ancient Greek and Modern Greek at the same time, or more than one Romance language simultaneously, this video is for you! Let me know your thoughts and opinions below in the comments. To raise your Ancient Greek to the B1 level, take my on-demand Ephesian Tale video course: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/an-ephesian-tale-book-1-an-intermediate-level-course-in-ancient-greek-language-literature-1 🦂 Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LukeRanieri 📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com 🤠 Take my course LATIN UNCOVERED on StoryLearning, including my original Latin adventure novella "Vir Petasātus" https://learn.storylearning.com/lu-promo?affiliate_id=3932873 ☕️ Support my work with PayPal: https://paypal.me/lukeranieri And if you like, do consider joining this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLbiwlm3poGNh5XSVlXBkGA/join 🏛 Latin by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/latin-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables 🏺Ancient Greek by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/ancient-greek-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables 🦉🏛 Latin in Action · Free Latin Lessons: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45Siz4rlDqcXjzQqIRSy0skGlf 🦉🏺 Ancient Greek in Action · Free Greek Lessons: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45SixsonRdfNNv-CPNq8xUwgam 🦂 ScorpioMartianus (my channel for content in Latin, Ancient Greek, & Ancient Egyptian) https://www.youtube.com/ScorpioMartianus 🎙 Hundreds of hours of Latin & Greek audio: https://lukeranieri.com/audio 🌍 polýMATHY website: http://lukeranieri.com/polymathy/ 🌅 polýMATHY on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lukeranieri/ 🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast: https://youtube.com/LegioXIII 👕 Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/scorpiomartianus 🦂 https://www.ScorpioMartianus.com 🦅 https://www.LukeRanieri.com 📖 My book Ranieri Reverse Recall on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2nVUfqd Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart

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Ben Harrison

Interference: I’ve encountered two distinct types. One, as you describe, where it feels like the “Other Language Dept” is in control. I (continue to) have this happen in French, where I’m at B1. I’ll have a good head of conversational steam built up, and then German (where I’m C2) will break in, but never English (native). The other sort of interference I’ve run into was learning Yiddish in Basel - we were all Swiss German speakers (my dialect is Bavarian, but for this situation the difference is trivial). Yiddish, Bavarian and Allemanic (Swiss) all have a lot of Middle High German features but not all the same ones. Eventually, this is an aid to learning Yiddish for a High German speaker, but in the beginning it creates a whole army of false friends.

Ben Harrison

How many at the same time? Agree, it’s so tempting. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to learn them all, but I find it’s generally inefficient to try learning languages in parallel IF you want more than a flirtation. When I had Latin and Attic Greek in high school, they were staggered by a year. That worked, but we also weren’t trying to get beyond a reading ability. To get handy with a language as quickly and efficiently as possible requires “immersion” if only in one’s attention. Time is finite for the individual, and it takes half as much time to attend to one thing as to two. Fortunately, each language that you can get to at least a B level is now one more tool in your toolkit to facilitate learning more languages. Slowing progress to the B level by spreading one’s attention too thinly in actually counterproductive.