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[education-with-kate]

HOW I KEEP UP ON SEVERAL LANGUAGES AT THE SAME TIME?

こんばんは！元気ですか？

So, this is my first blog ever, and I really hope you'd like this! If there's anything incorrect or unnatural about my English, feel free to point it out by my Telegram! (@nguyengemini)

Speaking and understanding a language is certainly really interesting and useful, but at the same time so hard and confusing. It is even harder to keep up on two or three languages, most likely when people only have 24 hours a day and have plenty of other tasks to complete. So today let's have a deeper look as we walk through every tip I give for those who are learning multiple languages like me.

As I have told above, it is surely hard to keep your focus on more than one language, as you can't arrange your whole day on languages when doing all sorts of chores and work. So what if you revise languages while finishing them?

I mean, it really sounds impossible, right - you can't listen to audios in a meeting or write all sorts of information on a single notepad. But it's actually much more simple than that. I usually put notes on my little table next to the bed, and every morning I'll see something like 'good morning' or 'nice day' written by different languages. In short, try to use different ways to use different languages when you do daily tasks.

Another idea quite related to the above one is to put languages into your hobbies and interests. For example, if you're learning Japanese, I suggest you listen to songs and melodies by Japanese and guess the meaning by words and structures you see or hear. These are ways to revise and memorize knowledge, as well as make languages easier and interesting to learners.

Now, I bet anyone learning languages are told to write down notes and skills in a notebook, right? Well, it's nothing wrong with it, but when you're learning languages, something that might be useful is to make connections between each other. For example, whenever you discover a new word and write it in the book, think about it - if you know its word in other languages, write it like "flower = 花"; if not, look up for it in the dictionary! Or you can use another language to take a note about the current language. Also, personally I think it would create fun and motivation, as you open the notebook, see a lot of languages and feel like a bilingual (luckily sometimes trillingual or polyglot!)

Mentioning tasks you do while studying time, you should also create different period of time for many languages. If you have two hours, let's apply math and consider how much time you should spend for each of them. If you can study on several days a week, don't try to put ten languages into an hour studying - leave it for the other day as well. And when you're planning for the week ahead or writing a schedule, try using different languages - it would obviously improve your writing skills, vocabulary, memory, grammar and literacy.

Well that's all for today. I'm looking forward to see positive comments and creative ideas in the comment section!

And, lastly, you can contribute ideas by texting me on Telegram or in the comment section as well.