Hey guys. Having watched a lot of Steve’s videos I know he talks a lot about having to stop studying lots of languages for long periods whilst becoming totally inthralled by a new language. Having watched his most recent video he mentioned that his Czech is not a language of his truly “anchored” into his mind, and this is something I’ve thoughts about a lot.
Having now studied spanish for going on two years, I’ve recently started Portuguese but sometimes am unsure of how to balance the study, or how to study portuguese whilst keeping my spanish “topped up” as it were. I do sometimes think that if I continue to want to study more and more languages years from now it’s going to be very hard trying to fit in 25 minutes a day for each language to try and keep them all “topped up”. I remember during my time in spain I was away in Hungary for 2 days without any spanish study and even then I felt slightly rusty when I came back after the weekend.
This is why steve’s idea of having a language “anchored” had me rather intrigued. I mean, how do you know when you know a language well enough to be able to leave it for a while without doing too much damage to what you have studied. I know that having stopped my Danish studies almost a year ago now I remember not a lot of what I studied at all, and sometimes I wonder if this would happen with my spanish if I completely stopped for a month or two whilst studying another language. It would be interesting to get some thoughts on this topic. 