When do you stop actively learning a language?

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I’m soon going to reach 50k known words in Spanish and I wonder when I should stop actively reading each day in it and to leave it in the back burner. I’m reading every day in 6 languages on Lingq, and would like to free up some time to either invest more in the ones which are harder for me (like Romanian), or try to learn a Slavic language like Croatian, though I can’t indefinitely pile up languages to learn on Lingq, as I don’t want to be burned out.

I have some books in Spanish at home I plan on reading (finished already the first one), so I wouldn’t completely neglect Spanish. What do you think would be the best step when it comes to my Spanish, so that it doesn’t suffer too much language attrition?

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Basically, you can stop when you feel you know the language well enough for your purposes or when you’re sick of it.
However, it is also clear from your post that you are afraid of losing the languages you have learned. Well, if you’re at least at B2 level in a language, that can’t really happen anymore. In this case, if you don’t study the language for a longer period of time, the worst thing that can happen is that it will get rusty. If you then use this language again (even after a long time), it will only take a few days at most and the language will be reactivated.
So take courage! Stop reading in all 6 languages every day and start something new!

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