AEE: Will Learning Another Language Ruin Your English?
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This is the All Ears English podcast. Will learning another language ruin your English? Welcome to the All Ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS whiz. and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA. To get real-time transcripts right on your phone and create your personalized vocabulary list, try the All Ears English app for iOS and Android. Start your seven-day free trial at allearsenglish.com forward slash app.
Today, a listener asks us if you should take on a third language while English is still his priority. Listen in today to hear what the science says and get our best tips.
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Hello, Aubrey. How's your day going today? I'm great, Lindsay. How are you? Good. We are here on a sassy Saturday. So loving that middle of the summer. What an exciting time, right?
Right. I know. And I am excited about this question that a listener sent in about learning multiple languages at the same time. And I'm curious, Lindsay, I know that you have learned multiple languages. So was it difficult to start learning Arabic after studying Spanish, Japanese, and French?
It was actually. Arabic is a really hard language to learn. And I didn't make it past the very beginner, like enough to talk to a taxi driver, negotiate a little bit in Arabic. But it was because my mental models were kind of set up. My mental models were set up similar for Spanish and French versus Japanese. So now I had to add a third mental model for Arabic. In terms of the writing and just what I expected to happen and to come next, like anticipating is part of language. What word do you think should come next? Or how should this word sound? Or how should I write this? There are scripts we have.
Right. I have a feeling a lot of our listeners are in this same boat where English is a second or third or even fourth language. And you're trying to keep up with these other languages. This has been for me learning Spanish. I have really let my French go by the wayside a little bit. I have to continually keep French at the forefront as well. I don't want to lose it. So I'm excited to answer the question that we got today to dive into some tips for anyone out there who is learning multiple languages.
Yeah, so I'm going to read the listener question. So here it is. Hello, I'm one of your listeners of your podcast. This is from Anton, by the way. I've been learning English for seven years. According to your test and a few others, my level is B2. I can understand native speakers as well as most TV series and YouTube. I think I have C1 listening skills.
Will learning a third language harm my English proficiency?
Speaking is a problem though. It's worse than B2. I'm thinking of learning Spanish. I do a lot of listening in English literally every day. If I do the same with Spanish, will it affect my English? I hope I'm able to take everything in. However, I'm 43 years old and my main goal is English. Thank you. I appreciate your work. Very helpful for self-taught learners like me. Best regards, Anton. That's great.
Such a great question. Thank you for listening, for sending in the question, Anton. Lindsay and I are both right there with you. And I think a lot of our listeners are too. We've wanted to pick up other languages, but we do worry sometimes that it will affect the other languages that we have tried to master.
Because it's an addictive feeling. It's a really powerful and amazing feeling when you can have a true conversation with someone in another language, that connection. And so we want that in another language and another one, right?
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