So at my school, I kind of had the rep. of being that black girl speaking japanese. Well, I decided to study one language because I suck at languages! Even with my passion I suck at it, but yeah I would have people tell me well I can speak 4 languages. So I'm thinking ok that's cool but how's your accent? What do you do about that?! I mean it's cool to speak several langauges but the downside is is the accents. How do you differentiate those accents? One of the most important aspects of a languages is the ACCENT if you don't have a good accent no matter how hard you study no one won't be able to understand you or don't even want to talk to you because of your accent. I've heard some people speak english and some of them are STRONG. That fresh off the boat accent you can tell they're not native because that accent is soo strong. It's mostly tolerable but at the same time funny because well the accent is so strong. You know what I'm talking about you met a foreign student and had a woo that strong back ole' country accent. I admit it I'm a lover of that british accent I find it refined and very sexy. But some accents, I'm not so fond of. So yes, I'm just fine with 2 languages because speaking a lot of languages can in fact hinder you if you don't get that accent down! So that's just my thoughts well peace!
Oh and I am currently studying but I will post up pics. about Kobe Lumineria and the Xmas party so I know I have a lot of catching up to you!
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I thought I would comment on your post. Not trying to sound arrogant or anything, but I happen to be that unbelievable person who speaks four languages without mixing up the accents. In my case, I started learning languages seriously when I was a teenager, so I had time on my side.
I heard that after a person learns a second language, it's easier to pick up a third (and a fourth) language. I didn't believe that at first, but ironically it turned out to be true for me. Another factor was the choice of languages that I learned. In other words, each language is so different that there's no way I can mix them up because the grammar and the accents are just too different!
Now, here I am pushing thirty and trying to learn yet another language, Korean. My (brutally honest) Korean friend has told me that my accent was spot on, and this is only after ten months of intensive self-study. Yes, it can be done!
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