How long does it take to learn a 3rd language?

Category 3 languages, such as Indonesian and Swahili, possess a moderate level of complexity and require a total of 900 hours, or 9 months, to attain proficiency. Languages predominant in most Asian countries fall into Category 4, in which each language requires 1100 hours (nearly an entire year) to attain proficiency.

Is it good to learn a third language?

Studies have shown that learning another language fosters culture awareness and acceptance. Students who study another language are more understanding of other cultures. When you learn another language, you are not merely learning unfamiliar words.

What is a Group 4 language?

The US Foreign Service Institute divides languages into four tiers of difficulty. Group 4 is comprised of some of the most challenging languages for English speakers to grasp: Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

When is the right time to start learning a third language?

When is the Right Time to Start Learning a Third Language? Starting a third language before you’ve reached conversational fluency (this means at least upper-intermediate) in your first can have a negative impact on both of your foreign languages.

Should you learn a second language before your first one?

You can go for a language that’s similar to the one you already speak, or completely different. Even if your second foreign language has absolutely nothing in common with your first, you’ll still have certain advantages that you didn’t have when you learned your first foreign language. For one, the act of learning a language is itself a skill.

Does language learning get easier with each new language?

Language learning gets easier with each new language. You can make it even easier by reflecting on how you’ve done with learning a new language so far. Look at what went well, and what you could have done better, the first time around.

Does learning a new language go downhill with age?

“Not everything goes downhill with age,” says Antonella Sorace, a professor of developmental linguistics and director of the Bilingualism Matters Centre at the University of Edinburgh. She gives the example of what is known as ‘explicit learning’: studying a language in a classroom with a teacher explaining the rules.