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MICHALECOLE posted...

Did you learn them as a child or grownup?

2 as a child, 1 as an adult. all three are from pretty different language families so i didn't have some sort of massive vocabulary "discount" on any of them (i.e. spanish speaker learning italian)

MICHALECOLE posted...

If its grownup, can you give any tips to people who want to learn a new language as an adult that isnt practice and repetition?

try to dedicate some sort of bare-minimum time to spend on it daily, even just 15 minutes. it'll keep you accountable and likely create a desire to spend more time on it. most importantly it keeps you from falling off the wagon entirely.

another thing is you probably don't have to spend more than $100 in total to learn any major language to a high-intermediate level. there's a crapton of free/cheap materials, podcasts, MOOCs, etc out there. don't drop hundreds on a course, and don't get private coaching until you're already fairly proficient and just want to push higher.

and don't listen to people expounding about immersion, you can reach B2 (https://tracktest.eu/english-levels-cefr/) in your bedroom in any language. immersion is for ironing out the small niche kinks that keep you sounding foreign, not for learning to communicate.