523: How to learn 2 languages without breaking your brain
From StoryLearning Podcast by Olly Richards
March 4, 2026 · 12 min · Episode 523
About this episode
This episode discusses strategies for learning two languages simultaneously without confusion.
👉 Grab your FREE Language Difficulty Guide: https://l.storylearning.com/free_difficulty Today's question is about the most asked about topic in the more than 10-year history of this podcast: learning two languages. So many of us want to learn tons of languages, so we often study two at once. And then we realise, hang on, this is creating a few problems because we get muddled up. This episode is all about how to deal with that. Link mentioned in this episode: Angela de Bruin, Liv J. Hoversten, Clara D. Martin, Interference between non-native languages during trilingual language production, Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 128, 2023, 104386, ISSN 0749-596X. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X22000730 👉 Got a question you want Olly to answer on the podcast? Submit it here: https://storylearning.com/ask_Olly_your_question 👉 Get a 7-day FREE trial to one of my story-based language courses: https://storylearning.com/Language_Courses 👉 Check out my all-inclusive VIP language programme with guaranteed results: https://storylearning.com/StoryLearning_VIP_Info #storylearning #learnthroughstories
People in this episode
Host: Olly Richards
Topics covered
- language learning
- bilingualism
- trilingualism
- language interference
- language courses
Keywords
- language learning
- bilingualism
- trilingualism
- language interference
- language courses
- Olly Richards
- StoryLearning
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Journal of Memory and Language
Books & works: Interference between non-native languages during trilingual language production
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