A short blog today, something that I will continue next time: there are two mires that truly exist for language learning: first, getting spread too thin and, second, not seeing a way out of the plateau that you are in.
Once you learn enough languages, your experience will help you to begin to pick new languages apart analytically, even as you are listening to them for the first time. The problem here is that you must learn to resist the urge to spread yourself too thin. It can become all too tempting to start to study another language, even when you haven't finished the previous one that you were working on. You have to develop the mental fortitude to continue with your primary language of study.
I would, thus, strongly advise against taking on more than one and, at most, two languages at a time.
The more you spread your focus, the slower your progress will go in any of the languages that you are studying, and you may stop making real progress in your main language(s) all together – if you're not careful. So, in other words, it will be better to focus on one or two languages at a time than any more than that, solely because you should get a language to a good comfortable level where you have covered/assimilated most of the grammar and have a good foundation in the core vocabulary of the language, so that you then just need to slowly creep your way upwards to ever higher plateaus.
Next time, I'm going to go into this in greater detail and I will let you in on some good secrets as to how to get out of these mires than can prove surprisingly formidable opponents to your language mastery.
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