cc05 wrote:I do have around 1-2 hours most days a week to dedicate to language learning, and I do find that I have an easier time with motivation if I'm doing 2-3 different activities vs just working on one at a time. As mentioned above, it is a good way to keep motivation up when I am getting bored of one specific course or activity.
...I don't plan on adding much more at this time other than Linguaphone and an Assimil course.
I'll reiterate though that any course, done with full attention and commitment, will suck up that 1-2 hours a day. Doing a course and assuming it's just 15 or 30 or 45 minutes and that there's time over for course no.2 (or even no.3) is classic 'spreading oneself thinly'. When the books close and the audio is off, the learning process hasn't stopped.
To 'do one thing' and thoroughly, as I'm characterising it, doesn't mean just do Linguaphone and nothing else. It means do Linguaphone. But also tentatively begin reading books, begin following video series', begin perusing news sites... etc. All the things for language in use. This is more than enough to get a basis.
The view that one has to stack loads of courses concurrently for success, is to my mind unfounded and actually distraction and overload.