I looked through the top the pages of the forum and couldn't find a thread about this, so I'm starting a new one rather than necro-posting on an old one.
My problem is oldie but a goodie - due to the lovely, delicious language-buffet put on my all you nice folks here at UL, I'm all hyped up on wanderlust again and thinking about starting to learn other languages (and/or revive some of my old ones).
The thing is, I pretty much do everything through Portuguese now - I spend hours a day speaking it, I read books in it, watch YouTube more or less exclusively in it, etc... and it seems to me that that's basically what it takes to get fluent. I'm frustrated at times because I don't express myself well enough in Portuguese, so clearly if I want to get past that awkward point I can't concede an inch to any other languages, right? I mean, almost all of my free time is done through the medium of Portuguese, so any space I make for other languages is space taken from Portuguese.
How do those of you with a fluent command of more than one foreign language manage? Is there a point you need to get to in one where it's kind of okay to use it less and have it still remain solid? I was considering trying to study the other languages through Portuguese, but if I'm trying to get equally fluent in those as I am in Portuguese, at some point I'd have to do with them as I'm doing with Portuguese now - live them, speak nothing else except them wherever possible, to the exclusion of all else.