How I did it: I started learning as a kid (my mom encouraged and indulged my curiosity in languages). I was a pretty odd kid, foreign languages were always my favorite.

English, Portuguese Native. French- 7 yr. Greek-13 yrs.
Japanese- 3 yrs. Italian & Spanish- 1 yr.
Sign Language-1 yr. (My favorite & easy to learn)
Turkish-6 months

Lessons & tips: livemocha.com is a great website and they offer alot of different languages to learn from.

Resources: Teach Yourself Series & Learn Now Series are great books.
Penpals from different countries help alot .
And take advantage of school foreign language classes.

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May 15, 2010, 06:15PM PDT | 1 comment | 5 cheers