Become a Polyglot

I think I’m just going to concentrate on a few languages. Sure, it’s nice to learn ‘basic French’ or ‘basic Turkish’ for when you go on holiday etc; not counting language-learning forays like those, I’m going to concentrate on:

*German
*Polish
*Hebrew
*Latin

And later on, I’m going to learn ancient Greek..

English (native)
French (none)
Spanish (beginner)
German (intermediate)
Polish (beginner)
Latin (beginner)
Greek (none)
Hebrew (intermediate)
Arabic (beginner)

The question is.. whether to learn them concurrently, or one at a time??

Don’t think this is happening somehow! OK… revised plan..

• latin and german until the end of the year
• decide what to learn after that, at the time!

Possibly Shona and Polish.

Let’s say (for the moment) that I’m taking my year-by-year plan to become a polyglot (hehe) seriously. That would mean that this academic year (ending august 2009) I need to finish learning Latin, and brush up and go further with German.

• 39 chapters in the book
• 40 weeks from now until mid-way through August (16th)
• 1 chapter a week, to start off with!

• w/c 9.11.08, chapter 1

• 13 lessons
• 40 weeks
• 2 weeks per lesson
• other stuff later, like translating poetry
• W/c 9.11.08, chapter 1

I have studied (fully or in bits):

*German
*Latin
*Hebrew
*Spanish
*Polish
*Arabic
*Hungarian

But only German and English I can understand fairly well (or very well in the case of English :P). This year I’m concentrating on Latin and German, and next year I think I’m going to tackle ancient Greek and one other language—not sure what yet.

Perhaps I could make it a regular thing. You know, learn one or two languages a year, and make every fourth year a review year or something. How would it look—something like:

2008: Latin and German
2009: Greek and Polish
2010: Hebrew and Arabic
2011: review year
2012: French and Spanish
2013: Italian and Russian
2014: something else
2015: review year

OK, that’s probably a bit unrealistic! but hey.