Become a Polyglot

I have 3 foreign languages under my belt, which are getting a bit rusty, so I want to work on improving these, but I haven’t learnt any new languages since university, so I want to devote more time to becoming multilingual :)

Here is my list of languages so far, although it does occasionally change a little:

French
German
Italian
(these 3 are the ones I have already studied)

Spanish
Portuguese
Dutch
Swedish
Finnish
Greek
Turkish
Arabic
Farsi
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Tibetan
Swahili
Indonesian
Filipino
Malay

I think I need to come up with a way to incorporate some of these languages into my day-to-day routine…

This is a crazy dream but I always wanted to learn many languages!

I’ve always wanted to be proficient in allot of languages. When I was younger, I actually spoke German before English, thanks to my wonderful mother, who is German born and raised. I never liked the fact that I stopped speaking it fluently. I can still understand most of what is said to me, but conjuring up a response doesn’t exactly come easy.
The main reason I want to learn so many languages is because of my desire to travel. My ultimate goal is to be fluent in 12 different languages. Most of the ones on my list are what are considered to be fairly difficult to learn – Chinese, Arabic, etc, but I’m confident that if I persevere, then I’ll be able to get them down. I’m getting better at Japanese, which turns out is allot easier to learn than I had always been told. I’m spotty in Italian, but I’ve gotten over the largest hurdle, which was drilling the verb tenses through that thick skull of mine. For some reason, I was having a mental block against them, but at some point everything just clicked.
Right now, I’m working on learning Arabic. I want to be able to travel to Egypt in the late winter/early spring of 2011, and I don’t want to be the dumb tourist that can’t get around on her own. I’ve asked for Arabic language software for Christmas, and I’m trying to find local classes so I can have some interaction with other Arabic speakers.

I hadn’t realised I hadn’t written in so long. Here’s my latest list.

Musts:
Mandarin (going well, but must get to a very high level)
Portuguese (hopefully in time for the Olympics in Rio)
Sign Language

Very likely:
Korean (I’ve really gotten into K-pop lately.)
Taiwanese
Japanese

Would be nice:
Arabic
Afrikaans
Cantonese

I am really interested in learning languages and being able to converse with someone in their native tongue. It would also improve my worldview and really help me to expand my horizons. I am well on my way towards learning French fluently and can speak a little Italian. I really want to concentrate on fluency in:
French
Italian
Spanish
Arabic

While in college I have studied Japanese and American Sign Language. I am not fluent in either at this point, but I am glad I have done it. I plan to continue with these two in the future.

So far I speak English and Spanish . I took French at school years ago But I didn’t practiced so I don’t remember much. I can understand some Portuguese and Italian but I will like to be more knowledgeable on them.
My list of languages I will love to learn are…French, Italian. Portuguese, Hebrew and Greek.

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.