create a list of languages I would like to learn and plan the order in which I want to start learning them

Besides the languages I want to be more fluent in, the order of the top languages I want to learn would be: Hindi, Hungarian, Armenian, and Gaelic.

i’ll leave the rest open for a while
and see where my travels take me,
then learn the appropriate languages
but for now seven is probably enough to start.

is on the list too
since i’ll be going to spain in a year or so
and i live pretty close to Mexico anyway
that leaves 4 more slots!

is probably a reasonable (ha) number to limit this to so I’ll revise my list and make cuts, I think based strictly on where I’d like to live and travel to, though I can’t say for sure this will stay the same, the top five or six probably will:

French
Japanese
Italian
Dutch
Portuguese
...

anyone else want to help me pick the rest?

get better at:

French and Japanese

The Others:

Italian
Mongolian
Dutch
Portuguese
Swedish
Indonesian
Yiddish
Georgian
Hungarian
Spanish
Mayan
Tamil
Sinhala
Thai
Korean
Kalaallisut
Slovene
Tibetan
Finnish
Icelandic
Tahitian
Hatian Creole
Tagalog
German
Khmer
Balinese
Czech
Igbo
Lithuanian
Malagasy
Nahuatl

I don’t know what timescale to work on because I prefer to stagger new languages to limit interference, but it depends on how I feel. Similarities can hinder or help learning, as can differences. It all depends on my approach.

However, I have an order in mind, even if I don’t know exactly when I’ll start each one individually.

There are actually 2 lists – one that I want to learn more seriously and slowly to an upper intermediate level; and one that I want to dabble in and work towards a lower intermediate level.

List A:

1. Chinese
2. Japanese
3. Korean
4. One of the Austronesian languages

List B:

1. Spanish
2. Dutch
3. Greek
4. Arabic
5. Swahili

I have decided on a slightly shorter list of languages that I want to learn:

- Dutch
- Spanish
- Greek
- Chinese
- Japanese
- Korean
- Swahili
- Arabic

I would like to learn one Austronesian language from: Malay, Bahasa Indonesian, Javanese and Tagalog.

I need to work out the levels and when to start next…

I’m going to start out by making a list of the languages I would like to be more fluent in and a general list of languages I would like to learn, in no particular order.

Languages I would like to be more fluent in:
Spanish
German
French
Arabic

Languages I would like to learn:
Modern Hebrew
Italian
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Vietnamese
Hindi
Swahili
Sanskrit
Latin
Russian
Armenian
Hungarian
Romanian
Dutch
Greek
Zulu
Swedish
Afrikaans
Danish
Finnish
K’iche’
Irish
Navajo
Maori
Spanish Sign Language
American Sign Language
Mexican Sign Language
South African Sign Language
Israeli Sign Language
Scottish Gaelic
Cree
Cherokee
Lakota
Ottoman
Egyptian Hieroglyphs

I want to learn Chinese sooner rather than later, but I want to take it slower because I want to make sure it sinks in rather than skimming through it, as I have been able to do with more closely related languages. I want to concentrate on learning the tones, speaking Chinese and writing pinyin, and worry about being able to write the characters more slowly.

Even if I can just get to A-Level or to sub-Honours level, then I would be able to get by with a Chinese person and maybe write a letter or postcard etc. I’m not too worried about becoming fluent or being able to get by on a more formal/professional level.

I have studied French, German and Italian so far but I would like to expand my horizons further. These are the languages that I am considering learning at the moment:

- Dutch
- Portuguese
- Greek
- Sanskrit
- Chinese
- Japanese
- Korean
- Pali
- Tagalog
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Javanese
- Swahili
- Hawai’ian
- Malay
- Arabic

I think this list needs to be narrowed down a little, or at least I need to vary the competences expected for each. For example, I might want to learn Chinese fluently, but only get by with basic Tagalog. I need to do some research into them all and see which ones are of most interest or importance to me.