learn to speak another language

What an achievement this one will be, I am really pumped about it. I hear the program rosetta stone is a quick easy way to learn a language so I will be using that to help me. My brother speaks japanese and I have many friends who speak french however I have a strange desire to learn spanish.

Here I go…Level 1

Unit 1: Language Basics

i can speak a little spanish

I really, really, really want to stop putting this off cause I have been wanting to do this for a while. I speak English, Spanish and French but I think it’s time to learn a new language. Chinese would be a great challenge, but I will most likely try Italian or Portuguese if I decide to ever do really do this! I am inspired by people I keep meeting who are older and just started learning a new language a few years ago and they are doing great. That is so damn awesome. I hope I get to this before I am 33. I am 31 now.

I lived in Milan for 6 months and not only learnt Italian I had a blast of a time! I enrolled at Linguadue Language school before I left home (Australia) and completed a 3 month Intensive Italian for begginers course. They are great, they help you with accomodation, everything. I know French so I guess that helps but I also worked in a small design Studio for 3 months and being surrounded by Italian speaking people who hardly speak English really helps you pick it up aswell! I can now have a conversation in Italian. It is the most rewarding feeling to be able to tell people that you learnt another language. Even more rewarding if you were 19 at the time like I was.

hi im josh

1. Spanish: I took four years of Spanish in high school. However, it wasn’t what you would call an intense curriculum and I’ve retained very little of my Spanish vocabulary. I’m not too bad at Spanglish though :)
2. Ukrainian: My boyfriend’s Ukrainian so technically he could teach me. He started to, but we both got so busy that it never really went anywhere.
3. Japanese: I was interested in learning Japanese for a while so I have a book or two on that. I taught myself some basic vocabulary and grammar but not much.

If you can’t tell, I start many personal projects and then don’t finish them.

I lived/worked in Russia for four and a half years, and learning to speak Russian made it a much more enjoyable experience. I think it would be incredibly hard to do if you don’t have it around you all the time, but it’s certainly not a requirement. By the time I left I could speak well enough that people didn’t immediately know that I was an American. I can’t say that I’m fluent, unfortunately, and after 3 years removed from speaking it daily I’ve gotten pretty rusty. Learning any foreign language is a constant effort, so you’re always progressing when it isn’t your native tongue. But when you start thinking in another language, that’s when you know you’re getting somewhere.

I give up on this, it is too hard. The world speacks english

I wish I could

EDIT: I’m going to learn chinese

I have had the urge for months now to learn another language. I went to Milan last year and Paris a while back and it struck me how almost everyone could speak English, or at least made an attempt at it. I felt so ashamed of myself, never having bothered with language. Why shouldn’t we make the effort? I’m not sure what one to go with. I’m half Italian and I love Italy, so why not Italian? But then I thought, which language is the most popular? Which would serve me better if I decided to move abroad?