Be Polylingual

I speak fluent French, Danish, Spanish and English. I have notions of Quechua, can read Norwegian and Swedish, can mutter my way through Dutch and German and have a basic recollection of my Turkish classes. Does it count as a complete goal?

I’m fluent in Spanish, English, Portuguese and Italian. I am currently learning Japanese.

It wouldn’t be enough to count the career opportunities this skill might bring you, as well as the feeling of personal accomplishment.

So, yeah, worth doing. :D

Right now, I am a bilingual in Korean & English. I have taken so many foreign language classes: 2 years of Spanish in High school, 1 semester of French & 2 semesters of Japanese in College, and 1 term of Polish class at an adult education center. I also studied a bit of German on my own. I really need to stick to one language and keep going. I chose Spanish for now, but gradually, I’m hoping to master all the languages lited above.

haha , chinese , english , hokkien . not really in the original sense of the word , but yah ..i`m poly ling now

I’m fluent in English and Spanish. I’m working toward becoming fluent in Italian. I also know a little French. I would like to learn Japanese, Korean and Portuguese.

Am I polylingual already? If I learn all the languages I want to learn, then I’ll definitely be.

Well, all goals must be “SMART”, so I figured I’d define “polylingual” for myself. Poly- means “many, several, much”, and that’s a little un-specific and un-measurable, so I’ll define it for myself as four or more non-English languages (English shouldn’t count, I think). I currently know a little French, a little Italian, so it makes sense to flesh those out to be my first two. My husband is from Alaska and is always talking about how beautiful a language Russian is, so that shall be my third. And Arabic shall be my fourth. I would also like to study the differences between American, British, and Australian/New Zealand English, and I’ve met people that distinguished those as separate languages, but I’m not sure I’d be able to.
So then we need a time limit and a way to measure when I’ve achieved it. I think 5 years is a good time limit. That’s one language per year, which sounds pretty ambitious, but I learn languages pretty quickly, and there are programs that can teach you in 6 weeks. I define success in learning a language as being nearly- or native-fluent in it. I’ll have to find some way to test and/or get certification (both to have a way to tell myself and the world that I know this language).

I am bilingual. My dad is greek and my mom is uruguayan, so my maternal language is spanish, but since I’ve spent my whole life in Greece I speak greek very well. Apart from spanish and greek, I have a good level of english (I need to brush it up a little bit though), I have diplomas in french and right now I’m learning italian. So.. at the moment I can speak in 5 different languages. What else should I try???

I was born in Taiwan and my family immigrated to South Africa when I was six years old. At home, we spoke Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese. I learnt English and Afrikaans at school and also took up French in high school. I am not fluent in French yet, but I think I can travel through France without too much problem :)

3 down… many more to go

I also want to learn:

Latin

Danish

Hatian Creole (Don’t ask me why, I just do)

Swahili

Husu

Arabic

Tibetan