ok, i’m in mexico, and i’ve made contact with a portuguese teacher at my institute. the best part? she wants to learn english, so we’re going to have a language exchange – and it’ll be free for both of us. and when we have a misunderstanding, we’ll have to work it out in our lingua franca: spanish.
oh, heavens, life is beautiful! 2 years ago

My new job offers me free Spanish lessons, or a discount on 8 other languages if I want to learn them! I don’t speak perfect Spanish, but I don’t exactly need lessons either. My boyfriend, however, really needs to learn English, and after three years with me he’s still very basic. So, I’m going to see if I can exchange my free Spanish lessons for free English lessons for him. That would be great, but if I can’t do that, hellooooooo Portuguese! 2 years ago

Eu comprei livros novos e estou estudando todos os dias. Estou aprendendo muito portugues! 3 years ago

I still want to learn Greek, but at the moment it’s on the back burner. I don’t know how it all started, but I’ve developed a fascination with Brazil. I am officially looking for work there, and for about a week I’ve been studying Portuguese. I can’t believe how easy it is (since I already know Spanish)! I’m learning a LOT, studying every day. Updates to come… 3 years ago

Hi folks! I am Rita from China, I can speak English. It took me a long time to really master English to a higher level.And I thought it’s enough for me to be around the world. However, now I have to learn Danish and master it very fast, because I am living in Denmark and I need to get a job and a life here. And yes, I am think of going to get a danish language course, specially when the course is free for me right now.

Here,you might think: well, that’s not so hard once you get the environment and the support. But, you guys don’t know I really not that good at school. I might be good at learning things by myself. I just wondering if I should start the class learning at the beginning or I can wait untill I learn some by myslef and then correct and improve it in the class. I’m really done with school. In some extent, I am fear of school…

Anyway, I know, at the end of the day, my goal is to understand, to speak, to read, to write danish very soon. I should try every thing I can endure. Maybe school is not a matter at all. What matter is the teacher, the program, and myself. Rita, be brave, you can do it! And do it now!!! 3 years ago

I’m a native Romanian speaker and I have near-native fluency in English. Why would I learn another language, fluently, when there are somanyother things tolearn?

English is the de-facto universal language. Live with it.

4 years ago

i was walking hungrily through the streets of buenos aires the other night (i have no idea why i had to go to argentina to decide this), and all of a sudden i felt very sure of my decision – and not just a decision to learn another language, but a decision of where i’m going to live next. athens. i’m going to learn greek. i feel so sure of it.
does anyone have advice about moving to and/or securing a job in athens? 4 years ago

i’m completely immersed in my second language now, and i’m as head over heels, helplessly in love with spanish as i have been for over ten years now. also, i do speak it fluently, but i am forever a student of it (as i am with my native language), and i actively study every day as well as being immersed in it. so my point is, this goal – the third language – is kind of on hold right now. living in a foreign country, it turns out, can put many goals on hold. it’s a high price to pay, but it’s by no means too high. it’s also excellent motivation – if i’m having this much fun with my second language, just imagine the third! jajaja :) 5 years ago

in addition to the english and spanish i speak, i’ve studied a fair amount of both mandarin and american sign language (and latin, but i’d like to be able to use whatever i study to talk to living people). and i’d like to be able to use it to travel outside the us, so asl is kind of out. i guess i could keep going with the mandarin – i definitely have a good basis and i still have a lot of books – but i’m tempted to step totally outside my comfort zone and do something wacky. i have always melted over the sound of greek, always thought that it sounds remarkably songlike all the time. on the other hand, german is delightfully crude, and i’ve already sung in german quite a bit. and finally, despite its complete (or nearly complete) uselessness in the real world, i have some fascination with gaelic (i think it’s because i studied linguistics in college and i had to define all these rules, but when i look at written gaelic it seems to defy rules entirely).
and i left my magic 8-ball in the states. so i want your input. 5 years ago

Not sure which one. I understand Hungarian but can’t speak it so that is a possibility however Spanish will be more useful in my career. We’ll see. 5 years ago

learning a 3rd language.. not quite sure which one yet 5 years ago