learn a second language

I’m doing pretty well on this one. I decided on French for work purposes, although Swahili may turn out to be the more practical one. I’m in Level 2 of my computer course and looking into an intensive for the fall. Feel like I’m making regular progress and hope I can become more comfortable soon.

Well, not really, but I realized the goal is too vague. There’s no way to know when I’ve completed the goal (in fact I don’t think it would ever be “complete” as language learning can potentially be infinite). Gave up on this in favor of smaller, achievable learning goals that would fall under this heading.

Tonight I signed up for an online Spanish course. I chose Spanish because it is a good base for both French and Italian, and I’d like to travel Europe one day.

I’m thinking either Spanish or French.

I’ve made attempts at Russian, Romanian, French, Spanish and Japanese. Made the most progress in (spoken) Japanese, but do question the usefulness of it since it only helps me in one country and it happens to be a country where most people speak better English than my Japanese. I do need to pick one and stick with it if I ever want to be fluent, though and I did find it helpful in the more rural and southern areas. I think Spanish is the most useful language (worldwide) that I have any chance of becoming relatively fluent in in this lifetime, so maybe that’s where I look next … ?

What could it be, what could it be? Japanese, Swahili, French, Chinese I don’t know yet am sure the inspiration will come!

To learn a second language and acctully be able to speak it good.

I live in Tucson, so I know this is a pointless goal….if I cared what other people though of it. I personally love the language. I want to learn to speak it fluently. If I had the ability to do this, then I could be an interpreter. That would be awesome

learn for employment and personal reasons

Or both? French would be more practical perhaps, but given that I’m living in Kenya, Kiswahili is more useable and more fun. I may try to learn both at once.

First step, Spend 30 minutes on each this week with the books I already have.

Second step: no enrolling for courses until I finish the books I already have.