become fluent in another language

I can speak enough to survive in Hebrew and Italian. My issue here is applying myself to perfecting another language, and practicing what I know before I lose it completely.

I gave a half hearted try in French back in high scool and my first year in college. Now I really would like to learn another language and be able to speak it fluently. Any language (maybe not French, I think I’m burnt out on that). Italian or Chinese, even Latin!

Too bad those rosetta stone things are like, 500 bucks!

I just had a baby with my beautiful Brazilian wife and I would love to speak with her and my daughter in Portuguese.

I’ve been learning Russian online for a while now, but I recently started a BSL course with my local college. :D

Hopefully this isn’t a decision I’ll regret. I figured I could learn Swedish faster than Japanese… you know, save the hardest for last.

For a while I’ve wanted to learn Swedish considering I want to visit Sweden and Finland in the near future, but mom brought up somewhat of a good point the other day: Since I’m going into business (?!), I should start with Japanese instead. I did, someday, want to visit Japan, therefore Japanese would have been my second choice.
I wanted to start with something “easy” to boost my confidence, therefore I wanted to learn Swedish first :DD hah! Japanese, with all those symbols, looks very complicated! And I hear sentence structure is very different from other languages.
Rosetta Stone is having a Father’s Day sale so I could get $100 off the 3 sets, but I can’t decide which one to buy!

I want to be able to speak Thai moderately well.

I want to be able to actually speak french and/or spanish. I feel like my straight A’s in the subjects in high school and college are a good start, right?

So, I started speaking spanish as a child before English and I really miss it! I can understand a good amount still, but feel so sloppy speaking it. I just have to get over the embarrassment of butchering the language when I speak…it doesn’t have to be perfect for now right? I need to make friends again who speak spanish and practice! Maybe this should be my next goal on 43things?

I want to go to Italy, and think that it would be good if i learnt Italian.