become fluent in another language

After perusing the first portion of this self-taught Irish course, I’ve decided that it is not the best way to learn a language and would not recommend the purchase of this course. I have learned some, and will continue to work with this course until I can find and purchase a better one.

After returning the Gaelic (Scottish) learning resources to my local Borders a week or so ago, I found the Irish version and purchased it yesterday. I’ve skimmed through the pronunciation guide and listened to a couple of the recordings, but I haven’t yet had the time to fully devote myself to it. I will work on that.

Also, much less importantly, I haven’t chosen an Irish name for myself. I didn’t get to when I was in Spanish, so I want to with Irish. I could just use my real name (first, middle, and last are all anglicized Irish names), but that’s no fun.

French and Spanish baby! :D

I recently purchased Teach Yourself! Gaelic from my local Borders, but returned it soon after because I hadn’t noticed that it was Scottish Gaelic as opposed to Irish Gaelic, which I would much prefer to learn.

I have been listening to the first few lessons of Giota beag, which is an audio learning program that was played on the BBC-NI’s Radio Blas.

Slán!

I was learning Hungarian (my husbands native country) but I found it quite difficult. I dropped out of Spanish in high school. So now I’ve learning German. It is actually quite easy. I just have to start the lessons more regulary.

I’ve taken two years of Spanish in high school (though I taught myself most of what I learned there) and have finished the four-course foreign language requirement at university in Spanish, but I would in no way call myself fluent. It’s one of those use it or lose it things. I don’t remember a lot of it because I’ve had no real reason to since I finished the final course. I would love to have a Spanish pen pal (who can also speak English, of course, in case I don’t know how to say something correctly or at all).

Other languages I am interested in learning include Gaelic and American Sign Language.

I already have the beginnings of both but probably need to be in an environment that would force me to use what I already know.

Besides English…

Ones I Know Bits Of:

Spanish
Latin
Japanese

Other Cool and/or Useful Languages:

Chinese
Arabic
Russian
French
German

I finally decided that I’m going to take American Sign Language as my “foreign” language for my degree program. I’m pretty excited, and after 4 quarters of it, I think I’ll consider myself fluent. =)

I took 3 years of spanish in high school, so I know enough to recognize a few words but I’m far from fluent. I guess I could work on that. I think Italian is absolutely beautiful so that’s also an option. I also have always wanted to learn Chinese. So, we’ll see…