learn 5 languages

1.German – yep
2.English – pretty good
3.French – still not perfect
4.Polish – just started
5.Arabic – beginner
(Latin – pretty good, but I don’t know if I will count that, or just the languages I can speak)

Also thinking about learning either spanish, italian or portuguese
but I dunno with which one to start.
Oh and maby russian or japanese. Chinese would be great too.
Ok now I’m exaggerating xD
Think I will stick with the 5 first mentioned languages, before
I’ll start another one, which one is still unclear :)

I’m not completely fluent in all of these languages, but I’m getting there-

1. English (Native tongue, but I think it counts)
2. French
3. Spanish
4. German
5. Sign

1. French (currently work on it)
2. Farsi
3. Spanish
4. Portuguese
5. Italian
6. English (properly. decided to add this, as my english is not perfect and i am planning to enroll in advance english courses this summer to improve it.)

I took Spanish all throughout high school, but it wasn’t something I was truly passionate about learning. But I realized that most of languages are derived from Latin, which is somewhat similar to Spanish. haha! But all in all, I want to learn to speak: Italian, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Romanian.

This goal is kind of too vague for me. So let me try to figure out what it means to me.

It’s not really that I want to learn five languages. I want to be able to speak, read, write and understand five languages. So, it means I can count English as one.

The other issue is, how do I know when I am “finished” learning a language? How fluent do I need to be before I’ll consider this goal done? I initially was going to use my fluency level in Cantonese as the goal – if I can be as fluent in another language as I am in Cantonese, I would count that as done.

But I’m finding that I am starting to lose my fluency in Cantonese from disuse, which adds an additional complication to this goal. After I learn one language, I am going to start to lose it when I start working on the next one. Is my goal to be similarly fluent in all five languages simultaneously, or is it okay to be fluent consecutively – fluent in Cantonese, and then losing my Cantonese while I work on Spanish, then losing my fluency in Spanish while I work on, you know, Klingon or whatever. ;-) Not sure what to do about this.

Next issue is, am I going to count dialects? Cantonese Chinese is very different from Mandarin Chinese. I think this should count. Okay, got that cleared up for myself, at least. But the other questions still remain.

I’ve been thinking about this goal lately, and I gonna give up this one – I added it because it was available but really it doesn’t fit my goal. I don’t want to LEARN new languages, I want to KNOW languages. I already know a little bit of many languages, but I want to be able to communicate, talk, understand what people are saying. Maybe not as a mother tongue (being realistic :p), but, you know, being able to have conversations.

French and English are fine. And “my new life is in English” so I’m kinda constantly working on it :p
I really need to focus on stopping forgeting my German (it was my first foreign language.. I’ve learned it for many years and now it’s just going away!). Let’s call it this way.. my German.. not forget my little German.. sounds more attractive!

And I have to focus on my Spanish too.

So basically.. giving up one goal for 2 new ones!!

Chinese (Mandarin)
Japanese (although this may change if the population keep shrinking)
Arabic
French
Spanish (already had two semesters in H.S. – not very fond of it – but it will be the official language of the U.S. soon, or at least one of them)

- English – check
- French – check
- German – check but have to practice or will keep forgeting..
- Spanish – started to learn.. know basic words, can read it quite a bit thanks to my French and English..

=> I’m confident for these 4 languages.

- Chinese: learn it for one year: gave up.
Need to find a new fifth language, probably one close to the languages I already know..

Well since I’m heading to Germany in 4 months I figured I should learn some basic German, so I’ve put Hebrew on hold for now. We’ll see how far I can get on German in 4 months. =)

Well I picked Hebrew as my first language, I’m already fluent in American Sign Language but I’m not allowing myself to put that on my list of languages because even though I know it’s considered another language, it’s so much more comfortable to me then English that it’s become almost like my First Language and It’d be like me writing English on the list.

I try to spend at least 30 minutes a day working on this but sometimes I sit down for hours with the letters and going through words. I’m hoping I can get to the point that I can comfortably read a children’s grade school early chapter book by Christmas.