Learn as many languages as possible

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I go to French and Italian class. My native language is English. I speak, read and write Japanese fluently. I can get by in Spanish. I know basic Swedish. I am in the process of learning Farsi, Arabic, Turkish, Chinese and trying to improve the Swedish through various online sites. I would like to pick up German, Portuguese and Russian, but for now, I think my mind is full. I’m not young like some of you.

Right now I am actually learning both Spanish and Portuguese and I find learning Portuguese is definitely easier than it would be if I did not have good knowledge of Spanish. I am using Pimsleur in order to work with speaking right away, which I feel I also should have done with Spanish. I also spend more time though, looking up how to spell the words and write sentences as Pimsleur is almost completely audio. I am also going through the “Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese” book which covers some things that Pimsleur has not (yet.. I’m still only on Lesson 28) It’s fun. And useful. I was watching UFC yesterday and a Brazilian fighter spoke after his fight, and although I have not learned that much Portuguese so far, I could understand the words that he said that I have learned.

does anyone know the easiest way to learn a language without human assistance?

i know english, my parents first language, and french from school. barely any spanish and italian, though i’d love to know more!! i wish i could learn by staying in different countries and picking up the language that way. maybe one day i will!!!

I’m continuing with this.
I speak English (mother tongue), French, German and Spanish. I have also discovered due to my grandmother buying me Harry Poter in Dutch by mistake (instead of German) that I can read Dutch enough to get by.
I should be starting Latin and Japanese in September when I get to college which will give me quite a few languages. I also would LOVE to learn Finnish because I adore the country and intend to visit there, if not live there in the future.
If I master all those languages I’ll have 8, although Norwegian, Swedish and Italian wouldn’t be bad to add to the list. =D

I speak slovene (my mother tongue), english, french, german -> all that in school. And I understand croatian, serbian a bit, and spanish.

So, I want to improve my spanish knowledge, cause I can’t write it, I’ve learned it from soap operas (:D). I’d like to learn also italian, portuguese, russian… As many languages I can in this lifetime :) and I’m only 17!! ;)

I’m so excited! And then, when I learn all those languages, I’m gonna travel to countries where they speak these languages. Can’t wait to start!! :D

so my hubby and i are learning arabic together. it’s tons of fun!!!!

i don’t remember most of the verbs i learned, but i kept the nouns, i think. we’re using the rosetta stone program. we only used it for an hour, though, and i’m surprised with how much i retained! great program!

since my husband is from Jordan, i want to be able to raise the baby with some arabic. but i speak spanish from my puerto rican roots, so i’d also like to bring the baby up with some spanish. and i learned japanese for fun a long time ago, so i’ll also raise the baby with japanese. multilingual child indeed. what i like about the variety of languages, though, is that they all sort of come from scattered parts of the world, meaning that the brain receptors that would generally stop functioning in a unilingual child will remain alive and fluid in my children- making it easier for them to learn almost any language they want without suffering the loss of these receptors which would make it difficult for them to hear certain sounds that don’t exist in english. like the bh sound in hindi… lots of americans can’t hear the diff between a b and bh sound. my babies will!!!

And communicating with the natives. I know a little French and Spanish but I need a refresher course. Any suggestions?

when can I mark this off as complete XD I think blueyed615’s idea was good with picking a number. I would like to be fluent in at least Spanish and French. And then I’ll see from there what I want to do. I know I will want to know at least a bit of Portuguese, maybe enough to have small conversations (because my brother’s wife is from Brazil), as well as Italian and maybe German. And it would be cool to learn some Chinese just because it’s the most spoken language in the world. XD Well, that could take a long long time but can be done.