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Originally Posted by Zach  I'm really into them, and it's my goal to become fluent in as many as I can as soon as possible...It will probably take a long time, but I'm going to do my best. |
I am into them too. I'm currently studying Spanish and Russian. I studied some Latin in the past, and I'm lucky to have been exposed to German, French, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese. I also intend on becoming fluent in Tagalog. And my list of languages that I want to learn keeps growing - ASL, Swahili, Portuguese, Gaelic, Arabic, Greek... However, my skill level in all of these is minimal because I dabble. Spanish, at one point, I had an intermediate grasp on, but four years away from the language mostly negated that.
I'm currently trying to fashion a major around learning multiple foreign languages, but I'll probably end up picking a different major. I don't know how effective it is to take classes on different foreign languages simultaneously, if the end goal is fluency. Especially, if those classes are the only exposure I have to the language, and my focus is divided between four or five other subjects. I end up dabbling and then losing what little I did learn.
I'm impatient and easily become frustrated myself.
That book sound interesting, I'll try to find it here. Thanks for mentioning it!
I look forward to hearing what others have to say about this. How is it that in almost every other country, people are at least bi- or tri-lingual? I'm hoping that people might post stories about their journeys toward fluency, or any ways to more effectively learn languages.