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Originally Posted by Valeria  Hi...I'm American...speak German and French. Lived/studied in Germany and Switzerland (Geneva)...now planning to get a tutor for Icelandic, because my goal is to be conversational by June. After that, Danish.
I can read basic newspapers in Dutch, but can't speak it at all. Took a couple of classes in Russian, but I only remember the alphabet.
i'd love to learn Swiss German as well...and some French Creole, not particular about which one...whether Haiti or Martinique...any one is fine.
My daughter wants to learn Japanese, so I've got to figure out how to work that in. And my son is kind of interested in Latin.
But for now I'm only fluent in 3.
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Thanks for the FSI link -- I think I'll use it to help my daughter with her Spanish classes!
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Good luck with the Icelandic! I've been toying with the idea of looking at it, but I haven't yet - same with Swiss German (the Bern dialect is cool, but so is the Zurich one..... so many mutually incomprehensible dialects, so little time..
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I know what you mean about Dutch - I can read some, and pick up passive comprehension really fast with it, but when I asked a Dutch person "how are you?" in Dutch this summer, she had no idea what I was saying - it took about half an hour of her repeating parts of "hoe goed het" slowly until I sounded vaguely reasonable/comprehensible.
I hope the FSI Spanish helps your daughter. For your son,
Textkit - Greek and Latin Learning Tools might be interesting, though I haven't tried out the books there - I've been meaning to look at Latin, but haven't yet really.
You might like
Learning Languages too - it has a quite nice forum where I've been lurking recently.