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Right. So, I've been reading up a lot of articles about languages and polyglots (or multilingual people) in my free time, meaning I am now entertaining the notion of learning many languages in my lifetime. (Which is never going to happen, but hey, it doesn't hurt to try.)
I'm going to be taking Japanese in college, which has been an ambition of mine for quite a while, but I'm hoping to not let my Chinese and French stagnate (Chinese because it's my heritage; French because I've learned it for seven years, even though my level is still pathetically low). Which probably means going out and finding French articles and news broadcasts/podcasts, Chinese news broadcasts, writing e-mails in French/Chinese just to confuse my family...
Unfortunately, I also have a long list of languages that have caught my eye that I would like to learn or try my hand at learning, such as Finnish, Norwegian, German, Russian, Turkish...
Okay, that's not exactly a very long list, but consider that some of these languages can be used as jumping-off points for other related languages: French -> Spanish, Portuguese, Italian; Norwegian -> Swedish, Danish, Icelandic; German -> Dutch; Russian -> Polish, Ukrainian, other Slavic languages; Finnish -> Estonian; and I you have a super-impossible goal. XD
In terms of immediate, reachable goals, I think I will try to learn Finnish in my spare time, and keep exercising French/Chinese, while learning Japanese in college. And maybe dabble in reading Norwegian on the side. Then I could die happy. XD (Seriously, though, Norwegian grammar is actually easy for a native English-speaker to pick up. I'm not kidding. It's much easier than German or even the Romance languages.)
(On that note, I'm starting to think German is an absolute nightmare to learn...)
I'm going to be taking Japanese in college, which has been an ambition of mine for quite a while, but I'm hoping to not let my Chinese and French stagnate (Chinese because it's my heritage; French because I've learned it for seven years, even though my level is still pathetically low). Which probably means going out and finding French articles and news broadcasts/podcasts, Chinese news broadcasts, writing e-mails in French/Chinese just to confuse my family...
Unfortunately, I also have a long list of languages that have caught my eye that I would like to learn or try my hand at learning, such as Finnish, Norwegian, German, Russian, Turkish...
Okay, that's not exactly a very long list, but consider that some of these languages can be used as jumping-off points for other related languages: French -> Spanish, Portuguese, Italian; Norwegian -> Swedish, Danish, Icelandic; German -> Dutch; Russian -> Polish, Ukrainian, other Slavic languages; Finnish -> Estonian; and I you have a super-impossible goal. XD
In terms of immediate, reachable goals, I think I will try to learn Finnish in my spare time, and keep exercising French/Chinese, while learning Japanese in college. And maybe dabble in reading Norwegian on the side. Then I could die happy. XD (Seriously, though, Norwegian grammar is actually easy for a native English-speaker to pick up. I'm not kidding. It's much easier than German or even the Romance languages.)
(On that note, I'm starting to think German is an absolute nightmare to learn...)
