Big, Fun Scary Language Learners

Is anyone else wanting to take on a new language over the next year?

Me, I'm wanting to learn a Polynesian language. The one with the most immediate practical application is Samoan, since I've got a trip to Samoa planned for August. I've got a few books to help with that.

I might go back to trying to pick up Russian. I started to try to grasp the basics, then kind of slacked off on it after about a month. I still have grad school aspirations, and my thesis involves the Cold War, so it's kind of a prerequisite...

I want to brush up on my French. I'm terribly rusty, and it's supposed to be my SECOND language (English being the third, respectively).
I want to pick up Japanese and Italian, as well. I might have to start learning Russian in Fall'12, though I'm not really fond of it...

It's my goal to be able speak eight languages by the time I die XD Right now though, I'm in high school and just barely starting to learn my second, Spanish...I've got a ways to go%Pr

I'm working through Japanese :) also picking French back up, and possibly almost Spanish. Kind of flirted with the idea of learning Chinese and Korean, but figured I wasn't interested enough to do so.

Also working on my own artificial language. Taking a Linguistics major so hopefully that will help me :p

Learning Japanese is kind of my main focus now because I started studying it in October. ^^; But now that NaNo is over, I plan to take it more seriously and learn all the words and kanji. It's mostly about the kanji, I think, so I really want to focus on that.

Also, since artificial languages were mentioned... I'd love to create one too! But for some reason I never really got into it. Hopefully I'll find time next year!

I want to learn Spanish, just because I like diving into new languages, and because I have a friend from Guatemala.
She speaks some German, so I figured itt would be nice to learn some Spanish in return.
The problem: I suck at learning new languages.
I learned most of my English through books and movies and TV shows and actually communicating. Back in school I wasn't that good. I had also French in school, and.. let's rather not talk about it.
Two years ago I learned some Norwegian, just because, but I soon started to suck at it again.

So what I have learned when it comes to languages:
the usual learning experience doesn't work for me. So no evening classes for me.
I guess I will have to find a way myself. Hopefully I will find a way next year =D

I think that's the best way to learn a new language: books, movies and actual people using it! That's the way we learnt our own language...
For this next year I want to improve my Chinese (I'm just getting started, actually) and keep practicing my English!
If anyone wants a Spanish person to practice with, please send me a PM!

Hey, this is my kind of thread! I aspire to be fluent in at least two other languages than English, with a grounding in at least several more. Right now, I'm studying Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. I think I'm going to drop taking Spanish classes for the next semester and start teaching myself.

In addition to Spanish and Chinese, I would also like to someday learn Russian, ASL, and Italian.

I really, really need to improve my Spanish. Been doing it for 3 years, and yet I can still only really hold a basic conversation. 0__0

I need like an extensive refresher course haha. I officially "know" 5 languages (English, French, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Japanese), but I haven't used most of them in like 10 years that I'm starting to forget so much! It's kind of sad, knowing that all that learning is going down the drain...

I want to relearn French (as in having a way to hold an actual conversation) and learn German

Wanting to pick up learning Japanese and Italian. I learned both at school for a year but when I moved to high school they did not offer Japanese, only Italian, that is when I learned it. I only learned it for a year because I cound not afford to study it anymore.

Polish. I have told myself I have to learn some polish, just to please my Polish girlfriend. It'd be fun to be able to communicate at least a bit with her family.

My goal isn't so much language learning as much as language refresher. I speak Dutch (hence part of my username) but its been ten years since I've really used it. I'd like to brush up on my reading skills. I have a number of Dutch books in it that I'd like to read. Most notably I have a copy of 'Het Achter Huis' - considered the official manuscript of Anne Frank's diary. I've owned it for years but never read it.

I'm contemplating other language learning goals, but those have to wait until I get a permanent job and money to spend on lessons. I think Gaelic would be my first choice.

I'm not sure what language I would want to learn this time around. I have a few that I wouldn't mind working through. French, Dutch, German, among other languages. Including Irish and Scottish Gaelic and Latin. What can I say, I love languages period.

I want to become fluent in Spanish and start learning some more Mandarin. I know some Spanish, but it's only enough to get around and get the gist of what's written on Spanish sites and newspapers. I know a few words in Mandarin, but would love to learn more. In fact, it would be really cool if I could become a Spanish voice over artist or work in a bilingual radio station :D.

I'm also interested in Gaelic, but that will probably come later.

If anyone wants a penpal to practice French with, send me a message, I'd love to chat!

I need to keep working on my Japanese for my license test. Beyond that, I'd like to learn another language proficiently. I took a little French and Chinese in college, but I'm also interested in Spanish, Korean, and German, so I need to pick one and pursue it instead of getting distracted. Good luck everyone!

Greek! (hopefully).

*If* I can find a book, any book, on Ancient Greek syntax, I'd learn that in a heartbeat instead of Modern, but it seems like that desire shall never be fulfilled.