I Want to Learn Many Languages

I am a native speaker of English, and I took a semester of Portuguese a couple years ago. Next year, I'm taking Spanish. In my free time in one of my classes, I use Duolingo and learn different languages. I'm focusing on Esperanto right now. At my top college choice, there are [i]18[/i] language options (American Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, and Yiddish). If I end up there, I'd have a hard time deciding what to take.

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drymer · 56-60, M

I grew up in South America, so I speak fluent Spanish and Portuguese (Brazilian Portuguese is infinitely nicer than the "original" imho). Yet, I doubt you can master a language in one semester... There's nothing like living "inside" the culture and getting all the slangs, the "spirit" of the language.... Very noble of you wanting to learn Esperanto except it's not a "living" language... A language is more than words and grammars, they all have a specific musicality to it, a particular personality... Think Italian, French... Personally I'd love mastering French (from France, not the ugly variety they speak in Canada), Italian, Japanese, German, Hebrew, Russian... yet in my opinion it takes half a lifetime to master a language, so it's more like and impossible dream... 😑

XenonRush · M

18? Wow! What college is that! That's amazing 😲

madbroom · 22-25, T

@Sportsfanatic2112: It's technically 5 different colleges in Massachusetts that collaborate, and you can go to one college and take classes in the other four. It's called the Five College Consortium, the most famous of which is UMass Amherst. My favorite is Hampshire.

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