What languages would you learn?

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In my school for Year 10 I have taken French as an option for a subject. In school we can only do French and Italian but what other languages would you like to learn apart from the ones you do in school?

Apart from French, I would like to learn German and Japanese.

I wanna learn Japanesse well enough to watch anime without subtitles, dont know if thats possible though.

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Any of them. Languages are one of my obsessions. xD I've studied Japanese for about...nine years, French for about three while in high school, so I'm a bit rusty on that, and I'm currently working on picking up a base in Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Mandarin, Korean, and Russian through learning their orthographic systems until I have residency in this state and can start taking some real classes. ^_^

I suppose I would most like to be fluent in Arabic, Mandarin, and Japanese.

I think India has 19 separate languages - I wonder if anyone is fluent of them all!

id like to learn how to speak and understand spoken japanese

German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, and some Chinese.

I am teaching myself Russian right now, and it is HARD! I have to learn an entire new alphabet and phonetic structure...and it's tougher than I thought it would be. Arabic is exasperating, too, although slightly more relevant to real-world activities and as such is starting to fascinate me more than my previous Russian obsession.

Do you find that learning languages is a skill easily mastered? I find that once I get the grammatical structure figured out, the rest just kind of all falls into place, and is usually just memorization of vocabulary. Latin was that way, although a lack of practice has greatly diminished my fluency in that wonderful language.

Have you ever had a go at speaking/reading Greek? Geez! That is a crazy language, but it is so beautiful...and that is a tangent. My bad.

I had a general introduction to Russian and German in high school, and two more semesters of German in college. but that was loooooong ago. I'd like to take a refresher course in German with someone who actually speaks it fluently, but I'm too cheap to pay for one or to commit the time to going to a class.

Cockney Rhyming Slang.

I'd love to learn Spanish, althought I'm not soon keen on that idea now. I've always wanted to learn Latin, which I'm now doing, and I did speak a bit of Polish but I'd like to know alot more. I have learnt Italian and Indonesian before though, for school, although I wasn't too keen on learning either of them.

Hebrew, Aramaic, Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Gothic, Lithuanian, Old Church Slavonic, Old High German.

Probably not to aim for fluency in all of them, that would be a tall order. I'm primarily interested in exploring the relationships between them, and with English.

Dexkaden, I might try your approach of learning the grammar first, then the vocabulary on that framework. That might well work for me. I have books for learning New Testament Greek but haven't dipped into them much. The structure of Greek seems not dissimilar to that of Latin, as well as much of the vocabulary, it's just the alphabet that's different in parts.

I used to be fluent, or near fluent, in all of French, German, Spanish and Portuguese. Strangely enough, I've been put off these languages and lost fluency in them. They remind me of my school and university days, which is where I learned them and which were times evoking less than happy memories.

I find that when learning, or keeping up fluency in a language, I get bogged down trying to remember idioms, metaphors and the like which are found in all languages. This wastes a lot of time and energy for me and holds me back. Funny that I've found out that trouble with idioms/metaphors can be an AS trait. Anyone else find this to be a problem in foreign languages? I know I'd be far more productive concentrating on grammar and vocabulary (and thus literal meanings).

The school won't let me take a foreign language

I may try to learn a conglang, such as Klingon or Elvish

I used to want to learn Spanish because I live in Texas and because I never wanted to learn French, however, I never got around to learning that very well, I could have probably picked it up if I dedicated myself to it or if I had a concrete goal. Now the languages I want to learn are programming languages, I have some familiarity with TrueBASIC and Java but would really like to know more about those languages and others because I am going into electrical engineering and would really like to have more technology skills.

If I could be bothered, I'd learn Polish.