Learning languages?

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I speak English, with some Spanish and French, although both my Spanish
and French both suck.

I will be taking a Spanish class at my school this summer, as the last time I took Spanish, my professor at the time was a utter jerk.

Other languages I'd like to learn are:
Chinese, Italian, German, Japanese, Portuguese, and Russian.

My first language is Polish, I also (hope that I) can speak English, which I started learning about seven years ago. I started learning it in the fourth grade of elementary school, but as most of the resources about things that I was interested in was in English, I started learning it by myself.
Now I also learn Na'vi (don't ask why), Italian (I like the way it sounds), Russian (it has many similarities to Polish) and Japanese (I'm really fascinated by this language, and especially by the use of Kanji's in the writing system), all by my choice and on my own.
I was learning German for three and a half years and French for one and a half years, but not only not by my choice, but the methods/teachers were... incompatible with me.

I know the basics of German, Spanish and French, but I haven't been called on to speak them in a long time, and my vocabulary is almost non-existent. Basically, I could survive if I had a dictionary.

I am about as "fluent" in Latin as it is possible to get considering that it is not taught as a spoken language. I would be comfortable having a penpal that I communicate with in Latin (and I have done this before).

I know the basics of ancient Greek, again as a written language rather than a spoken one.

English is my first language, but I have an advanced vocabulary in Spanish, though not quite at the level of a native speaker's fluency because I started teaching myself the language at the age of nine. I also studied basic French for a year, then was put in a Fast track French GCSE class in year 8 and took the GCSE in year 9; I passed the GCSE, but decided not to continue learning French due to my lack of interest in the language. With Spanish, I have been studying for years now to try and achieve fluency; for the past two and a half years of secondary school, I have had help from my Spanish teacher who is a native of Spain which has helped A LOT. I am going to continue my studying Spanish at Sixth Form College and probably at University, but right now I am teaching myself German and both Modern and Biblical Hebrew.

I'm speaking German.
I'm learning English since five years, and I'm also able to speak a little bit French.
But I hate grammar. Maybe I want to learn to speak latin or Tolkiens elvish.

I realize that I'm arriving to the party rather late, but I thought I'd add my two cents anyway. I have studied, mostly as a college student, Spanish for several years, and a little French. I am planning on studying, intensively, Chinese and Sign Language.

I would recommend, if you plan on taking more widespread languages, taking a class at a tech college. This will be expensive (for me, the credit classes are around $550 apiece, not including the textbook, but the noncredit classes are more like $80), but cheaper than it would be at another college. With languages, there is very much that can be self-taught, but nothing beats interaction with actual human beings I'm afraid. This, I find, is especially true as you advance.

You can, of course, always seek out other courses, but I've found that, in a college course, you learn more, and you learn it at a faster pace.

I learned English, German and French in school and Dutch is my first language. I 'm most fluent in German and after German I can speak English quite well. Besides English I can understand the French radio when I listen to it, but since it's a Roman language it's more difficult to understand.

Since I couldn't learn those languages in school, I started teaching myself Spanish and Swedish. I 'm I think at a beginners level, I can understand most simple phrases in both Spanish and Swedish and I can a bit read newspapers and news articles, but I still can't read the news in those languages as well as in German, English and French.

I also want to learn Arabic, Japanese, Turkish and some other languages. I think that I will start with Portuguese and Romanian, because I already speak French and Spanish so it's more easy to learn those.

nein aber ich bin gut fur das. aber ich muss deutsch gespracht. Es it gut fur mein fahre, und ich mag der herren. Ich wurde som hilfen bitte schon. tchuss,

Spanish is my native language. I try to improve my English.
I'd like to learn German, and maybe Chinese and French.