Anyone trying to learn multiple languages?

Starting to learn French with Duolingo.

Je m'appelle raz3r. J'aime bien computers.

Learning languages is fun. Can converse with more people

I want to learn Russian but Ive heard it's really hard for people with english as their first language

I've heard the same thing too. One of the hardest languages for a native English speaker to learn unfortunately.

Why is that though?

Idk, weird pronunciations I guess. Helps to have a genuine accent

Learning Italian at the moment. Will be my 4th.

Salut. I’m learning French too but luckily half my family speaks it so i can talk with them.

Took Japanese classes fall 2018 and spring 2019. Also spent quite a bit of time in Japan last year practicing.

Don’t think I’ll take any more classes so if I want to keep it up I’ll have to stay on top of it myself

Is it rare in the U.S. to learn another language? Don't you have it in your public school curriculum?
In my country we have to learn at least two additional ones by default

It is taught but at least where I was it was only mandatory in high school (and maybe even only for 3 years), and we consume less foreign language media, and then there’s not as much of an emphasis on learning a foreign language in general in society as a whole as in other countries, so it all adds up to Americans not learning foreign languages as much/as well as other countries

Yeah I can see that. When most of the scientific papers are written in English and the news cycle all over the world has adapted to your maternal language you're probably not all too motivated to learn another language.
Still funny tho that the U.S., as a country who originally came to be because of immigrants, doesn't incite their people to learn to talk a diversity of languages.

Been taking Russian for 2 semesters and while it’s certainly complex I’ve found it to be really rewarding. Writing in Russian cursive and saying the sounds may seem daunting at first but it all quickly becomes natural and fun. If you’re trying to self-teach, pick up the Penguin guide to Russian and use LingVist for vocab expansion and practice. A challenge for sure but if you put in the time you can get to the level you want

Frank invented

Thanks for the info. I might pick up that book after doing some ultra basics on duolingo or LingVist(never heard of it until now). I can hardly write english cursive so I'm not going to be doing russian cursive any time soon

3rd year learning Spanish off and on. Goal is to achieve complete fluency within the next decade.

know Albanian and English, been wanting to venture out to another language. was thinking Japanese/Korean, but it looks so damn hard

korean has a nice looking alphabet

As a native English speaker I have been wanting to learn Spanish.

Idk the best way to do it and been using that as an excuse to not start... anyone have experience and recommendations?

Enlisted in the army as a Linguist.

Part of that means I have to spend 32-64 weeks learning a foreign language as an extremely fast pace.

I got Spanish.

What method did you use to learn Spanish??

I’m neglecting the hell out of my Duolingo Japanese lessons

I understand 5 languages but I grew up being surrounded by 4, so I've really only actively tried learning 1 new language. Speaking a language is a lot harder than just understanding it when it's spoken though, so I'm not completely fluent in 2 of them. One of my resolutions for 2020 was to get better at actually speaking those 2.

Estoy estudiando español en mi escuela. Es muy difícil pero espero que en el futuro será casi fluente.