How can I learn 4 more languages in 7 years at home?

Question

I know two languages including English and I am fluent in them. I think I should learn french first since I did it in school. Then I want to learn German and I'll decide what after that.

How can I learn these languages by only using computer software, books, movies stuff like that in a short amount of time? I don't want to be really fluent in them, just speak them. So how can I do this without going to the countries, just from home?

Answer 1

Try Rossetta Stone Software. It teaches numerous languages right at home. You have to buy each "language" individually though. The local Police Department uses it to teach its officers spanish so they can communicate with the spanish population better. They also have german for the german speaking citizens too. ;)

Answer 2

Worried Person, you can't learn those languages in a vacuum.

The ONLY way to learn to speak another language if not fluently, at least meaningfully and spontaneously, is with another human being. You may memorize a smattering of phrases, and technically you will be speaking the language, but it's not genuinely the case.

At the very minimum, enroll in classes in your local community college, etc. Better yet, meet people who speak the language and are willing to teach you. Spending your money on tapes is only part of the equation.

Now, there is room for compromise. In a vacuum, I think you can learn to read and write another language, but only if you expose yourself to the language's idioms. Otherwise, you'll translate English directly into the language with poor results.

Certainly, don't postpone this learning feat, whatever direction you take. As you grow older, your mouth and teeth literally grow to accommodate the language(s) you speak. That's why most Chinese who speak English as a second language have a marked accent, and vice-versa. It's true what they say about teaching "old dogs new tricks," at least with learning foreign languages. It probably can't be done after the age of 50 with any kind of fluency.

Answer 3

just buy a bunch of DVD language courses, and you will learn. I may even get fluent as I am fluent in English which I learned this way.

Answer 4

I have the pimmsleur approach german software. I would not recommend it though. It focuses on verbal (to the extent where it doesn't actually show you how anything is written) right of. Try Rosetta Stone, it's very well rounded and interactive

Answer 5

Try these:

http://www.pimsleurapproach.com/

You can torrent them ;) and they work really fast! They come in sets of 3 (usually, depending on how developed that language program is...) so you can just do set 1 to learn the basics of each.

Hope this helps!

Answer 6

listen to music and watch films and remember a lot of words so it would be so simple to make sentence and try to translate everything you see in your mind to language which you want to learn!!!
best wishes..