My life challenge: Fluent in six languages by 2017 | My language mission and my log | Forum

Hi everyone, I'm Mariana from Brazil and, as the title say, I'm working to be fluent in six languages by 2017. You're probably asking yourself "Why 2017? Why five years? Why six languages?". I'm glad to answer you. There are a lot of reasons:

- I thought I'd have enough time to learn them without losing my mind;

- By the middle of 2016, I'll be graduating in college. I'm a computer science student, and it's not an easy graduation. It requires a lot of my free time;

- I'll turn 24 years old, a nice age to travel around the world;

- If everything goes right, I'll be starting my second graduation. Computer engineering this time (Yes, the graduations are diferent);

- Six is a nice number. =)

And those are my reasons. Of course I'll take small steps, like the one I'm taking now: Advanced french by the end of this year.

I already speak fluent english (but my writing skills are terrible) and brazilian portuguese. Also advanced spanish, a little bit of french and I know how to fake the accent of portuguese from Portugal.

If possible, I'd like to be reading and speaking russian and japanese also by the end of the year (I like mangas and animes =D)

I'll take even smaller steps, like reading Katakana in one month, Hiragana in another month and Cyrillic in two weeks.

Now, why three languages at the same time? Well, I couldn't chose only one. All those three fascinate me.

I've already tried a lot of aproaches, but I got demotivated everytime. I think that sharing my experiences here will help me a lot. And if someone want to learn Brazilian Portuguese or just want to talk, just contact me. =D

Till next time!