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I know that the Navy has a career in linguistics, but I was just wondering if my career was in something like computers, then can I still take some language courses? I’d love to learn another language, but can you if your specialty isn’t going to be languages? Or would I have to hope that there’s an online class for it or classes at whatever community college is near where I’m stationed?

I already have some html and slight designing knowledge, but my preference would be programming. Which of these languages can I pursue by learning as I go and which one is the best to have?

I will be studying abroad in Italy next month. I’ve been studying Italian and I learn languages well, but I’m not anywhere near fluent. I’m going there for the purpose of learning Italian, of course -but will it be really hard to understand people? I mean, it’ll be terrible if I get there and I can’t understand a thing people say to me!
Anything else anybody can tell me about studying abroad in Italy, it would be greaaaatly appreciated!!
Thanks.

I’m trying to learn a few languages: Hindi, Portuguese, Lithuanian, and Swahili. But I’m NOT interested in travelling. I don’t need to know phrases like: "My hotel room is too cold". I have searched all over the place, but I can’t find a good language course/website that doesn’t focus on travel. Please help me!

I am American, knowing only little bits and pieces of quite a few languages, yet I want to actually learn Greek, yet every course online sucks. Any other online courses I can use?
Courses I have tried are:
Kypros.org
Byki
Live Mocha
the iPhone app "Wordpower"
and I believe a few others.

Looking for any resources….
Buisness/languages/anything..
I will decide within my options.

Just wondering if anyone has had experience in learning a new language, particularly the ones I mentioned, and if so, what are the best courses I could start out with? I don’t plan on only working with courses, I will eventually and hopefully move onto more technical ways of learning.

I have always heard that the BEST course, although expensive, is Rosetta Stone. True?

Also, I like the sound of the languages I mentioned, and they seem to be pretty useful and commonly spoken. But are these easy to "master" as a beginner? What would be, in your opinion, the easiest?

I am 20 years old, and although I suppose that is considered old for learning a new language, I would really like to broaden my horizons by taking on something likes this. How much harder do you think it will be for me? Any advice? Thanks!

I am interested in learning several languages (including Korean and Chinese), but the better-known language courses can be expensive. I’m really hoping there are respectable and helpful sites that are available to the public. . .

I’ve always found Maltese a facinating language, it’s like the ultimate mix of languages. It’s grammatical basis is Arabic, a lot of it’s vocabulary is Italian and it’s written in the Latin alphabet. Thing is, there seems to be virtually no courses I can find in the language. It may be a bit strange to learn Maltese, but I guess quite a few people learn Icelandic and 200,000 more people speak Maltese than Icelandic .

Any advice on where to start, or do you know of any courses?

Thanks