lets talk planning

>>10003419
This "reaching fluency" you talk about - how long does it take you to reach fluency in a new language? Counting from day one I mean

>>10003471
I started learning italian 24 of july, so its almost 2 months. I can write in italian but it takes a bit of time to write a few lines. reading is way easier, I can read few song lyrics without having to look up much words for instance, with some exceptions.

as for talking/listening, I can talk as much as I can write because pronunciation is easy, the problem is vocabulary/sentence building. Listening comprehension, without subtitles I struggle to understand a italian movie, for instance, but with italian subs, although I don't understand like 30~40% of it, I can understand the main plot of the movie.

however I speak brazilian portuguese, and so to learn the other 3 'romance languages' (italian, french, spanish and portuguese) is pretty easy compared to learning english for instance due to the strong similarities between the 4 (which also makes translations between them pretty accurate). I believe the easier will be spanish, because I can pretty much read spanish without ever learning it, and french will be the hardest, while italian I see as a mid-term. But I believe is doable to get fluent at those 2 in one year.

>>10003581
Seems crazy fast, but if you gan pull it off, hats off to you.

As for myself, I intend to stop reading fiction for a year for the first time in my life. I feel like I reached the point where reading another novel, however good, just won't improve my life in a very significant way. I intend to focus on my body, in line with the "Mens sana in corpore sano" idea, further my studies of the middle ages and translation theory. I will also try to sort out the notes for my book, they got a bit chaotic in the recent months. The last thing is my yearly book translation project - one year, one book.

PS: isn't it nice to be able to share all that? If I tried to say that IRL people would think I'm an insufferable, pretentious twat.

>>10003641
>isn't it nice to be able to share all that?
indeed. I don't know anyone that read books, and even if I did, I don't think they'd give a damn. The people I interact with in my day-to-day can't believe how I read books, the only thing they look up for in their lives is going to nightclubs, get drunk and kiss as much people as possible. I can't believe how they do that...

I share that feeling too, about fiction. and although I have a big reading list (some of them in my shelf) and I enjoy almost all books I read, I've come to a point that, in this very moment at least, I don't have any fiction books that I feel like I NEED to read (with exception of finnegans wake, which I will read later this year), so I want to take my time to start reading philosophy, and occasionally throw some fiction inbetween