How to motivate myself to learn a new language?

Spanish is a great one to learn not only because of how similar it is to English, but because it's so widely spoken. It sounds great to boot ;) wordreference. Com is a good place for looking up individual words.

Getting your own dictionary is also very helpful. I have a Chicago University, Spanish-English, English-Spanish fourth edition and it's my favorite. Don't rely solely on dictionaries, though.

My teachers have also had scattered homework assignments on sites like studyspanish. Com (amazing grammar lessons included), notesinspanish. Com (a native Spaniard and her husband speak in conversations with some additional phrase tips in several levels of difficulty), and conjuguemos.

Com (awesome for practicing what you know and speeding up your recall!). Whatever you do have fun with it. Songs are awesome for that once you've got some basics down.

Some easy songs would be ones like "La Bomba" (by Los Lobos) or "De Colores". Both are folk songs. More difficult songs could be ones like "La Camisa Negra" (by Juanes) or "Algo Pequeñito" (by Daniel Diges).

"Algo Pequeñito" is from Eurovision-- you could also pull other songs from earlier years. Try listening to them first and try to understand, then try looking at the lyrics while you listen. EDIT:: Personally, even though many people also say French is easy, I can't do it.

The pronunciations are a bit difficult (particularly for native English speakers) and the spelling isn't that simple. It's always your call, though, this is just why I don't take it :) Greek also might be harder to find good sites and tools on, since it isn't as widely spoken. Good luck!

Well I m also fluent in Turkish and English and studied German in school just like you did, it didn't help. Then I started studying various languages to choose which language I wanted to learn by myself. And I learned Russian.

Here is why, don't let the alphabet scare you off, its actually closer to Turkish alphabet than English. They have "? , ç,?" etc. It has tough grammer with suffixes and prefixes but again, you re a Turkish speaker so its way easier for you to understand and use.

Russian has the genders like der die das in German. And Russian is a very very rich language. Now to practical reasons, Russian is harder than Spanish or Italian maybe even a bit harder than French.

But! European languages are usually only used in their own country. Russian gets you by EVERYWHERE.

Even in Turkey. Outside of Russia lots of Asian countries and Eastern European countries still use Russian. Even if not as an offical language you can get by with Russian in these countries.

And if you speak Russian you can even catch a bit of meaning from different languages like Turkish vs Azerbaijan. And Russia does much more business than Italy or Spain or France does, internationally. So which ever country you re in, Russian is more usefull than these languages, business wise.

Lastly, literature. I mean, Russian is also a language of art and literature, that is so rich that cant be completely translated. I know same goes for Spain or France or Italy too but Russian is not stoic at all, instead very very cultural.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.