Learning a new Language

Gratuity: Listening to my mom tell her interesting and hilarious stories.

Goal Work:   If you can speak three languages you're trilingual.  If you can speak two languages you're bilingual.  If you can speak only one language you're an American.  ~Author Unknown

So I want to learn a new language.  There are lots of reason to do so.  I am not sure which is the real compelling reason.   

• It is suppose to be great exercise for the older mind.
• Learning a different language forces you to think in that language. It pushes your mind to make new connections between ideas, phrases, and thought patterns that never would have been pushed. (taken from Jonathan Mead's Post in Zen Habits.)
• Folks are always complaining that  immigrants should learn English.  My reaction is don't complain about others but decide what you can do for yourself.  If folks won't learn English then we can learn Spanish.
• Maybe someday it will help me with employment.
• Maybe someday I can use it to help those less fortunate then me.
• It will make me less of an obnoxious American.

Part of me wonders if this will be a waste of time as maybe in the near future there will be a smartphone app that will do dynamic language translation.   I guess if that happens I can be happy for the exercise it gave my older mind.     I am hoping that using Rosetta Stone will make it easy and I plan to check out the advise from ZenHabit's guest blogger Benny from Fluent.

Awaken: 07:53AM
MIT and Goals: Complete
MIT: Look into Language Learning Software, Water Plants, Clean out 1 kitchen draw.