Yes, but maybe not with your schedule. I manage 4 without trouble (though, two are dialects of each other (Biblical and Modern Hebrew plus Latin and Greek). I dabble in Aramaic and French, but not seriously.
I only work 4 days a week but I also play music 2 - 3 nights a week and am doing Latin at university. I have started doing Greek with the White A group and (apart from this week when I have exams) have kept up with that quite well. If you commute by public transport you could study in the bus/train/whatever, if you drive, why not get some language tapes and play them in the car? I do a lot of my uni assignments by getting to work a bit earlier - I’m always the first to arrive and it’s quiet in the office.
Of course, what I don’t have is 5 children - so if your wife (I presume you are a man from your name) is also working it might not be so good for her! My partner works at nights quite often so I study rather than sitting around feeling bored! Maybe you could teach the children Spanish, then you spend some time with them and you all learn something useful.
Good luck
Where there’s a will there’s a way. If you really want to learn Spanish you will squeeze it in somehow. In your situation I agree with Carola that tapes or CD’s would be an excellent solution. If you have neighbors that speak Spanish, what a great way to get to know them, by showing interest in their language.
well it has been a few months simce I first posted and no I did not get going with the Spanish, the banjo now sits in the closet, and i mentally crashed.
had to get away so I spent several weeks in Wyoming USA and Montana USA.
still work (I like to eat and have a place to live) teach at church (My core belief that gives me purpose) and am struggling hard to motivate myself to study Pharr. But have gone back to the beggining and am going slowly (a few lines a day through each of the excersises I did until I catch up)
I don’t know where I heard it but it goes “KNOW THYSELF” . I guess in this context it means. Greek now ( a little at a time but consistant), Banjo and spanish later.
I hope you’ll get back on track all right. The “Know Thyself” is one of the mottoes of the oracle at Delphi, in Greek: γνωθε εαυτον. The other motto was “nothing in excess”, μηδεν αγαν.
So in your case, I guess these mottoes mean: Do study Greek. But only a little a day
Hope I didn’t give you too much of an impression that you could take on so much - I still think I would have problems doing what I do with 5 children! I have bouts of a few weeks at a time (like now, with exams looming) when everything else goes on the back burner, then I pick ut up again. Only a few weeks to go now and I have finshed 3rd year uni level Latin. Thanks goodness! We are having a terrible year with a our university due to various internal problems and it is so hard with trying to get by with minimal tuition. I am looking forward to really getting on with my Greek.
Don’t give up - those children will gow up all too soon. Then you can do all those other things.
El latín te va a ayudar muchísimo con el español, te lo aseguro. Si pudiera hablar el español bien - y eso no quiere decir que no lo puedo hablar lo suficiente para hacerme entender, pero lo quisiera hablar como un parlante nativo - no estaría en Canadá. Pero tengo fé chingados que el latín me va a seguir ayudando igual que ya me lo ha hecho y tambien como te dije por supuesto que te ayudará . . . a ver si después hago mi segundo doctorado en México lindo y querido. La verdad es que ni sé si me puedo quedar tanto tiempo como para acabar con mis estudios, pero bueno.
En fin haz lo que te de la gana, mi queridísimo Timotheus. semper valeas, es lo más importante.
