I've decided what materials I'll be using this week, and what goals to set, in my pursuit of being multilingual.
For Latin, I want to get through chapter three of Wheelock's Latin. I know I didn't manage to get through two chapters last week, but something tells me that I should be able to get through two chapters a week. If I don't manage to do so this time, then I'll drop my pie-in-the-sky Latin schedule and move the intensity back a bit.
For French, I'll begin with Charles Duff's French For Beginners, which seems to be out of print. Oh well, I have a copy, which is all that counts. I don't find French vocabulary to be difficult, nor the spelling...but French pronunciation is giving me trouble, so I'm also going to be exploiting a Berlitz cassette tape set and a Pimsleur CD set.
For Spanish I'll be moving into Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish, by Maria Madrigal. I have some tapes, too, and perhaps they'll help me in one of my Spanish subgoals this week: that of expanding my conversational range. For months now, I have exchanged minor pleasantries at work with the woman who cleans my office. Now I want to expand my range of Spanish conversational contacts, to clerical, finance, and field engineering people. So that's the final goal for Spanish.
As for that pesky Arabic alphabet, I think I'll pass.