What you did there, I see it.

Id like to know German fluently.

I've wanted to learn piano for a while, but I've never had the time.

Speaking from personal experience?


Something tells me you're well on your way to omnipotence. Thanks.

How do you mean 'gotten the swing of'? Do you not know what all the rules are, or is it just strategy you struggle with? When I was a kid in primary school, I was the chess champion. I even entered regional competitions for the school, and I can't remember ever having planned a strategy. I guess it's just something that comes naturally once you know how it all works.


Ha, good luck. Even I can admit that sometimes my thoughts are highly hypocritical and confusing. If I can't understand myself sometimes, no-one else is going to

As for me, I'd love to learn a really valuable skill that would open up opportunities for me. Something like computer programming, or another language. I used to speak French, but I let myself slip and have forgotten a lot of it. My dad speaks superb French and fairly good Italian. I'd love to pick it up as quickly as he seems to.

I wish I'd paid more attention to my physics and maths lessons in school.

I'd like to learn how to play the piano. I'd buy a musical keyboard and not a day would go by where I would not play Nerevar rising at least 10 times.

russian
german
latin
mandolin
how to love

To draw or learn how to speak japanese.

I'd like to learn how to use those flying squirrel suits. I've always had a massive desire to fly, but not in a plane or helicopter, so this is as close as I'll get:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttz5oPpF1Js

Either a language (probably Italian) or the ability to cook competently.

Omnipotence or data manipulation.

Me too.

If you two were omnipotent you'd know that it is not a skill to be learned but a state to be reached like when you are hungry you may wish to be sated, but it is not a thing you learn but a state you reach by eating. Something that is omnipotent just is omnipotent because that is how it is, and omnipotence is the word that describes it as being capable of doing anything.

But then again I'm wrong in saying that you'd know that if you were omnipotent. Being omnipotent just means you have infinite power, not infinite wisdom. So you could even be omnipotent and know that it is not a skill but a state.

I'll take data manipulation then.

That would be fun for a while but after that, nothing would ever matter anymore. Just like a game, with 0 dificulty, it'll get boring fast.

I would like to learn to fly a military plane, preferably a B52, but anything would be awesome.

Grab a piece of paper and a pencil or pen, and get to it. Really, it's pretty much that easy, just look at what you want to draw and practise, I think Stormrider says something similar quite often in the artists thread.



Anyways, myself? Dunno. I've always wanted to learn how to play guitar *looks over at guitar, then at self-instruction books*...... working on that. Right now I'm kinda curious about dancing not anything specific, just general. 'Course I know someone who can help me with that.

I take it back, stunt driving is what I'd most like to learn.

I've just never gotten the chance to actually take the time to learn it, there are books in the library, but without a chess set I fail to see why I'd read the books only. I am pretty good at Stratego though, not quit the same as chess, but it does involve strategy

If I want to learn something, I try to. With most things it comes down to me being broke and, in turn, incapable of learning anything more than theory. There's no sense in just wanting to learn something like a language, as all you have to do is surf the internet and read some books. So far the things I'm trying to learn, but lack the funds, are hardware hacking type stuff (broke the bank buying some of the necessary tools ) and the ukulele. Programming was just easy; it was free and I felt untethered in learning it. It's difficult to go from such a proactively open and free learning environment to the real world, where you deal with the realities of supply and demand, and are also limited to the confines of physical materials - if that makes any sense. For guitar players, you must buy strings, picks, different equipment (wammy bars, pedals, amps) and spend hundreds of dollars for a decent guitar. That's mind blowing to me.

Edit: This is just an opinion of mine, but if you try to learn something and feel it's not clicking, then you should just accept that it's not for you. That's how languages always were for me. If you're learning a language just so you can join the ranks of the "multilingual" or, as I've come to notice in some of my peers in programming classes, to fit into some mould then you're doing it for the wrong reasons. Just like writing a paper on something, you don't really know how into it you are until you start, and trying to finish the paper because you've invested time into it makes you sloppy and aggravated.

Anything? The ability to develop gills and dispel them on the fly, so I could breathe in water but also survive on land.
Realistically? American Sign Language or how to play guitar.

Piano

I'd write the songs.

Psychology.... i guess

Any language. Otherwise, I would like to be able to draw.

I'd love to know how to program efficiently in Python. As it stands now, I don't have the motivation to undertake this - but this is one of my goals for the next couple years.

There's a few things so it's hard to narrow it to one...

I REALLY wish I could learn languages on the fly. I think I'm missing the gene to learn another language though because I seriously struggle with it.

Or astrophysics... which may happen as I'm seriously considering going to school for it. (But we'll see, math and I have a love/hate relationship.)


For those of you who want to learn piano: It's really hard at first as you learn how to count measures, the keys, finger placement, etc. and can be kind of a turnoff, but after the first year or so, it becomes much more enjoyable. At least that was the way it was for me. I highly suggest it to anyone who loves music. You also learn things that are easily applied to (and make it easier to play) other instruments.

No, it's not. There are different techniques that go with each medium, and there are a lot of media. Graphite, ink, water-based paint, oil-based paint, sketching software, tracing software, modelling software... I haven't listed even a quarter of the media.

Yes, it's a case of just using whatever it is you want to learn, but for just one medium it takes years of constant practice. If I'd started when I was 4, I might have been able to get through all of them by the age of 80, if I'd practiced full time. Now? Nope.