This chapter presents an autobiographical account of socio-cultural surroundings and motives that shaped the author's journey to becoming a multilingual language learner. The contexts that occasioned the need to learn new languages are described along with affective considerations that underlay his sustained interest in multilingualism. Although the naturalistic and autonomous language learning settings are characterized by idiosyncrasies which do not lend themselves to generalizations, the account of multilanguage learning experiences in the chapter can offer insights as to how the most unlikely contexts and opportunities to multilingualism may come about. In the chapter, the vivid descriptions of how his enthusiasm to become multilingual helped him refine and hone his language learning skills are presented in anecdotal tone. The strategies and individual techniques he devised to cope with the complexities of languages in the process of language learning are presented in detail in the study.

This linguistic case study research investigates the process stages of a language learner’s pronunciation errors through speech analysis detection techniques. The purpose of this study is to detect and analyze the pronunciation errors for internalizing the unique and individual pronunciation error patterns that vary from one individual to the next. A speech analysis technique, a method of applied linguistics, is used in combination with the case study method reveals a thorough evaluation map for the language learner’s pronunciation error characteristics. In this case study, the participant of the study is a native Chinese speaker. Within the scope of this research study, both the theoretical literature review and the data collection process uncover that pronunciation, unlike other domains of language teaching areas, requires specific and individualized attention for effective teaching and learning strategies. The data collected in this research study is analyzed in terms of phonetic linguistic features, and a personalized pronunciation improvement plan is proposed based on the linguistic features and characteristics of the research participant’s errors. A larger scale research study can be conducted for future research by verifying the findings of this research study with more language-specific research participants in order to develop individualized and learning-style focused pronunciation lesson plans for larger learning groups.