In 2014, in conjunction with doing research in natural language processing and attending a global conference on computational linguistics, the author decided to learn a new foreign language, Greek, that uses a non-English character set. This paper/session will present/discuss an overview of the current state of natural language processing and computational linguistics intertwined with ideas for using traditional and technology-assisted ways of learning a new language. Included will be practical issues of character set representations, translation technologies, web-based and traditional resources, etc., and ideas on how to immerse oneself in language learning and/or integrate such methods into a class whose goal involves learning a foreign language. [For the full procedings, see ED571252.]