RE: Fun with Languages: German, Norwegian, Italian, and French
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I'd concentrate on one language, at least not more than two. And I'd try to avoid learning two languages at the same time that are too close - so no two romance languages. I tried learning Spanish in the last years of high school as a third language when I already had French classes for four years. Well, being related made some things easier, but the similarities were too confusing. So I kept to English and French :)
For pronunciation, there's not much to do but training. What about listening to radio, especially news in the foreign language? For German there's the Deutsche Welle. International news is easier than other things because with a lot of topics you know what they are talking about.
And since you are a religious person, what about listening and singing religious hymns? I presume you're not catholic, I don't know much about catholic hymns. But the old German songs like Befiehl du deine Weg or Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud belong to the most beautiful combinations of lyrics and words ever. You should be able to find the lyrics without problems and listen to songs on Youtube. And singing is more fun than simply reciting foreign texts :)
Yes, I have a small collection of German music. Beethoven's 9th, of course. Mozart, Bach. And switching the language on a familiar movie is another trick I use. I also have a prayer app that has a dozen language options, and a German Bible on my Kindle.
I don't plan to learn multiple languages, but wanted to sample a few out of curiosity. German is my priority, but if/when I add another it might be Italian--lots of fun to sing and plenty of great opera music. Also different enough from German to not be confusing.