Hello,
I am myself interested in learning lisp (common lisp). But I am not yet a fluent lisper (I began to read
Practical Common Lisp, Land of Lisp and The little Schemer which is a great book with which you can learn recursive thinking). These bits I snapped from the first chapters I read, I already use in Python sometimes.
I am very fast in learning new languages.
I program daily in Python and R.
Why you want to learn Lisp?
I want to learn more Lisp, because it is the most powerful language which exist and no other language is better for artificial intelligence. I could learn in advance for you and discuss with you aspects what I learned etc. And exchange with you my notes which I make then reading the books - by that you could save some time. What do you think about this idea?