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English is my first language, and I come from a fairly strong asian influenced family, so i guess it's no surprise that I'm taking Japanese class, and although i may not actually be fluent in these languages, in my various choirs, i've sung songs, in... lesse... English, Spanish, Japanese, Tagalog (a dialect of Filipino), Xhoshan (african), Latin, Hawaiian, French, Italian, New Zealand-ish (i don't know the language name), Hebrew, Russian, and Tahitian, off the top of my head. I'm sure we've done more, but I can't think of it right now.

I know, a lot, isn't it?

I'm taking spanish 2 at school, which is really, really easy for me. I'm also learning japanese online and I've been self-teaching for a couple years. 3nodding I love learning languages, and I next plan on learning Arabic, since it would be a useful language, considering the "Middle East Crisis" that the US has unwisely dabbled in.

Oh whee I'd be screwed.

English and Spanish fluently, and I'm in my third year of Japanese.

Right now I only know English and Music ( xp ).

I'm going to be taking ASL though, in my Junior and Senior years of high school. ^_^

Maori.

And you've also sung German, you know. I've sung all those, I think, plus Chinese, Samoan, and some other random stuff...and you also forgot that we do sign language ^^;

I take Chinese at school (in level 4H currently) and Japanese (level 1) - I also know quite a bit of Hawaiian because both of my parents took Hawaiian and my brother does, plus what I know from singing and hula.

I've also studied Latin a bit on my own, but I'm basically limited to vocabulary rather than grammar (too complicated!)

I pick up linguistical ties really easily, and I know a lot about grammar both in my native English and Chinese and Japanese from school, so I've spent a lot of time thinking about languages and attempting to learn the basic grammar and vocabulary.

If music counts, I can read treble and bass clef fluently and I'm working pretty diligently on alto clef...but admittedly, that's a different part of the brain, so perhaps that's not a great example.

In general, I count myself as being fluent in English and tolerable in Chinese - I could definitely get around in China without using English, but I have a heavy American accent and a limited vocabulary. My main problem, though, is that I can't write that well - I have maybe 1000 characters if I try really hard, but that's really not enough to be considered educated in the language.

Oh, how I love language