I can only fluently speak English. I took 4 years of French lessons in middle and high school, and when I worked at a mall here, that got many visitors from quebec and canada, I was able to pick up parts of their conversations, but I haven't worked around bilingual people now in almost 10 years, so I doubt I'd be able to do that any more :)
I have tried many many times to teach myself Japanese, but the problem is I don't care much about speaking/listening to it. I want to be able to READ it, and most of the tools they make to teach english speaking people how to learn Japanese just cover speaking/listening. I want to be able to read it to import video games and visual novels lol. I've tried a few different sites, games, cd programs, etc. But there's 4 alphabets AND they can use all four of them in a single sentence. I feel like it's one of the most difficult languages to try to learn to read. I'm from a very rural (mostly white american) neighborhood, so asian language lessons were never taught in highschool or college/university. I don't even think I could find a tutor around here. It's a shame really.
I'm jealous of all of you talented multi-lingual folks
