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@Arancia I'm with you on that. Although I work next to the Mexican Consulate here, and they're always speaking spanish around me in the elevators/garage, so I almost wish I knew if they were talking about me! :)

I used to know Italian after studying abroad in Sicily (Taormina) but lost it. FI took YEARS of French and still knows some but we're in the same boat. We'd love to learn another language (probably Italian) together at some point through a class or Rosetta Stone!

I sometimes wish I knew another language, but just don't have the drive to learn it. I really do need to take up Spanish, though, as Spanish speaking countries are pretty easy to access (vacation!) from where I'm located, and there is such a huge popoulation of Spanish-speaking people here.

We have a good friend who manages a horse farm (racing), and in case you aren't familiar, means there are mostly Mexican workers underneath him. He understands just about everything, and can speak it pretty good, but the really cool thing is that his son (who is 5) is really fluent. All of the employees only speak to him and spanish, and one of the men's wife often babysits for them, which means she only speaks spanish to him, too.

The funny thing is, he only associates spanish with them, and if his father asks him something in spanish, he pretends not to know what he's saying. I think he thinks it's some sort of secret language between them. :)

My professor in Italy had his son with him, and he spoke fluent French, Italian, and English (his dad is Italian, was born there but raised in France, and then moved to FL for grad school and met his wife.)

We were on a bus with the prof's fam going to see a mountain or something, and one of the guys was saying how he needed a haircut badly. And the little kid goes "Yes, I also have to go to the coiffiour!" (Spelling is off but it was basically the french word for hairdresser- SO CUTE!)

I speak fluent french some italian and I can understand spanish. when I was in elementary school my parents moved because my city has 3 public language immersion schools k-12. French was the first one with an opening!

@ gingerlex: I took 2 semesters of ASL in college, and it's really a fun to learn. I can't remember much now, but the really amazing thing is that you can learn a lot very quickly and really after about a semester, you can hold a decent conversation. We were lucky in that a deaf group met in our area once a week and they were used to our professor's classes showing up to converse. It made it easy to pick up when you have someone to use it with!

I took five years of French through middle and high school, and at best, I've remembered afew words and phrases, but that's it.

I wish I could speak Spanish fluently because it's so widely used, but alas, I'm a one-language girl. Sighh.

I'm always tempted to get Rosetta Stone, but it's so expensive!

waooo...should i feel offended??? i cant believed what i read about Spanish here. im a Spanish teacher, i teach adults and kids Spanish as a second language. Im a native Spanish-speaker and living in Puerto Rico my childhood found myself listening people speak English all around even that in puerto rico spanish is the primary language. i never thought that the people speaking english were talking about me (i have better self esteem). i did understood that to go further in this life i needed to learn English. My English may not be perfect but it help me a lot in my professional and personal life. i came to live in US three years ago and found job in three weeks and what it help me was being bilingual. 

i didn't stop there! i decided to learned Italian, French and Chinese. and why?? not because i thought italians, chinese or french people were talking about me or in US everybody were talking this language. I learned because i wanted to have the knowledge to comunicate will all kinds of people without discrimating. is human the will to learn and keep learning.  the world is changing and soon English will not be the second language in the world. if the world is changing we need to change with it or go live under a rock!!!

sorry if my honesty sound harsh but i DO feel angry when somebody without any logical reason don't like a language. different language open the door to the world.