Damn!
I know English, 'cause I'm born and raised in Southern California. I took German in high school because girls took French and everyone else took Spanish (and the German teacher was cool.) I took Russian in college because I always thought it would be a neat language to learn (and I could do the countdown in "2010"), and I also took Spanish in college to help me as an elementary school teacher.
Oddly enough, Spanish was my worse language. German was my best, because I could think in German.
[Firefox] "You must think in Russian. You cannot think in English and transpose." [/Firefox]