Well I'm pretty fluent in Japanese - it's what we speak at home. My BA did a major in German. And my native language is Australian English.

Also studied Latin for about 8 years, and picked up a bit of Chinese here and there (mainly when drunk).

I actually don't enjoy studying languages all that much oddly enough. Grammar bores me.

I speak Japanese and French fluently. I wish I spoke Spanish as well.

Oh, also English okay speak yes?

I *used* to be nearly fluent in French. Started university as a French major before switching to neuroscience. Haven't even tried to speak it in nearly 10 years. French, that is. I can speak neuroscience pretty fluently.

Oh, and I really want to learn Spanish, too.

English :)

Also dabble in French and German, but far from fluent in both.

First-language English, fluent in French, can get by in German, used to be able to read Russian and even understand some of it, but don't remember much any more.

I'd love to go live in Italy and pick up Italian, but from what I hear Italy has its drawbacks (tax for the self-employed being the big one).

Sigh, no. I failed German in high-school, gave up, took it again in college and failed it again. And it wasn't that I blew the classes off or didn't try, I'm just stupid with languages. The language requirement was one of the main reasons why I dropped out of my undergraduate program; fortunately the school that I ended up transferring to didn't have such a requirement.

Fluent Polish, semi-fluent but highly inaccurate Russian. Would love to learn Hindi, but am a poor language student - I learn best in an immersive environment, and have been lugging around an unopened "Learn Hindi" course for the last three years.

Was once semi-fluent in French (it was my minor in college, also my best friend's family was French & I could speak it with them to stay in practice) but now I'm about twenty years' worth of rusty. I miss it, actually; I love the language.

Hogy tényleg folyékonyan-e, azt nehéz megmondani, de tudom mire gondol az ember, amikor azt mondja: Anyám tyúkja.

I'm slightly below fluent in English, far below it in French.

I'd like to learn Spanish.

I can't speak anything else fluently (other than English), but I can generally read French, some Italian, and a wee bit of Spanish.

For some reason, I've had an interest in learning Czech and/or Russian. Of course, I'd like to travel more so that it was actually useful, but that's how it goes. I can usually pick up the reading part in a couple of days whenever I go somewhere, but it takes me a lot longer to be able to write/speak.

Wolfdog, you speak Hungarian? Awesome! My great grandmother was Hungarian. Sadly, all I know area few badly passed-down phonetic phrases, one of which she would only tell the family meant, "you dirty Irish kids". LOL

Waooa mou rrahoaoaoa rruuoaavaao nuooaawuaaaa viovoooouav wuuouuuhoaaw, roooohhoau maauoaanauou vvaiuooa naauraaoio!

My early life was bilingual English/Italian, which I have now come to understand primes the brain for later language acquisition. English is now my dominant language, but Portuguese and Spanish also fight for dominance on occasion. French and Italian aren't far behind. I was mesmerized by a fellow speaking Romanian on the telephone the other day, so much so that I followed him stalkerishly close through the Target, just to try and pick up more of his conversation. In my head, the romance languages are all pretty much the same thing, sure, there are grammatical and pronunciation differences, but, DAMN! When you get right down to the nitty gritty, if you know two or more, you can pick up the rest of them lickity split. Now this can cause confusion, and I will awkwardly blurt out the wrong language on occasion, but it is a small price to pay for being a polyglot.
It's about the only thing I do well, is languages.

Proviso: Please don't think that I can immediately launch into fluent Romanian after following this dude's conversation through a store. But put me in Bucharest for two weeks, and I will be golden.

Language I want to learn: Japanese.

"...I had at least one thing in common with Joseph Conrad: English was my second language. Unlike Conrad: English was my second language. Unlike Conrad, I had no first language..."

but am a poor language student - I learn best in an immersive environment,

That's interesting, I'm the exact opposite. I got all A's in college French and Italian classes, and could easily communicate with my non-native teachers. But as soon as I try to watch a movie or communicate in a real place like Montreal, forget it--my brain just can't process it fast enough, or something.

Reading mangas recently has gotten me interested in Japanese. I probably have no use for it; there's little hope I'll ever visit Japan for any length of time. But I've always been interested in some aspects of their culture. I've had a few books on learning Japanese sitting around the house for years, and I just picked up a copy of "Japanese the Manga Way" yesterday. I'd like to get to the point where I can pick out some conversation from Japanese movies, or do rough translations from some manga doujinshi.

I only speak english, but I'd like to learn spanish and/or japanese or chinese. Living in California, these are all languages you hear almost daily.

I'm an English native speaker, and speak "semi-fluent but highly inaccurate" (a great phrase, Meatbomb!) French and Spanish (though my reading knowledge is way better - about a month ago I was reading a copy of Le monde diplomatique and understood everything!), quite a bit of inaccurate Polish, a sprinkling of Latvian and Indonesian, and tiny, tiny amounts of tourist Italian and Russian.

I studied Spanish formally for five years, and grew up near Los Angeles, so this is easily my strongest language, though I've spent more time in Francophone places, and studied French a lot more recently.

I will say that though Polish spelling and pronunciation is complex for a native English speaker (ninety-nine is "dziewięćdziesiąt dziewięć"), it is insanely systematic, which makes it relatively easy to identify things like superlatives ("tallest") and whether something is talking about now, the future, or the past. I haven't learned all the cases yet, though, so most of the time I can't read a newspaper article to save my life.

I'm using LiveMocha to practice grammatical stuff while I'm at home and if I need more practice, I just go outside! :)

Native English speaker. I've picked up enough Spanish that when it pops up on TV I can translate a lot of it to the mister and enough to get me in trouble. I'd love to become fluent. I took French in high school because my SIL spoke it (she was a teacher at Lycée Français in Los Angeles). I should have taken Spanish, it's much more useful in SoCal.

I'd also like to learn American Sign Language, Japanese, Hebrew and Mandarin. My grandkids (that still sounds so weird) have taken Mandarin classes for several years. They also go to a French immersion school (both parents speak French fluently).

My wife speaks fluent German. I love that about her.

English and Mandarin (but I'm very out of practice and terrible with informal conversations/slang--thanks, parents who discouraged any contact with pop culture!), and I took Spanish in high school but can't do very much with it. I'd like to learn Japanese, Russian, and some Nordic language - maybe Danish. Vietnamese or Thai would be cool too.

I'm like msali, only she's harder core. I'm a native English speaker, with what (has been at some times, less so at other times) I'd call near-native proficiency in Spanish. So bilingual, but I use Spanish way less often these days than I used to. I can also get around pretty damn well in French, Italian and Catalan, but in order to really get them down I'd need a few months do-or-die time in areas where those are the only languages (commonly) spoken and understood. I can't spell (in French especially), but I can usually read.

I'm extremely glad I speak Spanish--it was the wisest decision I made in 8th grade, when I could chose between Spanish and French. Many of my classmates chose French because it had a more elite vibe than Spanish, which was perceived as common. Yeah, I grew up in an annoyingly pretentious area.

Used to be pretty good with Spanish but not at all now, need to work on that since it would actually be useful where I live. Want to learn Japanese.

I used to be close to native fluency in French, but I've been away for a long time and I'm kind of awkward now.

When I fly back to Montreal I get all excited at the gate, because even though I do get to speak French now and then out here, I hardly ever hear the local accent.

I can speak scraps of a bunch of other languages, but not with ease.

I took Irish and Latin, but it's been a long time and I can't even muddle through anymore. I can usually understand about 75% of the conversation in Italian (depending on dialect), and provide vague translations, but I can't speak more than a handful of words in it.