Did your poll from my fic-LJ, since that's what you friended, but this LJ (my main one) has the more appropriate icon for this comment. :)
Most of the languages I indicated knowing I learned because of traveling to where they are spoken and not wanting to be clueless in a foreign country as so many Americans are when abroad. Some I still use, thanks to Second Life, but my spelling is generally horrible now, since I mostly speak them and rarely write them anymore (plus type-chatters are generally pretty forgiving of phonetic spelling/netspeak and typos) -- the rest tend to be rather rusty, although I can brush up again if I needed to. (Years ago I also attempted Russian and Hebrew, but the alphabets confounded me too much. For some reason, I don't have as much trouble with that for Far Eastern tongues, strangely enough.)
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Most of the languages I indicated knowing I learned because of traveling to where they are spoken and not wanting to be clueless in a foreign country as so many Americans are when abroad. Some I still use, thanks to Second Life, but my spelling is generally horrible now, since I mostly speak them and rarely write them anymore (plus type-chatters are generally pretty forgiving of phonetic spelling/netspeak and typos) -- the rest tend to be rather rusty, although I can brush up again if I needed to. (Years ago I also attempted Russian and Hebrew, but the alphabets confounded me too much. For some reason, I don't have as much trouble with that for Far Eastern tongues, strangely enough.)
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