> > > Cool.
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> > You'd probably be interested in knowing that my roommate speaks fluent German. He actually lived in Germany for a couple years, and wants to go JYA over there.
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> Wow! At German camp this last weekend (or was it the weekend before? Its a blurr) I got paired up with a German exchange student. the groups were made up of someone who had had a lot of german, and someone who had had a little. we were probably the most extreme pair. I had had 9 45 min class periods, and he 16 years. it was cool.
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> I'm hoping someday to be fluent... Hoping. Then again I do have a whole big long list of languages I want to be fluent in (basque, scottish gaelic, hebrew... russian.. it goes on)

Yeah. I enjoy learning new languages, and I'm pretty good at it (I'm the only CL in SoHo on *four* of the "alternate language" lists). I'm looking to take up Arabic, m'self.