FINAL QUESTION: your natlangs. Sorry this is

Other people may have gone into conlanging because they are
> >bilingual.  Mia's remark stirred my curiosity as well.  How many of you
> >conlangers know other languages, and what is the extent of that =
> knowledge?
> >Sally
>
First foreign languages I learned at school : German and A. Greek : I like German
and keep maintaining it as much I can.
Working languages : English and Japanese. I love English - I do - as much as I dislike
Japanese by now. I graduated in Japanese, then toiled for 10 years, of which a
couple in Japan with a Japanese Law office (not a happy experience). Learning
Japanese was a mistake from the start but I could not stop it until recently
because I needed it as a business asset and also because I'm addicted to
reading Japanese novels . I don't even have a Japanese software on my home
computer. My favorite natlangs are Dutch (I work hard to improve), Khmer
(because my brother lives in Cambodia and I go there every year) and 'correct'
Indonesian which I find very interesting. I work hard on them each time I have
a - too rare - opportunity for it, but I usually forget most of the vocabulary
so I have to learn it again from scratch when I go there. Sumerian was too
difficult and abstract to me. I hold Serbo-Croat for the most beautiful
language in the world but I can't speak it anymore. It makes me!
 v!
!
!
ery sad. Other appalling aborted tries are : Arabic, Sweedish, Portuguese. Motives
to learn foreign languages ? Nothing to do with conlanging. I admit that I
started to learn most of these foreign languages at a younger age due to some
other interest (did you know that France is the country that is most visited in
the world ?). No wonder I could not learn much of Sumerian, still can't speak a
word of A. Greek and dropped most of the other ones after summer vacations. But
that infame period is over since long, I swear : Down with languageal
harassment !

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