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since I enjoyed reading yours, you should also get mine.

Danish: My beloved mothertongue. Really really like it and couldnt imagine any other language being my mothertongue.

English: In Denmark you automatically get English as your second language. I used to like it a lot when I was younger, but now I dont enjoy it at all. I feel that it often makes it a bit more difficult to learn new languages. I dont actively try to improve it, but I am still in contact with it almost every day.

German: A language I love and speak fluently. In school I had to have it, but I was very lazy because I already knew some german. That way I never learned the basic grammar. I could speak fluently but without any grammar. It took me quite some work to get the grammar right, but now im almost there. Right now I live and study in Germany, and all my  exams are also in German.

Russian:

My university major. Chose it just to learn a new language, knew nothing about it, but i grew to love it very much. I think my level is about C1/2. I studied half a year in Moscow, but wasted the time hanging out with other foreigners, and didnt learn much. Now I work on it everyday, watch movies and shows, have tandems every week and stuff like that. So I would call myself fluent, although I still want to improve.

Schwiss German: I have a lot of family in the germanspeaking area of Switzerland, and although we communicate fine in Hochdeutsch, I think it would be better for everyone if I learned the language. I am already quite good at understanding it, but cant really speak a lot. Besides that I just love the sound of the language.

Turkish:

Started learning it by accident, but took I like to it. Unfortunately I havent been able to study a lot, but I still plan on focusing on it later. I also have plans about working some time in central asia, and I think that knowing some turkish should make it easiyer to learn languages like Uzbek or Kyrgyz

French:

Had it in school for 4 years, kind of liked it and did good in it. But I didnt speak a word french for 5 years or so, and it almost all gone. Have been thinking about relearning it, but havent found time or motivation yet

I'm a Mexican Spanish native speaker, with American English as a second language since I was 6, besides that, I'm a total language freak.

I don't know if I'm an auditive type of person, but most of the languages, I'm learning them because of the way they sound. I fall in love with a language when I hear it.

So these are the languages I'm currently working on:

• Russian: I had my first contact with Russian when I was 10, and who's to blame? That 2 "innocent" girls kissing each other under the rain, t.A.T.u., their music lead me to other russian bands and singers like Zемфира and I started to feel the language through music. For me it's simply the most elegant language I've known.

• Icelandic: Music is to blame again, this time with Sigur Rós, which lead me to other bands like Hjaltalín and Valdimar. Also, Björk's accent always fascinated me, this language has the most pleasant sounds I've ever heard.

• Portuguese: I found myself having a lot of interaction with Brazilians in Twitter and it's very close to Spanish, so I decided to learn it, though I think I like the European accent better.

• Turkish: I remember listening to some "arabic kissing song" (as people used to say) when I was a kid. It get stuck on my mind and I did my little research, I discover the logic behind the language, and it intrigued me, plus its vocalic chart is perfect. It sounds so sexy to me.

• German: I'm a big fan of industrial band Oomph! so I learned the lyrics for their songs, and watched their interviews, etc. Then I found out German is the most spoken language in Europe, so I decided to take it in a serious way.

• French: I took 2 months of French when I was 12, but I used to think that my teacher was a witch, because she was tall, pale and had a big nose, so I quit French and blocked myself out for other languages. As stupid as it seems, that kept me back for a long time, but I'm enjoying french female singers now, so I decided to give it a "second chance".

• Klingon: This was the first language I started because of linguistic interests, and the one who open a whole new world for me, the world of Conlangs. Just for fun!

And these are the languages still waiting for me to get them right:

• Danish: It is fun to hear and speak! It sounds so quirky at times, it's awesome!!!

• Hebrew: I recently heard an israeli girlfriend speaking it and I felt in love with it immediately! As simple as that.

• Dutch: I once had a Dutch boyfriend, but we only spoke in English. Somehow, the idea of speaking Dutch got stuck on me, somehow…

• Italian: It never came to my attention until I watched comedian HivanGrosny on YouTube (check HivanGrosnyXXXII for his Russian lessons) and realize I can understand almost everything he says.

• Swedish: Just to add an extra (and the most spoken) scandinavian language. I'm in love with scandinavian people.

• Czech, Polish or both: since learning Russian has been a lot of fun for me, I am considering to learn another slavic language as well, but I'm not sure which one yet.

• Mandarin: I was hesitant about Chinese, but since Benny's progress… I think it might not be that hard.

• Hungarian: Again, it's Benny's fault here. I like its grammar and phonetic system.

And, as the language freak I am, I have an extensive list of other languages I want to learn (Korean, Basque, Xhosa, etc). Perhaps I'll never get to fluency in any of them, and I'll probably change the priority order many times (except with the first 6), but everything is fun meanwhile

It seems Hopelandic is a common "feeling" for Icelanders, like that "weird noises" Björk makes when she sings.

Disclaimer: Sorry for the mistakes on my recent post. I mixed my in's and on's, to's and for's, feel's and fall's in the past, oops… I don't feel very comfortable with English, plus I was posting that at 5am hahaha