I took Latin and French for five years, still know a bit of Latin and my French isn't bad and is improving at the moment as I am very close with some girls who speak fluent French - they go to a French school here in London, very useful for me, heh, been promised that I shall be taught French.
By the time I am 30 I intend to try and speak at least four languages, English obviously, French and two from amongst Spanish, Italian, German and Russian or possibly if I can pick them up some more exotic languages like Mandarin.
My proficiency will depend on my choice of career probably, current leaning is towards becoming a barrister but the idea of entering the fast stream (accelerated civil service) is interesting, they do a two-year intensive course learning to speak, read and write in Mandarin.
Arabic would be another useful language to learn and Hebrew would be nice for my Jewish heritage
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