sarramkrop - clearly I owe you a drink. Why? Who cares, I just do. Are they any languages you'd like to learn right now?

I have a muslim prayer stuck on my front door. Tomorrow?

Yeah, why not?

k. I'll pm.

Coolio.

YOU WOUND ME, KIND SIR.

You speak the language of fire? Ye gods, what other unearthly powers do you possess?

i make a mean bloody mary

!@#$%! - clearly, you have skills beyond any Englishman. You shall be my new god.

PS. Can you make a decent curry?

im afraid the term "curry" eludes me, because i've never been to britain-- but i've been know to make chicken tikka masala -- does that count?

Yes, it will, if said curry has no sultanas in it. Otherwise, I'm forced to downgrade your status from god to emperor.

Never been to Britain, eh? If you do get the chance, you do need to check out Brick Lane (i.e. curry central) in London.

i had to google sultanas -- apparently in america known as thompson seedless raisins.

can i saw "eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww"?? oh chicken tikka masala??

please-- worship me as the sun.

Sun God, eh?

"Hey Homer, I'm worshipping the Sun God now. Making plenty of scratch from it".
"Scratch, eh?"
"Yep, me and Maude are making plenty of dough"
"Maude, eh?"

I'll do it!

Re. the sultana thing - in the 70's, English people thought that any curry was not complete without sultanas. The very idea of that makes me want to heave.

I speak English and psychobabble fluently.

I can speak okay-ish Russian, but I can't read it.

I can get by in French, German and Italian ("get by in", in my case, means I can sing a few songs in those languages and hold a very boring conversation in them.)

I know how to say a few "useful" things (ie: "hello, goodbye, yes, no", "you are disgusting", "fuck off", "happy birthday", "where's the toilet") in Welsh, Swedish, Spanish, Dutch, Cantonese and Japanese.

I want to learn (properly learn) more Slavic languages. Polish, Czech/Slovak and "Serbo-Croatian", mostly, because I want to do some more traveling around that part of the world.

UK English (colour)
US English (color)
Olde English (coloure)
Australian (malonga gilderchuck)
Canadian (colour, 'eh?)

Katy - Czech is a bit of a headache to learn (I've been doing it for 5 years now), but I really enjoy it, and it was dead useful in my last time in the Czech Rep. If you have enough (or any?) money, the Czech Centre in London does good courses.

Funny you mention that. My Mum and I were talking about it yesterday and she said if I was serious I should look up classes at (I think she said) the Czech Centre. I was just looking at what evening classes are available at UCL's school of Slavonic and Eastern European studies too.. they look pretty good.

I haven't done a lot of research into the specifics yet, but I'm sort of hoping it won't be TOO hard to learn any of these languages since I've already got a good basic grasp of Russian. (Though I'm sure the reading and writing part will screw me..)

Good luck. Mastering Russian goes hand in hand with mastering the Cyrillic alphabet, which intimidates people from learning an otherwise fairly easy language. I've struggled for years with trying to be 'fluent', but I'm constantly relearning the alphabet, what with the soft and hard vowels from outer space.

If you know Russian, it's a least a start to getting to grips with Czech (the grammar and all that). We have a student in my class who speaks Russians, and he sometimes goes into Russian, which doesn't impress our Czech teacher (who has a degree in Russian).