Languages

German:

                    Native Speaker

English:    

                    Fluent spoken and written

French:    

                    Fluent spoken and written

Spanish:    

                    Working knowledge

Italian:    

                    Basic knowledge

Latin:    

                    Latinum (5 year equivalency)

"My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it."

Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad (1880)