I am fluent in Spanish having been born and raised in Sunset Park, Brooklyn in the mid-60s through the mid-80s, which had a large Puerto Rican and Dominican population. Being half-Irish and half-Ukrainian, I spent some time at the Irish Arts Center in NYC learning Irish in the 90s. Given there were about 200k speakers of Irish worldwide back then, and now only 68k I believe, it was more of a curiosity for me then. I spent 7 years in SE Asia, and I learned Indonesian (intermediate still), but my Indonesian wife learned English faster than I picked up Indonesian, and I gave in to speaking English. I lived in East Java for a year, and I love Javanese, which Bahasa Indonesian draws much of its influence from among the 500 to 800+ languages spoken over the 17,000 islands of the archipelago. I am currently learning Arabic, after spending 8 months there over the past 24 months. I like the script and some of the language such as the root-based, three-letter mainly, structure. Spanish has been by far the most useful to me still living in New York State, but I am trying again to push my Indonesian for the sake of my children and to better communicate with my in-laws who know Indonesian, but are more at home with Javanese. I have played with learning Koine Greek over Homeric Greek to be able to read Marcus Aurelius or other contemporaries. I wish I could be fluent in at least three more languages other than my native English and Spanish. Harold Bloom's the "Loom of Language" sent me down the rabbit hole when I was in High School. People complain about having to have learned either Latin or Ancient Greek back in the day in High School, but now literacy in math and languages, seems to be tenuous at best. What happened? I grew up poor and with strife in my neighborhood, but the curriculum seemed so much more demanding. I don't know why; it's not my field of study or interest, but I am curious.