[byoung2]

Aside from English, I speak Spanish fluently, Japanese conversationally, Tagalog passably, and I'm learning Portuguese and Italian. I know enough German to sing 99 Luftballons, and enough Latin to translate some of the classics. I wouldn't say any of these have been at all useful in my programming career. I've worked with offshore programming teams in Malaysia, the Philippines, India, Belarus, Mexico, and Pakistan, and they all spoke English better than I could ever hope to speak their native language (except Spanish, but even then the guys in Mexico I work with were schooled in the US).