[mtjl79]

As an American who speaks multiple languages, the thing for me was learning the first. When you learn another language you get a true understand of your own language that other people don't understand who are not bilingual.

After you learn a second language, others get much much easier and the learning curve is much shorter.

[brucejaywallace]

I also noticed this....it also gets easier depending on the language....

I'm learning Spanish right now, and for example, Portuguese and Italian can at times be very similar

[pavel_lishin]

I learned a fair bit of Spanish in high school, already knowing English and Russian. A lot of the language constructs were similar to Russian, so they just clicked easily in my mind.

Lost most of it by now, of course. I can call a guy an asshole, and I can buy him a beer, but the bit in the middle where I apologize - that, I can't do :P