yay!
i love reading everyone's responses.
my native language is u.s. english - mostly southern/aave dialect. my mom pretty much beat my accent and dialect out of me as a child so it'd be easier for me in school. now i speak with a more neutral accent but it changes when i'm talking to my family or if i'm angry.
i had to study spanish in k-12 but i've forgotten most of it - i can still read and understand it pretty well but i'm hopeless at speaking. i want to learn more and become better at speaking. when i was in college i studied chinese, sanskrit, and tibetan for my degree, and a bit of biblical hebrew for giggles. i'm hopeless at hebrew now, but i can carry on a conversation in mandarin and tibetan (lhasa dialect), and i can read sanskrit with a dictionary usually. i'm a bit rusty though - i'd like to be more conversant in tibetan and better at reading classical tibetan.
i learned to read arabic script to be able to read and pronounce from the qur'an, but i don't understand grammar. i really want to learn more qur'anic and spoken arabic. i've been studying haitian creole just out of personal interest and i'm hoping to become fluent (or at least conversant).
i think i most appreciate tibetan, haitian creole, and arabic. i love the sounds of arabic and i love the tibetan script. i learned the script mostly through doing calligraphy and i find traditional tibetan art really interesting.