Oh yes I did French and Latin in school We moved from NSW to Qld when I was 13 it was August and they d been studying French all year since late January so I had quite some catching up to do I studied hard and came top of the class at the end of the year I d already done 2 years of Latin at my previous school and continued at the new school Why on Earth I went into medical lab technology accountancy and mathematics before finally realising that my true aptitude was in language music and history well some of us take longer than others But I learned some great info along the way so it s all good My third attempt at a bachelors degree was in Mathematics but half way through I said fuck this and went and enrolled in the Russian course The uni rules allowed me to combine both streams in the same degree but the title was Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages although Russian was the only language I did at tertiary level Plus I ve learned a lot from a lifelong interest in opera and classical music history and a general interest in particularly European languages I m reasonably confident with my pronunciation of Polish Czech Serbian German Italian French Dutch Spanish Ukrainian and knowing a smattering of words in all of them Not so much Portuguese Icelandic Norwegian Danish Swedish Finnish Romanian Bulgarian Hungarian Greek Albanian Turkish Arabic Chinese Japanese Vietnamese Swahili