[Raion]

For those of you who speak "foreign languages" (for the purpose of this discussion, other than English and your mother tongue, which you can also talk about while qualifying it) let's talk a bit about them. 

I'll start. My mother thankfully did teach me both Spanish and Portuguese when I was 2 to 4-ish, but after I no longer lived with her, I basically was blasted with all-english all the time. I'm Iberico on her side, as people of Spain and Portugal would often say, to differentiate from Latin America. I now am learning them off and on as an adult, though I did speak pretty basic Spanish in high school and used it when I traveled to Guatemala and northern Mexico. 

In high school I switched into Chinese, which was an online class. I was one of the best students in there. I still speak chinese. Here's a nice sample:

我的汉语名字是孟兆狼。八年，我会说汉语。二〇〇九和二〇一六我去了中国。我游览了北京，香港，西安，上海，无锡，南京，和宁波。中国太有趣了！

Translation: My Chinese name is Meng Zhao Lang (context note, family name is Meng, Zhao Lang is the given name). For 8 years I have spoken Chinese. In 2009 and 2016 I visited China. I toured Beijing, Hong Kong, Xi'an, Shanghai, Wuxi, Nanjing, and Ningbo. China is just too interesting!

It's a very strict language in terms of how it's ordered. There's absolutely no flexibility in word order in most cases. There's no conjugation, inflection or declensions. 

I also now speak Japanese to a degree. My listening comprehension is probably the best, and I would probably sit at about N4-N3 ish. I can speak it, but I usually do so slowly and constantly apologize for my poor behavior. Unlike Chinese, Japanese is much much harder in terms of reading due to every character having 3-6 alternative readings. You have little context clues if any, so it's just rote memorization and trial/error. It also has conjugations, limited tense, and many varying levels of politeness, unlike Chinese.

Let's hear it.