Che lengua?

I speak English and Russian.  I also speak Spanish, not quite fluently, but working on it.  I've started Italian and am not giving up on it untill it also reaches a very high level...  What next? :)

I have tried a litttle of French and a little of Portuguese, from both I remember practically nothing.  I am not sure why I didn't manage to learn them when I had the chance.  Maybe it was too fast of a pace, maybe a lack of interest.  However, I do want to speak both.  I have become more interested in Portuguese after a class on Portuguese post-colonialism and also, possibly mainly, from my recent discovery of bossa nova jazz.

French I find very entertaining, I love repeating the few phrases I know, like "je m'apelle Sonya" and "voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir?"  It's also true that I constantly encounter French somewhere.

I learned Spanish because of a soap opera, Italian because I find Italian men quite attractive, so don't be surprised at my reasoning.

And then there's German.  I was very interested in German for a long time, but never got anywhere and forgot about that fascination.

But then finally I find my mind traveling outside of the western world, into Asia, and Asian languages.  Why not learn Japanese?  At some point learning Latin languges isn't really learning a new language anymore.  It's time to challenge myself.  I've never even learned a new alphabet (at least not as an adult).  Japanese entices me because everything I have heard about Japan seems absolutely mysterious, and frankly different and unusual.

Chinese is important as the next global language, and also as something equally mysterious to Japanese.  I don't imagine myself ever in a field that requires the knowledge of a globally expanded language though, so that is a silly reason.  I read a book about the Chienese recently, and was quite interested...  A class of Asin art has not helped in distinguishing between the possible languages.  India?  No, further east!

What about Korean?  What do I know about Korean?   Nothing!  But there is such a languages, why not?  Really, the far east is so interesting, that speaking any one of those languages seems like a jewel of knowledge.

And then I've considered northern european languages.  I saw a photo of Norway one time.  It had green hills and looked peaceful and beautiful.  I've seen a few Norwegian words...I liked them.