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Message:: [QUOTE="coinman, post: 691, member: 17"]Greek is native, English is second and German I simply never used but still in place (I think). French though I hate it is easy to catch a few words and Russian I learned how to read, write and speak but not enough to travel there. I can tell Jap. from Corean or Chinese but that's as far as I will go. Italian &amp; Spanish I can tell and I certainly understand those European laguages on coins even a couple centuries old and from various countries those 2 colonised.  Portugese is harder and same goes for Flemmish or Finish or Swedish &amp; Norwegian or Danish although I can relatively easily tell where a tourist comes from simply listening on a conversation and almost surely I will pick a few words to "get" into the basics of a conversation. Now, Polish, Czech or Yugoslavian are all recognisable and so do many of the ex-USSR &amp; East Block countries languages...... I think and I was told I can easily get "close" to a language as I learned very fast and complete (I might now 5 words in Swedish ie but know how to pronounce, put in a sentence, write and read correctly - ok ok I make some mistakes but everybody understands). I even can get in touch to ancient Greek or Roman/Latin but that's another story. Dealing with world coins since I was 16, helped a lot to at least be able to tell which is what country![/QUOTE]