Yeah, Caro, I learned it so I could sing the songs. And those words really stick with you. Considering how much Bossa Nova has become elevator music, I find myself filling in the words when I hear it in various and sundry place.
It was also my mother and grandmother’s native tongue (both were raised by the same godparents), but they spoke Azorean Portuguese which is a lot less exciting than my favorite carioca accent…
English (rusty), American (a bastardization of English), and enough Spanish to get myself into trouble, and possibly enough to get back out.
I speak American English as a native speaker, Spanish with near-native fluency and enough Haitian Creole to have a rudimentary conversation.
Haitian Creole is a fun language…sort of Tarzan French…a big improvement in my view. 
Doc
Se voce disser que eu desafino amor
Saiba que isso em mim provoca imensa dor
So previlegiados tem ouvido igual ao seu
Eu possuo apenas o que deus me deu….
(now I’m going to be singing that the rest of the evening )
Gosh, that means a lot, coming from you. 
Winning at Zelda and winning at life are not quite the same thing, but you’re onto something there. I can feel it.
Oh, I don’t think so. 
djm
You’re most welcome.
Besides Crap, I allso speke Anglisc, whann that on ye Chiffe and Fyple I am welle beholden that I use it swych as I maye.
Studied French and Japanese, but they have all but withered away for lack of use.
Français isn’t supposed to be capitalized, and I think you need an article (“le”) in front of it, don’t you? It’s a disappearing sound, so you often don’t hear it, but it’s still there in writing.
Thanks for the BBC link, chrisoff! I just started college French, which has been interesting. I’m slowly catching on, but I’m so used to Spanish pronunciations that unlearning is slowing me down a bit. I’ve also found a few language tutoring podcasts than I’m going to check out. I can read quite a bit of the darn language, but I’m having a heck of a time trying to speak it!
Other than that, I speak enough Spanish to get me in trouble, and I am fluent in Southernese. 
The only Spanish words I recognize really well are puto and mariposa. The first means “faggot” (in the deragotory sense), and the second one can mean “faggot” (in the same sense) or, curiously, “butterfly.”
I wish that the word “butterfly” in English also meant “faggot.” I think it’s a really beautiful phenomenom, even though it’s not supposed to be.
Now you can, too!
Language names are capitalized.
It’s not “le” you want, but “de”
Redwolf
An bhfuil an Ghaeilge na hÉireann agat, nó an Ghàidhlig na hAlbain?
Redwolf
Are you absolutey certain? It seems like you’re translating it directly as though it’s English. French doesn’t work that way. You need the article when speaking of the language, not “de.”
“Je parle un peu le français” is how I’ve always heard it, but then again it’s Quebecois… Maybe they teach you differently for European French?
I took five years of French, Cranberry, and passed my GRE in it.
Je parle un peu de Français is the standard.
Redwolf
Ok. I don’t know why I thought it was “le.”
My understanding is that, in French, statements of amount, such as “un peu” or “beaucoup” or “pas” are normally followed by “de.” Thus: “un peu de,” “beaucoup de” or “pas de.”
That’s if my learning from four horrid semesters of college French holds up. Lovely language, but I just can’t stand language classes.
I understand some Spanish, but over the summer I have already forgotten much of what I learned last semester. I got As in both my college Spanish classes, but I need to keep refreshing it or I forget. I have the basics pretty well down though, my Mom used to play those “learn in your car” tapes and CDs in the car all the time when I was little.
Well, my French professor was a native (Canadian) English speaker. Maybe that’s why I’m confused. I always though “Je parle le Franc,ais un peu” was correct. 
I’ve heard wonderful things about the Pimsleur program. It is a little out of my budgetary reach, though. I have several nearly worthless years of German under my belt. I can read most things and understand the gist and context if not the particulars. I have a slightly harder time with writing my own thoughts, but do pretty well with a dictionary on hand. Speaking and understanding are harder and don’t go far beyond the most rudimentary level.
I’ve ordered the BBC Muzzy program and plan to graduate to the Rosetta Stone program. My library offers it online for free, and there are a number of US libraries that do so. Some of them allow membership to anyone (well, I don’t know if that means within the US or not), meaning for the cost of membership to the library ($35 down to free), you have full access to it.
I’m also starting American Sign Language. I love the Signing Time videos. The tunes stay in my head for ages! I’m using www.lifeprint.com/ as a primary resource.
I want to learn Russian next. There is no real reason. It just seems to constantly and randomly come up in my life, so I’d like to learn. I did fairly well when I dabbled in Serbian many years ago (all forgotten now).
After that, I plan to learn Arabic. I find it to be beautiful and so diverse.
Thankfully, I have people in my life who can help with each. It is my hope to be a pentaglot in 15 years.