but I can finally relax instead of nervously checking my email 10 times a day, waiting for your reply. Whew. ;)

I am lazily refreshing Spanish and trying to pick up some Hindi.

I want to visit India and many of my coworkers are Hindi speakers, though many as a second or third language themselves. It is still an opportunity I didn’t want to let pass. Since English is an extremely common second language in India, though, I am mostly doing it because I love languages, and I have a bunch of “teachers” around me. It is also fun to toss in a Hindi phrase in a meeting and watch people’s expressions.

My English is pretty fluent at this point. I could still stand to pick up some more vocabulary ;)

French, you know about.

Besides those, I am nowhere near fluent in any other language. I speak a smattering of German, and emergency Spanish; enough of both of those to get by as a tourist, but not enough to watch television or discuss anything meaningful with a native speaker.

I had learned some reading and about 50 phrases in Thai, but that has devolved into only one phrase and no reading.

I picked up about 50 phrases in Mandarin, with no reading. I was interested in Hungarian for a bit because the grammar is interesting, but I didn’t get much past buying a book.

All in all, I am deeply interested in languages and I have a strong inclination to start learning them. All of them. But with no practical need and so many other demands on time, I find it impossible to keep up the discipline to get past a few dozen phrases.

I’m impressed with your self-discipline to carry on with Polish. Are you speaking it with anybody? There are some neat conversation exchange web sites. I exchanged conversation in Mandarin with a really nice guy from Taiwan over Skype. With 3,000 words, you could have some nice chats.