None, NA, NA, NA.
Not very interesting answers. I blame the Australian education system/lack of geographical proximity to the rest of the world. I was taught Japanese in school for a while, as part of the mandatory language class things we have, but it was ridiculously half-baked. Most lessons consisted of a few minutes of meditation, some tai chi (which isn't even Japanese), and then trying to learn katakana and hiragana by associated the characters with pictures. The only one I can remember is 'to', which was associated with a broken toenail. I can remember a few assorted words, like 'enpitsu', but I have no idea how to write them in anything other than romaji.
I've kinda attempting to learn a bit of Russian at the moment, for tourist purposes, although I got kinda stuck on saying 'hello' (because it has, like, a million syllables), and have no idea how to read Cryllic. I'm up to the third lesson in a podcast of quick lessons (so I've done about 5 minutes of learning Russian), which tries to teach me how to say that I can speak Russian (something like sounds to me like 'ya, gova yu, pa Ruski'), which would be useful, could I actually do that.
And in my line of work it's really necessary anyway to be at least passively fluent.
), I'm a mix of both. English is has the same unit weight as math from elementary until college (where it is optional). I can't speak english very well unless I mentally prepare myself, shift my mind from using both english and filipino words in filipino grammar to proper english grammar and only english words. Nevertheless I have absolutely no problem reading english (and I suspect I have a similar if not greater vocabulary than most true native speakers) but since I'm quite poor at conversational english, my writing tends to suffer. But I still find reading and writing in english far easier than in filipino.
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